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- HPBN is really well written, chapter 4 helped me understand TLS enough to debug a high latency issue at a previous job. There was an issue where a particularly incomplete TLS frame received and no subsequent bits for it led to a server waiting 30 min for the rest of the bits to arrive. HPBN was a huge help. I haven’t finished reading it but I remember there’s part of it that goes over the trade offs of increasing vs decreasing TLS frame sizes which is a low level knob I now know exists because of HPBN. Not sure if I’ll ever use it but it’s fascinating.
- Isnt it an intentional choice? The show Pluribus has a not-so-subtle analogy to an LLM that has access to the world’s knowledge, doing its best to give whatever we ask it for, and not being the brightest tool in the shed. I think the artist accomplished what they wanted to in the context of the show.
EDIT: I stand corrected, the show’s analogy to AI is coincidental.
- I think the author is the target customer for Framework. A customer looking for a ship of Theseus laptop that the seller stands by.
I’ve looked at framework as a potential next laptop but it’s expensive, some of parts are expensive, and the other parts I’m not sure I’ve ever had issues with in past laptops. I think I’m better off buying multiple used thinkpads over the course of my life, or even a used MBP (refurbished m4 MBP goes for ~$1.3K from Apple, base configuration w/ 16GB ram for framework 13 is ~1.2K), than a Framework; the thinkpads would be cheaper and more eco friendly with good build quality. I’m not looking for a ship of Theseus laptop, I’m just looking for something that works a long time, is good enough, and I want to keep my lifetime expenditure on hardware on the lower side. I look at my laptop cost as upfront cost divided by number of years I expect to use it for and I have a spreadsheet with past laptops (and phones) tracking historical usage and costs to better inform my next purchase. Framework looks attractive but the costs don’t seem to align with my goal.
- > looking back over the past two decades basically all of the successful entrepreneurs and business owners I know didn’t come from families with a lot of resources and didn’t have much of a safety net
There’s probably some truthyness to this but it doesn’t account for survivorship bias. And there’s a baseline amount of resources necessary to take a risk and be able to try again (e.g., good luck taking a risk when preoccupied by [lack of] health, housing, food).
- Found the answer, yes https://x.com/0xcygaar/status/1892967062160511164
- For consumers, i think we could see local first AI boxes (possibly just our phones) + subscription based plan to integrate with set of API providers for info and actions with paid add-ons and updates. The moat might be integration or deals with a set of “atomic”/foundational API providers to invoke results (without a [headless] browser).
E.g. book a flight will be thru APIs from airlines partnering with consumer AI box companies with some “best pricing” layer on top so user can book optimal flights, user can generate high quality infinite doomscrolling content on demand, provided by TikTok with ad and ad-free tiers. Law enforcement will crack down on unregistered, “dark” boxes and require API providers to talk with registered boxes only so dark boxes will have to rely on shady, limited APIs.
- Reminds me of how certain macOS APIs are gated behind the paid apple developer program so you can’t, for example, write a macOS app using Network Extensions on your own Mac until you join the Apple developer program (100USD/year in the US). I understand why they do it but it does feel weird that I can’t write certain code for my own Mac unless I pay for a subscription (on top of already having paid for the Mac).
- If true, horse browser devs need to read the Security section on Electron docs:
> With that in mind, be aware that displaying arbitrary content from untrusted sources poses a severe security risk that Electron is not intended to handle.
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security#pre...
I feel like they should’ve used Chromium.
- The web could help new mobile operating systems succeed specifically because the web handles the catch-22 of kickstarting a new dual-sided marketplace (to get users you need app developers creating apps but to get app developers you need users). Building a new marketplace is a significant challenge and prevent(ed) new mobile operating systems from succeeding (e.g. Firefox OS, Windows Phone, Ubuntu Touch) among other reasons.
Calling this out because it's alluded to in the post but doesn't seem to be explicitly stated. I wrote a brief blurb about it in 2019 - https://konaraddi.com/writing/2019/2019-01-06-pwas-could-hel...
- https://info.myorca.com/news/can-i-use-my-phone-to-pay-for-a...
Tap to pay coming to orca in 2023, they’ve got ~2 months left for it to be true
I’m optimistic because google recently put out a post that google wallet will support ORCA soon (as shared by another commenter)
- Any group of people, police or not, running protection rackets should face legal consequences that punish individual actors and effectively dissolve the said criminal enterprise. All of the officers, not just Chauvin, that were extorting immigrants for cash-only payments should also be investigated for possible tax evasion.
I think this falls within the more broad category of “elimination via substitution” techniques in breaking personal patterns.