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A lot of people don't understand what using AI as an output multiplier means. They take it literally, resulting in multiplying busywork across the company. Misguided HR / people Op…

They claim to be 1/3 the price of AWS, so I calculated for fun and it's 8x more expensive than my server auction machine I just got from Hetzner. Which itself is 6x cheaper than on…

Not strictly about climate, also about surface area in optimal climate.

You could say that about any other determinism. Nevertheless, it's a huge factor in the wealth of nations and a pillar of geopolitics. It's also why we don't all speak german today…

Argentina's arable land is just 27% of what the USA has. Fact-checking myself... the USA has more arable land than Canada, Australia and Argentina combined. Russia has a lot, but t…

With shitty climates. The surface area of optimal climate in the US is likely larger than that of all the countries you've named combined. What's optimal? For example in Canada mos…

It’s about the agent. Not the model or the format. The "bitter lesson" only applies if the model makes the agent redundant. We aren't there yet. Agentic loops are just software eng…

WW3 called and said solar is harder to disrupt through bombing than massive power plants. Seems like a great deal even if it was more expensive.

13k CAD is €8.000

Hi Peter, let's play hypotheticals. USMCA (CUSMA) is dead, Trump actually acted on his threat and the US left the treaty. I assume it means TN visas are dead in six months if the w…

I persuaded my bank out of $200 using AI to formulate the formal ask using their pdf as guidance. I could have gotten it directly but the effort barrier was too high for it to be w…

Wifey works at uni. From all her stories, sounds like a strategy I'd adopt to boost my GPA, if it existed back then. Of course, there are also true cases where it takes 4 hours to …

Neither of them tracks leaders. They just say: "This fund, which we like to refer to by its trade ticker, “[NANC/GOP],” invests in equity securities purchased or sold by [Democrati…

Many people mention unusualwhales.com to follow lawmakers's holdings. Do you get insights early enough or is it too late to turn a profit? Anyone knows how they get the data?

turns out cross AZ is recommended for ES. perhaps our data team was rewritting the indices too often. but it was an internal requirement. so I think the data schema could have been…

At some point our cross-AZ traffic for Elasticsearch replication at AWS was more expensive than what we'd pay to host the whole cluster replicated across multiple baremetal Hetzner…

7 figures is single digit millions. 5 figures is a single silly mistake. Just enabling more verbosity on logs is enough to trigger that in a day. Such mistakes would be found month…

I've seen this in startups with 7 figure ARR (where annual cloud costs were also 7 figures). Also seen that in F500 where a single architect caused a 5-figure mistake which remove …

Managed servers reduce the on-prem skillset requirement and can also deliver a lot of value. The most frustrating part of hyperscalers is that it's so easy to make mistakes. Active…

Ultimately these owners hire me to cut their 6-figure AWS bill by 50%. It's mostly rearchitecting mistakes. Amongst them is taking AWS blog propaganda at face value. Those savings …

She crossed overland. Imagine you do pre-clearance out of a Canadian airport. Can they kidnap you out of country and ship you to a US detention center?

All great till the last line. Given fakes and product commingling, I’d be careful about ingesting anything bought there.

Is commuting on a TN visa possible for a Canadian living in Canada? Let’s say I had to commute to the office in the US 2 days a week, and live the remaining 5 days back home in Can…

I’ve seen an analysis a while back showing that compared to US and EU, Canada subsidized agriculture to a lesser extent by a few multiples. Quotas might effectively shift the cost …

Canadian living in Canada with a EU citizen on a PR (permanent residency in Canada). Let’s say I get in on a TN, I understand she can accompany me without being allowed to work. Ho…