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New comment by teacpde in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"

teacpde — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:48:20 +0000

Reminded me the movie Code 3, it was a great watch.

New comment by teacpde in "Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia"

teacpde — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:18:51 +0000

Yea, feel like a lot of big ones this year, but looking it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_2026 it is actually not necessarily worse than previous years.

New comment by teacpde in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

teacpde — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:07:48 +0000

Love the wisdom and transparency, such an amazing thread

New comment by teacpde in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

teacpde — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:53:31 +0000

Workers are in the same process but have separate heap, global vars, gc etc, the isolation is managed and achieved by V8. It is much lightweight compared to micro VM or containers. But the downside is you have to use JS because of V8.

New comment by teacpde in "Discovery Loop"

teacpde — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:37:04 +0000

Most parts of it are for the average person, but I guess you could argue the audience isn’t the average person

New comment by teacpde in "Our position on open-weights models"

teacpde — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:57:18 +0000

He did not miss, it’s deliberate choice

New comment by teacpde in "Claude Opus 5"

teacpde — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:46:50 +0000

I think their point is that there is no new invention here, being able to mimic what a human will do is absolutely impressive, but at the same time it is still mimicking humans. While I just type that out, I do realize my expectations for AI has been constantly lifted by how fast it iterates.

New comment by teacpde in "In praise of memcached"

teacpde — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:19:41 +0000

Not maintaining 2 cache technologies is always a winning argument.

New comment by teacpde in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

teacpde — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:49:04 +0000

There was probably a slack post celebrating how they leveraged LLM to improved efficiency on password resets

New comment by teacpde in "xAI joins SpaceX"

teacpde — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:39:01 +0000

that's an amazing read, lots of concrete and convincing challenges; but otoh, technology is evolving at such a fast pace, maybe it is possible for breakthroughs that we couldn't imagine now to become reality sooner than we would have anticipated?

New comment by teacpde in "xAI joins SpaceX"

teacpde — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:27:58 +0000

maybe I am a fool, does space-based AI make no sense at all?

New comment by teacpde in "Why we don’t use AI"

teacpde — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:00:36 +0000

> then have rest of the day off to enjoy things I like

But that's not what companies expect from you, even if you owns AI. They expect you to output more, and when you do, someone else is probably out of work.

New comment by teacpde in "Betterment Hacked by Crypto Scam"

teacpde — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:10:42 +0000

They just sent out email about the scam. I was so annoyed that even after opening the app, the notification icon still persists, wondering if the hack on the notifications exploits some loophole in the Betterment app

New comment by teacpde in "How I Left YouTube"

teacpde — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:31:42 +0000

I am at the stage of life where I appreciate this wisdom and desire the practice of it, but lack the will power to not get caught up “trying to win the game”. Once a while I get anxious about leveling and compensation, overwhelmed by comparison with peers. For people who had the similar struggles but managed to overcome, what worked for you?

New comment by teacpde in "Craft software that makes people feel something"

teacpde — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:33:59 +0000

> At the same time treating software like an art is probably not very useful. That code is (typically) not written to be looked at, but to make the computer do something useful.

FWIW you can argue the same for woodworking, a chair is typically not made to be looked at but for people to sit on. I tired to think what inherently makes writing software treated less than a craft than woodworking, but couldn’t think of any.

New comment by teacpde in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

teacpde — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:40:39 +0000

didn't even realize that, have to double check and saw the "read full story" banner

New comment by teacpde in "Rebuilding Netflix's video processing pipeline with microservices"

teacpde — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:18:26 +0000

So it only solves a tail problem. I would assume the percentage of subscribers with poor internet is low.

New comment by teacpde in "Meta's serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day (2023)"

teacpde — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:08:20 +0000

Surely there is a lot of workload is delay-able, but there is equal, if not more, amount of workload that do not have the luxury of waiting. Is it fair to say the serverless platform has no advantage for the latter workload?

New comment by teacpde in "Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death"

teacpde — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:02:42 +0000

I can understand the downvotes, but at the same time it does makes sense, especially given the target is a logician.

New comment by teacpde in "Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death"

teacpde — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:57:58 +0000

If I read the article correctly, Gödel's rationale is pretty much "The world is orderly organized, therefore after life is supposed to exist"?

I must have read it wrong, because I couldn't see the causality at all.