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by _w1tm 2y ago
Who would want to be married with their company? You are finding dysfunction where there is none. Imagine expecting the employee or company to have the other party for better or for worse, till death do them apart. Talk about dysfunction!
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> This was rather disappointing to me. I had really expected better because my colleagues in general were typically pro open source. I'm not using Django anymore, and I'm not inclined to put any personal time into it to keep th
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> Also, more importantly, the password database is not stored in some server God knows where. Well..
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by _w1tm 2y ago
SSD on chip might be a thing one day but I’m pretty sure only the RAM is on the same chip.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
Does everything have to take us towards AGI? If someone makes a LLM that’s faster (cheaper) to run then that has value. I don’t think we want AGI for most tasks unless the intent is to produce suffering in sentient beings.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
I’m waiting for garbage collected matter compilers before making the jump.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
Shouldn’t a higher priority still be expanding coverage of the grid? I’m sure there will always be some market for off-grid use cases but those should be a tiny niche.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
Could it be because it weakens the business case for using their SAAS?
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> This type of treatment sounds amazing, and I know mRNA vaccines were in development for a long time before COVID, but I have to wonder if this research would have taken a lot longer to happen had COVID not happened. At least BioNTech w
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease. With viruses and bacteria the immune system eventually catches up and vaccinating tends to be done before the
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by _w1tm 2y ago
The “natural” rule of a “free market” without artificial rules is that he who owns the guns takes your stuff.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
A startup using reserved instances seems like a bad thing to do and is the opposite of scale to demand. Unless you’re actually using all that reserved compute, in which case you just didn’t generate enough value. It happens.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
Workload identity federation is the direction the industry is taking. All the hyperscalers have their own version, if you’re on-premise look into SPIFFE.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> they presumably need to be electrically conductive since the elevator carriage will need a lot of power to travel upwards a few thousand KMs before their passengers starve to death Even a slow space elevator that can only be used for t
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> Modern life sucks in many ways. Isn’t that also nostalgia? Life before “modern times” likely sucked in the same ways but then some more.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
The medical industry often has contractual obligations to post the source code, dependencies and instructions for building the software to a third party escrow service. In case of bankruptcy this source code is then released to the customer
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by _w1tm 3y ago
Sounds reasonable. In an org where the customers are internal teams it makes more sense to sit down together and define a schema first. Then the consumer and provider teams just go away and write the code concurrently without having to wast
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> We can naively split the world into two types of people: givers and takers. It’s a sliding scale and not set in stone. I used to be too much on the giver side until burnout forced me to learn how to apportion my time better. At the end
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by _w1tm 3y ago
Resources spent re-inventing wheels is resources not spent gaining a lead.
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by _w1tm 3y ago
Just FYI but krustlet is dead and the community has moved on to approaches where the container runtime handles the difference instead of having special nodes for it.
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> At least in C/C++ it's much harder to get there. Interesting take. Poor package management as a security feature. As others have pointed out, instead of potentially poorly written third-party dependencies C/C++ will just
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> And even for humans, we have mechanisms to control their output when they get confused. What mechanisms do you mean? I don’t think it’s feasible to use hunger and fear of dismissal to control an instance of an LLM.
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> Money is fungible and not unlimited There is no limit to the numbers in central bank databases. Resources and labor are not unlimited, though.
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> it("displays the user's name") isn't very novel, and is probably pretty easy for a LLM to generate. Arguably the implementation that passes such a test is even simpler, making it a bit questionable why we have the h
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> But if they’re around anyway, they can keep it in whatever personal backlog they have instead. How should I manage my personal backlog? There’s over a 100 post-it’s on my desk. Should I create another backlog for longer-term ideas or m
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by _w1tm 3y ago
And for network redundancy / UPS / datacenter security / etc. Comparing a PaaS to some old PC running in a closet is completely missing the point. If the thought of your service going down for a few hours because some random
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> have a set of morals from which to gauge right and wrong actions. Could we even say that the grandparent poster is aligned ?
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by _w1tm 3y ago
And every time some minor issue puts our biggest reactor offline the price of electricity spikes. Large nuclear reactors are huge single points of failure.
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by _w1tm 3y ago
TIL. Thank you!
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by _w1tm 3y ago
> I'm in a field where performance is number one requirement. Removing unsafe is a terrible idea. Are you sure you should be using Java if your use-case is performance sensitive?

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