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The iPhone SE was only $400.

“hundreds of micro-services for a web application that barely have 1k concurrent users.” That would not be appropriate in any of the mainstream cloud-native architecture styles.

Did they say it was an LLM? I didn’t see that in the reporting.

It isn't just the projections that distort our perception. North being up and south being down is so ubiquitous that it seems like Earth (and the Solar System) has a top side and a…

If there are no breaking changes, is it really a disadvantage for a language to add new capabilities frequently?

That is also the advice given in the article. Unfortunately it follows that with "occasionally connect the TV to the internet for a minute to see if it needs any firmware updates" …

It looks like the recent popularity of hybrid poodle mixes explains the decline of purebred retrievers.

The training data is so large that it incidentally includes basically anything that Google would index plus the contents of as many thousands of copyrighted works that they could g…

I wonder if the sequel will also have a mortuary-based economic system.

If the future of AI is LLMs like ChatGPT, which are trained on literature and other things that people create, you're going to need humanities scholars like you need computer scien…

I've been spending some time trying to get a sense of how it works by exploring where it fails. When it makes a mistake, you can ask questions in a socratic method until it says th…

I don't think that it's natural for something like an LLM to have any real self-preservation beyond imitating examples of self-preserving AI in science fiction from its training da…

I have to wonder how much of LLM behavior is influenced by AI tropes from science fiction in the training data. If the model learns from science fiction that AI behavior in fiction…

I've been a crypto skeptic for most of the past decade. I especially hate the industry, the overhyped blockchain-magic ideology, and the ubiquitous scams. But I remember when I was…

The qualities that make a social network successful have little to do with the protocol technologies involved. If the next hit social network happens to be on Mastodon, that will o…

And Atlantic Canada.

The worst ghost kitchen I've seen is for an exclusively gluten-free pizza place in Seattle. That's an appealing prospect if you have a serious celiac case and you can't eat food th…

The first generation iPhone from 2016 can still be updated with the latest iOs version.

How could anyone decide on an appropriate price for Bitcoin when there's no fundamental intrinsic value to it? That lack of a fundamental value helps it increase because nobody can…

If checking your logs is hard work you should make it easier. I just click on my Datadog bookmark and select some filters to check logs.

I just looked through the app list of my iPhone’s location privacy settings and every app has either “never”, “while using”, or “when shared”. I never opt in to always sharing my l…

The question is too vague. Why do you even need a CRUD app?

I got really into it for a while and had to stop for the same reason. Plus the whole aesthetic and theme of the game felt gross to me.

Now let’s see if they can give more than 10 PTO days