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Comment · 7 hours ago
No one ever got fired for putting creds in AWS Secrets Manager. I'd take the hyperscaler every time because even if something happens, it is a very defensible decision.
Comment · 3 months ago
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Comment · 6 months ago
YMMV but every gym I've been to in the US had a huge social component.
Comment · 6 months ago
If the unit-economics work out and they can sell $0.99 of tokens for $1.00, doesn't matter how many agents you spin up. The flat rate subscriptions can't last though.
Comment · 7 months ago
Reminds me of "a terrible project with a great slide deck might end up decent. A great project with a terrible slide deck won't even exist."

In the real world there is no If You Build It They Will Come, you've got to get the word out

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
They are a luxury item, you are paying for the privilege of signaling you can afford $550 headphones. Generic black over-ear headphones could be $800, could be $80, useless for signaling. Doubly true in the context of a gift.
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
>> "almost no competition"

>> "costs way too much"

>> "It's not like chat is a hard problem"

Surely these statements can't all be true. Since Slack is expensive and has little competition, I think chat is a harder problem than you think.

Comment · 8 months ago
Ads are a ratchet that only tighten in one direction. Once the paychecks of 1000s of motivated, intelligent OpenAI employees depend on ad revenue increasing, the only option is to make them more invasive, more prevalent, more annoying, more data hungry etc.
Comment · 8 months ago
In the foreward, she calls out to her, great SF is descriptive, not predictive. TLHOD is about sex, gender, friendships and culture in our world.

Also a huge number of spacey contemporary works like A Mote in God's Eye, Rendezvous with Rama, Dune, Ringworld...

Comment · 9 months ago
That's not fair! Sometimes the ideas come from Snow Crash, which gave us the Metaverse because Zuckerberg wanted to cut a guy in half with a katana from a motorcycle.
Comment · 9 months ago
Enshittification is a technique to make more money _without_ raising the price by simply making the product worse.

Self-driving taxis have a high floor for 'making the product worse' because the car fundamentally has to drive itself.

Comment · 9 months ago
As is often stated, microservices is a solution for scaling an engineering org to 100s of developers, not for scaling a product to millions of users.
Comment · 9 months ago
Start with your chosen dictionary, remove small words and all 's'es.

Then find all words with 7 unique letters, then get the unique set of letter sets. These are your valid puzzles times 7 for each selection of a center letter.

Construct a trie of your dictionary. For each letter of each puzzle, walk the trie using only the puzzle letters. When you find a word, if it used the center letter, add to list.

In practice it's log(n) for size of dictionary.

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