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This is wonderful writing but I'm pretty sure it's generated by an LLM
Jun 12
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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Jun 1
Most real-time AI traffic isn't steady. It's spiky and cyclical. Size a fixed GPU endpoint for the average and spikes blow past it; size it for the peak and you're paying for idle capacity.
That's the gap we built dedicated serverless to fill: a private endpoint with consistent latency that scales with your spikes, billed per token. You only pay for what you use. parasail.io/blogs/serverless…
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May 30
A friend just revealed to me that the middle name of Benoit B. Mandelbrot is Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
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May 29
I feel like nobody has kicked any really big beehives today. So here goes.
steve-yegge.medium.com/the-l…
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Ok @sama this is your chance to do the funniest thing ever
May 25
“It’s my honor to announce that the true pope is working with us from Avignon”
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May 22
Who’s gonna tell her the sun hits Earth with 240 million atomic bombs worth of heat every day ?
The anti data center sentiment is truly getting out of control. These people find such creative ways of making energy sound scary.
sorry man i just have no hope left. let’s all start doing whatever we want every day
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May 21
Which is the stochastic parrot, the thing that can solve an Erdős problem, or the thing that just mindlessly repeats the same statements over and over again no matter what evidence is presented to it?
I’m getting tired of “experts” like this misunderstanding what they’re looking at.
LLMs are giant databases of stuff HUMAN BEINGS have done.
They are the EXHAUST of humanity.
Prompts are database queries into EXISTING DATA.
It’s a fuzzy search engine, not intelligence.
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May 20
Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.
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It's great that Jeff Bezos thinks this way, because too many people who don't make money think that giving money to the government will solve a lot of their problems. They think these government programs are the answer, and it's clearly not. You can look at the federal level or at the state level, and you will see that a lot of government programs are simply waste.
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We need to be building more data centers
ALT Trade offer: I receive solution to an unresolved Erdos problem. You receive three almonds.
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May 19
This stuff makes me so mad and it should make you mad too.
You’re being lied to about the benefits of AI and AI infrastructure in America by people who are NOWHERE NEAR AMERICA
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Congrats on the launch @diwanksingh !
May 19
Memory Store (@memorydotstore) gives your team and AI agents a shared company brain.
Your team's knowledge & decisions are scattered across slack, emails, and people's heads. Memory Store turns them into a living wiki for your agents and teammates.
Congrats on the launch, @ishitajindal17 & @diwanksingh!
ycombinator.com/launches/QPs…
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May 18
They're continuing to generate anti-data center propaganda with AI and I can't help but laugh
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May 5
Remind myself of the role reversal often.
May 5
Got to the stage of life in which I'm checking my parents lab results and having to tell them off for not locking in just like they did for my school grade reports back in the day
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May 4
Jill is 100% correct. we should absolutely evaluate, test and check-on home-school kids. if they are not performing at least as well as the worst kid in a public school then they should face the same consequences as a public school with similar performance.
so, to take an example, 23 schools in Baltimore have zero children scoring proficient in math. Because of that, those schools have faced the consequence of getting extra funding.
thus, if a homeschooler is found to have performance that bad or worse, they should also be given extra funding, I guess.
May 2
Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
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May 3
If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.
“Never speak to your wife in a mundane way but with compliments, with respect and with much love. Tell her that you love her more than your own life, because this present life is nothing, and that your only hope is that the two of you pass through this life in such a way that in the world to come, you will be united in perfect love.
Say to her, ‘Our time here is brief and fleeting, but if we are pleasing to God, we can exchange this life for the Kingdom to come. Then we will be perfectly one both with Christ and with each other, and our pleasure will know no bounds. I value your love above all things, and nothing would be so bitter or painful to me as our being at odds with each other. Even if I lose everything, any affliction is tolerable if you will be true to me.’
Show her that you value her company, and prefer being at home to being out at the marketplace. Esteem her in the presence of your friends and children. Praise and show admiration for her good acts; and if she ever does anything foolish, advise her patiently. Pray together at home and go to Church; when you come back home, let each ask the other the meaning of the readings and the prayers. If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.”
St John Chrysostom
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Apr 19
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
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Apr 3
There’s a big disconnect between parents and non parents about what it’s actually like to have a child because the hardships are describable but the joy is not.
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