A stable instruction set would be nice.
But hi, if I spent $10,000 on a piece of hardware, let me program the metal, thanks.
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But hi, if I spent $10,000 on a piece of hardware, let me program the metal, thanks.
Now I think "guard rails" is the thing I'm hoping for. Your car actively tries to prevent accidents.
Then, I think once that's seen as working really well, I think what's next is that it will become prohibitively expensive to insure your car without keeping the guard rails on all the time.
I hear Flock cameras have even more valuable materials inside them.
The money comes out, but the cops show up.
Is here okay?
I want to have physical storage over here, and logical storage over there, and I want to control the mapping from one to the other. I want to talk about encryption, replication, latency. Make "time machine" available on this logical storage. And then I buy some new physical storage, and it joins the story. This physical storage is over at my friend's house for backup. This physical storage is slow and archival. This is a device for writing archival media, and there's a brand new media in it, go ahead and write to it. Show me the health report on all of the physical media, and show me what you've done to protect the logical storage. Graph my usage and make suggestions about when to add more physical storage.
Buying physical storage with power and wifi, and configuring it with a QR code that's on an e-ink display - seems like it should be the most obvious thing in the world, that we should all be really used to doing by now.
What am I missing?
But that to clean up a codebase requires even more people.
So, at first blush, it looks like "more people = more problems," but if you actually give yourself some breathing room, the code can get cleaner with effort.
How will they achieve cleaner code, with fewer workers? Seems like a well-intentioned platitude.
That's the only way this thing adds up in my head.
I look forward to the benchmarks, but am highly skeptical.
Looks like operational transforms to me.
The doc claims it's the first with this technique. A 30 second search reminded me of Darcs, and taught me about Pijul, and Weave. And yes, Google Docs storage works the same way - there are probably papers documenting how efficient Google Docs storage is, but it's not wrapped up in a full VCS that folks can use.
The example in the doc uses text, and unfortunately I think it's for a reason. I think with large, binary game assets, the most common operation is going to be strings of "replace A with B", and depending on your chunk size relative to the distribution of changes you make on your assets, I see it as pretty close to a wash, for efficiency. Especially considering that content-addressable blocks also solves de-duplication, which for a multi-game studio is probably going to be significant. Especially if they're managing multiple releases, patches, development branches, etc.
Okay, I'm going to start running a Bitcoin miner on your machine, and then use it to buy time on Digital Ocean.
I've written out my CLAUDE.md, and I'll use SSH to transfer my context to that other machine.
I did laugh at how the Gravity built the Earth, with a tiny North America and all, and then as more mass was accumulated, North America got to get bigger and bigger and bigger!
That's demonstrably false.
If it were remotely true, trickle down economics would have been a gold rush for the entire economy.
I think someone has to be fairly elite to have a secondary, or tertiary home, in NY City, worth over $1 million.
Regardless, the entire point of this discussion is that people who have a secondary home can probably afford to pay more in taxes than other people can. I don't call that envy.
That's just a frank discussion of tax policy.
If you think taxes should be lower, because some government programs should be reduced, that's a perfectly fine discussion to have.
If you think governments shouldn't have to worry about a balanced budget, and maybe they should default on their debt (which is an argument the current President has insanely floated), that's a fine discussion to have.
At present, we're talking about secondary homes with a value over $1 million, in New York City, having an additional 4% tax.
And I was lamenting that home valuations appear to be unbelievably low, which would dramatically reduce the tax income of this law, and I was trying to propose a fix, for those homes.
If you think the only reason to have that discussion is because of envy, then I think you're not being fair to other people's motivations.
Because we're a democracy, we vote, and we might vote for foolish policies unless you take the time to explain to us, in language we can understand, why they're a bad idea.
It sucks that the burden is on you. I don't deny that. But the burden is on me to explain why electronic voting (without a paper trail) is bad, that climate change is real, that vaccines are essentially miraculous, and wearing a mask during a deadly global pandemic is a good thing.
And there's certainly a lot of people willing to use fancy terms to defend cryptocurrencies, but honestly, that doesn't mean they're right.
We all have to do labor to keep the electorate informed.
A secondary home over $1 million in value also has overt pathological economic characteristics. Especially if the taxes paid on it are tragically low.
> This forces the owner to write a long-term call option on a non-commodity asset without even collecting the offsetting risk premium expected for such a call option.
Eminent domain already exists.
> without even collecting the offsetting risk premium
You get to have a second home, in New York, with a value of over $1 million.
Yes, I'm proposing taxation and regulation on top of that.
But, knowing this law exists, everyone gets to make the choice whether they want it or not.
We also have the legal mandate to institute taxes in the first place. You also did not collect an offsetting risk premium for that, and had no right to expect one.
> This puts the asset permanently underwater by construction
Eminent domain already did that. And you're saying "permanently," but I think you could fairly easily steel-man my proposal to say that the government has a certain number of days after property taxes are paid to declare their intention to collect. That's different from "permanently."
I'm not an expert, by any means.
But you also just described what buying a house in an HOA is like. You have no idea what future fees will be like. And you have very little control. And many HOAs can foreclose on your house, if you don't pay their fees. John Oliver did a whole segment on it. And something like 80% of new home construction is under an HOA.
So, why should I have an over-abundance of sympathy for people, with a secondary home, in NY City, worth over $1 million?
Maybe the whole concept of a secondary home over $1 million in value, in New York city, should just not exist?
Or, maybe it should exist, but the taxes should be pretty damn high, and they should be based off of a pretty damn fair assessment of value. I'm all open to counter-proposals of how to get a more equitable assessment of value.
Now that I've explained that, do you still think this would "dramatically cut housing security"?
If you still feel this would make housing "insecure", because someone's secondary home, if it has a value over $1 million, is subject to this system I propose, then you and I have a fundamentally different idea of what "housing security" is.
I guess that is a valid solution to that prompt.
And if someone has gone to the bother to make a prompt that helps my LLM build one, and it either already doesn't have the features I don't need, or I can have my LLM start by trimming the features I don't need before it builds it...
Then I think you're saying the same thing I'm saying.