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dig1 commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

danpalmer · 6 days ago

This may well be true, but my point is more that Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg seem almost uniquely unable to turn the startups into great new businesses, when compared with the other big tech companies.

Amazon added cloud and prime, Microsoft added cloud, xbox, 365, Google added Chrome, Android, cloud, Youtube, consumer subscriptions, workspace, etc. Netflix added streaming and their own content, Apple added mobile, wearables, subscriptions.

Meta though, they've got an abandoned phone platform from years ago, a half-baked Metaverse that is being defunded, a small hardware business for the Quest, a pro VR headset that got defunded, a crypto business that got deprioritised, and an LLM that's expensive relative to open competitors and underperforms relative to closed competitors... which the tide appears to be turning on as the AI bubble reaches popping point.

dig1 · 6 days ago

> Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg seem almost uniquely unable to turn the startups into great new businesses, when compared with the other big tech companies.

Really? Instagram, WhatsApp... the two most used apps & services in the world?

> Google added Chrome, Android, cloud, Youtube,

It's arguable how GCP is profitable, but chrome/android/yt are money-losing businesses if you exclude ad revenues.

dig1 commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m

baggachipz · 14 days ago

I'm pretty sure they want it kissing people's asses because it makes users feel good and therefore more likely to use the LLM more. Versus, if it just gave a curt and unfriendly answer, most people (esp. Americans) wouldn't like to use it as much. Just a hypothesis.

dig1 · 14 days ago

I believe this reflects the euphemization of the english language in US, a concept that George Carlin discussed many years ago [1]. As he put it, "we don't die, we pass away" or "we are not broke, we have negative cash flow". Many non-English speakers find these terms to be nonsensical.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

dig1 commented on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report issues.chromium.org/issue... · Posted by u/alexcos

dig1 · 17 days ago

Sandbox escape with high-quality report in Chrome: $250k [1], yet Mozilla will offer you $20k [2] for that...

[1] https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/chrome-friends/574...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/client-bug-bounty/

dig1 commented on Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers proton.me/blog/apple-laws... · Posted by u/moose44

insane_dreamer · 2 months ago

Not at all comparable. Windows had 90%+ of the PC market. Mac was 2-3%.

Apple has about half the phone OS market, with Android the other half.

dig1 · 2 months ago

Maybe in US (which is about 4% of world population). Worldwide, iOS is around 27% [1].

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

dig1 commented on MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes modelcontextprotocol.io/s... · Posted by u/owebmaster

surfingdino · 2 months ago

There's always https://www.fabfile.org/ no need to throw an LLM into a conversation that is best kept private.

dig1 · 2 months ago

Ansible, puppet, chef, salt, cfengine... There are tons of tools that are more precise and succinct for describing sensitive tasks, such as managing a single or a fleet of remote servers. Using MCP/LLMs for this is... :O

dig1 commented on Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872... · Posted by u/stephen_g

unsupp0rted · 2 months ago

Also ever since we invented the written word it has been eating our brains by killing our memory

dig1 · 2 months ago

Quite the opposite, it was shown that reading improves memory and cognitive abilities for children [1] and older adults [2].

[1] https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/reading-for-pleasure-ear...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8482376

dig1 commented on Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/mariuz

ashishb · 3 months ago

I love Google Cloud Run and highly recommend it as the best option[1]. The Cloud Run GPU, however is not something I can recommend. It is not cost effective (instance based billing is expensive as opposed to request based billing), GPU choices are limited, and the general loading/unloading of model (gigabytes) from GPU memory makes it slow to be used as server less.

Once you compare the numbers it is better to use a VM + GPU if the utilization of your service is even only for 30% of the day.

1 - https://ashishb.net/programming/free-deployment-of-side-proj...

dig1 · 3 months ago

> I love Google Cloud Run and highly recommend it as the best option

I'd love to see the numbers for Cloud Run. It's nice for toy projects, but it's a money sink for anything serious, at least from my experience. On one project, we had a long-standing issue with G regarding autoscaling - scaling to zero sounds nice on paper, but they will not mention you the warmup phases where CR can spin up multiple containers for a single request and keep them for a while. And good luck hunting for unexplainedly running containers when there are no apparent cpu or network uses (G will happily charge you for this).

Additionally, startup is often abysmal with Java and Python projects (although it might perform better with Go/C++/Rust projects, but I don't have experience running those on CR).

dig1 commented on LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code vlaaad.github.io/lsp-clie... · Posted by u/vlaaad

whalesalad · 4 months ago

This is the most Java-y Clojure I’ve probably ever read. Just use Java? It’s so verbose and complex for what it is doing. Breaking this down into smaller functions and using core.async would make it even more succinct.

Just want to emphasize this because clojure is indeed a small, lesser known language that has a hard enough time attracting users. This is not what anyone would consider an idiomatic example of using clojure.

dig1 · 4 months ago

I don't see why this wouldn't be considered idiomatic clojure code; it makes proper use of all the facilities provided by the language and the main intention of this code is to follow the article. Additionally, the clojure core team often encourages not to shy away from using java code directly, as this approach strikes a good balance between performance and language expressivity.

> It’s so verbose and complex for what it is doing. ... and using core.async

I think this code is actually quite straightforward and easy for a clojure developer to understand. In fact, using core.async in this case would be overkill and could complicate things further.