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by ttul 6mo ago
I always loved the hashcash concept and actually raised our original funding because of it (our Microsoft angels loved the idea of making spamming more expensive, and our Series A concept was tar-pitting to dissuade botnets). In the context
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by ttul 6mo ago
That is such a great question and there is no easy answer. There have been enormous efforts to do better for at least the last 20 years. An entire organization, M3AAWG, was founded for that reason and it meets three times a year, bringing t
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by ttul 6mo ago
I run an email sending service at scale (billions of messages per month, tens of millions of end users, thousands of customers). Most of our software development and operational effort revolves around abuse mitigation. That has been the cas
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by ttul 6mo ago
When it comes to email delivery, you can't ignore spam. It's the bane of existence of every email sending service and the number one business challenge in that segment. After all, orchestrating delivery over SMTP is not rocket sci
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by ttul 6mo ago
How might this affect https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agentmail ?
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by ttul 6mo ago
... your side projects that will soon become your main source of income after you are laid off because corporate bosses have noticed that engineers are more productive...
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by ttul 6mo ago
Yes. How do they do it? Literally they must have PagerDuty set up to alert the team the second one of the labs releases anything.
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by ttul 6mo ago
This is great. I had only ever seen the expected surprise explanation. The others help to fill in the gaps.
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by ttul 6mo ago
I find that more experienced devs are more likely to prefer Codex… anecdotal but… it’s a thing.
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by ttul 6mo ago
And many people are mailing in Codex and Claude Code generated PRs - myself included. Fingers crossed, I suppose.
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by ttul 6mo ago
I built a web-scale infrastructure service that supports tens of millions of end users over a 15-year timeline. One of the most successful moves we made was to charge customers appropriately for their usage and to adjust how we calculate us
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by ttul 6mo ago
I don't think so. Acquiring hardware for inference is a chokepoint on growth. If they can offload some inference to the customer's machine, that allows them to use more of their online capacity to generate money.
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by ttul 6mo ago
When I started taking pre-orders for my failed Bitcoin hardware company in 2011, people were willing to wire $100K with almost no verification that our hardware existed (it did not), never mind whether it worked (it never did). We never acc
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by ttul 6mo ago
Confirmed: there is some kind of high voltage transformer in the background at right, sitting on the ground entirely in reach of toddlers. That is most definitely not a compliant high voltage installation!
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by ttul 6mo ago
Absolutely. Once you’re laying anything at all in the ground, tossing down a fiber costs nothing.
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by ttul 6mo ago
Yes, they could have borrowed money. It requires a referendum, but I believe it would have passed. Alas, many small community politicians are retired folks (who else has time when you’re getting paid $500/mo) and in my case, they just
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by ttul 6mo ago
I could see a future in which the major AI labs run a local LLM to offload much of the computational effort currently undertaken in the cloud, leaving the heavy lifting to cloud-hosted models and the easier stuff for local inference.
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by ttul 6mo ago
I think it signals that they’ve been so successful that they need to ensure there is some direct financial back pressure on heavy users to ensure that their heavy token use is actually economically productive. That’s not a bad thing. Giving
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by ttul 6mo ago
In my small island community, I participated in a municipal committee whose mandate was to bring proper broadband to the island. Although two telecom duopolies already served the community, one of them had undersea fiber but zero fiber to t
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by ttul 6mo ago
Not to mention the multiple THAAD radars taken offline. Those are $500M assets - and only 8 exist in the world. 24,000 precise transceivers all liquid cooled… not available on Amazon for next day deliver either.
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by ttul 6mo ago
This time is different. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.60... The price for a couple of 32GB sticks is now over $1200 after being stable at about $200 for several years until last Se
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by ttul 6mo ago
Street View nearby reveals this sign at the edge of the Street View area: "Forstarbeiter und Militär Frei," which means "Forestry Workers and Military [are free to enter]". The red circle around the sign implies that eve
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by ttul 7mo ago
My old late friend Dan Kaminsky famously wrote the Perl module "Ozyman DNS", which allowed you to tunnel ssh session over the DNS, thus evading certain firewalls such as those controlling access to public WiFi. Modern public WiFi
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by ttul 7mo ago
Yeah. Most of my public repos have 0 stars. Most of what I write sucks.
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by ttul 7mo ago
I write my comment with admiration for founders, because I am one. That being said, chasing trends without paying attention to the steamroller has killed more than one very good company and I have plenty of scar tissue as evidence...
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by ttul 7mo ago
I hate to say it, but this looks like the sort of thing a CEO told their team to build on Monday morning in a panic because they are grasping for ways to participate in the AI craze. And the team did just that: they built it that morning us
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by ttul 7mo ago
Tokens consumed: 1.6 billion Estimated token cost: $1,591 Wow.
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by ttul 7mo ago
I agree with you, mostly. My read is that Twelver Shi’ism is not a unified hierarchy, and a marja’s fatwa normally binds that marja’s own followers rather than all Shi’a, so your institutional point is broadly right.[1][2] It is too strong,
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by ttul 7mo ago
Strategically, it seems like a dumb move. Right now, Congress is unlikely to approve Trump’s request for $200B to fund the war effort. But if Americans can be convinced that Iran could somehow hit American cities, they would call their memb
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by ttul 7mo ago
They certainly are. And this is likely to some degree a response to enterprise security desires. Enterprise endpoints are locked down already - no need for extra external API security if it’s just the user’s desktop communication as usual.

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