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Enterprises running in public clouds have Zero Data Retention policies with the vendor. Routing the ai spend through Azure or AWS usually bring these policies along with it, ie enterprise data and useage is not ingested to retrain the model.

It’s almost as complex as compiling software for different runtime environments; it requires a knowledge artifact repository and publishing system, e.g. https://github.com/thinkingsage/context-bazaar

…young children have immense neural plasticity while adults, especially 40+, have little.

Congrats! I am also an autodidact who desired a stronger school name on my resume after a long run in startups, so I took a senior engineering role at Johns Hopkins.

I'm not affiliated with the engineering school or familiar with their curriculum. It may not be as famous as the schools of medicine or public health, but in general they are quite good.

You mean like the British Empire? ....The Spanish Empire maybe?

The only modern contender, the Japanese Empire, arose partly by the encouragement of Teddy Roosevelt.

Fun fact: a successful invasion of the North American continent has very little to do with weaponry and more to do with logistics and projection of force across an ocean. There is only one superpower with the capabilities to do it at all.

...and if you aren't pronouncing it "Var" you might be one ;-)

It's a fair comparison. There's a fair amount of plausible-sounding bullshit being peddled as a transparent advertisement for an ai-driven "code security" firm.

In a couple of years he will be 60, too. Then 65, then 70.

Seniors will be able to stay in the game much longer than before, mark my words.

Not to wade too far into weeds, but the spiritual and temporal authority of Rome (ie what is now called Church and State) were considered separate entities. When the temporal authority collapsed, the spiritual authority preserved its content and form and then simply waited for conditions to improve.

Τhus the various attempts to re-manifest a Holy Roman Empire in Europe across the subsequent centuries.

Yes, make the teachers on $25-35K annual salaries do /more/ work for no extra money. I'm sure that will fix education.

I’m sure the same justification was trotted out in Hungary when they purged the intellectuals there, too.

My 1.8 GPA is literally discriminated-against, too. So unfair!

You might lease a Regus (et. al.) business address for <$100/mo.

The AWS Kiro (https://kiro.dev) spec-driven coding harness operates this way in Auto mode which offers the base token rate.

Manually-specifying Sonnet or Opus is a multiplier on the base token rate; specifying Qwen fractions it. Left to its own, it presumably uses the heavier models to create the plan and orchestrate the work; the bite-sized task definitions are delegated to smaller models.

The next % stake will be acquired at a discount, it seems.

Still better than the half-brained man who loves Israel above all else.

Fear not: “As you can all probably tell, I got a lot of criticisms about the way this government functions. But in order for us to make it functional, we’re gonna have to do stuff,” Platner said. “And you can’t just go down there and be John Fetterman and ... just sort of be an a*hole.”

Source: https://nebraska.tv/news/nation-world/graham-platner-calls-p...

Athens Greece would blow your mind, friend.

"All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages."

— William Shakespeare, Fantasy Author

You can buy finer-tipped replacement caps for the mechanical pencil effect. Then there is the second problem: the texture of glass instead of paper.

That is an illustrative failure. It might be absurdly simple 4/4 pattern progressions which a calculator should be able to automate. But inducing a trance requires consciousness; electrical activity in a meat brain. They will never understand such things.

cryptocurrency economics = cryptonomics

You're welcome! =)

The politics of multimillion dollar contracts for public clouds go far, far, far beyond the preferences of an acquisition team, or what the engineers may think.

It is still extremely common today, if you look at the demographics along the Atlantic Coast of the US. The richest zip codes always have poor ones nearby.

I can’t say Claude Code is not a great product with solid market fit even though the code inside it is aesthetically garbage.

A friend of mine encountered a wrecked buggy on the road and drove the Amish family inside it to the hospital and saved lives.

The entire local Amish community now comes and helps him tend his property, raised him a barn.

I’d probably let go of the employees who decline using agentic tools first, tbh. All things being equal.

Cull the human herd because Bob is too much of an individual to participate. An ironic solution.

I’ve have amazing, amazing results through composing an “ADR” skill hook. It knows contextually what they are for; how to write them; when to include them as steering.