glenngillen

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by glenngillen 9d ago
I'm not sure I follow the correlation or causation logic here. By the evidence presented the conclusion I would draw is it's very difficult to have repeated success. All your stated failures predated any unionisation. If anything
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by glenngillen 10d ago
Is this unique to AI? I feel like something changed with social media becoming kinda ubiquitous. Like everyone suddenly felt the need to have an opinion on every thing. And on lots of divisive topics the fact you might not have an opinion c
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by glenngillen 25d ago
In hindsight it was quite early in my career, but a bit over 20 years ago I felt burnt out in tech and wanted to try something new. I was share trading quite a bit so thought maybe I'd become a stock broker (online trading was only jus
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by glenngillen 25d ago
Totally agree with unique at own domain isn't actually privacy. It wouldn't take much of a paper trail to work out the details. I continue to use it everywhere for a few reasons: - if someone emails me acting all friendly like we&
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by glenngillen 29d ago
yes, but how else would you know that "flare" was the load bearing part of that statement? /s
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by glenngillen 1mo ago
I've not lived in London for more than a decade. I always thought the black snot was from the Tube. Is it not?
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by glenngillen 1mo ago
Last time I was in the US the lowest dose melatonin gummies I could find in a CVS were 1mg — kids gummies. That's more than 3x the actual recommended dose for an average adult based on the research others have shared in this thread. So
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by glenngillen 1mo ago
I remember thinking the same about a bunch of friends I know who were working at early GitHub. What are you all doing build a replacement Campfire? Omg, now there's a team building an IDE because they don't like Textmate? And doze
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by glenngillen 2mo ago
He became CTO in 2014. I was familiar with him at Joyent some years before that though. edit/update: and the Samsung acquisition was in 2016. So I'd hope the CTO would have _some_ involvement in that decision.
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by glenngillen 2mo ago
The apparent fear of universal healthcare many Americans seen to have is incredible. And to call it out in a thread where someone has literally shared that they're forced to attend a pointless appointment at an exorbitant cost like tha
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by glenngillen 2mo ago
also subscribing to this!
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by glenngillen 3mo ago
Agreed. From a quick skim (especially of the CLI interface) it looks to be a device to impersonate an NFC card, so you can then put it on a reader (eg. A hotel room door) and try to reverse engineer the handshake.
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by glenngillen 3mo ago
Back in the early days of Heroku (when I worked there), we were all fairly deep into the Ruby community. Ruby has never had a great reputation for performance, but... it seemed like almost a running joke that any time you went down a rabbit
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by glenngillen 3mo ago
And Edinburgh in Scotland
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by glenngillen 3mo ago
I was just wondering the same thing! I do suspect it was built with some form of AI though because the handful of links I've tried to dig into have all linked to the wrong place/are invalid :/
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by glenngillen 3mo ago
It's been a lot of trial & error. A quick aside: running these tests/evals/call them what you will at scale has been fascinating to me. Going back and trawling through the logs has been like speed-running through hundreds
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by glenngillen 3mo ago
I did exactly that and it's all covered in the blog post. There's no hidden eval harness, it's in the same codebase as the CLI so others can reproduce and/or extend as they see fit. It also includes code editing tasks an
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
I'm not sure I follow, which profile do you mean? My profile on HN? I don't know if we'll keep dissecting every incremental improvement we make as (so far) the general approach is the same as documented in the existing blog p
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
Exactly! The estimates + cost diffs are expandable in the PR so you can see the working.
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
We've a lot of experience doing this! Also while this feeds into and supports LLMs and non-deterministic systems, our recommendations are entirely deterministic. So it's pretty rare to have a "wrong" recommendation given
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
We do cache the results locally so that we're not repeatedly hitting our pricing API. The LLM doesn't access that cache directly though as it'd suffer the token tax you mention. Instead we optimised our CLI to return agent op
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
I guess another way to interpret what he was trying to say could also be: "the kind of movies that I loved and the kind of movies that were my bread and butter (are no longer affordable if I was to do a cinema release)" So maybe B
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
What do you mean by "Terraform cross compatibility"? Pulumi was (initially) built upon the same underlying providers so had the same capabilities. I'd posit the main difference between the two was Terraform's declarative
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
Yikes. If you showed me this car and asked me to guess the brand I'd probably say Renault. Which isn't meant to be shade on Renault, and I don't exactly hate the design and might even take a look at it if I was in the market
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
Yeah, while the "average" person might be able to gracefully handle these situations there's still a lot of people who do things that to me seem obviously silly and avoidable. Locally there's a bridge that is regularly h
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
not OP, but apparently all it takes is 2 kids that are independently into multiple sports + both parents being actively involved in the clubs/work schedules that allow us to regularly make every training session and game means we'
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
I remember meeting a founder who had a moderately successful adtech business who was venting about the difficulty getting very large brands with huge spend on board. This is probably almost 2 decades ago now before what many of us take for
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
I mostly agree with what you said (the diff being we've still done the "pretty" output and progress bars for the human-centric outputs). And I found it a fun exercise as trawling through the log output of the LLM tests to see
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We cut Claude's token usage 79% by redesigning our CLI for agents(infracost.io)
12 points by glenngillen 4mo ago|5 comments
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by glenngillen 4mo ago
Most big companies still have travel agencies/companies manage their corporate travel. I can’t remember who we used when I was at Amazon, but I made a similar complaint to my manager once given I could fly cheaper in a higher class on

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