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Well, yea. Everyone agrees with these points. Who wants to ruin things for the sake of it? The reason why things get worse is because of systemic problems: misaligned incentives, i…

They have a "before" picture but not an "after"!

Suddenly turning off services when the billing cap is reached is a big reliability risk for customers. All workloads using that billing account would be impacted immediately. If th…

How much do existing services trust new email service providers? It would seem to be an uphill battle for Cloudflare to start a new service. It's easy to automate from the start, m…

Brilliant piece of content marketing: 1) Pulls you in with a catchy title, that at first glance seems like a dunk on Cal.com (whatever that is). 2) Takes the "we understand your pa…

A blog post like this is half the story. I’d like to see the results. Did your brother get more business? What were the failure modes? Did customers care if it was a bot or not?

They have direct feedback that many people return them bc they’re too heavy, and yet… It’s just Apple being stubborn. I guess it’s not a big enough problem for them, and they don’t…

Is AI-driven clean room implementation a wild west at the moment? I suppose there haven't yet been any cases to test this out in real life?

I'm glad you remember it as well! I didn't think to see if there was a recording or something of this talk, until now. It looks like the text of the talk was published here: https:…

That's right - it was bubble sort first. Absolutely - frail, yet sharp. I'm happy to hear several of us didn't forget this encounter with him.

Good to hear from you after a while, Gaurav (I think?!).

He came to give a lecture at UT Austin, where I did my undergrad. I had a chance to ask him a question: "what's the story behind inventing QuickSort?". He said something simple, li…

The problem can be complex, which sometimes means the solution needs to be complex. Often, you can solve a complex problem in simple ways. There’s many ways to do that: a) finding …

One of the odd things people do with tech is taking someone else's random projections at face value? What does it mean to say "we were promised flying cars", or "every city would h…

It's extremely painful that there's are free, OSS dictation tools that can run on-device, that are so much better than Apple's dictation, and yet it's quite difficult to use them o…

> When I was taken to the Tate Modern as a child I’d point at Mark Rothko pieces and say to my mother “I could do that”, and she would say “yes, but you didn’t.” Actually, no you c…

> The value got extracted, but compensation isn't flowing back. That bothers me, and it deserves a broader policy conversation. It bothers me, too. But, look at the history of the …

All this measurement is useful only if you change your behavior in response. How often is this the case?

A common pattern I see is data-plane nodes receiving versioned metadata updates from the control-plane. As long as the version is higher than the node's previous one, it's correct …

We can work toward closing security gaps with new technology, yes. It is necessary for large-scale adoption of LLM tech.

I didn't see this, thank you! They have a follow-up as well: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/ferret-ui-2

I have used it actually! It's been years so the fact that it's an accessibility tree just like in a browser didn't come to mind immediately. Both Mac and Windows have such represen…

It's not a smart move to avoid integrating the most important capability advance in computing in the past decade - LLMs. They do support small cases, like summarizing text. But the…

They're stuck on the privacy angle, because what it means is you can't call remote services. You'll always have access to more resources at a data-center than a phone. So, while th…