sminn.ee
Techie, dad, Wellingtonian. Building with AI, trying to do so thoughtfully. Loves nuanced discussion of complex topics, and toilet humour.
Founded Silverstripe in a past life, now CTO for tellfrankie.com and askastro.ai
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Commodus
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It’s what they call platform-game challenges in Roblox and Minecraft isn’t it?
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Nerd-sniping, film-buff edition.
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Blocking of quote-dunks makes me smile every time I see it, even if it is a bit confusing.
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Their spectacular and glorious failure lived on through the ages. Leonidas was in it for memes, not results.
Perhaps the reference is perfect?
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Yeah my hope has always been that in a few decades this will be the mainstream view.
It was easier to be optimistic that it was just around the corner in ~2014.
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Wait until artifacts offer Claude Hosting and enterprises start planning their Claude migration strategies.
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A goldfish with pants
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What is this, a TikTok?
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Marketing solves this 😂
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Joke. What he’s describing is basically Bluesky
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I’ve enjoyed GitButler for this kind of thing.
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Congratulations on joining the Bluesky team!
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Sure, although it’s also worth noting that the consumer apps that use LLMs mostly have web search integrated now, addressing this quite well. They also provide links to sources, which is great for more double-checking higher-stakes questions.
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Are they paying for education or a qualification? If the latter, the behaviour makes much more sense.
Obv we like to think that kids are misguided in thinking that the qualification matters more than the education, but… *gestures vaguely at schools*
The appeal of LLM summaries is a symptom.
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Turkey McRibs will sell, though… 🤔
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It makes the most sense as fetish content
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Now you must righteously consume. Glory in the sating of your hunger!
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Count it as a win, you’re free of them now.
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Everyone reading this, nodding sagely “yes, that’s exactly how the other guys are operating!”
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Is the USA a normal country?
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This post led me to drive to the store and buy a bag of bagels, salmon, cream cheese, and sundried tomato pesto.
I had salmon and cream cheese with lemon zest
Ms 8 had peanut butter and jam
My wife had sd tomato pesto and cream cheese
Then I had cream cheese and jam
So… thanks! 😁
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ISWYDT
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Nah, but sometimes people I’m tempted to argue with and know it will be fruitless and dispiriting.
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I had to block the person who replied to this saying “stupid is ableist too”. At a certain point it sounds like satire.
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Gotta catch em all
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But the emails…!
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Good on him! But then it could become like His Thing 😁.
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Steady on, Eubulides
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I mean, every time visits a website from overseas the data is replicated.
Multi-zone replication isn’t common, except for CDN, which are mainly used for serving content to users in those countries.
Bigger worry 4 me is NZ data centre being run by US company and vulnerable to US executive orders
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But to be honest from my perspective there’s more talk than action.
Disclaimer: I used to run a company that put a bunch of NZ govt websites on AWS, largely because the tech was better.
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It’s a topic that comes up a lot, including indigenous data sovereignty and its relationship to Treaty of Waitangi obligations (a document as beloved/foundational as the constitution is in the US—basically defined the country’s Māori/British partnership stage that continues to today)
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Since around 2016 govt has been warmer and warmer to pushing things on global cloud providers. Local data centre operators have been pushing the data sovereignty line, largely to lukewarm reception (“AWS are opening a NZ data centre soon”).
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local hosting / baby cloud infrastructure providers in NZ are going to have a field day with this one
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a bit like drugs
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Can the son be taught to make the dough?
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Campaign finance reform is a better place to start IMO
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Skill issue
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Yeah I don’t get the SpaceX fiasco except for Elon’s antics. A company isn’t just one person but you can assume that there are some massively distracting pressures being put on from the top.
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That said, SpaceX seems to be going downhill even granting their iterative approach to rocket development and you wonder how much Shotwell has been dragged into her boss’ bullshit
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It’s a good start, and awesome to see more companies getting into the space, but the idea that they’re somehow outdoing SpaceX is too silly to engage with. Not sure if that was the OPs intent but the rotten tomato crowd in the replies certainly think so!
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It’s great to see other companies starting this journey
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It cuts to “is school more about credentialing or education”, and I don’t think anyone became a teacher for credentialing. So it becomes an anxious discourse.