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by brazzy 1y ago
I feel attacked. And very, very happy that we're proxying all access to npm through Artifactory, which allowed us to block the affected versions and verify that they were in fact never pulled by any of our builds.
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by brazzy 1y ago
A popular hot take, but if that were the case, the art market should have collapsed when NFTs were booming, and recovered after they disappeared. Unless you can give a credible alternative that has eclipsed both.
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by brazzy 1y ago
No, you need a lot more complexity if you really wanted to represent it semantically. The assumption that people in the past used calendars with sequentially numbered years you just need to offset, is simply wrong. You have things like &q
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by brazzy 1y ago
> IMHO Garbage collection is and always was an evolutionary dead end. An evolutionary dead end that is used by probably upwards of 90% of all productively running code, and is the subject of lots of active research, as evidenced by TFA?
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by brazzy 1y ago
The point is that current methods are unable to get more than the current state-of-the-art models' degree of intelligence out of training on the totality of human knowledge. Previously, the amount of compute needed to process that much
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by brazzy 1y ago
But we're not comparing colo to cloud fees, we're comparing colo to renting a server.
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by brazzy 1y ago
What about the cost of having people actually go to the datacenter to install hardware, and go again whenever there is a hardware problem, possibly resulting in much longer downtimes than with a rented server? Especially for the "one (
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by brazzy 1y ago
Colocation to me means you buy your own hardware and rent only the rack space (and power and connectivity) from the datacenter. Is that really what you're talking about? If so, why do you choose this over renting bare metal servers?
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by brazzy 1y ago
Reminder that the modern pronunciation of "Caesar" has almost nothing to do with the original Latin, and that the German "Kaiser" is actually a fairly good phonetic transcription of the latter.
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by brazzy 1y ago
I recently talked to a guy who works on quantum computing research. He said that factoring and cryptography applications are red herrings. It's not what most people in the field are working on. The practical application lies in simulat
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by brazzy 1y ago
Nuclear is an outdated, unsafe, inefficient technology of the past. Let it go.
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by brazzy 1y ago
So you are spreading all this misinformation and lies, and are not even getting paid for it? Kinda pathetic...
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by brazzy 1y ago
> there is arguably a root assumption in both cases that people made, which is that "the software can't be wrong" I think in this case, the thought process was based on the experience with older, electro-mechanical machine
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by brazzy 1y ago
No. Eternal September is about large numbers of new participants overwhelming a community's ability to maintain standards of behavior. This is case of Tragedy of the Commons, where individuals can profit from ruining something that ben
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by brazzy 1y ago
This project is a poster child for the Japanese "bubble economy" of the 1980s, the economical and even cultural impact of which cannot be overstated. In William Gibson's Neuromancer , Japan is the Land of the Future, where a
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by brazzy 1y ago
How about the personal train car of (Mad / Fairy Tale) King Ludwig II of Bavaria: https://www.kulturstiftung.de/ein-versailles-auf-raedern/
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by brazzy 1y ago
The premium plan from Google has 2 TB and costs about the same annually as the electricity for the NAS that the GP comment suggested for comparison (at 100% usage). So at the same ONGOING cost (not even counting initial investment), the NAS
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by brazzy 1y ago
> Did you miss the picture below where the bar for 50% is lower than the bar for 47.4% That one was added later, if I interpret the attribution at the bottom correctly. And I'm also pretty sure it wasn't there when I first saw
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by brazzy 1y ago
Even there I'd say that "Yeah, I'll have to do some research on that" is fine as an answer at least at a very early stage. It's when the honest answer is "I don't care, and I don't want to care&quot
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by brazzy 1y ago
> There is value in just throwing yourself into something and seeing if you enjoy it. Absolutely, when the stakes are low and the timelines short. Then it's a very good option for "not knowing what to do". It's a real
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by brazzy 1y ago
You're claiming that any subtask that is unappealing automatically makes you not want to do the whole thing. Which is silly.
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by brazzy 1y ago
I really don't think it's better to choose your life path based on lack of understanding of your plan's consequences, rather than choosing the least unappealing option.
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by brazzy 1y ago
I is absolutely a VERY valuable distinction because the behavior as it affects humans (up to and including killing them) is VERY different. Regular waves that are a little higher than your seawall might cause some water damage to the buildi
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by brazzy 1y ago
It's a well-known problem for humans as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_captain
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by brazzy 1y ago
> What exactly is "human" in dense human anthills with 30-story towers? Certainly an interesting question, but completely irrelevant to the discussion. Unless you're really arguing against big cities rather than against ma
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by brazzy 1y ago
> Get everyone an individual car (a self-driving at this point EV, of course) and redesign cities to be human-oriented, not transit-focused. These two things are in direct, violent contradiction. Mass transit is what allows human-ori
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by brazzy 1y ago
It's not, when you know through announcements that the next train is right behind it and will be much less crowded.
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by brazzy 1y ago
I think the implication is that the time between two trains was little more than the time it took to walk along the whole platform, which the friend still had to do after getting off, plus someone familiar with the stations not needing time
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by brazzy 1y ago
I've just seen that change happen in the a pet project within less than 10 hours of work. I tried vibe-coding something for my own use, your classic "scratch your own itch" project. The first MVP was a one-shot success, reall
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by brazzy 1y ago
> There was a vague feeling that java applets were insecure and that this would somehow not be an issue for wasm. Nothing "vague" or "somehow" about that. Applets were insecure, because A) they were based on the Net

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