yojo

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by yojo 5d ago
If you can afford to eat the loss, don’t insure it. Obviously insurance companies make money on average for every policy. If they didn’t, they would go bankrupt. So on average, every time you buy insurance, you lose. So insure only what’s r
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by yojo 25d ago
That’s nice in theory, but as these things get better and cheaper this kind of capability is going to drop from nation states to script kiddies. That future is coming, I don’t see any way around it. We can round up all the bored teenagers w
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by yojo 1mo ago
They still haven’t removed “old.reddit.com”. Replace “www” with “old” on any reddit URL and enjoy a relic from when the internet was less ruined.
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by yojo 1mo ago
I was at Dropbox from 2016-2020. We were certainly trying to build a sustainable business, but there was a major identity crisis. Were we consumer web? Buy Mailbox and build Carousel, then shut them both down. Maybe we’re Notion/Everno
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by yojo 1mo ago
If you didn’t allow it, you wouldn’t be able to change models in the same conversation, as key parts of the context would be lost. Wouldn’t surprise me if the providers just remove that ability and lock the model once the conversation start
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by yojo 1mo ago
Honestly, GPT 5.6 Luna is worth a look. It’s a reasonably good implementer at a small fraction of the cost. $100 buys a heck of a lot of it at API pricing. Not sure about the OAi Pro plan, doesn’t look like the 80% Luna price slash made its
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by yojo 1mo ago
At the beginning of the pandemic all the mills cut production anticipating economic collapse that didn’t come. Prices spiked on high demand and low production. Mills did ramp back up, but it’s unclear to me if they used it as a chance to do
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by yojo 2mo ago
You still pay cache token costs on API calls. Cache cost/token are 90% lower, but you pay it every single turn. I’m not sure if they let you skip the cache write cost on the first turn. That would imply cross-user caching infrastructur
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by yojo 2mo ago
Claude Code injects a ton of tools into the system prompt, including their “memory system” that’s like 10k+ tokens. Depending on your task shape, this can easily double your task cost (e.g. a low context-using job that takes many turns, lik
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by yojo 2mo ago
I read the balls as “houses”, though the phallic spire emerging from them dead-center is also very on-brand
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by yojo 2mo ago
Oh, and the memory use! I run a lot of concurrent sessions. 3 gigs for a terminal window is ludicrous.
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by yojo 2mo ago
I have been working all day every day in Claude. I loathe their bug-ridden UI. Every release is a new crop of bugs, sometimes the old ones get fixed, usually not. Any kind of scrolling back, copying text, using their menu system - basically
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by yojo 2mo ago
I’ve experienced this in Claude Code - it’ll start asking me if we can submit the PR at the end of every turn.
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by yojo 2mo ago
Google at least is serving AI results on SRPs billions of times a day, and has pre-existing expertise in data center buildouts and custom silicon. They have one of the more compelling cases for rolling their own.
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by yojo 4mo ago
Schumpeter is one of their columns; this is an editorial piece, not one of their news articles. The regular stuff is still well written, IMO.
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by yojo 4mo ago
Meta is straight evil. It undermines the institutions of democracy and it negatively impacts its users mental health, all in service of selling your data to advertisers so they can better goad unnecessary consumption. If I learn you work at
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by yojo 4mo ago
Internally, it’s important to understand that every ask should have a business goal associated with it. The thing being asked for is rarely (never?) the only way to accomplish that goal. Great engineers focus on the customer or business nee
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by yojo 4mo ago
I have worked at places that have negotiated flat percentage discounts on all AWS spend. This explanation seems plausible to me.
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by yojo 4mo ago
You can hook traditional SAST into your coding tool, and get cheap-ish realtime detection for some classes of vulns while coding. You can optionally layer LLM diff scanning if you want to burn some tokens on your tokens. Modern tools can ca
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by yojo 4mo ago
Before unlimited PTO took off, standard in FAANG-like (US) industry was ~12 corp holidays + 15-25 days annual PTO, depending on seniority. I don’t know anyone who takes the high end of that anymore, especially senior/staff folks. Unlim
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by yojo 4mo ago
Two things: 1) Unlimited PTO is a scam. Ask anyone who ever got paid out six weeks salary when they changed jobs. 2) “the craft” is doing some heavy lifting here. I happen to enjoy AI-assisted dev, but it is nothing like the work that drew
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by yojo 4mo ago
I’m taking it as a given that any sufficiently large social network is a gigantic propaganda machine of interest to domestic and foreign nation-state actors. Entertaining the thought experiment where all the normies join the fediverse: now
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by yojo 4mo ago
Me? No. My kids? I think they already have. I don’t allow YouTube in our house, but they for sure watch slop with friends.
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by yojo 4mo ago
Oregon decriminalized drugs in 2020 and the experiment is widely viewed as a failure by both sides of the political spectrum. The Democratic legislature rolled it back four years later. It doesn’t necessarily follow that it’s impossible to
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by yojo 4mo ago
You should probably be more worried about the flame retardants in the rebond carpet pad. Better these days, but older installed stuff had non-trivial PPM.
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by yojo 4mo ago
DropMix was an NFC DJing game that used RFID playing cards. It’s been done/could be done again.
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by yojo 5mo ago
Meta’s bottom line is driven entirely by their ability to uniquely and persistently identify users for the sake of advertising. Anything that makes it harder for a user to escape their dragnet is a win.
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by yojo 5mo ago
I got a Zune on clearance when they were shutting down the whole mess (a nice fugly brown one for 80% off). Build quality was rock solid, UI felt premium, and it mostly just got out of my way/let me play tracks. They were great little
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by yojo 5mo ago
You might try adding this branch protection rule to require conversation resolution: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...
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by yojo 5mo ago
I also follow this approach. I just flip the flag on the PR I’m reviewing to off before submitting my approval. We also have most of our repos set to block if unresolved comments. I think it’s a flag on branch protection rules

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