AdamN

I still wonder if AI will be designed to have flavor profiles like coffee. Right now I don't think alot of product thinking has gone into this line (maybe it has??) but I suspect that AIX (AI eXperience) design will become more and more of a thing as the space matures.

I'm sure to some degree people (and AI being used to build AI) are kind of doing this thing but I don't yet think that OpenAI has a distinct flavor profile for their models that they have standardized on and are intending to lock into over time.

When I go to Starbucks I know what I'm going to get and it's been reasonably consistent over a decade plus and similarly that's true of other coffee shops which have different profiles. I'm expecting something along those lines.

Links are almost an anti-pattern. The reader should not have to click links unless they're really interested in diving deep on that particular topic (and ideally it's more of an endnote thing, not inline)

That's always been my concern - there's just so much garbage code out there and very few signals about which of it is well written and which is not ... so LLMs will just regurgitate the good enough code that it's been trained on.

Now would be the ideal time for everybody to give it negative feedback when bad code is returned but I'm afraid not enough people care and we'll just settle with what works just like we always have.

I wonder if YouTube Premium helps?

Maybe they were nerds, maybe. Most of the people who did that were business people - some of them were nerds.

Nowadays there aren't as many nerds in charge and it's concerning.

Oof, we are 1/2 the size we used to be so we can do more with less. We're doing more but with half the people there are still so many gaps that I'm quitting myself out of frustration.

Swords and shields. The advantage of the defender is that they have access to the code (usually not available to attackers). The advantage of the attacker is that they have skill and nowadays the most up-to-date models and SOPs for finding attack vectors.

I'm sure this is happening but I also wonder if ironically those systems are hardened by adversaries. I could imagine nation state actors, once they're in, hardening the systems themselves so they can keep their presence and exclude others.

Using that access is the kind of thing that is only done when there's a need and in the case of really critical stuff that can be years in the future - or never.

One could even imagine hyper-critical exploits being shared back to the host. For instance if Russian agents got access to critical nuclear systems (or vice versa), I could imagine leadership warning the other side and getting out of the system entirely in order to maintain the status quo at the expense of pretenders.

The constitution will necessitate a certain structure so it's not like "it can't work". It is working and then at some point soon the structure will be reified and some will be given more power and different portfolios than others.

A published CVE is kind of late in the game even.

My secret is `4`. Is that ok? Do I still need to move it??

Dell laptop hardware doesn't really match MBP hardware - objectively.

Does it also make modem sounds??

Apple will be head and shoulders better than the Samsung display - it just costs more than you feel like it should.

I remember reading an account of a number of intelligencia taking over a factory shortly after the Soviet revolution after it was nationalized and they got super dialed in an productivity shot up. The factory ran like a swiss watch.

It took nearly a year for things to regress. Bad actors started taking plum positions and the actual intellectuals didn't really want to be working in a factory long term and then there was the question of who got the benefits of this success.

It was fascinating though how heady it was for that first year when everybody was highly aligned and working smartly and in unison.

Oh you should try the accessibility feature for that with the little dots on the screen.

Reminds me of my wife chatting with this guy at a party and we were complaining about money problems and she says this proverb she had learned recently and said, "a man is rich if he has two hands".

Turns out the other person was Albie Sachs who was a hero and had his hand blown off during the apartheid era and took both arms out of his pockets and raised them up and said "I guess I'm not rich then" - that was some serious gallows humor :-)

Price crashes, builders go bankrupt, price oscillates heavily, pace of improvement goes way down.

Nice! Then you might really like ctrl+k. Go to the middle of the line and it will delete everything from the cursor to the end of the line.

Also Option and the right and left arrows to move from one word to the next. I don't really use this one much though

For those ctrl+a and ctrl+e are the way to go.

The carriage return is moving the typehead to the beginning of the line, not starting a new one.

Line feed is the command that is incrementing to the new line.

Those two commands almost always run together so it quickly became possible to invoke with a single CRLF command (in ancient computer times)

Did we get their emails? Would be interesting to tease out the differences between the Enron culture and the Theranos culture (and similarities)

I got my eyes checked a few years ago and they were literally using a VT100 interface. The person knew the keyboard interface like the back of his hand and it was so much faster than a mouse-based GUI that is so prevalent.

I doubt that's a big blocker - the keyboard is one of the selling points and I'm guessing that you could just have 2 keyboards if you really wanted to (the Bloomberg one for auth and the other one for longform typing??)

Drop them like a brick is overblown. The US defended Taiwan long before TSMC became singular and will continue to even if SOTA is available elsewhere. Of course Taiwan is smart enough to know that the US isn't a monolithic decision-maker and just having companies like Apple on your side inside the US administration is important for long term security.

Yeah that's what I said.

This is classic innovators dilemma stuff and for sure the Alphabet board is aware of it. It's not an easy problem to solve at scale though.

Google said as much shortly after GPT3.5 was released. There is no moat.

With that said, there are some other moats and people are building them: training capacity, inference capacity, brain capacity (literally buying the best researchers and keeping them tied down), harnesses/subscriptions, etc...

IE6 had real American values :-)

I'd say they're most useful in suburbs. You can charge them overnight in your driveway or garage so there's almost no reason not to have one unless you're really focused on the road trip scenario but that's an issue for city cars too.