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AdamN
4,134karma·1,341submissions·August 27, 2009
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AWS/Amazon Q - Berlin
Formerly Seattle, Nairobi, NYC:
* AWS Reliability Services (Fault Injection Service) - Region Isolation, AZ Power Outage and other tools for Chaos Engineering * AWS Developer Tools - building software teams to build software for other developers to build software * CTO at Factr - a geo/temporal research aggregation tool for international organizations and media * Founder of Kili.io - a public OpenStack for African markets based in Nairobi. * CTO at Yipit - Built the team and was initial dev (Python, Django, Ubuntu, AWS) * Way back when, I was the CTO of Forsalebyowner.com (acquired by Tribune Interactive).
Get in touch (adam@varud.com) if you have any interest in African technology, governance, Amazon, or anything in between.
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Sort of - if it's determined that somebody bypassed a safety control they can just make the control firmer and fire that person and move onto other things. If it's some fundamental flaw in …
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> trying to do as best they could There's another comment that it wasn't the weld but even if it was the welders would build to spec and "better" (if it's known what better…
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Rockets are hard for sure but also almost nobody notices if there's a minor bug in your delivery app that causes it to crash every once in a while - but it can matter alot if there's a micro…
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minified is fewer tokens than the human-readable version that we would write. It only really makes sense to write in minified js - it's also where alot of code in the wild is since every product…
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It's worth noting that if each developer is 20% more productive with AI (let's take that as a premise and not dispute it), then it makes sense to go even further and reduce human headcount b…
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We still go to our local toy store - which is quite nice and only about 5 blocks away (in Berlin).
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It's probably not so much the AI thing as the latent disgust at the social media landscape and the toxicity driven by Meta and others.
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Yeah there are good accounts of this in Down and Out in Paris and London and also one of Hemingway's books - forgot which one.
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The case I would make is that some of the libraries in Python are very fast and written in other languages (C, C++, etc...). With other languages that's more rare. For instance a Java applicati…
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two is the right minimum number for a high availability dataplane but three is the right minimum number for a HA control plane. With that said, if high availability is not a concern then 1 can be just…
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That's still a man in the middle coordinating the payments (mpesa, etc...) and essentially holding both sides of the transaction. When you send money to somebody with mobile money you're se…
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Maybe. A bad programmer is unlikely to get something even working so in that world nobody will depend on it because they can't even use it. A bad AI programmer (or non-programmer) can get the t…
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But why not be true to the original author's text? What's the need to modify it?
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SE sounds truly, truly awful. Thanks for making me aware of its existence so I can avoid it.
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You expressed an opinion with how you framed it.
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There's a modern argument that nuclear is greener than oil, gas, and even hydro and everything else. That's pretty new though (and certainly not a no-brainer).
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Yeah it seems like a miss. I guess the thinking was that it wasn't developer-facing and just an internal optimization. But of course any change to garbage collection will change the memory and …
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It's kind of all of the above. State and non-state actors have leveraged pretty much every movement there is to their own ends: civil rights, anti-nuclear, pro-nuclear, anti-Iranian government s…
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I'm not sure why subsidies are per se bad. But also almost all infrastructure is subsidized regardless: roads, trains (cargo as well), ports, nuclear, coal, etc...
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One that's reinforced by those against whichever legislation or regulation is being proposed.
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A manager who is also contributing code is almost an entirely different role than a manager who is not contributing code. Typically the former should not exist in a smaller org and in a larger org it…
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I'm seeing that in Big Tech now - there's no room anymore and it's super short term thinking (couched in the language of long term thinking). It's a really dangerous game for an i…
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Meta is fundamentally a media company and they're using AI towards that end. They don't seem to be productizing their tech beyond that in the medium term.
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I don't unsubsubscribe unless I explicitly subscribed in the past. If I did not subscribe in the first place then it's spam (exception for small businesses who may not know better in which …
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What about low dose aspirin?
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Yeah you could easily imagine stenography like inputs and outputs for rapid iteration loops. It's also true that in social media people already want faster-to-read snippets that drop grammar so …
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How do those numbers look with similar products from Huawei, Samsung, etc...? Fairphone/HMD are competitors focused on repairability above other factors so it's not really a fair comparison…
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I can go with the thesis that individuals need community control (boards, regulations, laws) in order to be accountable but is there some specific evidence that Amodei is the same? It seems like a &qu…
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Yeah that works and I remember learning that in the 90s so it's pretty old.
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Yeah I'd be happier if they learned how an Apollo computer worked (even though it has virtually no relevance) than how to use Excel.