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Hi! I graduated college and now have a job doing computery stuff (.NET! AWS! Buzzword-of-the-week!)

I'm always interested in cool stuff! e-mail me at easton (at) planeteaston.com

(formerly jedieaston)

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jedieaston; my proof: https://keybase.io/jedieaston/sigs/lu5huw0A68urY5ftOa-yQJE5LMbuOYjoIzW1862Z2N8 ]

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Comment · 12 days ago
They have this with the ghe.com hosting option, it cuts you off from the GitHub.com instance so you can’t share projects there though, if that matters (also $$$).
Comment · 20 days ago
I think he said the agents couldn’t make features in their existing codebases as well as in new ones, so he needed devs to still work on Basecamp. Maybe that has changed.
Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Aren’t these crowds mostly people that work at the company? So you’re really cheering for the thing you built?

(I remember that being the explanation of why people would cheer at very lame things at Apple events.)

Comment · 1 month ago
They require disclosure of what tool was used if submitting AI-helped code.

(Which probably means this is slightly underreported from people not disclosing.)

Comment · 1 month ago
Meta doesn’t sell these separately from the glasses :(

Are they patented to heck and back or can another manufacturer make a EMG bracelet for controlling a PC?

Comment · 2 months ago
Side note: why are shallow clones evil? I always thought they were cheaper, but I guess that’s really just for my disk space. (since the server has to compute what blobs to give you instead of just “everything”?)
Comment · 2 months ago
Requiring that you believe those companies that they won’t hand the keys over to the US at the first ask.

Like, the critical problem with the AWS sovereign pitch is that you must believe that they won’t give the keys to the US, and they also won’t give the source code that’s hosted in the US to the government either for them to find vulnerabilities in. I don’t know if that’s good enough unless you just need the data to stay in the EU and you don’t care if another country sees it.

I know they probably did some work on it (what if primary AWS goes rogue and the EU entity must work without it) but I don’t know if they explained how they’re safe to the public.

Comment · 2 months ago
The most fun one is the Metro stations near the Pentagon, where often the ads will be for fighter jet engine upgrades.

They must work, because they're buying the ad space for about three relevant people.

Comment · 3 months ago
The company line has been that they expect you to have your own backups in a region outside of the Middle East or you’re hosed until they can turn the (now destroyed) buildings back on.

I wonder if AWS even has the capacity to keep an entire region’s data elsewhere if they wanted to (I mean they could with their margins, but I doubt they do.)

Comment · 3 months ago
> One recounted a tragicomic anecdote from a T.G.I.F. meeting on International Women’s Day, when a Googler had asked Larry and Sergey to name some of their personal female heroes.

..and they couldn’t just say “Grace Hopper”? These people have used computers before, right?

Comment · 4 months ago
Counterpoint: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-fi...

And also, you’ll notice that Fargate takes minutes to launch while Lambda takes a second or less. You’re waiting on AWS to launch a EC2 with your config and pull your containers into it.

(that article matches things I heard from Amazon when I asked why my stuff is slow)

Comment · 4 months ago
Guessing it’s reading the system color scheme, because on my phone it’s white text on black.

(on iOS with dark mode enabled system wide)

Comment · 4 months ago
Feels like AWS could just tell them they’re not launching Fable then. Anthropic needs them more than the opposite, no?

Nobody who is a big Bedrock customer will ditch for another cloud provider for the privilege of having anthropic hold on to their inputs.

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