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by bborud 5mo ago
I have been keeping an eye on the outages. This is why I am looking more deeply into what I can do with self-hosted models. When I see people who want to build products on top of these services I can't help but think that people are
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by bborud 5mo ago
Did they ever work? No, seriously. I've had a couple of them and the few times I really could have used them I discovered that they represented the worst backup solution I've ever had the misfortune to deal with. Slow, very har
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by bborud 6mo ago
35 years in the tech industry has taught me one thing: incumbents that have been around for a long time are almost always more clueless and more full of shit than you think, what they do isn't as hard as they claim and you can probably
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by bborud 6mo ago
I would be surprised if this doesn't exist already in some nascent form? This is an area where you would probably need entire ecosystem of systems that are onboard tractors, but also for the various implements you hook up to it to moni
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by bborud 6mo ago
Now that everyone seems to be discovering Hetzner I guess the countdown clock for enshittification has started ticking, so we have to start looking for the next place to escape.
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by bborud 6mo ago
I wasn’t talking about just symbols but entire paragraphs of code as well.
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by bborud 7mo ago
dealing with an abstract api call divorced from the underlying representation I don't understand what you mean. Could you give me an example? I would be curious if you frequently use a debugger? I practically never use a debugger.
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by bborud 7mo ago
I think I know what you mean. Let's assume a nesting structure like this: Company -> Employee -> Device That is, a company has a number of employees that have a number of devices, and you may want to traverse all cars. If you a
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by bborud 7mo ago
I didn't say it was an absolute. But once a scope grows to the point where you have to navigate to absorb a function or a loop, both readability and complexity tends to worsen. As does your mental processing time. Especially for pe
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by bborud 7mo ago
And then you introduce extra two levels of nested loops and suddenly "i", "j", and "k" don't make any sense on their own, but "ProductIndex", "BatchIndex" and "SeriesIndex" d
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by bborud 7mo ago
I think this may be related to how people read code. You have people who scan shapes, and then you have people who read code almost like prose. I scan shapes. For me, working with people who read code is painful because their code ten
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by bborud 7mo ago
If your loops are so long you can't fit them on one screenfull you have much more fundamental issues.
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by bborud 7mo ago
It would be unkind to single anyone out so I am not going to. The thing is, I can for the life of me not think of a single photo influencer/youtuber who is also a popular _photographer_. They're popular influencers/youtuber
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by bborud 7mo ago
I've spent a lot of time in the past 15 years turning photos into various kinds of prints. From Cyanotypes using printed contact negatives, via multi-layer stencil art to my current obsession: vectorizing images, separating the layers,
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by bborud 7mo ago
The problem isn't that keepers necessarily need editing, the problem is that it is tempting (to some) to spend more time than they need simply because they can. Or because they feel they should. (Don't watch people ruining photos
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by bborud 7mo ago
The issue is not laws, or the making of them (although Congress hasn't exactly been overly productive). The issue is the executive branch not abiding by laws.
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by bborud 7mo ago
Laws appear to have fallen out of fashion. And a disturbing proportion of the loudest people like it. Then you have those who ought to know better but are attention-seeking, selfish assholes who somehow find it «interesting» or think they a
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by bborud 7mo ago
I recently saw “Mountainhead”. Apropos.
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by bborud 8mo ago
Given that Apple tend to have long periods of crud accumulating and releases becoming slower, buggier and more annoying they should revamp their entire release process and make quality a more prominent part of the release process. Linux di
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by bborud 8mo ago
It worked well for Amazon because they kept it within a tight operating envelope. They used it to persist bytes on disk in multiple, smaller BDBs per node. This kept it out of trouble. They also sidestepped the concurrency and locking pro
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by bborud 8mo ago
Berkeley DB is one of those things everyone respected, for some reason, but that didn't actually work if you threw a bit of data at it. And not just for us. I remember talking to companies that paid them lots of money to work on relia
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by bborud 8mo ago
Here’s a key question most people don’t actually ask: do you need RDS? If you’re on AWS the answer is fairly simple because it boils down to what IO capacity you are willing to pay for. Decent performance will cost you so you might as well
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by bborud 8mo ago
A surprising number of solutions can be realized in ways that don't actually need much of a control plane if you introduce a few design constraints. But if you do need one, I guess Kubernetes is perhaps the safe bet. Not so much becau
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by bborud 8mo ago
The purely digital neighborhood of the SDRs is much easier to explain than the analog rat droppings between the DAC/ADC and the antenna. That part belongs to dark wizards with costly instruments that draw unsettling polar plots, and wh
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by bborud 8mo ago
Political tidal forces in Europe have, for quite some time, pointed more toward fragmentation than toward strengthening common structures. What makes this particularly ironic is that this impulse is often strongest among the same voices tha
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by bborud 8mo ago
Skippy the Magnificent will solve this for us. (reference to a character in the Expiditionary Force series by Craig Alanson Only a very small portion of his physical presence is in local spacetime, with the rest in higher spacetime. He can
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by bborud 8mo ago
The conversation went something like this (from memory): - We can't do that - Why not? - Well, physics for one. - What do you mean? - Well, at the very least we need to be able to emit enough RF-energy for a mobile base station to be a
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by bborud 8mo ago
That bit reminded me of someone who wanted us to design a patch the size of a small postage stamp, at most 0.2mm thick, so you could stick on products. It was to deliver power for two years of operation, run an LTE modem, a GNSS receiver,
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by bborud 8mo ago
I don’t think you must be following European politics very closely and you are getting worked up about things that are not real. No heads of state or government in Europe believes, or claims, that India is to blame for Russia’s war on Ukrai
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by bborud 8mo ago
Actually, video conferencing systems aren't that hard to build anymore. But it is hard to grow them as companies. Just among my circle of friends there were two startups that made video conferencing systems. One generic, and one for us

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