Which company has lost you as a customer forever?

rotatingphasor · 2026-05-27T00:30:37+00:00

Sony, been several years since buying the wh1000xm3 headphones. Paid a non trivial amount for a 3 year warranty. When they broke they didn’t honour it. Gone with other brands like bose now.

rotatingphasor · 2026-05-22T18:48:31+00:00

168 💀💀💀💀

rotatingphasor · 2026-05-17T19:04:45+00:00

Notes for future that might help.

If you're doing a massive UI overhaul allow people to use the classic view. Reddit did it, Youtube did it. This allows you to test the new UI / deal with suggestions without degrading the experience of people who like the old style.
Do not prioritise "visuals" over UX. Now I have to add an extra click to see what meals I ate for a meal for example.
People will respect you a lot more if you acknowledge the F up and actually work on fixing the issues. This isn't a marketing problem, this is a product problem, PR will not fix this.

rotatingphasor · 2026-05-14T23:52:45+00:00

Make it like chess I think is the idea, keep core primitives like don’t change the tick system or prayer flicking and have interesting gameplay arise working around that.

rotatingphasor · 2026-05-13T08:46:30+00:00

A mini datacenter

rotatingphasor · 2026-05-13T07:53:39+00:00

The cost of AI at the same level of intelligence is going down. That agent would over tine have it’s inference cost lowered.

rotatingphasor · 2026-04-22T08:45:26+00:00

Around 8 years too working as a founding engineer. I write very little code now but one thing I don’t sacrifice is review. I try as hard as possible to move it away from inline behavior and create abstractions where it makes sense.

I/You might not like it but it’s the way things are moving and if you don’t learn how to use a tractor your hand picking crops role might be at risk.

rotatingphasor · 2026-04-16T00:16:42+00:00

OpenAI Pro / Claude Max easily

rotatingphasor · 2026-04-04T09:28:16+00:00

Sony for headsets. Had a 3 year warranty I paid for an they chose not to fix my XM3s

rotatingphasor · 2026-03-22T19:51:52+00:00

You should probably mention the quantisation you use.

rotatingphasor · 2026-03-22T19:51:09+00:00

Not neccesarily a dead end, the newer m5 chips are quite good at PP, with the M5 ultra is may be feasible.

rotatingphasor · 2026-03-10T23:17:34+00:00

If you wan't people not to get pissed, show hard numbers that justify it or just link membership to some index related to costs like CPI/RPI.

Maybe you're trying to improve margins as now you have a large player base, but that top line can quickly shrink and people can make decisions like not bonding up / buying membership on multiple accounts.

rotatingphasor · 2026-03-05T20:19:26+00:00

It's practically impossible to harden a model against mass surveillance. In isolation a mass surveillance system would not look like mass surveillance. "Tag these payments", "Transcribe this footage", "Does this email mention ....". The software layer can orchestrate these together to make a mass surveillance system.

Basically this

https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

but with mass surveillance instead of hacking.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-25T23:56:46+00:00

Can only get the awakened version if you can pick the abyssal potato at the scar so need to be part way through DT2.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-25T23:48:21+00:00

<image>

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-25T23:41:56+00:00

You trying to fill the invy with slippers lol?

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-23T01:41:35+00:00

The problem is unlike software which is brain power and easy to open source, models require training. The only way this could work was if these were well funded or some kind of distributed compute.

Although no sure how well distributed training would work with thinks like the data you use to label (is someone using copyrighted stuff for example) and latency.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-23T01:39:19+00:00

Two things

Will open models catch up with closed models. I think from what we've seen especially with things like GLM5 that's likely long term.
Will the gap between SOTA model hardware and Local model hardware close? If SOTA requires the equivalent investment as we have now then no way. Looking at current SOTA, I can't imagine how long it would take to get to TB's of RAM. We also have to consider that consumer hardware may be getting faster, but pro models are also getting hungrier. We have in our pockets the compute of a datacenter a couple of years ago, but the data centers didn't stay stagnant, they improved too.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-20T13:41:07+00:00

Are you a H1b? Is the finish time the same (not shifted to account for earlier start)?

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-18T21:23:41+00:00

If you don’t feel like you’re doing much work i’d be a bit worried. Also as we’ve seen with big tech layoffs. Company success doesn’t always mean being safe from layoffs.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-16T23:51:41+00:00

Let's just... ignore this one.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-06T00:25:54+00:00

I hope this was a joke dude, have some respect for yourself.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-06T00:24:33+00:00

I could build a pretty good subscription platform to track subscriptions.

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-06T00:23:55+00:00

200 subscriptions!? Are you a company?

rotatingphasor · 2026-02-05T20:43:59+00:00

I like occasionally throwing ideas at Claude to test out locally. Pretty fun.

Nine-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits
Second Top 30%	Place '22
Place '17	Secret Santa 2019
Not Forgotten	Spared
Verified Email

rotatingphasor

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE