jonathaneunice

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by jonathaneunice 16d ago
A lovely visualization. Excellent use of Sankey / flow diagram.
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by jonathaneunice 19d ago
The documentation complaint is true of many, maybe all, AWS services: they discuss multiple generations, address multiple target audiences, and range wildly in currency and relevance, from marketing material to technical deep dives, all int
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by jonathaneunice 21d ago
Perl! CGI! 2003 called and wants help finding its tech stack which has apparently wandered away from its care home.
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by jonathaneunice 1mo ago
Abashedly raises hand as someone who's also written his own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by jonathaneunice 1mo ago
Prosody is hard. No AI voice I've heard really nails voice generation with fully smooth and human-like cadence and quality, but they're gradually getting better. Airy voices sound a bit tinny and childish, but even so, they'r
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by jonathaneunice 1mo ago
The curse of dimensionality times the reality that good metrics are elusive or themselves a bit cursed. Many outcomes you're engineering or product-managing toward are quite squishy, hard to define, and hard to evaluate. "Easy to
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by jonathaneunice 1mo ago
That may be your preference, but it's quite contrary to mine. I have successfully used AI to generate generates "concept art" and logos for projects, presentations, and publications. It seems to make the outcomes more approac
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by jonathaneunice 1mo ago
I complied Kermit for IBM's AIX in ~1989 as a study in "how compatible is AIX to other Unixes?" Kermit source code remains the high-water mark in my memory for how many different, incompatible, non-standard platforms one piec
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by jonathaneunice 2mo ago
~~have become~~ became, 30+ years ago The office-document format wars played out _at least_ twenty years ago. The path dependence and "everyone uses it" (installed base) inertia of Microsoft's formats continue to benefit Micr
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by jonathaneunice 2mo ago
Astrophage
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by jonathaneunice 2mo ago
Even great words, phrases, and styles, seen too often, grate. I personally love a lot of the Claude (or LLM) lingo. Load-bearing, gate, canonical, blast radius, and friends do a lot of tight, effective heavy-lifting in my world. I even love
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by jonathaneunice 2mo ago
Concur. Tried on a "this test suite is weaker than I'd like, too often depending on internal state rather than outcomes" problem via Cursor, asking it to "review and suggest solutions." It gave me a quality overview
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by jonathaneunice 3mo ago
Not true. Macs easily pass SOC 2 audits. You'll need MDM, installed anti-virus/anti-malware, and reasonable update policies, as with any endpoint. But have passed multiple years' audits with mostly-macOS fleet.
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by jonathaneunice 4mo ago
Deeply cynical and reductionist—but not altogether wrong.
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by jonathaneunice 5mo ago
That's the best "what is ANE, really?" investigation / explanation I've seen. Directly lays out why LLMs aren't an ideal fit, its "convolution engine" architecture, the need for feeding ANE deep opera
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by jonathaneunice 5mo ago
Are the Apple neural engines even a practical target of LLMs? Maybe not strictly impossible, but ANE was designed with an earlier, pre-LLM style of ML. Running LLMs on ANE (e.g. via Core ML) possible in theory, but the substantial model con
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by jonathaneunice 6mo ago
Ecosystem was a huge driver. But even before that, so so easy to get going. 5 minute guided install, if you're doing it yourself. Many web hosting providers auto-installed for you. No one could touch that ease to just get going. I once
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by jonathaneunice 6mo ago
First impression is love that! Need to study it more. We need—or at least I need—a better UI/tool to manage the sequence of edits and collaboration, drafting, rubber-ducking, and evaluation that AI tools provide. Including the prompts
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by jonathaneunice 6mo ago
Agree with the underlying point: "don't let an LLM do your thinking, or interfere with processes essential to you thinking things clearly through." My own experience, however, is that the best models are quite good and helpin
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by jonathaneunice 6mo ago
Love this! I've heard that desert sand is fundamentally smoother than beach or river sand. Would love to see some examples of non-beach sand side-by-side with these glorious samples.
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by jonathaneunice 6mo ago
Love this! Have wanted to work on a "better situational awareness while traveling" app, but haven't yet had the chance. Reachability of a POI is a great place to start, and I _feel_ that "it's a lot harder than it a
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by jonathaneunice 6mo ago
> while avoiding AI taint Don't be shy. Tell us what you really think.
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by jonathaneunice 7mo ago
This times a thousand! In the years before VMs, containers, and locked dependency manifests, it was essentially impossible to get repeatable builds. There are still a lot of hurdles and gotchas, but we can at least get a rough approximation
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by jonathaneunice 7mo ago
See the embedded video Failed Vocal Attempt (Music Video). However when it is played (at 0:02 or 0:03), it shows a title card for "Neon Dreams." That's the song that seems one part ELO, one part Daft Punk.
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by jonathaneunice 7mo ago
_Neon Dreams_ is ELO × Daft Punk.
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by jonathaneunice 7mo ago
Sometimes posts like this are just value-signaling. I hear a lot of cynicism and "just you wait, the other shoe will drop" comments along those lines. But combined with the other projects Anthropic has pursued (e.g. around underst
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by jonathaneunice 8mo ago
You might think you can, for a while. Been there, done that. But you probably can not do so sustainably in most cases. Even if you could, would you really be better off building vs. buying? Outsourcing development, operations, and maintenan
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by jonathaneunice 8mo ago
> If you believe the AI researchers–who have been spot-on accurate for literally four decades LOLWUT? Counter-factual much?
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by jonathaneunice 8mo ago
Switching to sovereignty-protecting, locally-hosted collaboration, compute, and storage is by no means impossible. FOSS advocates have been eagerly beating this drum and providing options for 25+ years. The missing ingredient has always b
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by jonathaneunice 8mo ago
That's Dan Frye's article, and it is um, a little Dan Frye-centric. He was a legitimately important contributor to IBM's technology management team around Linux and open source, especially as and after IBM made the turn. But

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