It was a real facepalm moment when I realised we were busting the cache on every request by including date time near the top of the main prompt.

Even just moving it to the bottom helped move a lot of our usage into cache.

Probably went from something like 30-50% cached tokens to 50-70%.

Interesting, thanks for the references, I'm not very familiar with fs.com, though I'm sure it popped up in one or two Reddit posts I skimmed.

It turns out I accidentally purchased one each of a fibre-assembly and direct-attach-copper! I was not paying close enough attention.

From what I understand, the difference between these will be negligible at the range I'm using (1m), but is that accurate?

Database in a single file, litestream backs it up offsite. Simple!

Also, for anyone who only has an old global API key lying around instead of the more recent tokens, you can set:

  -H "X-Auth-Email: $EMAIL_ADDRESS" -H "X-Auth-Key: $API_KEY"

instead of the Bearer token header.

Edit: and in case you're like me and thought it would be clever to block all non-Cloudflare traffic hitting your origin... remember to disable that.

I had a similar set of tapes, and ended up collecting a chain of connectors – firewire cable, firewire to thunderbolt2 adapter, thunderbolt2 to usb-c.

Instead of cobbling together an impressive array of tools though, I just got a trial of Final Cut Pro and pulled out everything with that. You can get what I think is a three month trial? Anyway, it was plenty for this one time effort of digitizing old Hi8 tapes.

I think I did end up using Handbrake to take the raws down to a reasonable size to give to family members, but the raw footage and project files I stuck on a couple of 1TB Sandisk drives to keep in physically separate backup locations.

No need for FCP, as iMovie can still capture DV streams from Firewire. I'd expect they both use the same implementation.

However, Apple has removed Firewire support entirely from macOS Tahoe so none of these solutions will work on Mac going forward.

I think it was needed for retaining the original aspect ratio, and capturing in ProRes, but maybe there's a workaround there that I didn't find.

I was scrolling through that list and did at a double take at... Thomas Middleditch? The actor from Silicon Valley?

Oh, no, his start up running skills left much to be desired.

I suppose hijinks will inevitably ensue!

WTF

Prototypes being launched as products is so common it’s an industry cliche.

Having those prototypes be AI generated is just a new twist.

If it could hold a conversation I might.

I also believe AI is a tool, but I'm sympathetic to the idea that, due to some facet of human psychology, being "rude" might train me to be less respectful in other interactions.

Ergo, I might be more likely to treat you like a toilet.

Any "conversation" with a machine is dehumanizing.

Are you really in danger of forgetting the humanity of strangers because you didn't anthropomorphize a text generator? If so, I don't think etiquette is the answer

the thing is, though, that the text generator self-anthropomorphizes.

perhaps if an LLM were trained to be less conversational and more robotic, i would feel less like being polite to it. i never catch myself typing "thanks" to my shell for returning an `ls`.

> the thing is, though, that the text generator self-anthropomorphizes.

and that is why it must die!

alias 'thanks'="echo You\'re welcome!"

Words can change minds, it doesn't seem like a huge leap.

Your condescension is noted though.

It also makes the LLM work better. If you’re rude to it it won’t want to help as much.

I understand what you're saying, which is that the response it generates is influenced by your prompt, but feel compelled to observe that LLMs cannot want anything at all, since they are software and have no motivations.

I'd probably have passed this over if it wasn't contextually relevant to the discussion, but thank you for your patience with my pedantry just the same.

Renting is fine but it comes with a bunch of caveats.

You can bounce around the place, maybe live in a much nicer place than you could afford to buy, more easily move cities, etc. In my twenties this was a no brainer tradeoff to me, plus a lot of people were in negative equity due to the financial crash.

But you can also be forced to move prematurely. That nice place isn't your nice place, it's some other person's nice place, and maybe someday they want their brother or aunt to use it instead of you.

Depending on your relative financial capability, maybe there won't be anywhere within your means to move to in the same area. Maybe you'll treat this as a grand adventure every time it happens, but as you get older maybe you'll want to actually live near your friends, family, favourite restaurants, cafes, parks, Padel courts, etc.

At some point in your life you may not be earning money for a while (illness, career break, whatever) and certainly when you get older your finances may become more precarious – this is where owning tends to have more power than renting.

I'm not sorry I didn't buy a house or apartment in my twenties, but when I eventually bought in my thirties it was a relief not to have to care any more whether some landlord would decide to "alter the deal" at any point.

Did you benchmark it against holding the same value in S&P 500 or similar ETF over the same period?

they said their paper account did 2% over a few months, which is not beating the s&p 500, and is probably why they said "someone could make money off this, but not me"

I'm curious because 2% over the last few months while the S&P 500 is tanking might be interesting, but doing worse than the S&P 500 over the same period is less so.

Hell, that's lower than inflation.

It may be no better than flipping coins.

This year? 2% is most certainly is outperforming the S&P500.

eh, depends on the two months in question.

eh depending on what he means by 'specific set of criteria'. The vol might be lower than benchmark (i doubt it since they are pennystocks)

Pretty sure OP sharpe ratio is higher than benchmark for the last two months.

Something like Russell 2k would be a better comparison if GP is trading pennystocks.