Grimburger

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by Grimburger 6mo ago
I think you have a misconception of how modern militaries work and think every one is out with a gun fighting. Only around 10% of the US military is in combat roles.
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by Grimburger 7mo ago
Have you bothered to ask the astronauts on board if they want to risk it? You're getting clicks, they're going to the moon and there's a lot of people on Earth who would happily take any tradeoff for that.
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by Grimburger 7mo ago
There was equity futures and oil contracts both at the same time. Total risked with zero public news was approx $1.5B
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by Grimburger 7mo ago
> I'm not sure there is enough to conclude this definitely is insider trading. Markets are weird. This was 6-8x the size all the existing trades on market combined, with zero other publicly available information early on a Monday mo
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by Grimburger 8mo ago
Grok was approved for DoD work only a few days ago, they have an alternative if they want. The Pentagon, much like everyone else, will only want to use the best model available though.
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by Grimburger 8mo ago
I stand corrected, interesting, I assume its the same and for work?
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by Grimburger 8mo ago
Yeah I can make a dropbox clone in a one-liner bash command too Outright dismissal like this should be judged as harshly as the comment itself.
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by Grimburger 8mo ago
> There are no great FaaS options for running GPU workloads Knative on k8s works well for us, there's some oddities about it but in general does the job
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by Grimburger 8mo ago
A Tauri hello world app has about 500(?) deps out of the box, always makes me laugh. I get that cross platform desktop app is a complicated beast but it gives off those creepy npm vibes.
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by Grimburger 8mo ago
Woodlands is the busiest immigration checkpoint on the planet and it's only 1 of 2 crossings. It's fairly seamless for regulars apart from Friday afternoons when it gets clogged up by escaping Singaporeans keen for the weekend and
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by Grimburger 8mo ago
This is being entirely disingenuous and is completely different to what goes on in Dubai. I have lived there and can rattle off plenty of criticisms about the country but complaining about migrant workers who clamour to work in SG is not on
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by Grimburger 11mo ago
> istio is superior It's also eating a significant amount of your compute and memory
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by Grimburger 11mo ago
> You can manage and reason about ~2000+ servers without Kubernetes, even with a relatively small team, say about 100 - 150 Oh wow, so uh... I'm managing around 1000 nodes over 6 clusters, alone. There's others able to handle t
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by Grimburger 1y ago
Shoutout to rip as an alternative to rm and trash: https://github.com/nivekuil/rip
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by Grimburger 1y ago
> That's 45% off (our top marginal tax rate) Can people please not listen to this terrible advice that gets repeated so oft, especially in Australian IT circles somehow by young naive folks. You really need to talk to your accountan
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by Grimburger 1y ago
I see Australia in the article and pardon my rampant scepticism, simply don't believe it. Lo and behold: >A six-month trial of driverless trucks on public Victorian roads has been put on hold just hours before it was meant to begin
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by Grimburger 1y ago
> https://thepostsa.au Anyone can read that site and make up their minds about the scientific merit of it's claims. I assume it's very intentional that it's right down the bottom in tiny text that's it sta
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by Grimburger 1y ago
> but the overwhelming impact has been positive You definitely need a source for that comment given that it only just happened. Smartphones are neutral pieces of technology. It can create the next Einstein or radicalise the next terroris
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by Grimburger 1y ago
> There's a reason countries where the tourism industry is a big part of the GDP, are low income countries. Unreal that you can't see the obvious logical flaw in this argument.
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by Grimburger 1y ago
> but digital nomads are going to get swept up in the general anti-migration narrative that most populaces are now feeling Can you name one digital nomad visa that has been scrapped in the last year or two? I can name a few dozen that ha
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by Grimburger 1y ago
> I live in Portugal, and there is a robust debate around this topic. Assumed it was somewhere in that region because my European friends usually talk about it. Personally find it bizarre because the few thousand digital nomads are barel
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by Grimburger 1y ago
This is a ridiculous claim probably very biased by a local worldview given that the number of DN visas has exploded in the last 2 years. I've been working remote for 8 years now and it's never been easier and the amount of options
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by Grimburger 2y ago
Many candles can be lit from one.
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by Grimburger 2y ago
You're right, that's a fair call, but still he's a person with possibly the most recognised face on the planet at the time and really it took that long? He's not in a cave, he's living in a mansion in a city with se
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by Grimburger 2y ago
> every comment you want to post costs one cent People were saying this about email 20+ years ago. Not sure if it's the case here but there's a tendency for those in tech to think people problems can be solved with code. Many o
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by Grimburger 2y ago
> If your adversary is a nation state, you've already lost. Is that why it took 10 years to find Bin Laden, the most wanted man on Earth? Get the feeling intel agencies aren't as omnipotent or competent as they want people to b
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by Grimburger 2y ago
This seems trivially solved by never mingling secret rotations with general deployments?
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by Grimburger 2y ago
Complete agree. The hidden damage we are doing to marine ecosystems is horrendous. I love eating seafood but have basically given it all up due to environmental concerns, there's very few fisheries left that are harvested sustainably a
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by Grimburger 2y ago
Air travel disaster rates are basically the same across the entire planet except Africa. You are 15x more likely to die in a plane crash there than anywhere else on Earth. GP comment is on point.
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by Grimburger 2y ago
> Unfortunately the common person today won’t take advantage. Only the rich will be able to reap the benefits. All supply helps the common person whether they can afford it or not, people pull out this trope all the time and it's co

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