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i have to be honest, each time a friend or co worker has demod or explained their “smart home” setup, i have always been pretty underwhelmed. a lot of complex doodads, money, and seeming never ending troubleshooting, to solve what seem to me at least, as a bunch of narrow frivolous problems that don’t really inconvenience me very much.

i feel a lot of people in tech have this incuriously deterministic attitude about llms right now… previous <expensive capital project> revolutionized the world, therefore llms will! despite there really nothing to show for it so far other than writing rote code is a bit easier and still requires active baby sitting by someone who knows what they are doing

both my kindle and wife's work great and we have been using them regularly. they are actually very well made and durable devices.

as a clickhouse architect, i can’t help but feel they would have been better served by understanding their db’s native capabilities better before jumping into implementing this.

row level access control, resource quotas, scheduling policies, session settings, etc. all could have been used in concert to achieve a very similar outcome with a dozen or so ddl/dcl statements.

or just at any point in the last 20 years to the present works too

the problem is as a means of cash it’s inferior to existing systems in pretty much every dimension. more expensive, slower, more risk, higher volatility. the cash story for crypto is not good.

premise is wrong. have seen a number of claude/codex disasters that never make it to production with clients, yet consumed an enormous amount of human time and bandwidth.

expertise and effort is and will continue to be for the forseeable future essential.

talk, like this, still cheap.

i bought a builder license from newegg in 2017. unfortunately i was not diligent about saving the product key. this was actually the third time i had been in this scenario after changing hardware. no idea why it wouldn’t work this time around.

i recently upgraded a computer. windows 10 deactivated itself due to the hardware change. i tried everything i could to reactivate. microsoft support told me my only solution was to buy a new license. microsoft treats its customer with contempt.

i think the author is pretty clearly making the point the trade off is not worth it to him. which is not all that suprising given that seems to match the preferences of most people given the popularity of apple hardware which has for a very long time been on the far end of the irreparable, but smaller, quieter, etc, spectrum.

lol no it won’t

every generation thinks they live in unique times. that there existed some idyllic lost time innocence. it’s a fantasy.

Electrifying the economy is not a path to 0 pollution.

No sympathy for Larry here! Just the point that development is going to coincide with some level of increased pollution. Even an electrified economy with 0 carbon emissions is going to be ecologically devastating after all the mountain top removal mining has gathered the materials to make it possible.

Would you accept 0 pollution if it meant you had no electricity, electronic devices, or access to transportation? All of those things create pollution.