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> I don’t think so because those both live in the context window and as such pollute it when they’re not performing optimally. There is nothing optimal about needing a few billion more parameters t…

> So if I'm e.g. coding a SwiftUI app for navigation, I'd take 9B of basic coding and reasoning, add 10B of swift/swiftUI, add 5B of GIS/geography knowledge and another 5B of fr…

> So naturally now it need more commute times. No, it's not. In some countries, if you drive 1h in a direction you'll be in another country. Don't tell me that most western Europe do…

> The reason for the absurd starting times was always explained that bussing schedules forced it. This sounds yet another problem created by urban planning, or lack thereof. Being forced to do a 2 …

> The Ivy League (and top-tier) situation is out of control, and genuinely raises questions about whether institutions like this should exist. You're posting in a discussion where a hefty shar…

> The man did a nazi salute on live TV, not once but twice. And you know he meant it. He's also publicly and militantly supported quite a few far right political parties throughout Europe, par…

> Weird, given how more non-whites voted for the GOP last time around. Looking at people like Clarence Thomas, who even voted to eliminate voting rights protection in states with a history of racia…

> I have never met a single human being who uses Grok for coding Me too. The only people I ever saw using grok were using it by accident as they used copilot in auto mode and noticed some prompts w…

> Can anyone just add themselves? You need to submit a registration request, which involves submitting a specification document.

> Biology is not a language, it's a field of study of phenomena that exist independently of minds. Your personal assertion is quite wrong at a fundamental level. Biology refers to the field or…

> In my experience, LLMs are really good for taking up your time and making you feel like you're learning, in the same way that many of the popular educational videos on YouTube are fun to wat…

> Both Google and Amazon do rollbacks instead of feature flag switches. I'm sorry, but you're completely wrong. I know for a fact that Amazon uses extensively a A/B testing system fo…

> how? if you have 100 feature flags in your system each with 3 potential states, which states do you run in your e2es? You're going way out of your way to imagine problems where there are non…

> That's a good point about not using feature flags to mitigate risk, and how rollbacks are a better alternative. T I doubt anyone making this sort of claim has any professional experience mai…

> So your release which is "safer" behind a flag is actually untested until it's launched. It's only untested if your intention is to not test it. There is nothing preventing yo…

> I liked the article. Every feature flag contributes to hockey stick growth of version variations of your software. This is specious reasoning. When you add a feature flag, your goal is to purpose…

> (...) feature flags are cheap to add and maintain. Not quite. When you add a feature flag, you now have a system that has N separate code flows that you need to verify before launch,and then have…

> Risk management should indeed be a priority for all teams. But there are better ways of doing this than relying on feature flags, especially if your team has control over its own deployments. The…

> What rubbish - only fools will believe that Russia has an interest in starting a nuclear WW3. Putin's regime threatens western Europe in general with nuclear strikes on a weekly basis. With …

> So, call it USB-D or something, USB-C is the connector type, not the cable. The connector type supports multiple protocols, including for interoperability with other connector types as a cable ca…

> There shouldn't even need to be a label. A USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable. I think you are confused. USB-C refers to the connector type, not the cable, let alone…

> In my setup my laptop is close enough that I can reach out and use the fingerprint reader on it. Some mechanical keyboards ship with an embedded USB hub that supports a couple of USB ports that a…

> It could even just be a wireless pass-through for USB to allow your yubikey to work for example Everyone would be better served with a generic USB hub in the keyboard, not shipping a security key…

> People are still allowed to share their experience and opinions without citations being a requirement. Expressing feelings and staying assertions are two different things. If you go around saying…

> Office buildings take land and resources and generate almost nothing for the local community This reads like the prelude to Month Python's "what have the Romans ever done for us" s…

> Opposition to data centers is like 90% hatred of Silicon Valley and its obstinate elites. One they amplified by trying to build these things sneakily. This is utter nonsense, and reeks of a despe…

> The funny thing about data center concerns in Chicagoland, where I'm hearing it, is that data centers are better neighbors than almost any other commercial real estate. This baseless asserti…