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New comment by gmm1990 in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

gmm1990 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:41:48 +0000

Not if it drives up energy prices and makes other businesses that employ more people less competitive. Not saying that is the case but it’s certainly not a given

New comment by gmm1990 in "Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?"

gmm1990 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:35:06 +0000

Some of the utilization comparisons are interesting, but the article says 2 trillion was spent on laying fiber but that seems suspicious.

New comment by gmm1990 in "Agent design is still hard"

gmm1990 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:46:57 +0000

The whole point is that the outages happened not that the ai code caused them. If ai is so useful/amazing then these outages should be less common not more. It’s obviously not rock solid evidence. Yeah ai could be useful and speed up or even improve a code base but there isn’t any evidence that that’s actually improving anything the only real studies point to imagined productivity improvements

New comment by gmm1990 in "Agent design is still hard"

gmm1990 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:24:56 +0000

If there is really amazing stuff happening with this technology how did we have two recent major outages that were cause by embarrassing problems? I would guess that at least in the cloud flare instance some of the responsible code was ai generated

New comment by gmm1990 in "It's the “hardware”, stupid"

gmm1990 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:56:14 +0000

I think he could have been instrumental to the iphone (not saying he was or wasn't) and whatever he tries next is a complete flop. The ability to be successful is contextual, and great artists can produce mediocre art.

New comment by gmm1990 in "Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia"

gmm1990 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:11:28 +0000

Qualcomm press release: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-unve...

New comment by gmm1990 in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

gmm1990 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:27:15 +0000

Is there a public generic measure of IT outages with historical data. Severe outages seem to be more common lately, but I don't have any data to back it up.

New comment by gmm1990 in "André Gorz predicted the revolt against meaningless work (2023)"

gmm1990 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:56:08 +0000

value doesn't have to be monetary

New comment by gmm1990 in "Apple M5 chip"

gmm1990 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:47:13 +0000

Interesting that there's only the m5 on the macbook pro. I thought the m4 and m4 pro/max were at the same time on the macbook pro

New comment by gmm1990 in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

gmm1990 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:05:36 +0000

Thanks for the write up. Seems like a cool pattern I hadn’t heard of before

New comment by gmm1990 in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

gmm1990 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:46:23 +0000

that is an interesting use case, I hadn't thought about a setup like this with a local redis cache before. Is it the typical advantages of using a db over a filesystem the reason to use redis instead of just reading from memory mapped files?

New comment by gmm1990 in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

gmm1990 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:37:24 +0000

Strange unit of measurement. Who would find that more useful than expected compute or even just the number of chips.

New comment by gmm1990 in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

gmm1990 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 21:09:33 +0000

Ah interesting, I was just curious. I’ve wasted some time setting up ci runners stuff on bare metal servers just because I’ve heard runners from gitlab/github can be expensive

New comment by gmm1990 in "Good system design"

gmm1990 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:57:00 +0000

That makes sense. Maybe it’s easier in an organization/ some people’s mental model to put guards around changing database because it’s separate from the code, standard across many organizations and in my opinion just harder to change.

New comment by gmm1990 in "AI is different"

gmm1990 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:41:22 +0000

I wouldn’t think gpt5 is any better than the previous chat gpt. I know it’s a silly example but I was trying to trip it up with the 8.6-8.11 and it got it right .49 but then it said the opposite of 8.6 - 8.12 was -.21.

I just don’t see that much of a difference coding either with Claude 4 or Gemini 2.5 pro. Like they’re all fine but the difference isn’t changing anything in what I use them for. Maybe people are having more success with the agent stuff but in my mind it’s not that different than just forking a GitHub repo that already does what you’re “building” with the agent.

New comment by gmm1990 in "Good system design"

gmm1990 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:22:32 +0000

I seem to gravitate towards nosql type databases, defining tables in a ddl and then again in the code seems repetitive, and slows down changes. But the idea would be that the code is what defines the table. It'd be nice though to hear some of the drawbacks of this. Maybe for very relational things it makes sense to be able to write join queries so data is completely repeated, but my understanding would be that most data base engines would already compress that repeated info pretty well.

New comment by gmm1990 in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

gmm1990 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 02:28:07 +0000

Why not run some open source ci locally or the google equivalent ec2, if you’re already going to the trouble of this much customization with running GitHub ci?

New comment by gmm1990 in "Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York"

gmm1990 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:06:20 +0000

How are there not agents that are "instruct trained" differently. Is this behavior in the fundamental model? From my limited knowledge I'd think it'd be more from those post model training steps, but there are so many people who don't like that I'd figure there be an interface that doesn't talk like that.

New comment by gmm1990 in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

gmm1990 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:42:32 +0000

Extremely anecdotal but all I keep seeing is relatively stable services (the google one comes to mind) having major outages. I assume its not AI related or directly ai related at least, but you'd think these outages would be less common if AI was adding so much value.

New comment by gmm1990 in "Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills"

gmm1990 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:38:20 +0000

Would this be like entering the python terminal and typing print('hello world') or python hello_world.py that has the print instruction? Or something else. I'd just be unsure if a python installation like the python.exe would be available in a terminal.

I'm more curious than anything else for my own sake to know things people might ask. But its interesting how extremely simple things can be complicated if you haven't done them before. Like if someone asks about a relatively simple regex example in python it'd be easy to get if you just were working on a regex but you could get tripped up if it had been a while since working on one. You could say the same thing about working with datetimes. At least this is the type of thing that throws me off in an interview, maybe I'm not a great candidate though.