ojosilva

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by ojosilva 26d ago
High altitude Equatorial populations and air crew exposures are different beasts. A 10h flight close to the North Pole is like living in Quito for almost a month. The type of dosage (bursts x contínuous) also matters as the body can probabl
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by ojosilva 26d ago
Cosmic radiation is mainly protons and heavier nuclei. It's called radiation for legacy reasons, but it's a different beast from Earth's medical CT scans and X-rays which are manly photons. Cosmic radiation hitting planes is
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 Moon Crash Is a Warning for Lunar Bases(wired.com)
5 points by ojosilva 1mo ago|1 comments
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by ojosilva 3mo ago
Teslas do glithcy speed limits readings often, from GPS drift (ie. it thinks the car is on the highway) or may be deceived by some sign with numbers on the street. When that happens and depending on Autopilot [1] settings, the car will shoo
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by ojosilva 3mo ago
Just tell AI to write your copy and that's what you get, overhype-as-a-service.
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by ojosilva 3mo ago
This is the first impression I got, a glass ceiling on AI that will hit the market hard. Timing was right at the late Friday's let's-avoid-the-crash point, we'll see how this flies on Monday. But it's also, as sibling co
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by ojosilva 5mo ago
MS is not so deep with OpenAI, it's not all black and white, they have signed several distribution deals where Claude drives Copilot [1], since Anthropic and MS are better aligned in the Enterprise market, it makes sense. It also makes
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by ojosilva 5mo ago
I have it as failover to Opus 4.6 in a Claude proxy internally. People don't notice a thing when it triggers, maybe a failed tool call here and there (harness remains CC not OC) or a context window that has gone over 200k tokens or an
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by ojosilva 6mo ago
We hit that problem 3 or 4 weeks ago and then we rolled back to version 2.1.44 and that apparently solved the fast consumption issue. Our problems started when we moved to the claude code installer (it only affected the people who had updat
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by ojosilva 6mo ago
I'm trying to imagine this new paid app in different angles and versions, ie a new Reddit... Pay to be in there, get paid for being in there, only humans can be in there, ads pay for humans being there, humans use some govt on-line ID
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by ojosilva 8mo ago
Their target is the Enterprise anyway. So they are apparently willing to enrage their non-CC user base over vendor-locking. But this is not the equivalent of Oracle over Postgres, as these are different technology stacks that implement an i
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by ojosilva 8mo ago
They did not. Anthropic is protecting its huge asset: the Claude Code value chain, which has proven itself to be a winner among devs (me included, after trying everything under the sun in 2025). If anything, Anthropic's mistake is that
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by ojosilva 8mo ago
That's a legal non-starter for all car companies. They would be made liable for every car incident where self-driving vehicles were spotted in close vicinity, independently of the suit being legit. A complete nightmare and totally un
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by ojosilva 9mo ago
Google is in that game too with "AI Mode", stealing traffic from ChatGPT. But as OP and other threads here highlighted, the other ~half of the gold sits in more fenced communities like WhatsApp, IG, Telegram, and other messaging a
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by ojosilva 9mo ago
3% market share is 150 million active users give or take. That's no death by any count in the software world. Gosh, I really wish Mozilla would just dig into their user-base and find a way to adequately become sustainable... or find a
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by ojosilva 9mo ago
Just the set the record straight on how and why these acquisitions go at IBM. This is a first hand account working at and with IBM and competitors and being in the room as tech-guy accessory to murder. IBM lives off huge multi-year contract
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by ojosilva 9mo ago
Yes there was a reason as Perl took inspiration from Lisp - everything is a list- and everyone knows how quick C's variadic arguments get nasty. So @_ was a response to that issue, given Perl was about being dynamic and not typed and t
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
Not only the movie theater, Netflix killed social life . Well, streaming, feeds and their algorithms in general, but Netflix is very much the ones that really owned the narrative of what to do on a weekend night. This is very anecdatal, ce
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
Fine, but there's a noticeable asymmetry in how the three languages get treated. Go gets dinged for hiding memory details from you. Rust gets dinged for making mutable globals hard and for conceptual density (with a maximally intimidat
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
Yeah, now they are part of Anthropic, who haven't figured out monetization themselves. Shikes! I'm a user of Bun and an Anthropic customer. Claude Code is great and it's definitely where their models shine. Outside of that An
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
As far as the data goes, adjusted for inflation, tuition and fees have eased up in the last ~5 years [1]. But overall, college enrollment has been going down anyway [2], except for 2025, where it hints at a slight rebound. So I'd say w
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
Not very encouraging to imagine ChatGPT to be the first earthling to reach another star system, but that's an option we'll have to keep on the table, at least for the time being...
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
Around that time in the video what I see is a journalist that did not do his homework, as he crumbled under the CEO's snarky "do you know this research company went out of business?" - he should just started to read the repor
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
Red Hot Chili Peppers!
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
Perl was the internet in 1990s. People (me) who were doing unix systems work (C, shell, Perl and some DBs and FTPs) could now quickly throw a CGI script behind an Apache HTTP server, which tended to be up and running in many unixes :80 port
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
This is the multi-million dollar .unwrap() story. In a critical path of infrastructure serving a significant chunk of the internet, calling .unwrap() on a Result means you're saying "this can never fail, and if it does, crash the
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
This. There's just as many human commenters and content creators that generate plenty of human slop. And there are many AI produced content that is very, very interesting. I've subscribed to a couple of newsletters that are AI gen
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
I'm also a synthetic.new user, as a backup (and larger contexts) for my Cerebras Coder subscription (zai-glm-4.6). I've been using the free Chatbox client [1] for like ~6 months and it works really well as a daily driver. I'v
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AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by ojosilva 10mo ago|0 comments
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by ojosilva 10mo ago
I wish @pg would just add "Replace YouTube" to his Frighteningly Ambitious Startup ideas. https://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

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