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by tyre 2mo ago
To people asking why, this is a good lesson on the Collison’s ambitions. Stripe is one of the best API companies in the world. They know how to serve high volumes of latency and availability sensitive requests. They’ve abstracted the financ
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by tyre 2mo ago
Stripe would lock in volume but how exactly are they monetizing that? Any margin the get from OpenRouter is money extracted from OpenRouter’s revenue (which is now theirs.)
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by tyre 2mo ago
Slight correction, people in NY refer to it as “The City” and people in NYC say the same, but specifically mean Manhattan.
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by tyre 2mo ago
No offense to the author, but I don't trust a college kid the same way I trust the team behind uBlock. The latter have a well-established track record with substantial external eyes (including Firefox directly.)
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by tyre 2mo ago
> I suspect you are unfamiliar with the GIL in python. Sadly, I’m deeply familiar. What made Evan Phoenix’s Rubinius work so exciting in ~2012 was getting rid of the GIL and seeing what was “fixed” by parallelism and what was not. You ma
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by tyre 2mo ago
All of my personal apps use Postgres because: - types are lovely. We love types. SQLite’s default of non-strict typing is, to me, bananas. - SELECT DISTINCT ON is my ride-or-die - most importantly, I’m very comfortable in Postgres and the s
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by tyre 2mo ago
Good question. PGBouncer isn't as useful if you have seriously long-running transactions. It can’t do much of anything with those. Sure, you can give it a pool of 1000 and your Postgres instance a pool of 100, but you’re just moving wh
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by tyre 2mo ago
Your high level buckets are languages but the constraints you list are usage patterns. You can build applications in any language that have many short-lived transactions in single connections or a few huge, blocking one, or anything in betw
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by tyre 2mo ago
This is painfully accurate.
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by tyre 2mo ago
0% is not 4% less than 4%, that would be 3.84%. 0% is 4 percentage points (pp) less than 4%.
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by tyre 2mo ago
I believe they are testing giving it an image, which you can do in Claude code by dragging/dropping into the terminal or copy/pasting, and asking it to build the html equivalent.
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by tyre 2mo ago
There is an approximately zero probability that someone donating hundreds of millions of dollars to Super PACs in support of the most vain and corrupt president in US history will be held up by anti-trust enforcement. There's not a lot
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by tyre 2mo ago
If you’re unsure how to do it, you can ask others for help or Claude will tell you. Point Claude Code at a repository and ask how to install it safely. You don’t have to know about make or cryptography of HTTPS or anything, really. It will
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by tyre 2mo ago
Sadly for you, this SCOTUS is not a meritocracy.
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by tyre 2mo ago
I think the gp just means, “if we put aside that this is a contentious company.” I’m not sure that interstate commerce should apply here—it seems correct that a state can ban gambling, even if it is on the Internet against out-of-state US n
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by tyre 2mo ago
> following the standards of how mature languages (e.g. C++) evolve over time This gave me a chuckle. When I think of languages evolving their standards, I do think of C++. But not, you know, in a good way.
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by tyre 2mo ago
Oh nooooo, they fucked it up too. Why would someone make a language that’s whitespace sensitive? It’s confounding.
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by tyre 2mo ago
Out of curiosity, what are the non-surveillance uses for a license plate tracking service
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by tyre 2mo ago
I would take fast-tracking high speed rail over community consultation.
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by tyre 2mo ago
Think of a HomePod. 99% (and likely much more) of what people are asking is super simple.
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by tyre 2mo ago
Search a terminal with Claude Code for things like, “I got it wrong twice. I should look up the documentation instead of guessing.” Does it about once a day, that I notice.
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by tyre 2mo ago
This is a good point. Opus does some silly shenanigans sometimes but then catches it later. It’s still an order of magnitude faster at getting to a working system than I am, for ones I don’t know. It’s really a dream for setting up a homela
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by tyre 2mo ago
This farmer needs a tote.
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by tyre 2mo ago
The copyleft licenses are toxic for adoption. Companies default away from them because there are a lot of murky unknowns (e.g. if you run a copyleft service and connect to it via API, is that extending it? Does that service’s source have to
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by tyre 2mo ago
People keep saying this but from what we’ve seen, Anthropic models are marginally profitable and earn back their costs over their lifetime. The company is burning money building the next versions and other ventures (e.g. verticals), but the
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by tyre 2mo ago
Truly some incredible stuff getting cooked up in the Silicon Valley
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by tyre 2mo ago
I think it’s a legitimate question! Some companies operate at such a scale that if you tried to adopt their tools or services, it would be way too complex for the ROI. Think Bazel or how K8s was for ~ever. For Google’s scale? Required. For
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by tyre 2mo ago
Nikita was always a bad hire. If you look at his history, he’s really good at growth hacking apps to pump-and-dump into acquisitions. He hasn’t proven himself in building lasting products. His last app, Gas, saw meteoric growth from some tr
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by tyre 2mo ago
> There is a reason why we hear less about this idea of smaller expert models, because large strong models to the tasks just as good. Smaller models are cheaper, sometimes faster. I agree that the “we’re an LLM fine-tuned for X” hasn’t w
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by tyre 2mo ago
It's not 9/11 that will kill it but people not wanting 2 tons of metal flying overhead. The occasional helicopter is one thing. Having hundreds of these flying around, when one can clip a building from a gust of wind and go plumme

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