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by a34729t 8d ago
I mean all the database stuff is obvious low hanging fruit for inference engines.
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by a34729t 8d ago
Yeah thats the silver lining in the whole mess: For those of us who enjoy software, hardware and building things, this will be a new golden age and we can filter out all humans and elves.
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by a34729t 9d ago
Re autos, IIRC Holden shut down in the late 2000s. But the Australian economy (and Canadian, for that matter) is just houses and holes.
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by a34729t 10d ago
I wanted to paint my house in Razzle Dazzle, but orange and green. My wife threatened to leave me, so the idea was abandoned.
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by a34729t 10d ago
Yeah i feel like most people (especially those who entered the workforce in the 2000s and later) just dont give a shit about their code. One of 30yo guys i work with (a good generalist) was recently complaining how most of these chucklefuck
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by a34729t 11d ago
This sounds exactly what happens when you are required to fill out a reason for say a deployment to your test enrvironment in a jira ticket. After a certain point you just stop obeying cause nobody reads the ticket anyways.
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by a34729t 11d ago
My employer has somehow managed to avoid the constant layoffs since 2022 trend, shockingly, and I think this is a big reason we have relatively low churn despite not having many promotions, refreshers, etc (on top of some relatively uncommo
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by a34729t 12d ago
The problem China has is that as long as they depend on exports, they depend on the US consumer. If the US consumer stops spending, there is nobody else to pick up the slack.
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by a34729t 13d ago
You dont need an LLM to figure out to make anthrax. Anybody who can figure out how to make a home lab can make all sorts of dangerous stuff pretty easily. Same with college grad from a respectable chemistry program. This all FUD.
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by a34729t 13d ago
If they aren't suing they are guilty as hell. Even if they were only most guilty they would sue; their legal dept knows they have no legs to stand on.
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by a34729t 13d ago
I lived next to the ghetto as kid in the 90s and my mom was driving me by a car of ghetto dudes and I absolutely blasted them with a super soaker as an 8yo. They also had super soakers we got hosed back. Greatest decade ever!
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by a34729t 14d ago
You have to make a distinction betweet query engines, datastores and batch compute. Trino is a federated query engine and lacks secondary indices, but can do all sorts of big scale stuff like distributed merge sort and spool to disk. The ty
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by a34729t 14d ago
That is exactly where all the high scale stuff like Trino and StarRocks have gone (and ClickHouse can use S3 as storage too). However, the problem you run into is when you want to index stuff- secondary indices are tightly coupled to the qu
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by a34729t 15d ago
SMR are a pipe dream IMO. Proper modern reactors can be built relatively quickly (see China using French designs) but our lawyer-driven system makes it impossible to build infrastructure).
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by a34729t 16d ago
Well that and the people who make decisions largely don't fly peasant. Remember that the US air force is mostly executive transport. The easiest way to make conditions get better is to make sure the people in charge have to use things,
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by a34729t 16d ago
Just put your iWatch (with LTE) into a 3D printed case; that gets you most of the way there minus battery life. What I'd love to see is a modern Sidekick. The form factor was basically perfect.
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by a34729t 17d ago
This is why you really need a good geologic, climate etc models. Like a full blown simulation.
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by a34729t 17d ago
All 3 things are so typical: 1) Ascetics living the high life 2) The French striking 3) Europeans throwing modern civil rights under the bus to accommodate foreigners who don't respect women
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by a34729t 17d ago
Which is still the best satire on American foreign policy, ever
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by a34729t 18d ago
You ever talk to any cops?
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by a34729t 19d ago
A friend was working at an adtech company over a decade ago, processing smart tv data. Needless to say he advised buying the dumbest tv possible.
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by a34729t 21d ago
Most of the US airforce is executive transport. Clearly you dont actually know people higher up in government. As someone who dated a very high up state legislator in my state said: She totally doesnt care cause she doesnt suffer the conseq
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by a34729t 21d ago
Thanks, Harambe
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by a34729t 21d ago
Ah, Jira, the urinal of corporate cyberspace. You would literally be better off divining with some bunches of reeds than trying to figure out what the hell is going on with some stupid upside down Austrialian trash software.
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by a34729t 21d ago
should come with a pack of cigarettes and a copy of SAS volumes 1-7
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by a34729t 21d ago
So let me ask this: How hard is it to create a temporary exit node that is basically a rasberry pi with a sim card or wifi connection say from a cafe, or any other public wifi, ans are online for say na hour or two? If we had enough of thes
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by a34729t 22d ago
A frank conversation with a luxury car dealer might surrise you. People are buying these things on credit mostly, and are definitely not rich.
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by a34729t 23d ago
Just buy them direct in Kabul, and get the guy to age it for you by driving his truck over it until you have the desired "weathering".
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by a34729t 24d ago
At a FAANG adjacent company in 2017 we hired a guy from Google with 4 years experience who passed our very hard coding interviews. He literally couldnt code. It blew my mind.
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by a34729t 28d ago
It is insiduous how easy it is to stop thinking. When writing complex code it seems like most of the time it would have been faster just to write it myself and build a complete understanding of it. I swear if I asked most engineers at my co

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