- You just know other nation states are all inside these camera systems and probably buried deep at this point.
Of course no liability will be faced by the company, and none for the police departments who violate our constitutional rights.
- I am sorry but anyone who actually has tried this knows it is horrifically slow, significantly slower than you just typing for any model worth its weight.
That 128gb of RAM is nice but the time to first token is so long on any context over 32k, and the results are not even close to a Codex or Sonnet.
- "without context switching"???
By definition going from work to writing some drivel on twitter is context switching lol.
- Glad I moved to GitLab 7 years ago.
- I've been using the preview flash model exclusively since it came out, the speed and quality of response is all I need at the moment. Although still using Claude Code w/ Opus 4.5 for dev work.
Google keeps their models very "fresh" and I tend to get more correct answers when asking about Azure or O365 issues, ironically copilot will talk about now deleted or deprecated features more often.
- You know 5 years from now Apple and Google will charge the car manufacturers millions to enable CarPlay / Android Auto.
Enshitiffication has one end, they will screw everyone long term.
I don't blame any manufacturer who bows out.
- I am certain if I had the estimated $4,000,000,000 it took to get Voyager 1 launched, I could get some microservices to function regardless of all scenarios.
The reality is, its only worth it to build to 99.9999% uptime for very specific missions... There is no take-backsies in space. Your company will survive a microservice outage.
- Just like all things, the easier you make it the more people will abuse it.
Now their hand is forced, and they will actually have to try and mask their location.
- They bought 3 other vet clinics, 1 has already been closed.
There's now only 2 emergency vet clinics within 30 miles of each other, there are no other options unless you want to drive nearly an hour away.
- Friend works for a vet clinic, got bought by PE 2 years ago.
Routine layoffs, increased costs, and worse quality of service have crept in over the past 6 months.
Average turnover went from 4 years to 1 year, hes one of the last few people who are there from when they were purchased.
- All stuff is legacy the moment you deploy it.
All work created by a company decays, it's legacy code within months.
- Working at a company that uses react-native I wish nothing more than for the end of app stores and differing platform languages.
We're heavily considering just having a website next year with a mobile app using webview, and then native code for the native notifications, GPS and healthkit / health connect.
I feel like AI is changing the equation, its nearly better to write your business UI 3 times one for each platform.
- I look back at myself at 18 and damn I was dumb as rocks. I'm amazed I even had an internship working on drivers, the risk is too high.
- We've officially lost the plot, we will now ship our AI data centers to ~space~ ... This will not work with modern technology.
The sun will be eclipsed by earth many times per day, requiring you to either shift all workloads or add substantial UPS weight. The radiator grid you need to cool 125kw is something like 16x the size of the entire data center.
I watched this video last week that went into 3 different scenarios, it's a good watch.
- That is assuming you need that 1 core 24/7, you can get 2 core / 8gb for $43, this will most likely fit 90% of workloads (steady traffic with spikes, or 9-5 cadence).
If you reserve that instance you can get it for 40% cheaper, or get 4 cores instead.
Yes it's more expensive than OVH but you also get everything AWS to offer.
- I really disagree that the privacy risk is enough to not use it at all, even in a healthcare setting.
There are wild scenarios you can come up with where you may leak something, but that assumes the information isn't coming over anyway.
"Reveals account creation time" - most APIs return this in API responses by default.
When have you seen just a list of UUIDs and no other more revealing metadata?
Meanwhile what pwns 99% of companies? Phishing.
- Of course you could also invest heavily into cloud automation and likely run their payloads autoscaling and save a fortune too.
My point is, when people compare cloud to on prem they use a hypothetical on-prem installation vs a realistic actually working cloud deployment.
We only see these blog posts for things that are just 1-2 servers.
Very few companies are fully on-prem and saving a lot of money, they typically have very specific use cases like high bandwidth or IO usage.
- I feel like this is left out of the story too often - people tend to compare the most optimistic "self-hosted", usually just one or two servers at best, to a less than ideal cloud installation.
My parent company (Healthcare) uses all on prem solutions, has 3 data centers and 10 sys admins just for the data centers. You still need DevOps too.
I don't know how much it would cost to migrate their infra to AWS, but ~ $1.3M (salary) in annual spend buys you a ton of reserved compute on AWS.
$1.3M is 6000 CPU cores, 10TiB of RAM 24/7 with 100TB of storage.
I know for a fact due to redundancy they have no where near that, AND they have to pay for Avamar, VMWare, (~$500k) etc.
There's no way its cheaper than AWS, not even close.
So sure someones self hosted PHP BB forum doesn't need to be on AWS, but I challenge someone to run a 99.99% uptime infra significantly cheaper than the cloud.
- You can plug your ears and close your eyes, but Microsoft is becoming increasingly adversarial to their customers.
It's clear they want to remove local accounts and tie everything to O365.
My mom (68 yo) recently got a Windows update that then prompted her to backup her stuff. I had disabled all this and used Win11 debloat previously. OneDrive only had 5gb of storage and prompted her to upgrade.
She thought she got hacked because it was asking for money. Then when I went to turn it off it warned me that I might suffer data loss disabling one drive. Which is a story that we have seen play out many times.
Sure enough I backed everything up to an external drive, and when I disabled OneDrive the files were totally gone.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5309251/...
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ef8pgr/one_dr...
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/i-tried-to-disable-onedrive-lo...
So sure, you can get around it, but there are going to be hundreds of millions of other people who won't.
Hire anyone whos worked in healthcare privacy or compliance and they will tell you without a doubt ex-girlfriends, bitter rivals and celebrities are the #1 item people abuse their access for.