awskinda

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by awskinda 3y ago
There’s a lack of capacity, but it’s a generalization to a very large cold-war style conflict. ie - you are right NATO has identified shortages, but it’s more of a concern for conflicts on world war scales. Just searching around, the USA al
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by awskinda 3y ago
That’s true, but the US and Europe also haven’t structured their modern capabilities around artillery. It’s a component of their doctrines, but wasn’t expected to be required in such large quantities as Ukraine has required. They have astro
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by awskinda 3y ago
There’s a very big difference between what the USA does in proxy wars vs direct conflicts. Ukraine doesn’t have air superiority, and is basically getting shipped leftover or soon-to-be disposed equipment. You have some really good points, b
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by awskinda 3y ago
As permanently mobile as a wife and young kid allow. We spent 3 months on the road 2 summers ago and had a great time! I expect our radius to get smaller as our child gets older and goes to school, but we are very passionate about being out
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by awskinda 3y ago
As with most things, I think the answer is “it depends.” I have seen some very efficient storage systems designed around S3/R2 object storage where applications run in ephemeral containers, and storage is abstracted. I have also played
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by awskinda 3y ago
Vape concentrates can be worse based on what is used during extraction/added for flavor, etc. I agree it’s worse than doing nothing, but I am curious if herb vaporizers end up being similar to edibles in harm levels. Especially herb gr
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by awskinda 3y ago
Probably some mental health damage from Covid lockdowns as well. To the downvotes - I’m not saying lockdowns were a bad thing, but they did take a toll on many mentally. I’m personally still struggling to recover to my pre-Covid levels of m
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by awskinda 3y ago
I’m not sure how I feel yet. Rapid rate of change can uproot systems pretty quickly. I guess I’m just holding judgement to see if this is a new Industrial Revolution, and fallout that might occur. Ideally this wouldn’t be a worry, but we do
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by awskinda 3y ago
Yeah - I’m just shocked I didn’t get a hallucinated response for the query.
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by awskinda 3y ago
Sure, but it’s pretty amazing to me that ChatGPT didn’t just hallucinate a response to a generic request to decode a string. It recognized the string as base64, wrote a valid program to decode it, and returned the correct response. Maybe I’
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by awskinda 3y ago
I basically said “decode this thing.” I’m just surprised it hit all the steps properly rather than hallucinating a response.
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by awskinda 3y ago
Holy cow. ChatGPT 4 actually decoded this. It went into analysis mode, wrote some python, ran it, and gave the correct answer.
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by awskinda 3y ago
I don’t have unlimited PTO, but it sure is nice to shut my laptop at 5 and be somewhere beautiful. I don’t have that luxury at home and it’s a huge perk with my current job. When I’m on PTO, my laptop doesn’t go with me. I absolutely use al
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by awskinda 3y ago
It’s the same argument for the cloud. With Backblaze, I pay $x/month and someone else deals with OS/Software updates and hard drive failures. If I don’t outsource, I handle it myself for less. It’s just a trade off based on how mu
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by awskinda 3y ago
I’m not extremely productive, but I have 2 use-cases I’m excited about. 1. Having more screen real estate in my small home office. I often dive into spaghetti code, and seeing more of it helps me maintain context. 2. Working in my RV. I can
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by awskinda 3y ago
Why?
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by awskinda 3y ago
> We're paying north of 500K per year in AWS support (which is a highway robbery), and in return you get a "team" of people supposedly dedicated to you, which sounds good in theory but you get a labirinth of irresponsiblit