One of my deepest insecurities as a man is what if I’ve already been investigated by an intelligence agency and their file on me basically says this dude is lazy and won’t pull off anything important so don’t worry about it You need to GRIND HARDER you need to MAKE DEALS you need to GET UP EARLY you need to PROCURE ASSETS your federal handler is BORED AND UNIMPRESSED

At my first internship we had to build a Windows Server app that would allow a user to drag and drop bunch of spreadsheets into a network folder and generate a summary report. This was previously a task that required ~900 man hrs that would get reduced to ~10 seconds My coworker and I got started on a PoC python script to generate the report, and after talking to the stakeholders I scheduled a demo a month out. This would give us enough time to test everything and make sure the server could go live that day

Marketing speak to terms you already know:

semantic index -> embeddings
app intents -> function calling
on device language model -> 3B fine tuned LLM w/ included LoRA adapters
on device image model -> diffusion model w/ included LoRA adapters
orchestration -> Siri
Neural Engine -> Apple's GPU Private Cloud Compute -> serverless iOS accessible over HTTPS (tenant isolated invocations, no persistent storage)
Private Cloud Extensions -> custom tools to perform anonymized analytics (no SSH or bash)
ML Stack -> Swift servers to carry out inference on the Neural Engine

my understanding of American economics for the last 30 years is every decade everyone notices the obviously nonsensical bubble, the economy explodes, then a bunch of nerds accidentally invent another trillion dollar money printer and everything is fine for another 10 years

https://twitter.com/netcapgirl/status/1735044607224746150

1990 recession was supposed to be the end of the global American empire but then a nice young fella from Seattle was like bro what if we made computer software that didn’t suck ass

Discord hired the best people who built the best product for their market. But now those people are still on payroll and need to _keep changing things_ to justify getting paid. Their recent moves are indicative of managers flailing around because there is no real work left This is the worst part of SaaS. If software still shipped on CDs everyone on the team would have gotten promoted and moved on to something else. But instead they’re in this impossible position where they need to keep inventing reasons to change the flagship until the end of time

This sounds dumb but I think about Soviet laborers almost every day. Millions of good people spending their bodies and minds in the hopes of building a fair utopia free from capital monopolies and hierarchical abuse. Millions working to achieve something great for their children Millions mining raw materials for their society. Millions building public infrastructure and factories. Millions putting their heads together to reach space. Millions building nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to defend their work from those who sought to topple it

dev take on the "Prime Video team moved away from AWS serverless" story: you are not Amazon Prime Video. you most likely do not have revenue anywhere near Amazon Prime Video. focusing on cost-cutting before you are even making that much money is a waste of time! yes, monoliths costs less than serverless costs at scale. but do you have scale? are you even processing more than 1 request per second? (my guess is 90% of the ppl participating in this debate aren't). if you don't have scale serverless will probably get you to scale faster

the biggest reason i think America Is Good is that in the time period between Hiroshima and RDS-1 (first Soviet nuclear test) the richest country ever had the opportunity to take over the world with nukes and instead chose to set up various forms of international banking europe is destroyed? have you tried banking? communists ignoring human rights? bank against them? former British colonies are struggling to stay solvent? let's set up a bank about it? the Middle East has a chokehold on oil production? believe it or not, we're going to do banking