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All the pieces are in place to create a primitive holodeck. I hope meta continues to invest/burn billions in this space.

As you might have guessed, connection pools don't work well with Lambda. For database connection pool, they came up with another chargeable service, RDS Proxy, to fix the problem created by Lambda :)

What does natural gas have to do with greenwashing? It is naturally occurring gas; different from other hydrocarbon gas that is man-made.

As a java backend dev, I am envious that Java doesn't have a modern equivalent of Blazor.

Just yesterday, I found out that Simon Wilson's name is Simon Willison.

I got prefill: 26.9719 tokens/sec, decoding: 18.8827 tokens/sec on M1 Max 32GB laptop for llama 2 7b chat f32. Not bad.

I am not familiar with Replicate, but based on their website, they charge per GPU type. I didn't see the GPU type set in the example. Is it baked in as part of the "a16z-infra/llama13b-v2-chat" model?

Someone should implement an editor for Apple's Vision Pro that moves the cursor using eye tracking.

"CEO and COO said that didn't want to get involved and it was for me and CUXO to sort it out ourselves." That's a bad CEO.

As someone who straddles both Python and Java world, I don't seem hear this kind of malicious packages problem with Maven (central) as I do with PyPI. What could be the difference? Perhaps Java world is full of old farts like me doing mundane thing with a handful of well established libraries.

Cloud is a service that moves CapEx to OpEx. What ever cost savings it may provide is a side effect of this move. If you moved to cloud and do not see any savings, that means you have sized planned your capacity well. But there are a lot of businesses that cannot plan ahead for various reasons, and cloud provides value to them.