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by bostik 6mo ago
> I don't believe we had tech moguls who built enormous wealth and realized they could by the influence Didn't this just describe the robber barons of the Gilded Age? Moguls and oligarchs of the day, yes. Amassed their fortun
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by bostik 6mo ago
> Cheryl Sandberg inviting the author of the book to sleep in her bed next to her on the company jet, and the petulent and vindictive behavior when the author said 'no'. Considering the timing... does that mean MeToo doesn&#x
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by bostik 6mo ago
Friendliness? VSCode integration out of the box, that I can understand. But I have a really hard time calling Azure UI "friendly". Everything is behind layers of nested pointy-clicky chains with opaque or flat out misleading names
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by bostik 6mo ago
Corporate inertia. Sibling comment uses the term "hostage situation" which I admit is pretty apt. Microsoft is an approved vendor in every large enterprise. That they have been approved for desktop productivity, Sharepoint, emai
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by bostik 6mo ago
> wrote this piece myself on my phone while I was out for a walk If you have a strategy for jotting down (or dictating) notes while walking about, I would be curious how you manage that. I spend plenty of time walking outside, and tend
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by bostik 7mo ago
I always read the dark forest differently. Solution to the problem is not a game-theoretic "hide from the apex predators", but an even more nihilistic "remain hidden, expand and evolve into the apex predator". Or in a mo
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by bostik 7mo ago
This is already happening. Near where I live there is a newly built 7-home terrace. Each one has both a garage and a cable duct sprouting up from the edge of sidewalk in front of them. (Coarse location: outer SE London.)
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by bostik 7mo ago
While reductionist, I think yours is a legitimate "in a nutshell" take. It would be interesting to see the relevant statistics over time, ideally broken down by geographical regions, their median incomes and the respective employm
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by bostik 7mo ago
We've come a long way in some aspects, while staying pretty much in place in others. I taught infosec 101 course at a university ~20 years ago. (Twice.) On the topic of privacy I used an example of harvesting data on peoples' habi
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by bostik 7mo ago
I would have preferred to see a disclaimer at the top about how this story was Put Together[tm], but I also agree that it is a pretty fine piece of writing overall. Which brings me to my initial point... > Over the last couple months,
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by bostik 7mo ago
The best known (at least in the tech circles - in good part thanks to HN and Matt Levine) is probably IEX. The exchange guarantees that every participant is behind the exact same time delay. And they do that by having a sufficiently long sp
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by bostik 7mo ago
One easy pick: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-28/tradin... Note that his half-jokey proposal for a total of 30 minutes of trading time a day is at this point a running theme. If my memory
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by bostik 7mo ago
> snitching to any government agency with a shiny nickel No, no, no. Not any agency. You of course auction that information off to the highest bidding agency, ie. the one who is most desperate to meet their monthly quota.
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by bostik 7mo ago
As a person from a country constantly near the top of that list, I have been saying this for more than two decades: holding the #1 spot in CPI tells nothing how well things are going for a country; it merely highlights how bad things are ev
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by bostik 8mo ago
I can think of two reasons. One, to have the plausible deniability with the necessary future statement "Claude is not used by the DoD/DoW to conduct domestic mass surveillance or autonomous killing"; by having the model be pr
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by bostik 8mo ago
It's not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes. (Attributed to Stalin, but likely comes from a despot earlier in the history.)
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by bostik 8mo ago
Even at the risk of coming off snarky: the emergent behaviour of LLMs trained on all the forum talk across the internet (spanning from Astral Codex to ex-Twitter to 4chan) is ... character assassination. I'm pretty sure there's a
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by bostik 8mo ago
Combining the two approaches might work. A "pre-moderation queue" for submissions that are are solid enough to pass the "Show" bar, and then the monthly "what are you working on" threads as a more free-form cre
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by bostik 8mo ago
The demands here are effectively extensions of netiquette[0] and "how to ask good questions"[1]. Every code contributor should at least understand what is asked of them. [Julia's post sadly does not include the blunt expressi
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by bostik 8mo ago
> The thing is that real security isn't something that a checklist can guarantee. I've taken this even further. You cannot do security with a checklist. Trying to do so will inevitably lead to bad outcomes. Couple of years
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by bostik 8mo ago
Every product vendor, especially those that are even within a shouting distance from security, has a wet dream: to have their product explicitly named in corporate policies. I have cleaned up more than enough of them.
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by bostik 8mo ago
Everything more complex than a hello-world has bugs. Compiler bugs are uncommon, but not that uncommon. (I must have debugged a few ICEs in my career, but luckily have had more skilled people to rely on when code generation itself was wrong
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by bostik 8mo ago
That number alone is a very good reason for the industry to target as much of it as they can / dare. You say "sudreddit". Marketing teams say "self-selecting target segment".
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by bostik 9mo ago
I have to run part of this by guesswork, because it's based on what I could observe at the time. Never had the courage to dive in to the actual postgres source code, but my educated guess is that it's a side effect of the MVCC mod
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by bostik 9mo ago
If you use streaming replication (ie. WAL shipping over the replication connection), a single replica getting really far behind can eventually cause the primary to block writes. Some time back I commented on the behaviour: https:/&#
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by bostik 9mo ago
I concur on "really good" but have to disagree on the "series" part. Children of Time is a remarkable book, one of the best science fiction stories in a very long time. Children of Ruin is ... okay. Children of Memo
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by bostik 9mo ago
https://bostik.iki.fi -- random scribblings when I feel like it. Sometimes I even have an idea for a project piece. Content warning: the occasional cooking posts, every few years apart, are in Finnish.
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by bostik 9mo ago
> Also, most of us are unlike the author, and 0.07s vs 0.38s startup time means no difference. That's quite likely a workflow thing. If you are popping up new (transient) terminals frequently, then a ~400ms wait time for each adds
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by bostik 9mo ago
This has already been the case for political and/or social impact events for years in the UK's betting exchanges. The settlement rules for any potentially hairy real-world event have to be explicitly clear and account for all po
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by bostik 9mo ago
That sounds like it would make one hell of a tech talk. I have a gut feeling many readers (especially lurkers) of this very thread would gladly watch the recording. Common and/or various ways the two groups misunderstand each other, an

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