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by bjackman 1y ago
> Android Exactly. Android pulls this off by being extremely constrained. It's dramatically less flexible than an OCI runtime. If you wanna run a random unenlightened workload on it you're probably gonna have a hard time. >
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by bjackman 1y ago
I see your point but even if your VMM is a zillion lines of C++ with emulated devices there are opportunities to secure it that don't exist with a shared-monolithic-kernel container runtime. You can create security boundaries around (a
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by bjackman 1y ago
You cannot build a secure container runtime (against malicious containers) because underlying it is the Linux kernel. The only way to make Linux containers a meaningful sandbox is to drastically restrict the syscall API surface available to
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by bjackman 1y ago
Hmm this strategy only makes sense if you can trivially evaluate each agent's results, which I haven't found to be the case. I expect a common case would be: one agent wrote code that does the thing I want. One agent wrote code th
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by bjackman 1y ago
I think you're forgetting how easy type annotation is. I occasionally spend like 2h working on some old python code. I will spend say 15 minutes of that time adding type annotations (sometimes requires some trivial refactoring). This h
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by bjackman 1y ago
Yeah but I just wanted to highlight that a better world exists! People should know that GitHub's toy model isn't the only one available. Still, you're right that it makes sense to build tools to work around GitHub since there
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by bjackman 1y ago
You can review them but you can't look at the diff between them after they've been amended in response, so it's not actually a usable workflow. IIUC the typical model is that people just upload new commits like "respond
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by bjackman 1y ago
> No GitHub PR sync for stacks FWIW, I think the fact that you need client support for this is a bizarre shortcoming of GitHub. If GitHub just let you review individual commits like Gerrit does, the concept of "PR stacking" wou
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by bjackman 1y ago
It seems like the original idea here would be to hang the hay at slightly below the height of the next bridge. That way it serves as a physical indication that your vessel's too tall. But, in the picture it seems to be a) hung higher t
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by bjackman 1y ago
Someone else said in this case that you can access it with premium subscription but I have also heard that some products are hiding the CoT because of concerns about distillation
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by bjackman 1y ago
You can always just use unsafe. This is about how to allow code to do this without unsafe blocks.
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Exactly
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by bjackman 1y ago
You can 100% achieve a real temperature difference with unpainted wooden internal blinds. I'm sure you can achieve much more with an ideal setup but just sharing from experience, what OP has can easily make a difference of several degr
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by bjackman 1y ago
Yeah ESPHome is magic. I set up a full home humidity monitoring setup for the cost of a soldering setup + approximately $0 on components. No subscription bullshit, no proprietary interface bullshit, just exactly the setup I want and it was
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by bjackman 1y ago
This is a strange take to me. What do you think engineering management _is_? It's fundamentally a political role. This reads to me like "it's sad that most football managers never get to kick a ball". I'm sure there
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by bjackman 1y ago
That would be a neat usecase but it's not a slam dunk. TEEs in theory eliminate the need for the user to trust the owner of the hardware. But for a cloud you need to eliminate the other direction too. Cloud companies achieve this by...
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by bjackman 1y ago
Also shout out to cargo-vet. It lets you track what packages you "trust". Then you can choose to transitively trust the packages trusted by entities you trust. This lets you have a policy like "importing a new 3rd party packa
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by bjackman 1y ago
This never made any sense to me for consumers. Enclaves and confidential compute are about the owner of the physical device giving up power and handing it to a remote entity. In the case of SGX on consumer hardware that usually meant consum
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by bjackman 1y ago
I think lost techniques are the rule rather than the exception. There are loads of fundamental questions about how premodern combat took place that will probably never be decided. You can get a feel for lots of them by reading this very blo
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by bjackman 1y ago
Makes perfect sense. It recently became clear to me (e.g. [2]) that it's not a cohesive concept but to me personally this is the meaning of POSIWID [1]. Basically making Windows a good desktop OS is not in any meaningful way the "
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by bjackman 1y ago
> One solution is to treat startup cycles as a resource similar to e.g. size or backend servers. The only way to achieve performance metrics in a large org IMO. Google Search is still fast because if you degrade p99 latency an SRE will r
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by bjackman 1y ago
Wow it's insane how slow that is! But also, I don't really have an intuition for why the speed of travel is relevant here? It's funny that I have a natural intuition that sound is slow over long distances, yet 1 ft/s sti
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by bjackman 1y ago
No, that's what I'm saying, you can't do that. There are properties of a Linux system's performance that are significant enough to be essentially load-bearing elements of the global economy, which are not governed by any
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by bjackman 1y ago
The global economy has depended on finessing quasi-stochastic black-boxes for many years. If you have ever seen a cloud provider evaluate a kernel update you will know this deeply. For me the potential issue is: our industry has slowly buil
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by bjackman 1y ago
Very cool! As someone who doesn't know much about the topic, I'm surprised that "millisecond-level accuracy" is enough. I would have imagined that you need to be accurate down to some fairly small multiple of the sample
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by bjackman 1y ago
I think this is a great idea. It seems like we are entering the phase where the core hardware problems are solved and we now need to: A) bring down cost and expand the design space for the hardware and B) minimise the barriers to working on
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by bjackman 1y ago
Yes exactly in fact I was specifically thinking of my belief that class is signalled less strongly in many Scottish dialects. But the general concept of class being closely related to accent is something that people will instinctively under
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by bjackman 1y ago
That's exactly what I mean. It's not entirely the same in e.g. Scotland. But Scottish people will understand English class signals. Hilarious that you'd read my comment explaining British class and linguistics dynamics and as
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by bjackman 1y ago
I think something important to explain about British English dialects is the class factor. It's easy to forget because the classic RP accents have largely died out, but the way I was brought up to speak (actively! My parents would &quo

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