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by dbuxton 1mo ago
Many runways have something called PAPI (precision approach path indicator) which does something similar. Basically you have four (or two sometimes for less precise version) lights which appear either red or white depending on whether you a
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by dbuxton 1mo ago
Well I just rent so no idea. Not sure they will end up lower as presumably it will all need to be conducted by a FAA double-starred technician who is not just vibe coding it
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by dbuxton 1mo ago
27 mins endurance (?) for $5 of power. Not bad. I rent a 172 and have been paying a $5/h fuel surcharge for the past few months due war in Iran - but at UK avgas prices 27 mins in my plane would be $55ish. Haven’t looked into the det
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by dbuxton 1mo ago
There's no such thing as a "timeless" translation - if you read something written by Victorians you'll get all sorts of overlaid assumptions and biases, just ones that are unfamiliar
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by dbuxton 2mo ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a673180-0a78-83ed-abd0-d797c4d95a... tldr the initial effort didn't seem to read the linked article so I copied and pasted the full text in
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by dbuxton 2mo ago
I can’t read something like this without thinking of the late great Richard Scarry Luckily ChatGPt does a pretty good impression https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a6662e9af6c81918523fb06d1384e74
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by dbuxton 2mo ago
At the moment a lot of companies thinking of it like speculative capex - we can just stop doing it if we don’t get results, or we can easily optimize. My concern is that with all the bundling that the model labs are doing the lock-in become
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by dbuxton 2mo ago
It is just extremely difficult in most companies to draw a line between a specific feature and an amount of revenue. A lot of engineering has a stochastic type of impact. (It’s often easier to see what a feature does to reduce costs though)
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by dbuxton 2mo ago
As well as cost-per-task I think it's worth thinking about speed, especially in non-coding contexts that benchmark less cleanly We've started trying to do some comparison videos to capture more of the UX vs speed vs cost stuff e.g
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by dbuxton 3mo ago
It's genuinely depressing.
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by dbuxton 3mo ago
The problem with this is that you have a consistency problem if you want to take action. The only way of making your agents read-write rather than read-only in practice is to use the underlying systems rather than try and pool information i
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by dbuxton 3mo ago
I would encourage anyone who hasn’t to try and see a glassblowing demonstration. It’s about as different from programming as any creative process could be - real time, intuitive, working with an unstable material - but something in it reall
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by dbuxton 4mo ago
We’re (harriethq.com) trying to do this by reframing it as a “provisioning” challenge - how do you get your connectors installed on non-technical desktops, how do you give some easy pre-bake recipes that wake them from their dogmatic slumbe
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by dbuxton 4mo ago
I had the same experience with chatbots, but we shipped a chatbot module a year ago that helps with complex config questions by reading and answering based on a Salesforce Experience site. I was skeptical but it gets a 68 NPS from users, ev
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by dbuxton 5mo ago
From the comments looks like lots of people looking at this problem from different angles. We (harriethq.com) also have a somewhat similar insight, which is that setting up connectors is a drag for non-technical users, and a lot of systems
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by dbuxton 7mo ago
I think the corrective to this is that many of these incumbents will fail to re-conceive their product stack from a user-centric perspective, and as a result they will be reduce to just a dumb data layer which is easily swappable. Sure, the
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by dbuxton 8mo ago
I played this in my head a few times and don’t get it. I assume we are talking - China - maybe South Korea? - US (or is US not one of the 4?) - Russia (ok this is explicit) I think there might be an interesting idea in here but there is so
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by dbuxton 8mo ago
The flip side of this is that if model capabilities are extremely strong such that they are able to saturate the benchmarks, the differentiation and defensibility of a wrapper solution built on top are significantly reduced. IANAL but e.g.
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by dbuxton 8mo ago
Of all the challenges you face as a startup, the legal entity you choose is possibly the least consequential. Just choose a jurisdiction where investors understand how the legals work (Delaware C-corp, UK Ltd is OK too) and there's a f
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by dbuxton 8mo ago
> I believe that the near-term de-dollarization isn't as much trust erosion as it is a tool to provide monetary penalty for behaving in unpredictable ways. How is that different from trust erosion?
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by dbuxton 9mo ago
Loved “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance” by Herman Wouk - middlebrow from the 70s but no less good for that. Re-read “The Art of Not Being Governed” by James C Scott which is really mind-expanding stuff.
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by dbuxton 9mo ago
I have played with this but been underwhelmed. However I do think probably on the right track. I know the ecosystem not-at-all (sum total knowledge of the CAD ecosystem is that my kids got a Bambu printer for Hanukkah) but it feels to me th
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by dbuxton 9mo ago
I used to love Heroku review apps!
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by dbuxton 9mo ago
> The unification and seamless workflow at that scale is painfully hard to achieve It does make you wonder, why not just be a lot smaller? It's not like most of these teams actually generate any revenue. It seems like a weird struct
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by dbuxton 9mo ago
One thing I find interesting about discussions of typography in Cyrillic is how poor the overall readability of text is in most fonts compared to Latin because of the relative scarcity of risers and descenders (e.g. pqlt etc) One of my tuto
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by dbuxton 10mo ago
It’s hard to bet against the foundation models winning consumer use cases where you can reimagine the whole product as a single tool or small number that can be dynamically plugged in to the underlying model and doesn’t require access to pr
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by dbuxton 1y ago
I think this is a relative succinct summary of the downside case for LLM code generation. I hear a lot of this and as someone who enjoys a well-structured codebase, I have a lot of instinctive sympathy. However I think we should be thinking
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by dbuxton 1y ago
Interesting that the infographic (which I thought was exceptionally well-designed, well done USGS) found it necessary to call out that 0 billion gallons/day goes to Mexico. Was this done by previous or this administration I wonder? I d
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by dbuxton 1y ago
I once lived in Moscow on a compound with an adopted rescue dog. The compound had a shock collar and invisible fence setup. Moscow’s street dogs are renowned for their intelligence. I have seen street dogs taking the escalators on the Metro

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