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It doesn’t work, it performs horribly and is full of bugs. Serious people use open harnesses.

Objectively speaking, Russia is one of the most creative and innovative societies of all time. Literature, science, music, sporting, mathematics, computing, you name it, a Russian has innovated in it.

The cloud provider isn't the harness, Terraform/OpenTofu/Pelumi and the abstractions you build using them are. The cloud provider is the LLM. It's not as fungible as the LLM and there's no direct comparison to egress costs of course, but that's moreso a problem with the metaphor.

All of the people who I agree with are ensouled, all of them I disagree with are not.

Perhaps it's time to switch to paradigms that allow faster patch generation, application, and rollout... like Nix.

Yes, and, for non-personal machines or anything connected to the internet: now is a great time to get good at rolling out patches and new releases quickly.

Old but still good: https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/fear-of-musli...

It makes sense given a few things, although it's not as bad as you're saying: 1. The median American lives in a city and has exposure to Muslims and is most likely not Islamophobic. 2. Due to the voting structure of the U.S., people who don't live in cities and don't get exposure to Muslims get outsized voting rights. 3. Most American electeds are much more well travelled than Americans who don't live in cities.

So basically, elites have to necessarily balance (and exploit) the biases of over-represented minorities with their own largely metropolitan beliefs.

All of this is made more ironic in that the moral structures of the Abrahamic religions, including Islam, are all influences on and in line with, traditional American values, which American elites don't follow (see Epstein) but Americans who don't live in cities largely do.

At least in part, they legitimately see Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, and now Syria, as part of the American empire. I would argue this is a bipartisan elite belief as well, you see Dem current and former elected's lobbying and giving talks where policy is dictated in those countries all the time, investing and being invested in by those countries all the time.

The number of nines assigned to a suite of services is not indicative of the quality of SRE at any given company, but rather a reflection of the tradeoffs a business has decided to make. Guaranteed there's a dashboard somewhere at Github looking at platform stickiness vs. reliability and deciding how hard to let teams push on various initiatives.

Why?

That's because Israel killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon today.

Oman and Iran are splitting the fees RE: the statements by Iran.

The experience one has with this stuff is heavily influenced by overall load and uptime of Anthopic's inference infra itself. The publicly reported availability of the service is one 9, that says nothing of QoS SLO numbers, which I would guess are lower. It is impossible to have a consistent CX under these conditions.

I like it as well, although it was and is very buggy in certain instances.

could use some investigation of the ukranians techniques -- the number of interceptors the U.S. used within the first four days of the war eclipsed the total amount Ukranians have had for the war

If we stay on the current path, in a few months tech will start to feel the pain of Trump's rampage. The only redeemable thing about that is that maybe tech workers and Americans generally will finally stop feeling like they're above it all.

They don't, because almost entirely is not the same as entirely.

It's still extremely odd that they don't just... turn off.. ever? Even the case marketing copy notes this:

When stored in the soft, slim Smart Case, AirPods Max enter an ultra‑low‑power state.

Support small theatres, you won’t get charged like this.

Israeli VCs tend to be uninterested in IPOs in general - too much of an operational headache and it's difficult to exit a position quickly.

Interesting, why is this more true of Israeli VC's as opposed to VC's in other markets?

Seems possible that MMO's will have a resurgence once the Roblox generation comes of age.

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the outcome of the review isn't just that the code gets shipped, it's knowledge transfer from the senior engineer to the junior engineers that then creates more senior engineers

the first scenario that came to mind is that they built it for themselves and then open sourced it

None of those work when dealing with external services, I wouldn’t even trust them as a solution for dealing with access to a database. It seems like the pushback against MCPs is based on their application to problems like filesystem access, but I’d say there are plenty of cases in which they are useful or can be a tool used to solve a problem.

How do you segregate the CLI interface the LLM sees versus a human? For example if you’d like the LLM to only have access to read but not write data. One obvious fix is to put this at the authz layer. But it can be ergonomic to use MCP in this case.

I think I agree with you. Now the political will to make such a change on the other hand...

Bus only lanes exist, but not everywhere (some streets are not wide enough). Additionally, at the moment (and really always) there's a ton of construction on the bridges going in and out of the city, causing buses to miss out on the bus-only lanes for years or more at a time. Bus systems are a complicated beast.

Chicago has already done all of those things unfortunately (or fortunately).