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by antonvs 2mo ago
For a lot of people in practice, Kubernetes was what replaced use of Ansible (or Chef etc.), so the OP take makes sense. Also, the transition you describe isn’t the whole story. Containers meant that the node configuration essentially stopp
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I’m one of the people who regularly complains about AI slop posted here. But fwiw, your post didn’t trigger my LLM detector, and you’re writing thoughtfully about things that many of us are thinking about. Kudos.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
That’s not the meaning here. It means that Microsoft lacks the qualities required to be taken seriously, like competence or reliability.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> At this point it’s more exhausting to discuss whether an article was written using AI than it is to accidentally read an article written by AI. What ridiculous bullshit. If you’re looking for algorithms to generate your content, perhap
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Well, it is a mistake. It is a deviation from the normal path. This is a non sequitur. Why do you assume variation is a “mistake”? And how do you define “normal”?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I don’t think it’s so much as fighting fire with fire, as just reframing and correcting the usual biased assumptions about what it means to be “typical”.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It’s hard to know what anyone considers the “usual greats”. Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature, but she doesn’t seem to make it into the “average” person’s greats list, possibly because her use of language is very much not gra
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by antonvs 2mo ago
How do you reconcile what you’re saying with the actual situation? A relevant example is the border search exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It’s not bribery if the system is designed to support it.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Why do you think the Supreme Court disagrees with you? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> I'd say http://localapps should give an overview of all web apps running locally, with links to them. Malware will thank you.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Did it make any difference?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Why are people so wedded to Anthropic? It’s interesting to watch, I don’t think it’s rational - just hype-driven herd behavior, the desire to pick one and stick with it, things like that. It’s similar to the kind of dominance Apple has
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Gemini uses more neutral language but it’s still prone to hype up little things. OpenAI’s “professional” personality (an option in the settings) is pretty decent.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Paying for something is not really a hack, because at least in this case, it’s the system working as intended.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
The UDHR is a non-binding declaration - in and of itself, it has no legal force. The 4th Amendment of the US Constitution is more legally relevant, but part of the function of courts is to carve out exceptions to laws like that for law enfo
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by antonvs 2mo ago
You get the Cybertruck because we are far too accomodating of nepobabies.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> I'm so very sorry, but the best you can do from here is speedrun the collapse. This is a pretty silly take. If you actually follow the news, all of these issues are getting pushback. It's not at all clear that even a competen
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Not many people know this, but the actual universe is 3D, so this map is misleading.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
There was some coolness in the tech, though. The Ono-Sendai Cyberspace VII deck, the mirror shade digital glasses (cut Gibson some slack, it was the 1980s), artificial limbs finished in onyx or chrome. Meanwhile in the real world we get Nvi
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by antonvs 2mo ago
That's a very different situation. An individual "anchoring their identity" to a brand isn't doing so to earn money, which is why bands "sell out". It's just a choice they make about who they are, and I ha
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by antonvs 2mo ago
This is such a bullshit "think of the children" kind of question. You should be ashamed of yourself. If you state it in the form of an actual argument that sets up a meaningful comparison, you'll find that it falls apart comp
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by antonvs 2mo ago
What is "a bit bollocks" about it? The article is reporting on an opinion piece in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and on a related open letter signed by 30 Democratic senators. The publication of that article and letter are ev
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Democracy operates at multiple levels. You’ll notice that armed right wingers kidnapping people suspected of being undocumented is a problem confined to the government itself. There’s a reason for that. No-one really cares about immigrants,
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by antonvs 2mo ago
How many bytes in a pizza?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> The rework is being done quietly This is a bad idea - you’re actively contributing to the problem by hiding the negative effects. Don’t even think about starting that work until you’ve created bug tickets for as much of it as you can,
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by antonvs 2mo ago
In general, helping prevent retry storms is one of the functions of a service mesh. E.g. Istio lets you configure exponential backoff with jitter, linkerd provides a retry budget and loadshedding based on backpressure. “Adding complexity to
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by antonvs 2mo ago
At a tech company, engineers mostly work on software that is the company’s product, and as such its functionality, reliability etc. are high company priorities, and the whole company is focused on producing and selling those products. At a
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I had to explain to a “senior” engineer the other day (read: a few years experience) why locating a database client in a different geo region from the server is a bad idea (especially when that client is using an ORM that likes to make lots
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Just use VS Code. Its Java support isn’t the best, but it’s good enough and the rest of the IDE makes up for it. I feel like a lot of the love for IntelliJ is a sort of Stockholm Syndrome combined with relief at not using Eclipse.

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