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by eunoia 4mo ago
Big fan of Snow Crash. For background I liked Cryptonomicon a lot but also found Seveneves to be a bit of a slog. I would check out The Diamond Age as well if you’re generally taking Stephenson book recommendations.
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by eunoia 4mo ago
Beautiful piece. I sometimes feel like technologists actually desire to remove the humanity from the world because it's messy and they don't understand it and therefore they fear it.
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by eunoia 4mo ago
Mixed bag. Some engineers are excited about the company giving them a blank check to explore a new tool. Some engineers are upset because they feel their skills are being devalued by leadership. Overall I would say most are exploring the ne
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by eunoia 4mo ago
Executive leadership talking to the managers in their orgs. I wish I was kidding, but they really are pushing increased token usage. Like I said, we push back. When we push back they acknowledge it's a bad metric and lately have star
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by eunoia 4mo ago
Fellow FAANG. We have weekly manager meetings where leadership encourages us to increase token usage. We do push back, and leadership acknowledges that token spend is not a great metric and people are likely to game it... and then go righ
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by eunoia 7mo ago
What crime was he convicted of? Surely that has some bearing?
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by eunoia 8mo ago
This is real. I’ve seen some baffling bugs in prompt based stop hook behavior. When I investigated I found the docs and implementation are completely out of sync, but the implementation doesn’t work anyway. Then I went poking on GitHub and
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by eunoia 8mo ago
Unfortunately I think we actually agree on this and did come away with the same conclusions.
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by eunoia 8mo ago
I would highly recommend the book Amusing Ourselves to Death if you are looking to understand how the populace got to the point where truth is irrelevant and nothing really matters. It helped my mental model a lot at the very least.
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by eunoia 8mo ago
It was never principled opposition to anything, just a power fantasy that the current admin lets them live even more viscerally.
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by eunoia 8mo ago
The “don’t tread on me” folks converted to “comply or die” shockingly quickly.
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by eunoia 8mo ago
I think you’re fundamentally right. Trump is obviously the worst we’ve seen yet, but power has been accumulating unchecked in the executive branch’s hands for decades now. Trump is merely a symptom of the problem that is the Imperial Presid
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by eunoia 8mo ago
His full Lord of the Rings audiobook is likewise incredible.
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by eunoia 8mo ago
How dare you quote me!
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by eunoia 9mo ago
Eh not sure why OP chose Boulder, it is a great EV town. I commute into Boulder in an EV every day I need to be in the office. I almost exclusively charge my EV in Boulder at the office. The proportion of EVs I see driving in and out of Bou
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by eunoia 9mo ago
Read the first two this year. Absolutely incredible and now some of my all time favorite sci-fi.
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by eunoia 9mo ago
It does now with M series chips. iirc Apple made a point of demoing the quick wake in the announcement too.
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by eunoia 9mo ago
We have extremely old words for this kind of behavior: greed, avarice. Traditionally they have not been considered good things.
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by eunoia 9mo ago
Companies are not helpless dames in a fascist takeover. History has proven that the people on top of the capitalist hierarchy generally actively welcome fascist elements in government. It’s a lot easier to juice the profits of your megacorp
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by eunoia 9mo ago
> to have a worse time I have a much better time in my EV than my ICE car but to each their own.
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by eunoia 1y ago
> We will stop increasing our energy use one way or another once we hit this wall. > If we want to continue using more energy we'll need a whole second Earth to do it on Or we make like Niven's Puppeteers and move the Earth
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by eunoia 1y ago
For the curious: Cadillac Desert is a great history of American dam building and the Bureau of Reclamation
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by eunoia 1y ago
My understanding is context size. Companies like Cursor are trying to minimize the amount of context sent to the models to keep their own costs down. Claude Code seems to send a lot more context with every request and that seems to make t
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by eunoia 2y ago
Additional reading about how Swift Structured Concurrency (Task API) utilizes and propagates QoS is in the proposal doc. https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo...
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by eunoia 2y ago
> go again the same day. That seems like a stretch. What is the actual turnaround time for Starship? fwiw the Shuttle had a lot of lofty promises of reusability that were technically true as long as you didn't consider how long th
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by eunoia 3y ago
Serious question: do any rocket launch schemes actually use asparagus staging? I vaguely remember hearing it adds too much complexity for a real world launch. Great in KSP though.
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by eunoia 3y ago
“Let’s go exploring!”
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by eunoia 3y ago
Very much agreed! If anyone knows of a good one I would love to read it as well.
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by eunoia 3y ago
Battle.net also used to be great for learning your way around computers. Designed and released my first "game" via Starcraft's Map Editor, first "server" was a Battle.net chat bot hosted in my closet... First peek
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by eunoia 3y ago
That's... also cherry picking?

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