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Tech in Austin. Intel is superior to AT&T syntax

Austin, TX Katılım Mayıs 2017
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G Spald
G Spald@gspald·
@FFmpeg In the days of spinning disks in laptops, lower end models would have 4gb of memory with a 5400 rpm drive. It couldn't pass windows certification if frames couldn't be rendered in < 15ms. The drive had a max seek time of 14ms causing the test to fail randomly when mem was paged
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FFmpeg@FFmpeg·
This is the reason FFmpeg is not written in a Garbage Collected language. We can't just stall for a few milliseconds. Also unlike gaming which can just lag and reduce FPS, video (de)compression must maintain real-time to have smooth video. 1ms is a lot but it isn't at the same time.
Sebastian Aaltonen@SebAaltonen

Same is true for time. 1ms is a lot in real-time software. 120Hz displays (new phones) = 8.33ms budget. 1ms = 12% of your whole budget. I remember an old article saying that garbage collection is a solved problem, because it just takes couple of milliseconds...

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G Spald@gspald·
@OneManSaas @levie Just "sprinkle some AI on it" AMD all those systems will talk to each other
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OneManSaas@OneManSaas·
@levie The integration nightmare is real. Most Fortune 500s I've worked with have Oracle systems from 2010 talking to React frontends through 3 different middleware layers. AI agents need to work with what exists, not what we wish existed.
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Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie@levie·
If you read this and don’t understand why it’s happening it’s an opportunity to reset your understanding of how the real world works. The real world will need a ton of help actually getting agents going in the enterprise. Companies have legacy tech stacks they need to modernize, data in tons of fragmented tools, knowledge that isn’t captured or digitized, and change management needed to actually utilize agents effectively. And they have to do all this while still running their business day-to-day, unlike startups. This is why there is so much opportunity for companies (software or services) to actually deploy agents in specific domains and workflows. This remains a big opportunity for both existing services providers but also tons of new startups as well. Every new technology wave produces a new era of consulting firms that can deliver on that technology. It’s also why the FDE model is going to be alive and well for a long time because companies will want to have their vendor actually help drive the change management and implementation for their new workflows. The people aren’t going away. Far from it.
First Squawk@FirstSquawk

OPENAI WORKING WITH CONSULTING FIRMS, INCLUDING ACCENTURE, CAPGEMINI AND PWC, TO HELP SELL CODEX TO BUSINESSES- WSJ

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BowTiedBum Get 10% cashback on EVERYTHING or NGMI
BowTiedBum Get 10% cashback on EVERYTHING or NGMI@BowtiedBum·
I’m in this weird bizarro world situation where im trying to get laid off (not fired) from my W-2 (long story) and they won’t budge. I avoid my boss, don’t respond to his emails or chats. When we have 1-on-1s I interrupt him and tell him how his ideas are shit and then tell him how we’re gonna do things. He just says thank you and I leave. What the actual fuck is going on? I don’t want to get fired so I can’t steal anything or cause any physical damage, but im certainly open to suggestions.
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G Spald@gspald·
@Jeyffre ah, that makes more sense. stuck in hardware land over here, so I assumed actually taping this out
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Jeffrey Scholz@Jeyffre·
@gspald This is for ZK, so power isn't an issue. It's a virtual machine. Not having to shuffle registers make the bytecode smaller, so proving the computation is cheaper.
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Jeffrey Scholz
Jeffrey Scholz@Jeyffre·
This is a prime counter-example to "I don't need to learn core CS anymore, AI does it for me." What this guy did is relatively simple: add more registers to RISC-V and see if the end result makes ZK proving easier. Not a big change, and AI did a lot of the work. However, it would never even cross your mind to try this experiment unless you were deep into ZK, compilers, and Computer Architecture. I think this is why, even though strong AI has been out since December, we haven't seen many major software breakthroughs. We're still bottlenecked by the fact that so few people really understand ZK and other hard subjects, and as a result, the "inspiration space" is still small even though experiments are cheap. So master the foundations of CS. AI won't save you from your ignorance, and it's not on a trajectory to save you.
Thomas Coratger@tcoratger

Standard RISC-V has 32 registers. In hardware, spilling to cache is cheap. In zkVMs, every memory operation is an expensive constraint to prove. What happens if we hack LLVM to give RISC-V 1024 registers? A breakdown of @leonardoalt's latest experiment. 🧵👇

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plk@plk669888·
@lauriewired It's amazing to me that this is considered vintage - I used those unironically to do real postdoctoral work on in the mid 90s.
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LaurieWired@lauriewired·
More Vintage Computing museums should rent out cloud access to their rare hardware. SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) does it, and it’s freaking awesome. I’m literally logged into a Sun SPARCstation…anyone can do this for free, right now. Just SSH in.
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Tanay Padhi
Tanay Padhi@tanaypadhi·
how did Allbirds pivot to AI compute hardware before the shoe company literally called ASICS
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The Piker
The Piker@The_Piker·
@patio11 Stupid question but uploading a tax return to a public LLM is a risky decision from a privacy perspective, right? Do you redact everything before you upload? Or use an API?
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Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie@patio11·
Happy almost tax day. FYI: The most dollar-denominated impactful thing I've ever done for geeks, by sum of claims in my inbox, is the piece on salary negotiation. The second most impactful, rising fast, is "Have an LLM review your taxes before you sign them."
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G Spald@gspald·
@KrissBergTweets @ClintFiore Until one of them hits your property. None are insured, and you are at the mercy of the kid stopping and telling and/or getting the money from the parents
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Kriss Berg, etc.@KrissBergTweets·
@ClintFiore We complain that they don’t socialize. We complain that they don’t get off screens. Let them cook. TBI builds character and chicks dig scars. 🤘
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Clint Fiore 🦬 DM for Biz Deals
Clint Fiore 🦬 DM for Biz Deals@ClintFiore·
My bro in suburban Denver says there's an absolute "plague" of kids on e-bikes and e-dirtbikes bombing around the streets and neighborhoods at high speeds. 7-14 year old boys equipped with capabilities they're not mature enough to handle safely, drive like banshees through yards and intersections and golf courses etc. I don't see too many of those here in small town TX and when I do they don't seem to be terrorizing anyone. Curious if this is happening where you live or not. Is this a big deal?
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G Spald@gspald·
@ClintFiore Tons of them in my SW Austin neighborhood. I would assume in small town TX parents have more land or sense to tell their kids that dirt ikes don't belong on streets or in public parks.
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beta wait@betawait·
@Steve_Yegge Please keep writing Steve. Your blog posts on emacs were really influential to me and your analysis of Borderlands and Borderlands 2 is such a great read even now. And I’ve never even played either of those games. Thank you for it all!
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Steve Yegge
Steve Yegge@Steve_Yegge·
So I leave X for a few months to give my blood pressure a rest, come back, make two posts, both fairly innocuous, and the whole world has decided to hate me now. That's just ducky. Love you guys. You can choose to believe Google's AI PR team and their core AI researchers, or you can believe your friends who actually work there. I've made my choice. But I want to clear the air on one thing: I am giving every cent of that crypto money to charity, and the only reason it's not done yet is that Bags is making me conduct two hundred and thirty separate individual transactions on my phone to get the money out. I will have more updates for you when it's done. But for God's sake, don't accuse me of pumping it. I described a phenomenon that was happening to me, in real time, ducked out within six calendar days after I saw what was happening, got death threats, and never spoke of it again. I will, once more, when I do the donation.
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G Spald@gspald·
@giffmana I could not believe that service now was a tool that we paid for, and not some internal tool that an intern coded up. I'm astonished every time I have to interact with it
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana·
I mean... I think anyone who loves computers and was forced to use some of these would agree with me that a large part of this list are just absolute disgraces for the field and deserve to melt away. For example: filing expenses after a business trip. I've always hated it. I thought I just hate filing expenses. But it's actually the software: once I used Navan, I realized it's just that SAP Concur is utter crap. I almost enjoyed filing expenses in Navan. I (want to) believe that the few ones here that make software that users don't hate will recover just fine. Note that I only said "don't hate", I didn't even say "like".
Lin@Speculator_io

The Great Software Meltdown

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Polymarket@Polymarket·
JUST IN: Hacker allegedly breaches Chinese state-run supercomputer & steals over 10 petabytes of sensitive data, including "highly classified defense documents & missile schematics"
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Steve Korshakov
Steve Korshakov@Ex3NDR·
@EsotericCofe i haven’t used debugger in 10 years it is really not that needed you can just add a bunch of logs and it is easier to reason about
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Nucleus☕️@EsotericCofe·
I wish agents could use debuggers. Imagine if Codex could just add breakpoints to debug an issue to see the current state of the program instead of spamming console logs. Who's building this?
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G Spald@gspald·
@innoc_bystander @EDUreboot Best thing is all of them are 100% insured, and the parents definitely have enough money to pay out of pocket all repairs for the damage in case if an accident. Ask me how I know...
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innocent bystander@innoc_bystander·
@EDUreboot Ok, now make them completely silent. Now, instead of a city street, put them on residential sidewalks. Now have 30 of them driven by kids who can’t do trigonometry. Totally the same thing, right?
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innocent bystander@innoc_bystander·
So as a society we’ve just accepted that 10 year olds can now drive Class IV electric motorcycles, that go 40 mph and have more torque than on Tacoma, on civilian sidewalks?
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G Spald@gspald·
@Austen The trick is to drag from another text field into that one
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Austen Allred
Austen Allred@Austen·
Bank website: "I notice you're trying to send a multi million dollar wire. I've blocked your ability to copy/paste. I would like to inject the small possibility of human error into this transaction."
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Shaun Sims
Shaun Sims@shaunsims·
@RobertSureck I just got out of an informal hearing — nice guy I talked to but it’s still a scam
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Robert Sureck
Robert Sureck@RobertSureck·
So Travis CAD increased appraised value in my Austin neighborhood 15-20% when actual market values are down 2-6%. Make this make sense other than the Austin City Council using influence to raise money for their crazy projects through the Austin homeowners.
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G Spald@gspald·
@RobertSureck This happens every year. There is no rhyme or reason to the appraisal values. You can show them comps on your street and they don't care. Just fight it yearly
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Edward@edward_lcl·
@dexhorthy I had really good caching and hit rates with my setup last month with primarily openclaw usage. This is my cc max vs codex (I cached 1.5B tokens on a $20 plan)
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dex@dexhorthy·
Concerning re: anthropic. The previous narrative just went out the window Reports of openclaw usage with the plain sdk (as was supposedly permitted) now being blocked based on system prompt, even if using the claude agent sdk I was previously a little to the anthropic side of the spectrum on this because of EXACTLY one argument - “third party harnesses don’t use caching properly, can’t be controlled with feature flags, etc” If they are blocking use of the claude agent sdk wholesale in openclaw, then this completely invalidates that argument and I desire an answer as to what is allowed and why. I am disappointed that the communications thus far have failed to articulate the reasons here, and does make it harder to trust whatever they say next. However I will maintain cautious optimism that there is a good explanation for all this beyond the cheap “rug pull” “evil” “kill all the startups” jeers
dex@dexhorthy

like I’ve said a few times, well within TOS to do this, they built the model, if they wanna give you inference at pennies on the dollar on the condition that you use their harness, great, they have the right to do this. On this topic in particular, I don’t understand the “evil” or “rugpull”, jeers. There was never any promise to give people cheap inference. Before the claude code max plan we were all paying per token to use this stuff. And we’re more or less happy to do it (sure the VC funding helps). Every enterprise I know pays per token because when you use subsidized inference, YOU are the product. “Have some cheap code, in exchange for helping to train the next gen of models” You can hate on that particular behavior if you want but nobody is making you take part in that particular market dynamic. Do I wanna see a world where model companies take some of their massive financial gains and use that to pull everybody up? Of course. I hope it happens some day. An allegory perhaps: If public e-bike company gave you a subscription on rides and you proceeded to around ripping out batteries and sticking them in your own bike and ride around town, you’d get banned for that too. Especially if your bike was poorly wired and overloaded the batteries/cause them to flame up etc. Banning that behavior would deliver far better results for the people who were using the system as designed

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Hieronymus Scott@HieronymusScott·
@hamen This tweet is the most AI slop shite I've read today and that's saying something.
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Ivan Morgillo
Ivan Morgillo@hamen·
Imagine you're John Carmack you're 22 years old and you just wrote a 3D engine in assembly that runs at 35fps on a 486 Doom drops. Quake drops. Half the planet is playing your code. you're the reason GPUs exist. you're the reason your friend Jensen has a yacht today. then in 2009, you sell id Software. people call it betrayal. you call it "they made an offer I couldn't refuse." VR obsession. Oculus. Meta buys it for $2B. you're CTO. but Meta thinks you're a liability. your demos are "too intense." your emails are "too long." your focus on frame timing is "slowing us down." 2022. they push you out. not fired officially. just "restructured." the media writes "end of an era." some crypto bro calls you "washed up." silicon valley moves on. but you don't. you don't write a book. you don't start a podcast. you don't collect speaking fees. you go completely quiet. you take the money. you buy a warehouse in Texas. you hire 10 engineers. and you start coding. not games. not VR. AGI. two years. radio silence. no tweets. no conference talks. while everyone's debating ChatGPT, you're debugging CUDA kernels at 3AM, testing world models. then in 2025, Keen Technologies pivots hard. you're not "exploring" anymore. you're building it. here's what people get wrong: everyone calls it a comeback. a redemption arc. "revenge on Meta." it's none of that. you're a 54-year-old engineer who still codes 12 hours a day because you genuinely can't stop. most CTOs would have bought an island. most legends would have written memoirs. you just kept typing. the most dangerous person in any codebase is the one who goes quiet and never stops shipping commits. karma doesn't need to be real. but obsession is. welcome back, Carmack.
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