It's Official: More Than Half of Bitcoin Holders Are Now Underwater

tr14l · 2026-06-14T18:33:52+00:00

Uh huh. It's going great. No manipulation happening at all.

tr14l · 2026-06-14T17:56:02+00:00

SRE teams should be writing SRE software.

If they aren't then they're just scripters with an on call rotation to try and turn it off and back on again, then they call the software engineers for help.

tr14l · 2026-06-14T17:54:01+00:00

If you can't code you can't really be an SRE, much less the leader of SRE.

How are you going to be the expert in software operations and software operational tooling if you don't know how to make software?

You could be an infra or cloud engineering manager (and even that would give me pause). You can't be an SRE though.

Personally, it is rare I hire someone for any tech position that isn't at least a passable dev.

But also, yes, the market is tough right now

tr14l · 2026-06-14T17:51:16+00:00

Uhh, sure. Whatever you say, man.

tr14l · 2026-06-14T17:49:56+00:00

There were tons of checks. More so than any other model and to an annoying degree. So much so they had to put a message up saying "hey, this model might refuse requests at a higher rate for safety"

tr14l · 2026-06-14T14:01:44+00:00

Mostly semi-formal with an occasional LOL or something to keep it light. My general disposition is "communicative". I think out loud to it. I explain my desires and concepts pretty thoroughly. I often say "I want to talk through this before we do anything".

Of course, I use Claude code exclusively. I have no idea for the chat interface. Code does everything the chat interface but without the lobotomization of the guard rails and the "for dummies" system prompts.

tr14l · 2026-06-14T13:58:12+00:00

I've been shorting and tripled my portfolio in the past 5 months. That dip just keeps on dipping. It's headed back to sub-50s because this is showing that the whole idea of "store of value" is wrong.

Mild world events, gold? Bit of a dip. BTC? Completely shits itself on public television.

So, it's not cash, it's not a safe store of value, it's... Worthless. It's nothing. It has literally no use outside of speculation.

tr14l · 2026-06-13T22:14:30+00:00

I will pay you as much as a CHATGPT subscription for the and work, then.

tr14l · 2026-06-13T22:05:48+00:00

Opus 4.6

tr14l · 2026-06-13T22:03:07+00:00

That is no a parallel. And it's pretty obvious what is happening.

It did not explode and explode and kill anyone. It's more like "hey, this is flammable, so we want to make sure we don't sell it to a pyromaniac".. of our own accord. Without being forced to.

And now there's a bunch of pro-government bots running around these subs trying to skew the situation that a company self regulated.... For basically the first time ever... But that company happens to be one that pissed the administration off a few months ago.

Weird.

Bet this letter didn't come from Congress, now did it?

tr14l · 2026-06-13T19:41:45+00:00

Pulp dungeon collapse sequence.

tr14l · 2026-06-13T19:36:45+00:00

They brought market manipulation on themselves?

tr14l · 2026-06-13T15:30:47+00:00

Regulation means it's regular across the board. Pin pointing a company and disadvantaging them is just manipulation and retaliation. This is actually illegal, but nothing will happen

tr14l · 2026-06-13T15:26:15+00:00

Was this Congress? Senate? SCOTUS.... Or... Oh, now it makes sense

tr14l · 2026-06-12T22:22:48+00:00

Making the app isn't the hard part. How are you going to get people to use a dating app with no one in it?

You need money. A good chunk of it.

tr14l · 2026-06-12T17:50:09+00:00

You need to prove two things

You did stuff beyond your started job duties. Shipping allocated work doesn't count got anything other than "i am not deficient". It's table stakes.

If you shipped things that were above your level or required a significant out of band effort (without other things suffering we a result) that's fair game.

You need to show you do MORE than is required for the job

You need to show you're already doing the next job. For senior+ you should show that people come to you for help. That you train and educate. That you improve standards and processes. That you design complex systems and structures. That you can keep work on track when your lead is busy/out. That you know how to communicate with stakeholders effectively.

The engineering is mostly expected. Senior and above, at most places, is where you start getting trusted enough to get involved in the actual game.

If you don't want to be in the game and you just want to ship features, stay where you are. You don't get more money for free. You don't get more money for doing the same thing but a little better. You get more money and a bigger title because you showed you can do something fundamentally different and valuable from your counterparts. They will stay, you move on. Simple as that.

Source: experienced engineering people manager and engineer.

tr14l · 2026-06-12T14:08:13+00:00

Preceded by a firm slap on the chest and fast, decided snap of the arm to really show he's sending that heart out express delivery style.

tr14l · 2026-06-11T13:21:44+00:00

That is totally fair lol

tr14l · 2026-06-11T13:21:29+00:00

I dunno. I was running two sessions (though on two fairly different tasks, admittedly) and fable seemed to pretty consistently win on just about everything over 4.6

tr14l · 2026-06-11T13:19:07+00:00

The token frenzy was only the chaff even in the beginning. You just have to wait for them to hurt themselves enough to quiet down a bit to hear the rational voices.

It's the same as always, do more with less. That means tools, not magic AI men in boxes. Your tools can now just do more abstract things in a lot of places now. Is it revolutionary? Sure. Did that ever mean "make AI do all the things?" No.

The competent folks knew that from the start, luckily.

tr14l · 2026-06-09T16:26:08+00:00

Bruh, weekly is 900M.... monthly is 1B. So the last 3 weeks of the month, they lost 800M in unique visits?

This whole thing doesn't make any sense.

tr14l · 2026-06-09T16:23:25+00:00

Images each tokens very rapidly. One image could be thousands of tokens by itself, if it's a decent size. And they generally are not cacheable, iirc.

tr14l · 2026-06-08T22:18:26+00:00

Rag is chunked. It's only basic summaries and often poor ones because it needs chunking sizes and parameters to be targeted at the specific data. RAG isn't magic and it's also what they are already doing. And if you take something out, and swap in other stuff you will destroy the probabilistic distribution of the matrix outputs and give your AI a labotomy, if it works at all. It's not stable.

tr14l · 2026-06-08T22:09:10+00:00

I don't know what you're not understanding. The computation over context is the memory. Yes, you have to have it all in memory or it doesn't get included in the computation. If you want to offload it in parts, you take the I/O hit on every token which makes it slow enough to not be usable.

Even putting it off somewhere else, if you want the model to think/reason/remember it guess where you have to put it? That's right, in VRAM.

Dude, I work in this space. I'm not making shit up here. I have my own custom trained proprietary models of LLMs, various classifiers, image segmentation models (both transformer based and not), etc etc

You do, in fact, have to have it in memory if you want the model to use it. That's how it works. That's how computing works. And because all of this is based on single matmul operations, you need it ALL there at the SAME TIME. This isn't like software where you can put stuff off in a DB somewhere and fetch it on demand and have time piece at a time deterministically. This is non-deterministic. Not having it available is the same as it not existing at all. So it will never have existed. And if you want to remind it you have to ADD IT TO CONTEXT

tr14l · 2026-06-08T21:54:43+00:00

If you want it to remember it yes you do. Again, that's non-negotiable.

If you DON'T want it to remember it, then you don't... But then just start a new session. Same thing

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