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by bostik 11mo ago
Right now I see "use AI" to be in the same phase as "add Radium" was shortly after Curie's discovery. A vial of magic pixie dust to sprinkle on things, laden with hidden dangers very few yet understand. But I also k
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by bostik 11mo ago
While I agree with parts of the above, there are bits that I disagree with. It's true that you cannot control the network conditions for third parties, and therefore can never be in a position where you would guarantee an SLA for round
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by bostik 11mo ago
As other posters have commented, an external auth service is a very special thing indeed. In modern and/or zero-trust systems if auth doesn't work, then effectively nothing works. My rule of thumb from the past experiences is th
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by bostik 11mo ago
Illegal to possess, and you would have accessed it to view content that is illegal to access as well? The people who do this as part of their job do so under strict supervision, legal guard rails AND mandatory counselling. Which happens t
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by bostik 11mo ago
To quote an ex coworker: all configuration management systems are broken, in equal measure - just in different fashion. They are all trying to shoehorn fundamentally brittle, complex and often mutually exclusive goals behind a single facade
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by bostik 11mo ago
WinFS and Longhorn are back on the wishlist, apparently. But this time you're getting a really fat thin client OS and non-deterministic execution.
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by bostik 11mo ago
If you are dealing with financial services (and payment provider most certainly would ), you will be forced to interface with infuriating vendor vetting and onboarding questionnaire processes. The kinds that would make Franz Kafka blush, a
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by bostik 11mo ago
Erlang's hot reload is a two-edged blade. (Yes yes, everything is a tradeoff but this is on another level.) Because it's possible to do hot code reloading, and since you can attach a REPL session into a running BEAM process, run
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CyberSlop – meet the new threat actor, MIT and Safe Security(doublepulsar.com)
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by bostik 1y ago
I'd say the lines just before that are more illustrative of _why_ this sentiment is even possible to express: Goldman team wrote. “AI investment as a share of U.S. GDP is smaller today (<1%) than in prior large technology cycles (2
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by bostik 1y ago
When advice from legal conflicts with the upcoming sound of ka-ching! the only question that matters is: "how loud is that cashier going to be?"
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by bostik 1y ago
Plus of course you can take out the primary even with a read from a replica. It's not a trivial feat, but you can achieve it with the combination of streaming replication and an hours-long read from the replica for massive analytical
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by bostik 1y ago
You'll have to find another planet. Although judging by the available transports it will likely be colonized by nazis.
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by bostik 1y ago
Backups with wall-g and recurring pg_dump are indeed trivial. (Modulo S3 outage taking so long that your WAL files fill up the disk and you corrupt the entire database.) It's the HA part, especially with a high-volume DB that's ch
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by bostik 1y ago
I honestly think that Dockerfile was the biggest driver. Containers as a technology are useful, for the many reasons outlined in this thread. But what Dockerfiles achieved was to make the technology accessible to much wider and much les
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by bostik 1y ago
Anecdote and personal observation - the odd Finnish brands essentially catapulted from niche obscurity to wider recognition 15-20 years ago. Until then in "the common mind" there was Genelec, and then a vast gulf before anyone els
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by bostik 1y ago
Keychron? I realise their prebuilt variants may have ISO layouts only for the various EU market segments, but they all run QMK so you could reflash with en-US keymap. They come with a set of replacement Mac/Win keycaps already, and hav
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by bostik 1y ago
There's a corollary to combination of 1 & 3. Software is by its nature extremely mutable. That in turn means that it gets repurposed and shoehorned into things that were never part of the original design. You cannot build a bridg
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by bostik 1y ago
Also a major contributing factor to second (and third) order effects. Humans, groups, even societies all respond to changes - and if you cannot anticipate what those changes might be, then you are out of luck. (You will never get all them
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by bostik 1y ago
It was meant as a compliment, and it was not intended as hyperbolic. But since you ask... In this case I thought it would fit with the already absurd tones exhibited in the thread. More generally, the technique is not "hyperbolic phr
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by bostik 1y ago
This would make a good real-life gift: https://anycrap.shop/product/cherry-chocolate-piano As much as the site is an incredible outlet for absurd creativity, some of the creations would actually work as small batch ord
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by bostik 1y ago
If UK's experience is anything to go by: the fraction of produce left in the fields to rot, unpicked, will go WAY up. Labour cost is one thing, total useful production volume is another.
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by bostik 1y ago
Just wait until the foundational models are all fed with increasing amounts of ads. After all, it will be the one remaining source of ongoing, if not human generated, at least human curated content. Ad exchanges will offer firehoses for a h
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by bostik 1y ago
I suspect you're conflating two things into one. > Why is Amazon gobbling up failing studios on the cheap? For their back catalogue. The audiences are after familiarity ("more of the same") and nostalgia. The studios in
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by bostik 1y ago
For a brief period of time, binary configs [0] were a thing. In mobile world only, but still. It wasn't that people generally wanted them, but because random seek I/O latency on early mobile devices (and especially on their eMMC
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by bostik 1y ago
Consider the second order effects of building all those data centers. The GPU hardware rots and becomes obsolete in a matter of years, but the national infrastructure required to support the physical sites isn't going away. Things such
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by bostik 1y ago
The cure for the spam problem is to turn the incentives around in the patent examination process. Make it highly adversarial from the go and reward the patent office staff for rejecting applications, with solid argument trails. A good par
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by bostik 1y ago
I know you're joking, but this doesn't feel too far off the mark in this world of late-stage capitalism run amok. Give it another 15 years and the bleeding edge[!] insurance companies are likely employing agents to go after client
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by bostik 1y ago
I'd like to think I'm not. In the past, at least there was an original "hard copy" - and any regime wanting to rewrite history would have to meticulously either eradicate any prints, or - as happened in the Eastern Blo
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by bostik 1y ago
> Is there something materially different here with the internet? Yes. There are effectively no hard copies. It is possible to change the historical record of any non-printed material to suit your particular needs like never before. Yo

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