Blindly running client side code (within a very carefully designed sandbox) is necessary for the modern web to operate, and people like the modern web. We aren't going back to a page refresh every time you want to…
There are examples of the apparently ineffective British state suddenly gaining some teeth and some competence when they actually care. One example is after the Southport riots, miraculously the justice system became…
Getting the raw data is relatively straightforward, but my understanding is doing real time DPI at country scale without being easily circumvented (and without breaking the rest of the internet you want to work) isn't…
I think it’s an open question whether the British state has the technical chops, money and willingness to implement a Great Firewall type solution. The state isn’t totally incompetent but doing it properly would be a…
True for bitcoin but Monero is legitimately quite anonymous
I don't have an agenda, I just don't really believe in democracy. There's very little evidence to support the idea that ordinary people vote for what they want and therefore control the direction of the state, in the UK…
Also BTC has a very conservative 10 minute block time that protects to some extent against a network partition (there is time to recover)
The UK population is generally docile, we don't really riot even when things are bad (unlike the French who barely need an excuse). Our elites are pretty bad at running the country but actually quite crafty when it…
Yes, but the complexity of the setup (which is already way too much for any non-cypherpunk normies) is starting to get kind of ridiculous. I am still pro crypto and fascinated by the technology but we have to admit the…
Say you've done everything right and used 3 coldcards spread across 3 geographic locations using 2of3 multisig. You're feeling pretty proud of yourself, your coins are super safe. Then it turns out the RNG in the…
Core banking may be more resilient because it runs on software that's so antique and obscure it's not going to be easy to find the code to attack
In reality though you can easily lose your job in the UK over stuff like this if a kid/parent complains so teachers are afraid to use any force at all. What the law says on paper is one thing, who the school…
Then you ssh into an instance and have to remember how bash/sh work
There are always hype train/resume driven development developers (in fact, there's way too many). I wish it were otherwise but I don't think anyone running a hype-driven project of dubious utility needs to worry too…
Yeah this is it, Bun, Deno etc are 100% good for JS/TS in the aggregate because they push Node.js and npm to actually improve. However that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to use them, it is not
Still not necessarily wise to voluntarily escalate an air war when you have very little air defence. But hey what do I know
I think it will happen, like you say switching is easy and the only possible moat is to build a better model than your competitors at enormous expense. They’re all stuck in a cycle of spending huge amounts of money on…
Yeah it makes sense, but ultimately the only thing that creates any form of lock in is the chat history and memories, and that isn’t super important, it’s not a real network effect like a social media app or a taxi app.…
Or just: you have a family, including children who need you to be a responsible adult first thing in the morning (every morning) whether you like it or not
Yes network effects are significantly less than something like Uber, in fact they’re almost nonexistent
Hard to enforce when you’re dealing with private companies with “creative” accounting - who’s to say what the actual cost of inference is for OpenAI or Anthropic? Possibly they don’t even really know themselves at this…
It is a protected title in some countries but not the UK (and I don’t think the US either?). I believe in some European countries you’re not allowed to call yourself any kind of “Engineer” without being a member of a…
It’s a “hobby horse” because it’s the real physical issue and the main reason we don’t run on 100% renewables, trying to handwave it away is not going to help. What’s your plan for powering an entire modern industrial…
It’s extremely well known in the UK which is the intended audience, although even here older readers might not have heard of it
That is part of it but the other (often implied) part is it can do general things consistently at a high level. GPT6 will attempt to do almost any problem you can give it in text or image format and it will actually do…
Blindly running client side code (within a very carefully designed sandbox) is necessary for the modern web to operate, and people like the modern web. We aren't going back to a page refresh every time you want to…
There are examples of the apparently ineffective British state suddenly gaining some teeth and some competence when they actually care. One example is after the Southport riots, miraculously the justice system became…
Getting the raw data is relatively straightforward, but my understanding is doing real time DPI at country scale without being easily circumvented (and without breaking the rest of the internet you want to work) isn't…
I think it’s an open question whether the British state has the technical chops, money and willingness to implement a Great Firewall type solution. The state isn’t totally incompetent but doing it properly would be a…
True for bitcoin but Monero is legitimately quite anonymous
I don't have an agenda, I just don't really believe in democracy. There's very little evidence to support the idea that ordinary people vote for what they want and therefore control the direction of the state, in the UK…
Also BTC has a very conservative 10 minute block time that protects to some extent against a network partition (there is time to recover)
The UK population is generally docile, we don't really riot even when things are bad (unlike the French who barely need an excuse). Our elites are pretty bad at running the country but actually quite crafty when it…
Yes, but the complexity of the setup (which is already way too much for any non-cypherpunk normies) is starting to get kind of ridiculous. I am still pro crypto and fascinated by the technology but we have to admit the…
Say you've done everything right and used 3 coldcards spread across 3 geographic locations using 2of3 multisig. You're feeling pretty proud of yourself, your coins are super safe. Then it turns out the RNG in the…
Core banking may be more resilient because it runs on software that's so antique and obscure it's not going to be easy to find the code to attack
In reality though you can easily lose your job in the UK over stuff like this if a kid/parent complains so teachers are afraid to use any force at all. What the law says on paper is one thing, who the school…
Then you ssh into an instance and have to remember how bash/sh work
There are always hype train/resume driven development developers (in fact, there's way too many). I wish it were otherwise but I don't think anyone running a hype-driven project of dubious utility needs to worry too…
Yeah this is it, Bun, Deno etc are 100% good for JS/TS in the aggregate because they push Node.js and npm to actually improve. However that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to use them, it is not
Still not necessarily wise to voluntarily escalate an air war when you have very little air defence. But hey what do I know
I think it will happen, like you say switching is easy and the only possible moat is to build a better model than your competitors at enormous expense. They’re all stuck in a cycle of spending huge amounts of money on…
Yeah it makes sense, but ultimately the only thing that creates any form of lock in is the chat history and memories, and that isn’t super important, it’s not a real network effect like a social media app or a taxi app.…
Or just: you have a family, including children who need you to be a responsible adult first thing in the morning (every morning) whether you like it or not
Yes network effects are significantly less than something like Uber, in fact they’re almost nonexistent
Hard to enforce when you’re dealing with private companies with “creative” accounting - who’s to say what the actual cost of inference is for OpenAI or Anthropic? Possibly they don’t even really know themselves at this…
It is a protected title in some countries but not the UK (and I don’t think the US either?). I believe in some European countries you’re not allowed to call yourself any kind of “Engineer” without being a member of a…
It’s a “hobby horse” because it’s the real physical issue and the main reason we don’t run on 100% renewables, trying to handwave it away is not going to help. What’s your plan for powering an entire modern industrial…
It’s extremely well known in the UK which is the intended audience, although even here older readers might not have heard of it
That is part of it but the other (often implied) part is it can do general things consistently at a high level. GPT6 will attempt to do almost any problem you can give it in text or image format and it will actually do…