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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
> But it isn't like they are that much more successful at software projects than any other company? They are still largely an ads company, no? They have a ton of other software in 2026. And they have a pretty diverse (and diversifyi
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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
> why DEI concerns should trump traditional evaluation metrics for skill It was never trumping skill. This is just a willful rewrite of history perpetuated for some political goal. The goal was always to ensure that skill had adequate op
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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
2008 had ~30k CS graduates. 2015 had ~50k CS graduates. 2021 had ~100k CS graduates. You can extrapolate the rest.
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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
> How will Sr Devs in the future be created? As an extreme example, maybe we’ll see long-running internships and trainings like doctors experience. Doctors don’t start their career until ~12+ years of prep and training. Pragmatically, so
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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
This is why cities are popular for this exact type of person. For centuries. People with niche interests move to a city, which by sheer density, have others with said interest. Plenty of people have a reason why they can’t do it, but plenty
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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
Ah yes, because I am also forced to buy the same amount of electricity and water from my regulated utility regardless of need.
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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
I've literally never met anyone in real life who used a computer that didn't already have a browser running 24/7
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by vineyardmike 5mo ago
This is why the subscriptions are important. When the usage is (vaguely) unmetered, the provider has an incentive to make usage cheap on marginal use. It aligns the incentives for faster, cheaper, terse and more reliable models, because the
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by vineyardmike 6mo ago
That's so interesting because where I work, the push was to "add one more API" to existing services, turning them into near monoliths for the sake of deployment and access. Still a mess of util and helper functions recursivel
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by vineyardmike 6mo ago
I don't own a car, I don't drive a car, and I will never live in a city that has been made for a car primarily. That is not a majority-opinion nor majority-behavior in the US. Cars are obviously useful at moving things around plac
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by vineyardmike 6mo ago
You can't build a business on per-seat subscriptions when you advertise making workers obsolete. API pricing with sustainable margins are the only way forward if you genuinely think you're going to cause (or accelerate) reduction
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by vineyardmike 6mo ago
Using an LLM to handle a task for you seems a lot like letting a car move you. Cars will make you “fat and lazy” if you never move your body otherwise, but it’s fairly clear to see that this is avoidable. The research seems to always get (i
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by vineyardmike 6mo ago
Re: product strategy Honestly, it probably led to long conversations. The tokens/GPU time for one long conversation is more expensive than multiple short conversations. They’re trying to shore up their finances, and they’re moving away
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by vineyardmike 6mo ago
Don't worry, at least it has a discord server linked.
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by vineyardmike 6mo ago
This is basically why the big companies can sell subscriptions for cheaper than API costs. First priority can go to API users, lower priority subscription users get slotted in as space/SLO allows, and then sell the remaining idle GPU t
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
> The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes (9.5m when in background), and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages (“lonelycpp” is acct, loads iframe view
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
I don’t buy it. First, I think there is value in the “rent seeking” Amazon marketplace because how else would the models “go straight to the seller”, another centralized search engine? Why not just use the Amazon one then? Second, one of LL
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
> If you (a manufacturer) apply, they want information regarding corporate location, jursidiction, and ownership. They want a bill of materials with country of origin and a justification for why any foreign-sourced components can't
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
When I was younger, adults used to answer the phone with "Hello, this is MyName, who am I speaking with?" Pragmatically, even basic words from your voice can be used to estimate your age, gender, and geographic region (local accen
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
I clear my throat. Do it loud enough that the other end can tell someone is on the line, so they'll know to start the conversation. It isn't a rude "WHAT" type answer, but it doesn't directly acknowledge the caller,
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
You're missing the point. No one cares about the datasets you've created in a commercial context. The effort being discussed is a volunteer effort among a community of tech enthusiasts, who are disproportionately privacy-oriente
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
Well, we'd stop having to spend so much taxes on redistributive efforts, again, like subsidized internet. It's up to voters and politicians to actually change the tax rate to save the money. It'd reduce government debt at lea
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
> What if labor organizes around human work and consumers are willing to pay the premium? We could start today, but sweat shops and factories dominate the items on our shelves. But I’m sure people will draw the line at human made softwar
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
Many of the aspects of life "outside the city" are subsidized by the city. It's affordable because of this, and the cities are extra unaffordable as a result. There are many small towns who will never generate the tax revenue
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
In 2026 we need to update our mental model of Google. Google has been wildly successful at adding diversification. Around 40% of Google’s profit (depending on the quarter) comes from non-search income. They build a wildly successful cloud p
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
Generally no. Big tech companies have gotten good at locking down devices to the boot loader. Some of the signing keys for certain OTA versions have leaked, but you can’t rely on that. Some of the devices contain browsers, and people have s
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
I have no firsthand knowledge, but I’d strongly bet that the home-assistant effort to donate training data is mostly get adult males, and nearly zero children.
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
> You could have said same about Transformers, Google released it, but didn't move forward, turns out it was a great idea Google released transforms as research because they invented it while improving Google Translate. They had bee
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
Respectfully, I’ve never forgotten a call site, but also yes. In a hypothetical HelloWorld service, the HelloRequest and HelloResponse generally aren’t used anywhere except a rpc caller and rpc handler, so it’s not hard to “remember” and
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by vineyardmike 7mo ago
> Minor thing that bothered me disproportionately: the constant syntax in the docs (x = 600) doesn't match what the parser actually accepts (x: 600). You’re a better man than me. If the docs can’t even get the syntax right, that’s a

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