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by materielle 14d ago
I agree, Disneys’ dubs are generally of high quality. Netflix seems to just grab radio announcers or something. The dubs are stripped of all emotions and acting. It’s like the voices are reading out an advertisement. Obviously there’s excep
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by materielle 21d ago
I don’t know, but typically when orgs don’t make logical decisions, it’s because internal politics are incentivizing something else. I suspect that rate-limits would fly in the face of a lot of narratives like “Azure is ready for hyperscale
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by materielle 1mo ago
The person you were applying to said “rate-limiting” but I think they meant “load-shedding”.
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by materielle 2mo ago
There’s a weird yet common attitude that nobody has to implement operating systems, databases, compilers, cryptography, consensus algorithms, etc because you should use off the shelf solutions. This is obviously true, and there are surely m
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by materielle 3mo ago
I don’t know anything about Germany’s postal service. In the US, what the parent comment was getting it, is why are we even talking about this in the first place? What problem is privatization trying to solve? As an American, I have zero co
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by materielle 3mo ago
Their argument didn’t make sense to me from the beginning. One of its premises is that The Rich are some cohesive group that can trade amongst themselves in a hermetically sealed economy. That seems obviously untrue, there are a lot of diff
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by materielle 3mo ago
I don’t know if this is the case here, but it’s very hard in general to judge how much software projects ought to cost. Software projects will grow in complexity to consume whatever budget you give it. If you hire 50 devs and give them a bu
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by materielle 3mo ago
That’s not so special, though? There’s a difference between Google infra running Google services. Versus any F500 company running their services on GCP. It’s a bit whacky to think about because Apple will operate Google owned software on GC
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by materielle 3mo ago
What if I don’t care about affording more things? And instead want to live in an ethical society that prioritizes stability and universal access to housing, healthcare, and education?
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by materielle 3mo ago
I’m not sure this is generally true, and you’re ignoring a lot of context around the specific situation of GCC. Just to make a point: I could throw out SQLite as a project that bans open contributions and is wildly successful. Also, as othe
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by materielle 4mo ago
You’re being sarcastic, but I think you’d be surprised at how often you can say no to managers or even VPs and the c-suite and … have nothing happen to you. I didn’t realize this until I was 32. Obviously some companies will actually punish
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by materielle 4mo ago
One thing I don’t quite understand: Wouldn’t it be in Amazon’s interest to run open models and sell time slots at around the cost of running them? My only guess for why they don’t is that AI labs are currently selling their models at a huge
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by materielle 4mo ago
There’s going to be lots of documentation. It will be AI generated and no human will ever read it. But there will be a lot of it.
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by materielle 4mo ago
I'm about to leave a shallow comment, but I am a bit skeptical of the supposed drop in inference costs. If AI labs saw a lot of potential there, they'd surely be bragging about it non-stop? So the fact that publicly available info
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by materielle 4mo ago
I get what you’re saying, but the housing market is actually a really subtle issue in my opinion. Just one example, owning a home protects you against price shocks. As others have pointed out, this can sometimes be a bad thing, because when
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by materielle 4mo ago
This brings to mind two thoughts: First, that this is challenging to scale across large orgs. Even if your plans produce high quality code, that isn’t true for everyone. I’m definitely struggling with slop code being collectively mailed to
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by materielle 4mo ago
He didn’t hedge at the end. Nate always writes the models before election season then doesn’t touch them apart from actual bug fixes. The model actually organically predicted 30%. I still think that’s about accurate. Maybe it should’ve been
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by materielle 4mo ago
Also, they don’t any plans for the IP, and Nate would’ve paid above-market rate just to take over and preserve the content for posterity. He estimates that they deleted 200,000 hours of human labor. This is just some Disney suits being ext
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by materielle 4mo ago
Which brings us to the next layer of modern dependency management insanity: The fact that basically none of these multi-million dollar companies are vendoring their entire dependency tree. At most companies, even ones worth millions of doll
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by materielle 4mo ago
As recently as 2015 when I attended a middling CS program, we had in-person timed exams where we had to write down DSA implementations on a blank sheet of paper in Java. We were deducted points for trivial syntax mistakes. If these stories
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by materielle 4mo ago
One important piece of context that might make all these stories less confusing for non-googlers: Code references are less important inside Google editors, because we have a code viewer tool inside the web browser. Most people read, explore
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by materielle 4mo ago
If you want a laugh, Google a tutorial for how to read a file. You should also know that all the tutorials are wrong, because they fail to handle at least one footgun or another. There is no “modern” alternative. If you read Reddit threads,
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by materielle 5mo ago
Because you can naively iterate through a million items faster than an additional network round trip would take. So a lot of code quality debates don’t matter for the typical enterprise app. While a dev spends their afternoon shaving off 10
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by materielle 5mo ago
It’s because in most enterprise contexts: 1) Most bugs are integration bugs. Whereby multiple systems are glued together but there’s something about the API contract that the various developers in each system don’t understand. 2) Most perfo
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by materielle 5mo ago
I agree and that’s the point I was trying to make. Linus’s contribution is a great one. He learned from prior tools and contributions, made a lot of smart technical decisions, got stuff moving with a prototype, then displayed good technical
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by materielle 5mo ago
Im specifically pointing out the false history that Linus god-coded git and handed it to us on the 7th day. In reality, it was a collaborative effort between multiple smart people who poured months and years of sweat into the thing. I seem
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by materielle 5mo ago
It’s not being pedantic. The parent comments are arguing that 17million for git 2.0 is insane because Linux wrote the original in a week. Except that’s not true. He sketched out a proof of concept in a week. Then handed it off to a team of
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by materielle 5mo ago
I think AI bans are more common in projects where the maintainers are nice people that thoughtfully want to consider each PR and provide a reasoned response if rejected. That’s only feasible when the people who open PRs are acting in good f
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by materielle 5mo ago
No he didn’t. He built a proof of concept demo in 7 days then handed it off to other maintainers to code for real. I’m not sure why this myth keeps getting repeated. Linus himself clarifies this in every interview about git. His main contri
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by materielle 6mo ago
There are all sorts of contracts that are deemed non-enforceable. Our government should pass a law that bans non-disparagement clauses. One of the most pressing problems of our time is that these large corporations, on balance, have too muc

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