marginalia_nu

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by marginalia_nu 3d ago
Embedding the image would have ruined the comedic timing and made it less funny. Comedy is mostly about subverting expectations. If your eyes are drawn to the punchline before you read the set up it doesn't work.
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by marginalia_nu 3d ago
> The current valuations are only inflated until they're not You could say that about any historically inflated valuation all the way back to the tulip mania. Either the expected profit materializes or it doesn't. > We&#x27
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by marginalia_nu 3d ago
I asked Astra to explain this and it thought for a really long time and then came back with this: https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/financing.png
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by marginalia_nu 3d ago
Inflated valuations, mostly.
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by marginalia_nu 3d ago
Yes[1]. Most people within the CAN-SPAM jurisdiction have their shit together well enough not get fined, but this does not seem to include many of the new wave of agentic spammers. Could be they're out of jurisdiction, or that they s
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by marginalia_nu 4d ago
Big pivotal moment is probably the DMCA and the DRM it's enabled, it's really eroded the concept of ownership in both software and hardware (via firmware), to the point where we've completely lost all control over the devices
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by marginalia_nu 4d ago
Regardless who is suing the cost falls on the spammer. General consensus among these agent bros seem to be that these laws don't concern them, when what they are doing is exactly the sort of things these laws are targeting. Wheels of
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by marginalia_nu 4d ago
Given CAN-SPAM fines are like $50k per violation , it feels like someone's about to find out.
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by marginalia_nu 4d ago
Yeah I think almost anyone will agree that these matrix formulations are more confusing than helpful. The subject itself isn't really that complicated, but the jargon and notation makes it a lot less approachable than it is. Unwrappi
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by marginalia_nu 4d ago
Most larger businesses are kinda resistant to building stuff in house since it means that stuff has to be owned and maintained for as long as its needed (possibly decades) and you can't just rely on a SLA and the legal team to ensure t
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by marginalia_nu 5d ago
Swap actually helps with performance for the most part. Here's a good summary of what it actually does. https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html TL;DR that swap shouldn't be seen a
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by marginalia_nu 5d ago
To be fair the pitch has frequently been that Devin/Claude/Astra/whatever is some sort of superhuman bottled John Carmack that will single-handedly replace entire teams of developers.
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by marginalia_nu 5d ago
Congrats on your promotion to full time jira management!
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by marginalia_nu 5d ago
Excess power is unevenly distributed both geographically and temporally. In the SE1 region, which is the least populated and probably best candidate for a data center, there was a 400% price drop between February and March this year, then u
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by marginalia_nu 6d ago
At least Sweden is struggling a lot with scaling its power production, to the point where it's a problem for existing and new industries and causing some rather extreme price volatility. A lot of the green energy is from hydro dams and
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by marginalia_nu 7d ago
Anthropic is eyeing an IPO. Of course they're spinning a narrative where their product will reshape the entire economy. They have a vested interest in doing so in the most literal sense of the meaning.
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by marginalia_nu 10d ago
We're never going to get to the point where everyone has a robot manservant making them breakfast in bed. That may well be a product, but you don't need billions of those, but thousands. The pitch for the billions of humanoid rob
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by marginalia_nu 10d ago
Why would the robots be walking around so much? Can't you just have one robot on one floor and another robot on another floor and let them share information between them? Humans need to go places to see and hear things, and to commun
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by marginalia_nu 10d ago
Wouldn't it be an even bigger economic incentive to not have to go through this inefficient humanoid interface? Anyway, even with the constraint of being able to operate human interfaces, a robot can look many different ways. Like m
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by marginalia_nu 10d ago
What would even be the point of mass producing humanoid robots? It's not a particularly practical shape for a robot. We have the shape we do because it's a local minimum that accommodates our biological needs (eating, digestion,
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by marginalia_nu 12d ago
Where pooling does sometimes win is for stuff like intermediate buffers for compression or decompression, since a Java alloc will zero the memory, which for sufficiently large buffers is much costlier than the allocation itself, and in such
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by marginalia_nu 12d ago
Object pooling still has its place, but like any optimization it needs to be based on benchmarks and shouldn't be done haphazardly. Blindly pooling objects will lead to regressions and resource contention more often than improvements.
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
The entire industry runs on IOUs for compute and bills paid in cloud credits, could be anywhere. Could of course also be a a plain old DDoS.
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
Birds of the air, lilies of the field, and so on.
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
NG Resonance from Deus Ex II is arguably an even more on-point comparison.
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
Both are pretty good, but if you go into the former expecting the latter, you're in for a disappointment. The former is best enjoyed as a separate experience.
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
??? The only configuration that will allow disk reads at 10 GB/s is if you're using PCIe 5.0. PCIe 4.0 or lower, and SATA will not drop out long before that. He's very clearly hauling data straight from the page cache.
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
If you send people to the optimal website containing exactly the information they are after, then you get fewer ad impressions than if you send them to a suboptimal website that has them going back and clicking on more links.
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
It does seem rather impactful. I've seen an extremely aggressive uptick in API key requests and sales that I'm not sure where it's coming from. Like it's up 5x over the summer. Been a bit confused about this since I do
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
Hard to conclusively beat spam when your primary means of making money is selling the very ads that the spammers are using to make money.

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