Twirrim

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by Twirrim 5mo ago
A local copy is inherently fragile. It's easily destroyed by accident, flood, fire etc. This is especially true when using a single storage device like an SD Card, vs the way that these storage services operate, leveraging things lik
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by Twirrim 5mo ago
I'm not sure if they ever changed away from it, but early generation kindles were running an old version of embedded java (4 I think? Pre-generics), that was already quite painful to deal with, with the team having to maintain their ow
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by Twirrim 5mo ago
I've been part of OCI for 10 years now. TK did nothing to the culture in OCI. Virtually everything that OCI was and has become has come from its own leadership (tone very strongly set by both Don and Clay, in their own ways). Mostly
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by Twirrim 5mo ago
I've a bunch of technical, but non-engineering types around me, and a few of us engineers keep banging the gong on the fact that they can't trust the output of an LLM. That the best way to leverage AI is to get it to write the co
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by Twirrim 5mo ago
Given it relies on ASLR being disabled, it's extremely unlikely you're at any risk from this.
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by Twirrim 5mo ago
If you're talking about Oracle, the large round previous to that they did had individual meetings with employee, manager, and HR. With so many layoffs it took a week+ to do, effectively torturing an entire set of employees who had no
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by Twirrim 5mo ago
>And? then keep it for yourself. Why do i have to read your ignorant comment? On a site dedicated to commenting on articles? I think you have a misunderstanding of how HN works. People (hopefully) read the article and share uninformed^
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by Twirrim 5mo ago
A coworker talks about LLMs as "bullshit" layers. Not exactly dismissing them or being derogatory about them, but emphasising that each time you feed something through an LLM, what comes out the other side may not be what you exp
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Why are you not reading the code?
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Searching about:flags for model comes up with a whole bunch: #omnibox-ml-url-scoring-model #omnibox-on-device-tail-suggestions #optimization-guide-on-device-model #text-safety-classifier #prompt-api-for-gemini-nano #writer-api-for-gemini-na
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
It's almost like other factors than language choice are more important :)
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Unfortunately that industry has been in a race to the bottom for a very long time. Most customers just care about the dollar amount they're paying. In a race to the bottom there is no corner that can't be cut. I've met so man
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
If you ever want knives, you can get a fascinating set of them by looking out for the TSA/Airport confiscated items auctions. Hawaii's one is at https://auctions.ehawaii.gov/dot/welcome.html . I had a boss wh
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
> They also claim their script "roots every Linux distribution shipped since 2017.", but only tested four; and it doesn't work on Alpine They've done themselves no favours at all with their write up. It does seem legi
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Huge pages has had a spotty history, that lead to people being paranoid about it, and no doubt a whole bunch of folks just disable it "because that's what we've always done". It has been stable and reliable for quite a
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Same on chrome and Firefox on an android device
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
> Other VCSes like fossil store issues alongside the repo. I think it's appropriate because in a sense, issues are part of what gives meaning to the code (like documentation) I was thinking about fossil in the context of agentic wor
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
It would surely sell more if people would actually explain what the game is, without using niche words like "sokoban". The article talks about how the trailer for it didn't really show anything about the game either, which a
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
They also make no sense. Why would I ever jump to blaming the plugins if the cache rate drops? Particularly for a site hosted behind Cloudflare?
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
That seems weird given NIST, and the US Government, set a requirement for IPv6 Only back several years ago, and it sort-of became part of the JWCC requirements (It wasn't in the requirements, IIRC, because it came after those were set,
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
I really liked the Volt. Probably would have bought one, but by the time we were in the market for a new car (rarely are, tend to drive them until they get to be really expensive to keep repairing), they'd terminated the product line.
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
So.. the Chevrolet Volt approach?
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I don't care that it's X times faster(tinkering.xyz)
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Fun, but dark grey text on a dark background? Bit hard to read a bunch of the text. It also seems like there's gravity coming from off screen assets (or maybe it's the bottom of the screen?) causing the projectile to curve in unex
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
I'm using an MCP to enhance my security posture. I have tools with commands that I explicitly cannot risk the agent executing. So I run the agent in a VM (it's faster, which I find concerning), and run an MCP on the host that the
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Weird... I've been happily using Atlassian's MCP for this kind of thing just fine?
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by Twirrim 6mo ago
Likewise. Long time Thunderbird user since the original 1.0 days, for both work and personal use. There's been a few ups and downs along the way but I've found it generally "just works" and gets out the way, which is exa
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by Twirrim 7mo ago
Weird, I could have sworn that used to work, maybe I wrote the notes down wrong. Easiest alternative I guess is to pipe through head. It still grumbles, but it does work openssl enc -aes-256-ctr -pbkdf2 -pass pass:"$(date '+
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by Twirrim 7mo ago
If you want to do it really quickly openssl enc -aes-256-ctr -pbkdf2 -pass pass:"$(date '+%s')" < /dev/zero | dd of=/home/myrandomfile bs=1M count=1024 Almost all CPUs have AES native inst
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by Twirrim 7mo ago
And IBM has "Watson"

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