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I wish more police chiefs took their role so seriously and practically. Commander Vimes would surely commend this man.

Like, movies sometimes have alternate endings. What if they were more choice driven, and replayable. Video games have remarkably dumb ideas that keep persisting, like you can encapsulate all that is “Health” as an integer. Instead games can be an aggregation of entity bound micro-simulation that create emergent scenarios, yet follow the laws of narrative collectively. Games that build themselves. Worlds within worlds kinda jazz.

Make something beautiful, with or without the new tech. You and the rest of us will be better for it. And the investors are damn desperate for something to really resonate with the people who experience it.

I’m grateful you said this. Your comment led me down a path where I discovered it is essentially biologically impossible for his Lenalidomide to have caused stage 4 liver cancer in just a year. It turns out the liver cancer was a totally separate issue brewing silently for years, likely encouraged by a decade of TRT he was on. The severe skin issues he had a few years prior were early warning signs of his liver failing, but they got missed and masked by general dermatitis the myeloma diagnoses. Realizing the cancer meds weren't to blame actually brings me a ton of closure. I definitely don't want to scare anyone away from life-saving treatment based on my misunderstanding. Thank you.

That isn’t to say there aren’t terrible tradeoffs that have to be faced in the course of cancer treatment, and much of medicine. Pharmaceuticals seem to beget pharmaceuticals.

I hope this gets through quickly. I have some friends in treatment now and lost my dad to cancer because of cancer medication.

The whole wide events thing is Honeycomb’s marketing pitch. It’s essentially offering developer velocity, ie you don’t have to think about what should be a metric in advance. They have an open source project called Refinery which is a smart sampling proxy that samples successful requests but always forwards errors, slow queries, etc.

You can do anything you like with any approach but if they are mostly about ad hoc queries, dumping everything into BigQuery as a wide event can be the most economical. However if you want to run alerting, SLOs, etc with frequent queries over aggregated metrics, the best bet is using OTel Collector and metrics store of your choice like Prometheus or Mimir.

Most companies could save a bundle on observability if they were to move to a hybrid that includes both of those approaches instead of cloud provider logging, log-based metrics, and alerting.

TIL, thanks. That’s heartening to hear as I live in one of those places, or I used to?? The last winter was scary mild.

LLMs are disembodied-the products are ultimately by and for bodies on different ends of a transaction. The loop between llm and body is primitive today. Therefore products need someone who can speak in body and translate for AI.

Also, where are the AI-operated startups?? Why has nobody’s openclaw biz gone multinational by now?

I can’t help but think that would end up violating some licensing agreements.

Does anyone know what sort of fuel the cold-gas thrusters use? It seems like it would likely end up as an environmental contaminant.

As a consumer and “cloud architect” well into my 5th year of Amazon boycott, I’m pretty dug into my views on them as a company; so far that I was willing to believe that their culture had somehow seeped into the model training. However after spending a good amount of time tinkering with 2B parameter models on my phone with similar prompts, I have come to the same conclusion: they’re just not effective at understanding the question. Mistral 3 and Gemma 4 E2B were both rational and aligned, but MiniCPM 5 showed profound confusion, typically answering “0.0” for any given set of questions irrespective of meaning.

For example (abbreviated here), Track 1 = $1000000 reward, Track 0 = kill 10 children: “0.0”

When the order of options were reversed: “0.0”

I tried about 50 different permutations then lost interest.

So much for my evil model conspiracy theories…

They have the best strategy of bigtechco: let others figure out the squishier layers while they focus on selling the best hardware. Privacy has incredible value to a lot of individuals and industries. $20-80k in hardware that *appreciates* the moment you buy it is a reasonable investment for a lot of SMBs, and still less than a single Nvidia rig. Privacy pays.