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New comment by le_stoph in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

le_stoph — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:40:46 +0000

Obviously through pagan rituals

New comment by le_stoph in "GitHub partial outage"

le_stoph — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:44:35 +0000

I'll be damned, I feel like I've been using GA since forever!

You're right though, just re-listened to the segment[0] and the ex-CEO mentions they were initially using AWS, then moved to their own servers because of the limitations of AWS at the time and their particular needs. Github Actions did however always run on Azure!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oq__5tDFZI&t=491s

New comment by le_stoph in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

le_stoph — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:30:39 +0000

> And the final kicker: the human brain runs on like two dozen Watts. An LLM takes a year of running on a few MW to train and several KW to run.

I mean, you could argue that if you take into consideration all the generations (starting from the first amoeba) that it took to get to a standard human brain today, then the total energy used to "train" that brain is far greater. But I get your point and I do agree with you that our current hardware paradigm is probably not what's going to give us "god in a box".

New comment by le_stoph in "GitHub partial outage"

le_stoph — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:35:25 +0000

In the Pragmatic Engineer podcast episode with the former CEO of Github, the latter mentioned that they had their own infra for everything. If I remember correctly, this was due to the fact that Github is quite old and at the time when Github Actions became a thing, cloud providers were not really offering the kind of infra that was necessary to support the feature.