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by xyzzy123 10mo ago
Given Docker's track record it won't be free indefinitely, this is a move to gauge demand and generate leads.
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by xyzzy123 10mo ago
Yeah the cyberpunk part is you can compute without explicitly needing someone's permission.
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
You also have the issue of information creating liability. A thing that nobody knows about is nobody's problem, a thing that COULD be a problem but probably isn't in someone's professional judgement creates liability for the
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
Maybe? But it also seems like you are that you are not accounting for new information at inference time. Let's pretend I agree the LLM is a plagiarism machine that can produce no novelty in and of itself that didn't come from what
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
Using this reasoning, would you argue that a new proof of a theorem adds no new information that was not present in the axioms, rules of inference and so on? If so, I'm not sure it's a useful framing. For novel writing, sure, I wo
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
One interesting angle for me is that I am seldom given complete specs or requirements when asked for an estimate. Of course you ask questions to try to determine key information that has not been specified but often the answers are not avai
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
Yeah I think the caveat is that the compressor and maybe seals, lights and few other bits are the ONLY repairable parts of most fridges. The whole structure of a modern fridge is foam panels and sheet metal folds that aren't ever meant
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
Totally fair. There are some situations where you can "undercut" cloud native object storage on a per TB basis (e.g. you have a big dedi at Hetzner with 50TB or 100TB of mirrored disk) but you pay a cost in operational overhead an
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
I'm confused why you would want to turn an expensive thing (cloud block storage) into a cheaper thing (cloud object storage) with worse durability in a way that is more effort to run? I'm not saying it's wrong since I don&#x2
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
Certificate per request
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
This can lead to weird dynamics. A lot of workplaces, no one seems to have direct power (or incentive!) to say "yes" to anything but lots of people (including 3 teams you weren't even aware existed) are able to "provide
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
I think the figure Musk circulated was that it was losing $4M / day. Although that probably includes the interest bill on the debt used for financing and might be inflated.
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
I would legitimately be worried if they were doctors, but they're philosophers (in medical ethics). Their job is to come up with insane moral edge cases and then try to follow them to their logical conclusion - the siller and more unhi
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
Absolutely, the best case is it's much better, safer, readable etc. However, the worst case is also worse. From the perspective of someone who provides devops support to multiple teams, terraform is more "predictable".
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
I actually like terraform for its LACK of power (tho yeah these days when I have a choice I use a lot of small states and orchestrate with tg). Pulumi or CDK are for sure more powerful (and great tools) but when I need to reach for them I a
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
Yeah I am mean when your political opinions get niche you start asking yourself: what am I? A factory? A cult? A sect? One guy? What's the difference here? It's all about your replicators. Where it reaaaaally gets weird with drone
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by xyzzy123 11mo ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Ok yep, fair. My comment was about using copilot-ish tech to generate plausible looking spreadsheets. The kind of things that a domain expert Brenda knows that ChatGPT doesn't know (yet) are like: There are 3 vendors a, b, c who all lo
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
The promise of AI is that it lets you "skip the drudgery of thinking about the details" but sometimes that is exactly what you don't want. You want one or more humans with experience in the business domain to demonstrate they
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
There are some really common flaws (traits?) that seem correlated with being the type of person who gets unusually good at engineering. Sometimes they're adaptive, sometimes they're not. Uncompromising - I've had very good le
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Reminds me of this classic: https://haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent... You would think the auto manufacturers should shoulder the burden of making wires less delicious.
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Hi, do you have a reference for this? I think you may have misunderstood the timeline.
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
I believe the classical definition is, "It can do any thinking task a human could do", but tasks with economic value (i.e. jobs) are the subset of that which would justify trillions of dollars of investment.
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
For _investment_ purposes the definition of AGI is very simple. It is: "to what extent can it replace human workers?". From this perspective, "100% AGI" is achieved when AI can do any job that happens primarily on a comp
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Without knowing what the product and market structure is, you cannot tell if the cost of the tariff will be borne by the seller or the buyer.
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Disco Elysium.
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Fintech companies in particular seem really prone to becoming "hyper-parasites", but pure software companies can have this feel too. It seems like the more abstracted things get the more prone they are to collapsing into scams or
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
But aren't you still trusting the website for instructions about how to verify the cryptographic signatures?
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
All those things you described are proxies to control resources and produce security. The money, the attention, the influence etc. Yes, structurally those things become less important if there are fewer people. But it doesn't matter! P
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
I agree neither I nor my ideas are very smart. Think like Zuck on a private island. The thing that matters to you is economic output that is available for you to direct and consume. From a certain point of view, everything else is just

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