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Comment · 2 months ago
Same experience early this year but I did halve the dosage to 5mg for a month, which was of near zero difference. But the full withdrawal? Oh man it is no joke.
Comment · 3 months ago
It is senior programmers that will be in demand again, but at junior price.
Comment · 3 months ago
And yet people are still happily driving 10 LLM sessions concurrently.
Comment · 3 months ago
I mean, Pfizer has a good margin on every pill they produce too.
Comment · 3 months ago
Heat death is inevitable in a codebase built mostly by coding agents.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's a documentary.
Comment · 4 months ago
We cannot talk about net benefit until we agree on the objective: net benefit for whom?

I don't care if my current job is being replaced or the whole industry I am working in vanishes. But as an individual, if the new technology says it aims to wipe out all the possibilities of my future career, it is not net benefit for me.

Just saying "net benefit" "overall" sounds like some collectivism propaganda.

Comment · 4 months ago
Frontier models do not trade on 100x earnings either.
Comment · 4 months ago
I wonder why the apartment buildings in the US never have mini splits but always use PTACs or window units. In my opinion, they suck.
Comment · 4 months ago
Because a database is a kv store. Most workloads won't tell the performance difference as long as the store works.
Comment · 4 months ago
Multi-cluster federation is still hard.
Comment · 5 months ago
DNS is a federated, read-optimized, geo-replicated key-value store with eventual consistency.
Comment · 5 months ago
An AI hate wave is here, yet when I opened the link:

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Comment · 6 months ago
People run websites on a VPS with 32MB RAM decades ago and it was fine. What is new about this?
Comment · 6 months ago
Is "Mostly-reliable" TCP connection a real thing? A TCP connection is either reliable or not working at all. That is what a proper abstraction should be like.

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