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logsr

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    Comment #46264862

    they aren't "your" federal and state tax dollars. if you want to privately provide welfare for PE out of your own pocket, go ahead, but leave the public's tax dollars out of it.

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    Comment #46264806

    looking at ESO's homepage their main pitch is around NERIS compliance ( https://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfirs/neris/ ) so it looks like this is a case of regulatory capture forcing fire …

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    Comment #46264652

    despicable attitude completely detached from reality. volunteer fire fighting services provide critical public services across broad sparsely populated areas of the United States a…

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    Comment #46264228

    amazing work!

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    Comment #46138070

    uWebsockets, which is the foundation of the network and http server stack in Bun, as I understand it, is a compatible 3rd party extension to Node.js that gives it similar performan…

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    Comment #46126563

    JS/TS has a fundamental advantage, because there is more open source JS/TS than any other language, so LLMs training on JS/TS have more to work with. Combine that with having the l…

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    Comment #46126466

    > Vibe-coded projects get bought by vibe-coded companies this is so far from the truth. Bun, Zig, and uWebsockets are passion projects run by individuals with deep systems programm…

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    Comment #46126317

    Claude Code running on Bun is an obvious justification, but Buns features (high performance runtime, fast starts, native TS) are also important for training and inference. For inst…

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    Comment #46123130

    There are two layers here: 1) low level LLM architecture 2) applying low level LLM architecture in novel ways. It is true that there are maybe a couple hundred people who can make …

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    Comment #46071466

    In my view LLMs are simply a different method of communication. Instead of relying on "your voice" to engage the reader and persuade them of your point of view, writing with LLMs f…

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    Comment #46062410

    > trying to make themselves too big to fail this is super overblown. what their executive said was that eventually the scale of compute required is so large, that it requires not o…

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    Comment #46062372

    I think you are right that the entire analysis is flawed. The Amazon and Microsoft "rental" deals have inflated price tags because of the circular financial arrangements between th…

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    Comment #46062230

    Google may very well be the Google of this era. They have demonstrated the ability to maintain parity on the engineering side, they have a long running advantage on OpEx with TPU, …

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    Comment #46010761

    >still haven't figured out applications the real answer is that the applications for the military, surveillance, and population control are proven, and the pathways to scale those …

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    Comment #45598939

    for ad networks and social media platforms that provide monetization the click fraud is direct. there is also a massive industry of fake accounts and fake engagement for social med…

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    Comment #45465534

    developing secure software is very difficult. you have to start from a foundation of immutable data storage. then you need reproducible compilation from source code, to all executa…

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    Comment #45194929

    YouTube was built on piracy and then Google bought YouTube and got immunity from copyright infringement claims by selling its user data to LE/IC in exchange for legal immunity. You…

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    Comment #45105827

    this is a lot like the debate over IQ. there is no single measure of intelligence. humans have a broad array of different capabilities with every individuals capabilities sitting s…

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    Comment #45070339

    > design the best system for what your requirements actually look like right now this is the key practical advice. when you start designing for hypothetical use cases that may neve…

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    Comment #44840658

    IP exists in your head. You have knowledge that no one else has and it is your property. IP law recognizes this ground truth and creates a legal framework that allows IP to be trad…

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    Comment #44659835

    5% is pretty low but similar to what i have seen on low performing teams at 10K+ employee multinationals. this would also be why the vast majority of software today is bug ridden g…

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    Comment #44625707

    posting a plain text description of your experience on a personal blog isn't exactly screaming. in the noise of the modern internet this would be read by nobody if it wasn't coming…

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    Comment #44578553

    language is one of the basic mechanisms for social differentiation and status. in academia specialized language is how different disciplines are differentiated and abstruse literar…

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    Comment #44578342

    literacy is only important if you don't want to live a subsistence poverty lifestyle. other than that, completely useless.