itsmeduncan

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by itsmeduncan 1mo ago
This is interesting take. How do you think the split will show up? Harnesses/models will be designed for human consumption, and those for machine consumption? I'm building getwhelk.com and it is a cool thought-experiment for me.
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by itsmeduncan 1mo ago
Me too. I think there are a few waves we can ride here. Let's collaborate?
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by itsmeduncan 1mo ago
Agreed, and run your own inference too. Open source/weight models are getting so great.
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by itsmeduncan 1mo ago
How long can OpenAI (and Anthropic) incentivize, and keep costs artificially down for tokens to depress investment in private/offline LLMs? It's interesting to watch the cost curves, and burn to see where it stops being venture su
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Commonplace: Self-hosted, privacy-tiered memory for your AI agents(github.com)
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Civic-SLM is a domain-specialized fine-tune of Qwen2.5-7B for U.S. govt data(itsmeduncan.com)
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Unlocking the Four Burner Theory with AI: A New Balance(itsmeduncan.com)
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by itsmeduncan 8y ago
It looks like the article was deleted.
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by itsmeduncan 10y ago
A great "how would you architect X" is Uber. Lot's of hidden complexity.
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by itsmeduncan 10y ago
There is an example in the blog post about DigitalGlobe. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte...
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by itsmeduncan 10y ago
Plus one to di.fm. They've been around forever and have great channels.
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by itsmeduncan 11y ago
Do you work for GCE? You've made this exact same comment twice on the same link. Do you have any examples or links that back up the 50% cheaper point? As well as the trade-offs for switching to GCE? We run on GCE, Heroku, and AWS.
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Are You Managing Your Manager?(medium.com)
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On management: Goals(medium.com)
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This is life in Trello(medium.com)
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by itsmeduncan 11y ago
"Pricing is based on device minutes, which are determined by the duration of tests on each selected device. AWS Device Farm comes with a free trial of 250 device minutes. After that, customers are charged $0.17 per device minute. As yo
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by itsmeduncan 12y ago
Apple uses Riak for this.
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by itsmeduncan 12y ago
Congratulations to them! It's a pretty fantastic tool. We use it for incident management for our customer care department as well as engineering. But why does the link go to the comments...?
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by itsmeduncan 12y ago
I am running beta 4 (14A298i) on a mid-2013 11" MacBook Air. It sometimes loses the WiFi connection, but reconnects automatically. I've noticed the laptop will restart itself with PowerNap turned on, and plugged into an external d
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by itsmeduncan 12y ago
Director of Engineering at ShopKeep here. Happy to answer any questions. We're also hiring (like everyone). Checkout our careers pages[1]. [1] http://www.shopkeep.com/careers
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ShopKeep’s Point Of Sale Software Rings Up $25 Million(techcrunch.com)
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by itsmeduncan 12y ago
Director of Engineer at ShopKeep here. Happy to answer any questions about the technical side of things. Some recent ShopKeep news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641525
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
I am on the 10th floor.
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
I was an early adopter when T-Mobile rolled out their $50 unlimited everything plan in NYC. The pros outweigh the cons, but they do sometimes give me pause. I don't have service in 90% of my apartment in the middle of Manhattan. It is
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
We just wrote something very similar to this using Kafka which replaced a very similar system you have. Do it. We would have used Kinesis if it was around.
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
That is correct. The short story here is the FAA simply can't keep up with the innovation so they certify a group of people that can certify a repair as safe, and effective. It can than be used, while the FAA eventually full approves t
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
I know this article is focused on noise, but the most important part about this engine is the efficiency. The fuel savings alone from having the high pressure section running at peak RPM in any situation is incredible. Billions and billions
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
We are using this at ShopKeep[1]. The co-founder was nice enough to let us get it set up for free, and start paying for it later once our issues settled down. [1]: http://status.shopkeep.com
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
We (ShopKeep) are using Puma for our thin web-services around our platform. Specifically, we send all of our data to a two nodes load-balanced running Puma for our analytics aggregation. It's pretty amazing how a single instance runnin
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by itsmeduncan 13y ago
This will be fun as a list of places to try out 0-day exploits on.

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