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rgbrenner

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About rgbrenner

rgb at agiler.io

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    We haven't fixed the ozone hole yet. It'll take another 40 years for it to return to the levels prior to 1980: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/ozone-hole-...

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    Comment #48868369

    "Their leaders are often university grads from the west." This is a generalization.. and you're right that there are terrorist groups run by people educated in the west... but this…

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    Comment #48711578

    US bans are based on the incorrect idea that we have control over AI. But the ban only reduces the most advanced model available from US companies. Models from other countries cont…

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    Comment #48711373

    If that happens it'll be an absolute disaster. Imagine a scenario where Anthropic and OpenAI prohibit most US companies from using their latest models because of safety.. And meanw…

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    Comment #48690567

    Im not worried about this at all. The OpenAI, Anthropic and the US government can play this game all they want... They're just accelerating the development of open source models; a…

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    Comment #48530909

    serverless hosting for wordpress: https://www.agiler.io The hard part is doing it without modifying WP, and serverless mariadb that can scale to zero.

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    Comment #48330639

    The article has no date on it, but says deferred tool loading is a recent update that occurred after the article was written. Deferred tool loading was added in Nov 2025: https://w…

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    Comment #48280348

    US has over 10x the number of data centers as China; and produces 2x more energy per capita than China.

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    Comment #48280279

    > China's electricity generation going parabolic Even if we all switch to Chinese models, the west isn't going to be running the model on Chinese servers... and the majority of cos…

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    Comment #48237351

    musk sued long after the statute of limitations because what openai did was only objectionable to musk once he decided to become their competitor. and in this scenario, i’m suppose…

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    Comment #48098095

    was the industrial revolution oriented for ordinary people at the time it occurred? were a lot of workers buying flying shuttles in the 1700s?

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    Comment #48045459

    300k tokens--the useable context window of a single agent--is about 40k lines of code and you can't figure out a natural breakpoint within that code to divide up the task?

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    Comment #48043576

    ok "series of context windows spread across many agents".. sure much clearer. Doesn't change my point: the amount of code the agent can operate on is very large, if not unlimited, …

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    Comment #48039790

    300k-400k isn’t the current limit if you create modules and/or organize the code reasonably.. for the same reason we do this for humans: it allows us to interact with a component w…

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    In the same way that all coding docs are available publicly

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    Comment #47604471

    mysql/mariadb and the shared filesystem requirements are a bit different than what lambda/etc provides. So not really, but it's all solvable clearly.

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    Comment #47603920

    > Solving scale-to-zero for WordPress hosting platforms > WordPress is not serverless Just not accurate. WordPress doesn't prevent this.. It's up to hosting providers to work on th…

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    Comment #47551480

    app.tryalma.com doesn't work on safari either.. says its chrome only. So the story isn't really about firefox.. it's about Chrome's marketshare being high enough that some companie…