i feel a lot of people in tech have this incuriously deterministic attitude about llms right now… previous <expensive capital project> revolutionized the world, therefore llms will! despite there really nothing to show for it so far other than writing rote code is a bit easier and still requires active baby sitting by someone who knows what they are doing

They’re already far more useful than that, and I suspect harness engineering alone could add another OOM of productivity, without any underlying change in the models available today.

both my kindle and wife's work great and we have been using them regularly. they are actually very well made and durable devices.

as a clickhouse architect, i can’t help but feel they would have been better served by understanding their db’s native capabilities better before jumping into implementing this.

row level access control, resource quotas, scheduling policies, session settings, etc. all could have been used in concert to achieve a very similar outcome with a dozen or so ddl/dcl statements.

This is my impression as well. ClickHouse has tons of useful features built in that seem like they'd work well here. Though the documentation about those features has been very scattered and hard to find in my experience

or just at any point in the last 20 years to the present works too

This is incorrect, bitcoin is slower and more expensive, but bitcoin should not be used as cash, coins like stablecoins which direclty track US dollars or altcoins with lower fees should be used, the lightning network also is useful for transactions.

Bitcoin CAN be used as a store of wealth and the slowness actually makes it better as the slowness is part of the same process that makes it safer, harder to hack/takeover, and gives it value.

You should not look at all crypto as one thing.

i recently upgraded a computer. windows 10 deactivated itself due to the hardware change. i tried everything i could to reactivate. microsoft support told me my only solution was to buy a new license. microsoft treats its customer with contempt.

If you can deupgrade... Deupgrade, make sure it reactivates, then create a local account tied to a microsoft account and reboot and check activation page until it says activated with your microsoft account.

Then upgrade and reboot until it deactivates, then it should let you fix it with your microsoft account... Once that happens, you can remove the microsoft account from your computer.

At that point, find a reseller site and buy a key for cheap or just don't activate Windows at all. I don't think you lose much "features" when leaving it unactivated. It's not worth your time to deal with Microsoft support over Windows activation keys in 2026.

I'm curious did you have an OEM license or a retail license? OEM licenses die with the mobo.

OEM licenses are for the computer, not the motherboard. The online activation historically hasn't worked if you change motherboard, but the phone line folks would always activate it for you if you explained that it was the same computer with a different motherboard.

TIL. I always heard that their licensing people tended to uphold the motherboard line.

i bought a builder license from newegg in 2017. unfortunately i was not diligent about saving the product key. this was actually the third time i had been in this scenario after changing hardware. no idea why it wouldn’t work this time around.

i think the author is pretty clearly making the point the trade off is not worth it to him. which is not all that suprising given that seems to match the preferences of most people given the popularity of apple hardware which has for a very long time been on the far end of the irreparable, but smaller, quieter, etc, spectrum.

lol no it won’t

every generation thinks they live in unique times. that there existed some idyllic lost time innocence. it’s a fantasy.