Twirrim

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by Twirrim 4y ago
They didn't even have to legally mandate it, "suggestions" were made that certain particularly rabid newspapers would start publishing damning articles about which ISPs weren't filtering out paedophile material. Filters
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by Twirrim 4y ago
From my experiences working there, AWS is a feature mill. They've built their entire sense of self around shipping features. Stuff for Jeff Barr to blog about (that's no diss on Jeff, I think he does an awesome job). They can&#
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by Twirrim 4y ago
GEM Desktop, now that's some nostalgia. First GUI I ever used, on an Amstrad PC-1512. Can barely remember it now other than a feeling of "wow", swiftly followed by "but none of my DOS games run on it, meh" :)
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Tokens, I think? There's an implication that there's a per-token cost, but no idea how they were architected before to even remotely understand how it fits. If they were running their own model on GPUs I guess I'd expect to
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by Twirrim 4y ago
> For decades we managed to have cars with headlights that didn't constantly blind and dazzle other drivers. Now we don't. That's some serious rose tinted glasses you're wearing there. This has been a problem for dec
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by Twirrim 4y ago
They're doing an amazing job of demonstrating that they are totally clueless, and they don't know how to do market research. That may not be true, it may all just be due to the dictates of Musk, but that's still the net effec
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by Twirrim 4y ago
There's been a few attempts, but they haven't proven to be effective, e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41591-022-00106-z
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Even when UHC accept the claim, they're just terrible about actually getting around to paying it. We've nearly had to change specialists on a number of occasions because they're not willing to deal with UHC. I work for a la
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by Twirrim 4y ago
You did such a good job, that when I worked on Glacier (2013-2016), our interactions with the team running VTL was already pretty minimal. It was one of the least problematical things that interacted with Glacier. Some of the solutions tha
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by Twirrim 4y ago
This was a change in the upstream git project, I don't think it came from GitHub necessarily? Looks like the author is the maintainer of "Git for Windows", and similar, which I can imagine makes for a reasonable argument for
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by Twirrim 4y ago
https://gist.github.com/twirrim/f25fc35939c521a096d64c20eb34... I gave it a quick short, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U, Ubuntu 22.04, gcc 11.3.0.
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Which was looking extremely suspect considering they were mentioning dates and times prior to the dates at least some of those supposedly bribed parties were even employed by Facebook. There may be truth in the story, but it is somewhat so
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by Twirrim 4y ago
I honestly have the complete opposite problem. Trying to get a feed from arxiv that doesn't include artificial intelligence whitepapers is a pain. Very little of the content is even remotely interesting or practical, and it sneaks in
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by Twirrim 4y ago
pypy is pretty well publicised and known about in the python community. Lots of popular libraries specifically call out compatibility etc. For quite a while it used to have some terrible performance if you ever reached out to C libraries i
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Okay, so this prompted me to look at Big Webmaster tools. It looks like they recognise my sitemap file, but haven't bothered to index it in nearly a decade. "Last processed: 6/6/2014". I know I don't post new
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by Twirrim 4y ago
> Without the proxy it would just be millions of users hammering their servers. Doing shallow clones, which are significantly cheaper. Google is DDoSing them, by their service design. Why a full git clone, why not shallow? Why do they
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by Twirrim 4y ago
We're just making up and sharing fake film history, without stating that it's fake, as a way to show off some concept art? WTF? There are so many different and better ways to present such work without that kind of nonsense detrac
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by Twirrim 4y ago
This isn't a new decision, it came out a few years ago that you'd end up with disparate instruction sets between the main and efficiency cores, and they got warned it would be a problem. Their disabling of the instructions to avo
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by Twirrim 4y ago
> in theory, this allows using zstd in GPL2 projects, for instance, in the Linux kernel. More than theory, there is actually an implementation of zstd in the Linux kernel. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux&#
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by Twirrim 4y ago
I loved that game, but it became all about the trick jumps, which basically broke every map and that just got annoying as all hell.
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by Twirrim 4y ago
> For running commands I just run ssh host command then That's fine, right up until the point you're running a command (or a series of commands) that change things on the machine and your connection gets broken. When that happ
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by Twirrim 4y ago
It's not even that, and it never really has been. Anyone talking about performance was misrepresenting it. The prediction was that the density with which you're at the point of minimum-cost-per-transistor would double every year
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Hertz to pay $168M for falsely accusing customers of theft(bbc.com)
9 points by Twirrim 4y ago|2 comments
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by Twirrim 4y ago
They're improving the email display by reducing the amount of space showing the actual email? By very rough measurement it's reducing the email display area by about an inch, dropping it from 4" to 3". I really don&#x2
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Similar kind of thing, one company I worked for we had two smart-card/badges, I can't remember why. It may have been nothing more unusual than one was the building card, one was the company one. They had an overlapping ID space.
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by Twirrim 4y ago
You're talking to someone who has spent the last decade working for major cloud providers, including AWS, on infrastructure and services sides of things, including work around data feeds for the capacity management teams. I have more
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by Twirrim 4y ago
So does google, so does azure etc. etc. https://cloud.google.com/spot-vms , https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/... Spot instances exist just to try to turn over-provi
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by Twirrim 4y ago
There's all sorts of examples of AWS failing to be able to provide capacity too. Just do a search for "aws InsufficientInstanceCapacity" or similar. I remember Fortnite talking about capacity limits in relation to an incide
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by Twirrim 4y ago
It's worth pointing out that every cloud is the same when it comes to capacity / capacity risk. They all apply a lot of time and effort to figuring out the optimal amount of capacity to order based on track record of both custome
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Shades of the fun yet to come, I guess. I don't _see_ any issue against it in their repo? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issue... , but trying to search for that can be tricky.

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