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paulmendoza··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
No one analyzed it most likely. It’s possible on of the college students working for Doge doesn’t understand security because they are a child with no real world experience that Elon brought in to slash costs.
paulmendoza··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Anyone who voted for Trump voted for this type of dumb action. This is a major loss for society and safety.
paulmendoza··on The Llama 4 herd
How long did they run the training job for? Curious how much it costs to train all of these models?
paulmendoza··on Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup; Hundreds of Thousands at Risk of Poisoning
Trump is a disaster for the world.
paulmendoza··on Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for foreign tech workers
The problem is that a lot of the H1B people being brought in to fill jobs Americans could do aren’t the top 0.1%. Far from it. No one is against bringing the top 0.1% here.
paulmendoza··on H1B Debacle Discussion
Yes, I agree. If these really are amazing engineers then pay them like they are.
paulmendoza··on H1B Debacle Discussion
Those companies can train Americans or pay enough to attract talent.
paulmendoza··on AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers
CodePipeline is another good example of just horrible user experience. You need a lot of hours of training to figure out all the different permissions required to get it all to work. It is a mess.

I use GitHub Codespaces now for much of my deployment automation.

Codebuild is also a real pain.

paulmendoza··on How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date
Use an encryption key that is a headline from a newspaper for that day. This assumes the time travel works like the Marvel movies and not like Back to the Future.
paulmendoza··on AI's $600B Question
Amazon has a some AI chips they created themselves. Same with Tesla. They are both behind Nvidia and probably won’t catch up BUT raw performance isn’t always the most important part. Often it’s the cost per compute unit and companies are quickly getting close to Nvidia.
paulmendoza··on Large Language Models are not a search engine
Google has become so horrible that an LLM that is right 80% of the time is better than a search that has links to pages that are 90% spam and ad covered pages.
paulmendoza··on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff
Clearly an impulsive decision by Musk.
paulmendoza··on Leadership is a hell of a drug
“And I've never formally held a position of leadership in an organization.”

It shows. Whoever wrote this is very immature. Management isn’t making a big ask here.

paulmendoza··on Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization
Section 174 software changes was designed to punish blue states in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy so their budget would balance.
paulmendoza··on Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization
Any software dev that business does will be treated as a capital purchase. Doesn’t matter if you use cash basis or not.
paulmendoza··on .NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux
We have been running all of our .net apps on Linux for years. No problems. Works great.
paulmendoza··on Twenty: A Modern open-source CRM
That’s a tiny number of contacts.
paulmendoza··on Jetbrains are offering 65% off Rider personal licenses for 65 hours
I wish their GitHub Codespaces feature worked for us. We have tried so many times to get it working and it fails every time.
paulmendoza··on Tesla FSD Beta v12 try to run a red light, forcing Elon Musk to take over
Alpha, not beta.

The video was 50 mins long and there was one intervention. Not bad for an alpha.

paulmendoza··on Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla
He only worked for the company for 13 years!
paulmendoza··on ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch
I think it is wrong 75% of the time but it’s easy to get it to generate another answer over and over again until it gets it right.
paulmendoza··on Show HN: No more copy-pasting – a ChatGPT plugin to read code from your computer
I have seen it do things that make me think it has access to a few of the other tabs of code that are also open.
paulmendoza··on Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute
People will often move to their commuting limit for more house for their budget. It’s hard to blame business for their employees making that decision. Employees at all levels do this.
paulmendoza··on It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
I feel like this just killed a few small startups who were trying to offer more context.

Also, I pay for ChatGPT but I have none of the new features except for GPT4. Very frustrating.

paulmendoza··on Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience
The fundraising aspect is understated. If you build a company on your own lots of investors don’t really care. But if you graduate from YC you get a huge reputation bump.
paulmendoza··on TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
Need this to be a console app so I can use it for QA testing.
paulmendoza··on TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
This looks great for integration testing
paulmendoza··on The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
Yes, exactly!
paulmendoza··on I would love to have enough time and money to go to an office to work all day
Long commutes are mostly employees choosing to live further away from the office. I saw it often with my coworkers. They could have lived closer to the office. I got a place across the street from my office. Later we choose to move away because we wanted a bigger house.

If everyone moved within 3 miles of their office it would massively cleanup the traffic commute situation. But we build huge highways which subsidizes people who live far away from their offices.

paulmendoza··on How Tesla Fumbled
This channel is super frustrating to watch whenever I know a lot about the topic being discussed. They are video makers, not experts in the subject the video is about. Sort of like most journalists.
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