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by vmg12 3mo ago
The fundamental problem with all Js based apps is how they are very single threaded. With js you get 1 thread at 100% utilization. Power usage and heat scale non-linearly with cpu utilization and 100% utilization on a single threaded js app
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by vmg12 3mo ago
Hardware wearing out is not common at the individual component level. It only becomes common when you are running a large number of servers, those individual small probabilities add up.
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by vmg12 3mo ago
Anthropic's willingness to completely change how claude code works is one of the stated reasons why the Pi coding agent exists. When people are dedicating significant time to building workflows on your product, consistency is very impo
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by vmg12 3mo ago
The nice thing about the chatgpt subscription is that they allow you to use it in any harness.
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by vmg12 3mo ago
One of the hard issues was supporting full text search locally and in the cloud. Also it's not that the entire app needed to be written twice but that parts of it needed it needed to be written twice.
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by vmg12 3mo ago
> We considered completely rebuilding the application from the ground up, or even splitting it into separate applications for online and offline use This is actually non-trivial. There's an app I was working on where I wanted to hav
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by vmg12 3mo ago
I used to row and even the tiniest of waves could make it annoying. You'd slide to the front of your seat and try to insert your oar and catch air instead of water. Then if you overcompensated by trying to insert your oar farther in yo
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by vmg12 3mo ago
You have inherent value by virtue of being human. Unfortunately it seems like people have forgotten humanism.
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by vmg12 3mo ago
> but ultimately the only reliable way I've seen to close the gap is hire disciplined people who care about, and thoughtfully consider, what they build. You were able to turn around a codebase that was growing its bug count exponent
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by vmg12 3mo ago
> The sleight of hand misdirects the reader away from the main way bugs are eliminated: by dedicating engineering resources to it. I was on a platform team and I had a constant backlog of bugs (introduced by others) that I was working on
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by vmg12 3mo ago
This is just another example of the bitter lesson. In a year a model will come out that will make none of these model specific optimizations you made matter.
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by vmg12 3mo ago
> I understand the arguments for a margin collapse, but I don't see any historical analogues. It seems that enterprises will pay top dollar for service guarantees, integration, and someone they can sue. Intelligence has diminishing
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by vmg12 3mo ago
I open sourced a wasm build that has better typescript support here: https://github.com/snackdotgame/jolt-ts I also have an open source character controller for it https://github.com/snackdotgame/j
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by vmg12 3mo ago
I meant to say on Hetzner...
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by vmg12 3mo ago
I meant to say on Hetzner...
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by vmg12 3mo ago
You just need to build back up to high intensity training over time by consistently exercising and pushing yourself. Injury comes from pushing yourself too hard too soon. Unless you are approaching 50 (and even then) you can recover most of
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by vmg12 4mo ago
Microvms are better for the VM provider. They use less memory and have a smaller attack surface. Also starting in 100ms means you don't need to add a bunch of async machinery when launching the vms.
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by vmg12 4mo ago
You can't run firecracker on AWS.
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Astronauts on the ISS drill a hole through the pressure hull(twitter.com)
4 points by vmg12 4mo ago|1 comments
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by vmg12 4mo ago
> "Incidentalomas" or unexpected, probably benign, findings are annoying to physicians For a lot of these things I wonder why they don't just do multiple scans just to see how things develop. Is it a cost issue?
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by vmg12 4mo ago
> For example, you need to add MCP servers manually. There's no Plugin/Skill/Connector marketplace that is accessible from within the app This is all wrong.
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by vmg12 4mo ago
The CEO of Anthropic himself has said AI is like a nuclear bomb when justifying export controls on Nvidia chips. How many private companies control nuclear bombs?
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by vmg12 4mo ago
This is a non sequitur. We are talking about the standard weight s&p 500 vs an equal weight s&p500
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by vmg12 4mo ago
Company performance doesnt follow a uniform distribution where each company is as likely to overperform as any other. Selling companies that are run well because their stock went up is a great way to miss out on a lot of money.
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by vmg12 4mo ago
People are constantly talking past eachother when they discuss this. Is there even a concrete definition of consciousness? When people talk about consciousness it's more than just self-awareness. It's self awareness + sensory stim
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by vmg12 4mo ago
That wasn't my question :). You aren't hurting me by insulting Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, I also think they are stupid.
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by vmg12 4mo ago
Did slowing down factory build-outs stop globalization from gutting the midwest? I think there are direct parallels here. We either automate ourselves or someone else will automate us and we will have no control.
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by vmg12 4mo ago
I think its a mistake to fight datacenters and AI. Taking a step back, if the US unilaterally stops producing AI will other countries stop? The answer is clearly no. Datacenters and ai can be built and trained anywhere. If you want control
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by vmg12 5mo ago
Obviously, you can sell one for a lot of money. Now assuming you couldnt resell it, would you spend the majority of your wealth to buy a monet? (Assuming you arent broke)
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by vmg12 5mo ago
The value of pokemon cards or birkin bags is not because they are physically owned. This should be obvious from the fact that I could cheaply reproduce them and my identical reproductions would have 0 value compared to the original. I still

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