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Kyle Maxwell

@kmx

Previously @twittereng, websolr.com, bonsai.io, Houseparty, etc

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    Comment #49192786

    What policy would you use?

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    Comment #48693066

    Firecracker doesn't reclaim RAM well, so they put this limit in to make sure you don't suffer from the eventual memory bloat problems.

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    Comment #48592848

    A2A solves the problem of independently developed agents talking to each other. The bigger problem is "how do i trust your agent works?", which would be solved by having a believab…

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    Comment #48429191

    The ratio of proofreading to grandiosity is impressive.

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    Comment #48428951

    Performance enhancements are what allow you to train a bigger model.

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    Comment #47912792

    Plenty of everyone doing it wrong, but the most WTF of all the WTFs is the backup storage. Put your backups in S3 *versioned* storage on a different AWS account from your primary, …

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    Comment #47742908

    Sure, but you then can't access the computronium, because communication is so bad. Also, I wonder if good old-fashioned computing is interesting at all to a civilization that's had…

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    Comment #47619404

    I mean you can use sqlite as an index and then rebuild all of Lucene on top of it. It's non-trivial to build search quality on top of actual search libraries too. O'Reilly's "Relev…

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    Comment #46905312

    I enjoy Japanese joinery, but for some reason the housing market doesn't.

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    Comment #46727741

    hey, they have 9 8's

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    Comment #46714913

    Does anyone know how much the cost-per-token is trending down year-over-year for models of similar quality? Seems like whether this idea works really depends on that curve.

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    Comment #46714744

    What a fever dream!

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    Comment #46338082

    Add reinforcement learning to figure out which skills are actually useful, and you're really cooking.

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    Comment #46278382

    This isn't about income.

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    Comment #46088425

    - The hard part of a compiler is the parser. Find an existing parser, then emit using that language's web templates. - Your DB query is better in an inverted index. - Consider your…

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    Comment #46082001

    The goal of post-modern society is to create wealth without additional energy costs. If I write software that schedules health care more efficiently, I've created value and therefo…

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    Comment #46009482

    I tend to look at consciousness as a spectrum. And when we reduce it to a binary (is it conscious?), we're actually asking whether it meets some minimum threshold of whatever the s…

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    Comment #45861366

    Quickjs will do this.

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    Comment #45815659

    Definitely, iff you have to provide the context with every task. If agent memory worked better and across your whole team, then providing context might be much easier

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    Comment #45600074

    I read the article, and I'm struggling to see what ideas it brings beyond CodeAct (tool use is python) or the "task" tool in Claude code (spinning off sub-agents to preserve contex…

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    Comment #45389508

    Cursor when not in "MAX" mode does its own silent context pruning in the background.

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    Comment #45351765

    I don't see how this very contrived example pipelines: client.getAll({userIds}).map((user) => user.updatedAt == new Date().toLocaleString() ? client.photosFor(user.id) : {}) or wit…

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    Comment #45342886

    Also, your function needs to be very careful on closures. Date.toLocaleString and many other js functions will be different on client and server, which will also cause silent corru…

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    Comment #44717436

    You can swap bikes in the middle of the race if you have a mechanical issue. There was one famous time where someone climbed impossibly fast, had a mechanical at the top of the mou…

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    Comment #44684448

    Don't be confused! That's not how they made the decision; it's how they're selling it.