rbranson

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by rbranson 1mo ago
This is why wait-free and lock-free are separate concepts. Author is not claiming wait-free.
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by rbranson 2mo ago
For agentic use it impacts input tokens because the output is fed back into the model as input on subsequent turns.
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by rbranson 2mo ago
Note that GPT-5.6-Sol is ~2x as token efficient as Opus/Fable, so a 258K max is equivalent to ~516K on Claude models. You also may just be fooling yourself, as context rot is still a problem[1][2] and there's evidence compaction c
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by rbranson 2mo ago
it does not require training a model from scratch for it to be updated. the entire LLM training process is iterative. essentially each step (there are hundreds/thousands for a training run) yields a complete, usable model. tokens with
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by rbranson 3mo ago
You are correct. As a point of comparison: almost ten years ago at Segment we had a single Aurora PostgreSQL instance with ~50T of data, it was used to index potential identity data in a much larger corpus of files stored in S3.
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by rbranson 4mo ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is exactly what was reported by curl's creator under the section "Five findings became one": https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11&#x2F
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OpenAI makes GPT-5.3-Codex available through their API(developers.openai.com)
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by rbranson 8mo ago
Sure, but you still need to design around this problem. It’s going to be a happy accident that everything turns out fine if you don’t.
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by rbranson 8mo ago
Biggest thing to watch out with this approach is that you will inevitably have some failure or bug that will 10x, 100x, or 1000x the rate of dead messages and that will overload your DLQ database. You need a circuit breaker or rate limit on
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by rbranson 9mo ago
This is explicitly called out in the blog post in the trade-offs section. I was one of the engineers who helped make the decisions around this migration. There is no one size fits all. We believed in that thinking originally, but after obse
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by rbranson 9mo ago
Bricken isn’t just making this up. He’s one of the leading researchers in model interpretability. See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14257
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by rbranson 11mo ago
The 990 Pros have a temperature sensor issue. See https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793#discussionc...
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by rbranson 11mo ago
It's all wood construction, originally stick victorians with 2x4 exterior walls. My "loudest" neighbor is being picked up on 80MHz at -47 dBm.
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by rbranson 11mo ago
> It's a much better answer to hook up everything on Ethernet that you possibly can than it is to follow the more traveled route of more channels and more congestion with mesh Wi-Fi. Certainly this is the brute-force way to do it an
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by rbranson 1y ago
This seems pretty bad from the headline but there's no evidence of any in-the-wild exploits or if there is a feasible real-world exploit here. Some other domino(s) have to fall before it allows RCE. For instance, browser-based exploits
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by rbranson 1y ago
Magnetic hard drives are 100X cheaper per GB than when S3 launched, and are about 3X cheaper than in 2016 when the price last dropped. Magnetic prices have actually ticked up recently due to supply chain issues, but HAMR is expected to caus
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by rbranson 1y ago
Is it bullshitting to perform nearly perfect language to language translation or to generate photorealistic depictions from text quite reliably? or to reliably perform named entity extraction or any of the other millions of real-world tasks
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by rbranson 1y ago
> For e-commerce workloads, the performance benefit of write-back mode isn’t worth the data integrity risk. Our customers depend on transactional consistency, and write-through mode ensures every write operation is safely committed to ou
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by rbranson 1y ago
none of the things you cited are “miracle weight loss drugs.” they are things people did to lose weight. these are the first class of drugs that actually cause people to lose weight.
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by rbranson 1y ago
If you wanna run thru this list and get a tally, I quickly created this lovable app: https://cocktail-checkered-log.lovable.app/ . I'm at 68/102!
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by rbranson 1y ago
No, wide events are quasi-relational. Read the literature please. I’ve never seen a structured log implementation that is anything remotely relational, it’s just a bunch of random junk thrown into a pile with maybe some common tags.
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by rbranson 1y ago
architecture docs are scant, but it appears this horizontally scales channels by adding "broker" instances and horizontally scales consumers by adding "worker" instances? i.e. a broker only needs to ever broadcast a mess
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by rbranson 2y ago
You're right. Sync writes are ten times as slow. 331µs. write: IOPS=3007, BW=11.7MiB/s (12.3MB/s)(118MiB/10001msec); 0 zone resets clat (usec): min=196, max=23274, avg=331.13, stdev=220.25 lat (usec): min=19
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by rbranson 2y ago
More specific details for EC2 instances can be seen in the docs here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/latest/instancetypes/gp.html...
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by rbranson 2y ago
> 1. The ratelimit on "IOPS" is precisely a ratelimit on a particular kind of network traffic, right? Namely traffic to/from an EBS volume? "IOPS" really means "EBS volume network traffic"? The EBS volu
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by rbranson 2y ago
Not so sure that's true. This is single-threaded direct I/O doing a fio randwrite workload on a WD 850X Gen4 SSD: write: IOPS=18.8k, BW=73.5MiB/s (77.1MB/s)(4412MiB/60001msec); 0 zone resets slat (usec): m
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by rbranson 2y ago
Did you read the article? Dziri and Peng are not the “skeptical AI community,” they are in fact die hard AI researchers. This is like saying people who run benchmarks to find performance problems in code are skeptics or haters.
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by rbranson 2y ago
The issue is that law enforcement is flagrantly committing serious crimes, for their own profit. It’s offensive and disgusting.
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by rbranson 2y ago
tl;dr is that "ultra-processed foods" are engineered to be more palatable and that tends to result in more caloric density.
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by rbranson 2y ago
One of the only (the only?) commercial grade implementations was launched recently by us at PlanetScale: https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-planetscale-vectors-...

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