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You’re forgetting blame: if an on-prem system has an issue, that’s 100% on you. If AWS/GCP/Azure has an outage, that’s just bad luck, and everyone else suffers too.

But the "actual thing" is presumably software too? Why is it any different to a dev tool? All software is now more-or-less available for the token cost, given a specification of wh…

I don't know about the long term, but the medium term looks like "Claude, make a replacement for , with the same functionality and user experience."

Code generation (by compiler) has one major difference: it's deterministic.

The Plan9 network API is an interesting successor to all of STREAMS, streams, and sockets.

There’s an interesting middle ground: not fully malleable software, where the end user has full customisation ability but requires full programming skill, but eg the Unix tool mode…

That's not what Glynne said. The whole justification for Starlink was to create demand for Falcon.

Falcon9 has basically no market: the only thing that keeps it flying is Starlink. The whole AI/orbital datacentres/launch thing is a giant grift.

I think this is an important point. A time when a take-home, closed-book test, relying on the honesty and integrity of the students, was viable seems completely unrealistic now. I …

The same logic applies. At least where I live, universities used to run entrance exams. They didn't care about high school grades, or even if you'd ever been to high school: if you…

At my child's high school, phones are "off and away all day", and the punishment for being caught with a phone in your pocket (or hands) is pretty severe. During an exam, it's an i…

I'm hopeless at pure cursive writing. My default writing is a joined-up-ish kind of printing. Writing using it works really well for retaining information for me.

It's been clearly shown to be beneficial for some people. I too happen to be one of them. For others, hearing stuff (and saying stuff) out loud is more useful. I had a friend who'd…

I would often do a bullet point summary/outline of my answer on the paper. That would have arrows and insertions and crossed-out stuff everywhere -- it was usually a mess. But then…

My child's high school is doing the same thing: all exams are now handwritten on paper in a supervised room. Phones and smartwatches are always banned during the school day, but la…

The fun part is that this all plays out concurrently with our destruction of the Earth’s climate. That permanent underclass might easily end up a lot smaller than you think. And th…

Yes. But. I imagine the others did not fail to learn from this.

Try gitolite? https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html It has fine-grained permissions but works with regular git clients.

Shoot the messenger. That’ll fix it.

The concept of a "job" can encompass many things. Some of those change when machines become more capable, some don't. For example, one part of a job is the satisfaction, the purpos…

> let them run for a season/series and gauge popularity vs cost, and cut the under performers (why I don't watch a show until a couple seasons are live). And so you don’t contribut…

If I could afford that I wouldn’t need a social media app.

I have a heap of family and friends who live in a different country to me. I'd love an old school Friendster / early Facebook-style social medium where we could share posts, but th…

I’m sorry to be harsh but this is 100% your fault, and attempting to shift the blame onto Cursor and Railway just doesn’t fly. The onus is on you to make sure your system uses the …

Helpful video, thanks! At about 1:20, the presenter says the BFS uses a different OS and hardware (not sure if that means a different instance, or a different class, so to speak).