snoman

I think you’ve confused a couple of things. Your db should be in a private subnet as opposed to a VPC, and it’s never advised to have public access directly to your db. You also don’t need NAT for RDS instances as they shouldn’t be initiating outbound connections to the internet. If you do want to connect to your db from outside of AWS for ad hoc connections then you should be setting up a bastion host in the public subnet and you don’t need anything other than security group rules to configure communication between them - same goes for a web server (routing between public/private subnets are configured out of the box).

I’m sorry, are you advocating to do k8s on-premise as opposed to cloud? Or are you straw-manning “cloud architecture” by assuming that k8s is somehow some cloud requirement vs a single box you paid for yourself in a colo?

You can spin up a single server in the cloud as simply (or more so) than in a colo. Then you can add a load balancer and auto scaling in a few hrs (or less depending on experience) if you reach the point where you need to scale.

That’s ptetty close to what GPTs are, with the exception of knowledge bases.

There’s more to it, but the tooling to create a GPT is basically a hand-holding mechanism to create a prompt.

Who reviews and tests the code?

And how do they build the knowledge and skill needed to review and test without being practiced?

Oh Frontpage. Thanks for that; you’ve made my day.

There’s a psychological safety in knowing that something is yours and it can’t be taken away; that you’re not beholden to someone else for it.

I think the proliferation of subscriptions in modern life has contributed to quite a bit of anxiety.

If picture quality matters to you (no judgement, at all, if it doesn’t) then OLED is a non-trivial step up in image quality.

I get it though: for 90% of the stuff I watch, I couldn’t care less about the quality. Much if it is on a small screen or in 1080p.

… but movie night with my wife/kids? Those are the nights I am grateful that the picture quality in my living room is untouchable by a theater. Those are the moments I, personally, live for.

The name is not redacted, only the exact e-mail address.

What’s more, ChatGPT won’t even attempt to name controversial websites if you’ve forgotten their name.

This is one of those instances where I wonder if there are different expectations in a more visually creative industry like Hollywood, fashion, or something where the appeal of your deck makes a meaningful difference.

Which is weird because I’m constantly asking it to make responses shorter, have fewer adjectives, fewer adverbs. There’s just so much “fluff” in its responses.

Sometimes it feels like its training set was filled to the brim with marketing bs.

For me it’s a combination of transactional and topical. By topical, I mean that I have a couple of persistent topics that I think on and work on (like writing an article on a topic), and I like to return to those conversations so that the context is there.

I get what you’re saying, and will echo that these systems are still just tools that enhance what we, as humans, are capable of doing. But I think you’re failing to consider that even comparatively simple systems can exhibit emergent behavior, well beyond their programming. You’re being unreasonably reductive and dismissive.

I’m not able to read the cited reference at that link, so I’ll try to take the statement at face value.

I could name or describe a number of systems right now that have outcomes that we could all agree are contrary or misaligned with their purpose, so unless the author is equivocating things like “purpose”, or “system”, I don’t think your premise is well founded, nor do I think your conclusion has merit.

AWS has government specific regions (called GovCloud). Many services or features make it to GovCloud later than other regions because of the certification requirements.

Maybe. That’s not quite how I read it.

They are the ones that run the stargate program out of Cheyenne.

Photography as an art form has a much longer history than short form video, and has had time for the back and forth on these kinds of issues. Short form video is still relatively new. I feel like this is a “give it time” situation. Society will push back and norms will emerge just like they have with photographers.

AGI with agent architectures (ie giving the AI access to APIs) will be bonkers.

An AI without a body, but access to every API currently hosted on the internet, and the ability to reason about them and compose them… that is something that needs serious consideration.

It sounds like you’re dismissing it because it won’t fit the mold of sci-fi humanoid-like robots, and I think that’s a big miss.

Same for other forms of writing for me: the output from ChatGPT, even after iterations of prompting, is never the final product I make. It gets me 80-90% of the way there to get me over the initial jump, and then I add the polish and flavor.

This might be good for Amazon. Bedrock hosts competitor models (Claude, Llama and a couple more).

With DNS over HTTPS (DOH) gaining traction, it will eventually become impossible to block.

Fair criticism but to clarify: The default is that if you press home on the controller, it loads up the AppleTV app, where it will show ads for AppleTV content. Pressing home again goes to the actual home, where you select the app you want to watch (YouTube, Netflix, etc.). There are no ads there.

I’ve had Roku, FireTV, and Chromecast, and I have had hdcp and/or performance issues with everything but Apple TV.

I hate that I’ve turned into something of an fanboy but Apple TV follows the same old story from Apple: expensive but it consistently just works.

I believe (but do not know) that ad networks already do some of that.

Nonzero is enough to choose an alternative.

No it doesn’t.

Absolutely. My ignorance on the issue is not feigned. A lot of news feels like noise so I avoid it almost completely. That means I miss a lot of the big stories. It’s a balance that I’m still ok with.

Someone else did post some material though, and I was able to find some information googling myself as well.

Thank you!

Threatening to nationalize, restructure, and then sell the company for cheap to someone that agrees to operate it within the bounds of the law… that might have some serious teeth.

It’ll never happen though.