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New comment by pzh in "Agent swarms and the new model economics"

pzh — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:02:06 +0000

Because it's typically cached for 5min (1hr is a setting you have to explicitly opt into), and very few people run loops at a cadence of < 5 mins.

New comment by pzh in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

pzh — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:32:27 +0000

Good news is you finally qualify for Enterprise Support and you've never been closer to a Series B.

New comment by pzh in "Stone Soup AI (2024)"

pzh — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:46:06 +0000

This comparison overlooks the fact that, in the original folktale, the stone soup remains a soup —- it never turns into a ribeye steak. Similarly, in the AI version, an LLM will always remain an LLM.

New comment by pzh in "Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016)"

pzh — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:33:44 +0000

Even in the DOS days, you still had to park the drive heads before shutting down. DOS even had a PARK command for that.

New comment by pzh in "Updates to H-1B"

pzh — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:25:41 +0000

Not all H1B holders have advanced degrees, and the reason some of them do is because that’s one of the immigration pathways —- pay for a 1-2-year Master’s degree so you get a better chance of landing an H1B after you graduate. Most citizens don’t go for advanced degree because there’s no utility in them, and not because they aren’t smart.

New comment by pzh in "Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response"

pzh — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:14:33 +0000

So if you look at the flip side, the on call engineer is being misled by AI ~60% of the time. The question is does this slow them down more or less than the speedup they get when the AI is right the other 40% of the time.

New comment by pzh in "Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition"

pzh — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:13:33 +0000

Probably for collecting donations and moving them through the SWIFT banking system.

New comment by pzh in "Experts clash over report suggesting fluoride can affect brain development"

pzh — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 23:59:20 +0000

A lot of medicines are taken sublingually, because absorption is expected to be higher than through the oral route. Does fluoride not get absorbed that way?

New comment by pzh in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

pzh — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:16:19 +0000

Well, they got Martha Steward so there’s that…/s

New comment by pzh in "The reality of being a Principal Engineer"

pzh — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:21:36 +0000

In many companies you have to already be performing at the next level to get promoted. Maybe that wasn't the case in her company.

New comment by pzh in "Some WFH employees now live in another country"

pzh — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:31:34 +0000

If you ask your employer to work from Lisbon as opposed to SF, you'll likely get a 3x-5x reduction in total compensation. I doubt Cloudflare (or any other) CEO's compensation will get the same readjustment for cost of living if he moves from the SF office to the Lisbon office.

New comment by pzh in "Apple tells employees to work at the office three times per week starting Sept"

pzh — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:21:37 +0000

Maybe they just wanted to avoid having an actual layoff in Sep, hoping that some percentage of people will leave.

New comment by pzh in "Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions"

pzh — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 14:14:15 +0000

Autodesk is not a software company but a marketing company. They just buy smaller competitors and repackage their stuff. If you think of them that way, that can make the organizational structure clearer.

New comment by pzh in "John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips"

pzh — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:19:33 +0000

The quantity of artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, etc.) in that many cokes, many of which were shown to be carcinogenic in experiments with rats, can’t be good for him…

New comment by pzh in "Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'"

pzh — Sun, 08 May 2022 14:22:11 +0000

Not legally, but presumably it’s harder to get caught if you have another citizenship in a country that doesn’t tax crypto.

New comment by pzh in "Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'"

pzh — Sun, 08 May 2022 14:18:57 +0000

You can travel between the countries you hold a passport of regardless of what emergency rules they impose. No country refused entry to its own citizens during the pandemic.

New comment by pzh in "Twitter Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan"

pzh — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:29:01 +0000

Doesn’t that assume that Twitter actually knows that Elon is behind them? They could simply be other investors who have already decided to sell to Elon.

New comment by pzh in "Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors"

pzh — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:20:54 +0000

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

That’s why free speech policies shouldn’t be dictated by partisan concerns. You never know who will be in control of your social media platform in the future.

New comment by pzh in "Rats in Doom VR"

pzh — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:20:38 +0000

They seem to all walk in a straight line. Are they not able to make turns? It’s hard to tell if they’re even perceiving the VR environment or just doing their own thing on the sphere.

New comment by pzh in "Covid vaccine makers brace for a variant worse than Delta"

pzh — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:35:16 +0000

We need at least 3 shots for each variant.