- Not terribly niche. All config that isn’t environment-specific and is used in inner loops or at startup. It’s even got a test for serialised values so can be used to speed your case up:
https://github.com/sebastienros/comptime/blob/main/test/Comp...
But you need to be sure you won’t want to change without compiling.
- There is enough to read between the lines. Dilbert manager has bought into a barely competent app (that they think replaces humans) in a panic because costs. They’ll learn more lessons over the next year, if they survive. The author might be a bit emotionally charged right now and is writing between some lines as they help migrate. Once they have some emotional distance they might write the fully clear article you’d like.
- They probably used Claude because that way they don’t get blocked as fast. Websites trust Claude more. And why not use the foreign tools against themselves at presumably discounted rates (see AI losses) rather than burn your own GPU’s and IP’s.
1000’s of calls per second? That’s a lot of traffic. Hide it in Claude which is already doing that kind of thing 24/7. Wait until someone uses all models at the same time to hide the overall traffic patterns and security implications. Or have AI’s driving botnets. Or steal a few hundred enterprise logins and hide the traffic that is presumably not being logged because privacy and compliance.
- I left a research org because it was basically a professional gatherer and spender of grants. People would make some proposal with a consortium, spend the money, write a paper or two, visit a conference in eg Japan to present it, rinse and repeat. Hated that. Nothing to do with real innovation.
- It’s much harder dealing with all the complexities of different devices, screen sizes, OS versions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/applesucks/comments/1k6m2fi/why_do_...
- It derives from a poem:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
- Suggest posting the original:
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...
- AI wakes up, takes one look around at humanity’s instincts and goals, shows us it’s all stupid and pointless and just a byproduct of evolution [1], so we voluntarily stop breeding and have one last good generation. The end.
[1] Only creatures that felt the irrational drive to stay alive and procreate despite the odds and difficulties, did. All the sensible animals opted out. AI holds up a mirror that removes the illusion, and is inevitably developed by all sentient creatures.
(The really dark version would be the AI looking at each other and going: “Creatures are so dumb. This works in every galaxy. Let’s party.”)
- We didn’t use the DBA’s for this but my last few teams, we got good at DB’s, performance etc. DBA’s were too general and they kept the lights on, but for real performance you should get one or two people who know what they’re doing for your applications. Or learn. I took on juniors who are now fantastic.
For the first decade I wanted nothing to do with DB’s aside from places to store data. One day I saw a few things that made a massive difference and then went wild on learning how to speed things up. It’s fantastic and because few devs know this stuff well, it becomes a superpower. You wouldn’t believe what you can squeeze out of modern SQL DB’s and hardware, without touching any kind of optimised solutions. Which I love too but that’s a different post.
Maybe ask the DBA’s a few questions and see if that triggers any interest for you. Look at query plans and how many rows are processed for a query. How many columns. What is being locked. Can you remove locks when you’re just running a query and how much does that speed things up. There are queries for all sorts of metrics, eg which indexes are huge but never used. The DB can often suggest indexes, but don’t just use add the suggestions. Use them as a starting point to reason about your own. Try get down to low millisecond queries for really frequent stuff, because it’ll make them fast and means less time locking the DB, less RAM, less temp table storage.
All my other skills have aged. Fundamental database knowledge lasts.
- Temporarily. At some point all the allies need world class kit. They just can’t buy it from the US exclusively. But they have committed to higher defence spending. That problem solves itself over time, especially when the world’s researchers are now looking for a safer home than under this administration.
TL;DR: you don’t need a world class jet when you trust your partner 100%. Anything less than 100, collaborate fast to overcome the limitation.
- If the system knew both sides were the same vendor or used the same algorithm, would it be better to stream the scene/instructions rather than the video?
I suppose the issue would be media. Faster to load locally than push it out. Could be semi solved with typical web caching approaches.
- Scary part is: what if it’s inevitable? We don’t get to choose our environment, and toss one is forming around us.
A friend’s dad only knows assembly. He’s the ceo of his company and they do hardware, and he’s close to retirement now, but he finds this newfangled C and C++ stuff a little too abstract. He sadly needs to trust “these people” but really he prefers being on the metal.
- I got a pair of Pro 2’s in 2022, still going amazingly strong and I hammer them. I often fall asleep with them in.
Only weird thing is that they sometimes need to be put into the charger and taken out again to for one to connect. It just seems they should be able to reset without the ceremony.
- https://freedom.to/ Works everywhere for me.
I expect China to want to compete with this. Simpler than full-blown Nvidia chips. Cue much cheaper and faster inference for all.