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by sixdimensional 14d ago
This is common when naming data centers. I know many have not worked in hardware infra these days if you were born into the cloud world, but in the old days it was not uncommon to name a data center after the nearest airport code, much lik
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by sixdimensional 21d ago
Boy, there sure is a lot of money flying around... First they came for all the dev tooling - uv, Cursor, etc. Now the routers and providers - Open Router, Hugging Face... Who or what is next? And what is the endgame I wonder??
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
Maybe it might also have to do with AI agent wallets and getting deeper in to the agent-based transactional business?
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
Or, maybe competition.. but your point is taken. I like to hope that those in positions of power do have a sense of morality though too.. but their worldview is quite different than an ordinary citizen.
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
This is a fair comment, although I would add that is not my expectation personally. I think nondeterminism does not have to be the same as non-coherency - i.e. just because something is randomly sampled does not mean the result has to be in
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
Anthropic, if you're listening - by the time this crops up on Reddit, the front page of HN, etc.... you should be expecting calls from CEOs of major corporations next threatening to abandon ship... We've seen this pattern before s
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Databricks Raises $5B at a $190B Valuation(finance.yahoo.com)
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
I appreciate what Lovable did as far as contributing to giving people agency over technology to build things, whether they were ideally built or not, from an engineering perspective. I can't help but feel deep down somewhere inside tho
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
P.S. And maybe not clever about naming at Cloudflare, but I'd say with high certainty, quite clever about technology! Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comment, I appreciate all you do!
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
Yes - I agree - that is what I am trying to say in fact. But the association gets made because of the naming. The only dictionary definition of "operating system" I see is like the technical one on Wikipedia [1], which IS more li
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
Ah, my friend, I'm talking about the broader trend of people adding "OS" to the end of everything, not just Cloudflare. My apologies, I was not singling out Cloudflare here, but I see why you thought that! Cloudflare is ver
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
You're missing the subtle marketecture trick here they are doing.. Non-technical people don't always think of an OS as the computer OS. To them, sometimes it means more like standard operating procedure or process - a standard wa
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by sixdimensional 1mo ago
"The most important skill in the AI era may not be prompting. It may be learning how to solve problems using the right kind of help." [1] Context - I have over 25+ years in software, and I have this observation - being introduced
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
I think you are right about the narrow legal distinction, although I was not suggesting that the public has a right to enter someone’s home and scan a book merely because its copyright has expired. A privately owned physical book and the pu
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
Yeah, I was thinking along these lines... Let's say one of the books to be digitized and destroyed is the sole remaining copy of a book from 1850, which is now considered public domain. On one hand, hoarding such a book, stealing its c
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
Best wishes for getting those through and thank you!
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
Yep, you're right [1] - and the author is posting in here I believe, if he sees this - I just have to say, thank you for all you've done... maybe someday the browsers, WhatWG etc. will catch up with you... [1] https://h
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
In the past, we used to refer to these as 4GL systems [1] - and as far as I'm concerned, this is really a wide open field for innovation - especially in the era of AI/LLMs. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fo
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
It's too bad Htmx isn't just the native behavior of HTML, implemented in a cross-platform standard, that does not need to rely on Javascript in user space code. It could just be part of the browser. It should have been part of t
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
Wow, I blinked and it's been 20+ years since Spaceship One? Yikes, time really does fly. Presumably we haven't heard as much after Northrop bought them? I think it's awesome that Scaled Composites is involved... they really
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
This reminds me of an old problem I used to run into with duplicate data. Duplicates are not always what they seem - duplicates have a relative quantity of how duplicate they are, for example - 100% duplicate identical is what it sounds lik
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
I think that we humans still have a really tough time differentiating and classifying between public and private goods (and everything in between) from an economic sense. Unfortunately, capitalism of today appears to find public goods and s
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
So like.. conceptually kind of like memory mapped files on fast flash persistent storage, IIUC? Or maybe it's more like GPU-managed demand paging, caching and DMA? That could get you the capacity and better I/O characteristics.
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
In the past platforms have integrated ML algorithms into relational databases and SQL through extensions (both commercial and open source). A famous open source one was MADlib [1], which has an implementation of neural networks. Even the
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by sixdimensional 2mo ago
Yeah, I mean - I know that people do this in real life, but when I encountered this recently while trying GPT-Live, it was truly annoying - I felt like it kept causing me to lose my train of thought. Perhaps if it was a bit more adaptive o
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by sixdimensional 3mo ago
Might be interested in orthogonal reading - "The Textual Warehouse" (ISBN-10:‎ 163462954X) by data warehouse pioneer Bill Inmon. He is and always has been ahead of his time with his thinking!
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by sixdimensional 3mo ago
You're assuming that you'll still be able to get a personal computer in the future. With the rate that we are losing the ability to purchase new affordable equipment, I am not sure how much longer personal computers will remain a
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by sixdimensional 3mo ago
Not OP and just guessing, but probably SXM2 GPU modules for the V100. Those can be acquired fairly inexpensively, but there is work to do to get them working together and the V100 has some limitations on the types of models you can run.
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by sixdimensional 4mo ago
Astral, bun, Stainless, Cursor... and more.. Seems like developer tools/tooling are a hot commodity to the current big AI companies?
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by sixdimensional 4mo ago
First one to vibe code a language for LLMs, by LLMs, wins a cookie?

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