dustrider's comments

Fun thing about these beetles is they do their territory call by knocking their abdomen against rocks or hard surfaces making a distinct TokTok sound.

As kids we used to have great fun knocking rocks together around sunset to get them to call back. Kinda like beetle bird calls.

You should throw in CORBA from the 90s for completeness.

My view mostly it was a confluence of poor dev experience and over-engineering that killed them.

Some of those protocols were well designed. Some were secure, all were pretty awful to implement.

It’s worthwhile calling out REST as a long term success. Mainly because it was simple and flexible.

Whether MCP will have that staying power I dunno, personally I think it still has some flaws, and the implementation quality is all over the shop. Some of the things that make it easy (studio) also create its biggest flaws.

Move beyond benchmarks… proceed to list a bunch of benchmarks.

The problem for me is that it’s not worth running these myself, yeah I may pay attention to which model is better at tool calling. But what matters is how well it does at my use case.

I agree with you on the quality of the study. My point was that value shouldn’t be considered a given, we’re still figuring it out.

In my team I see examples like yours, but I also see engineers having to clean up slop when one of them got over their skis.

My _belief_ is that it’s a net positive, but we’re far from taking that as a hand wave fact. And it certainly ain’t the 5-10x people are shouting across the board.

Just to make the point. I agree there’s adoption but value is still being figured out.

See the MIT Nanda study, and the other one from a few weeks back on the perceived vs actual productivity increases.

There is value, but so far nowhere near as much as the people pushing AI would like you to believe has actually been delivered

BBC editorial standards.

Unless it’s proven to be a murder, they can’t report it as such. They can say an investigation is launched etc. they’re pretty good at following up with subsequent articles or even changing the headline once facts materialise.

You say that like this isn’t exactly what Doge would want to accomplish. They’d likely do away with educators at all and just let llms do it.

I agree with your base point though. “Demand better” should be the new war cry

It’s their business choice, but they’re no longer the only option, nor in my opinion the best one.

Vote with your feet and your wallets.

Still mostly politics at that level too, unfortunately.

But I agree at least there’s a chance to do something worthwhile.

The original cargo cult?

Did this extensively in the mid-naughties. Huge site, lots of data and traffic.

Performance exceeded what was available at the time, scaled super well, but not something I’d ever go back to.

- xslt is not a programming language. As soon as you start using xslt:functions you’re doomed.

- it is not a fit for interactive UIs. It’s good for static content, trying to mix in js goes wrong very quickly.

My opinion is that these days infra is cheap enough that you get all the same benefits by doing standard templating in your language of choice from your data in json or whatever. Which I know is essentially the same thing without the specialist software and dsl. And that’s kind of the point.

I love this thought from the article.

> Limit our brain diet the same way we try not to eat (delicious) fatty food every day to avoid the total collapse of our bodies.

Gives me hope that after our societal binge on social media and genai, we will come up with healthy patterns.

It only took us a hundred years or so after the Industrial Revolution to start adapting habits after the relative plenty that resulted.

Airwarrior and Battletech Solaris. Man those were good times.

Is that back?

Add to this that voice assistants fundamentally got worse and worse as their makers tried to monetise, increase usage etc. it took cool tech and made it annoying.

I can see llms going much the same way.

It’s opportunistic I think. Rev is up and as you say SAP is like tar to get out of.

IMO There’s a market expectation that “big tech must make cuts” and therefore they either feel their share price would be under pressure if they don’t show something, or more cynically they see an opportunity to trim a little that would look a lot less worse than if they did it another time.

Agree with you a lot. Especially about that style of management being attacked.

It’s easier to manage when all you do is assign work, reward with money and blame silent quiting, millennials, or whatever the latest cause of people “just not working enough”.

As opposed to actually caring about your staff, making sure the work is fulfilling and that the team are bought into what they are doing at an individual level.

Leading shouldn’t be about what makes it easier for the manager.

As I understood it, it was to not let black do the formatting during CI builds. In local dev you’d let it reformat.

Even while it won’t break anything you want CI to be your safety net, flagging a local setup as being wrong is more valuable than magically autocorrecting it.

Read past the inanely long description of futures. Lme retroactively cancelled trades from yesterday due to a massive short squeeze on nickel

This seems to do a better job of explaining https://docs.temporal.io/docs/temporal-explained/introductio...

From my take, an interesting way of dealing with scalable workflows and batch jobs. But I need to read more into it.