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as chinese manufacturers expand abroad, the rest of the world will learn where the chinese "efficiency" comes from

if you don't have high bandwidth requirements, like for background / batch processing, the ovh eco family [1] of bare metal servers is incredibly cheap

[1] https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en/

about security, most businesses using AWS invest little to nothing in securing their software, or even adopt basic security practices for their employees

having the most secure data center doesn't matter if you load your secrets as env vars in a system that can be easily compromised by a motivated attacker

so i don't buy this argument as a general reason pro-cloud

pretty much my personal experience in a newer generation, just without the Atari, IBM, and basic

a lot of employers actually like engineers who come from a personal hacking background more than traditional paths, because we're truly passionate and care deeply. we're not in for 8-5 and a paycheck.

it's not a BSD license if it has a "common clause"

call it whatever you want, but don't ever mention a BSD License if you've modified it.

> Google is groaning under the weight of sacrifices made specifically so these SREs can play in their engineering playground every day

they're literally doing that. google has +$300B net positive assets. [1] they could distribute that to stockholders, go to the bahamas and call it a day. but they keep this wealth there so that SWEs can "play" and create stuff for others to use.

yes, they're not a humanitatian org. they do it so that they earn more, then invest more. but they are sacrificing short term gains and risking actually losing money.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GOOG:NASDAQ?hl=en

And Youtube wouldn't last long on its own.

Regarding infra, they were not capable of reaching the scale they needed and were already struggling by the time they got acquired.

On the money side, they couldn't attract advertisers as well as Google.

> Now my functions just downloaded the file from S3, if it was newer than the local copy

if you have strong consistency requirements, this doesn't work. synchronizing clocks reliably between different servers is surprisingly hard. you might end up working with stale data. might work for use cases that can accept eventual consistency.

Didn't it cost society to raise us to adulthood so that we can work for Google and other businesses? How many people have sacrificed their time and attention, directly or indirectly, to our benefit, since we were born? Yet, nobody's saying our salaries aren't deserved or the merit of our own efforts.

If it costs nothing, why don't we both get together and build a money-printing machine as well?

You say like it's something easy anyone can get done. Have you ever tried? If you try to build a sustainable and successful business, you'll see how hard it is.

which should make the employee proud, and I'm sure Google is compensating them very, very well.

let's also not forget that the people involved didn't create this in a vacuum. it cost Google a LOT more than their compensation to make it possible for them to even start working on this project, let alone carrying it forward to completion.

people underestimate how hard and expensive it is to manage a company in a way that allows its employees to do a good job.

if their execs want to get arrested the moment they step out of China, sure

you can be agnostic while not objectifying the female image to a point of forming a generation of young man that are addicted to porn and can't talk and connect to a real women

some types of content are indisputably disturbing for kids, like violence, war footage, sexualized content (esp. a sexualized female image targeting male kids & teens), etc

such bans do work. one or a few will find ways to circumvent, but the vast majority will end up complying.

our minds tend to fantasize a lot about our early days. our memories are flawed and what we remember now are full of gaps filled with fantasies that make us feel good.

losing 2fa gives me anxiety. google auth is sync'ing now. it's a terrible idea from a security standpoint, though, which gives me even more anxiety... i guess i can't avoid security-related anxieties

it's a bit ironic that Meta ended up becoming the largest "open ai" org.

all right, yeah, it's not "open source", but hey, it is open to use and they're publishing their research openly as well.

Compared to the radius of the known Universe, it's in the ballpark

Careful who you wish on your door...

> Do you think the ai is really running that command?

Yes, they're calling it "agentic" AI or "tool use".

> or could run that shell command with appropriate privileges?

Yes, it's called humans doing stupid shit when using dangerous shit. Happens daily.

Sonnet isn't good at debugging, or even architecting. o1 shines, it feels like magic. The kinds of bugs it helped me nail were incredible to me.

Google models have huge contexts, but are terrible...

In the early days of ChatGPT, I'd get constantly capped, every single day, even on the paid plan. At the time I was sending them messages, begging to charge me $200 to let me use it unlimited.

Finally!..

Loved the fish analogy

The OVH Eco-line (Kimsufi, So You Start..) are incredibly good and affordable. I have a few beefy servers, which I use to create my own VPS service on top of Proxmox. I'm not a sysadm and it's still simple to setup and maintain.

Eco is clever, because they reuse good hardware pieces to assemble new servers, instead of throwing out as garbage...

Have been a very happy user with several servers for quite some time.

Oh shit, did some VC or PrivEquity buy Hetzner? Will we have HWS soon?...

A good alternative to the sqlite cli is litecli [1]. I've been a happy user for quite some time.

[1] https://litecli.com

Sonnet is better than 4o for virtually all use cases.

The only reason I still use OpenAI's API and chatbot service is o1-preview. o1 is like magic. Everything Sonnet and 4o do poorly, o1 solves like a piece of cake. Architecting, bug fixing, planning, refactoring, o1 has never let me know on any 'hard' task.

A nice combo is have o1 guiding Sonnet. I ask o1 to come up with a solution and explanation, then simply feed its response into Sonnet to execute. That running on Aider really feels like futuristic stuff.

The Israeli will not recognize the authority of this ICC bench, because it's a politically motivated prosecution. They've lost before the trial even began.

The TL;DR says all the obvious things every developer who has awareness already knew for some time.