cbsmith

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by cbsmith 9mo ago
> Communication networks are not profitable. Lost me on that one. Communication networks provide significant value and can be quite profitable. That's a whole industry.
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by cbsmith 10mo ago
This feels like a silly semantics argument, but how is the outcome not what you are building?
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by cbsmith 10mo ago
>> It's possible to ask AI to write code and then read the code yourself > Sure, but then it would not be vibecoding. Wait, what?
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by cbsmith 10mo ago
tl;dr: HTTP/REST model isn't great for federated services. There are other microservice strategies that are built around a more federated model where even having full-on recursion is not a problem.
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by cbsmith 10mo ago
I think the interesting thing is they saw significant improvement in computer skills, but no significant improvement in academic performance. It suggests to me that the academic program, or at least the measures from it, didn't factor
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by cbsmith 10mo ago
I find this sentiment amusing when I consider the vast outages of the "good ol' days". What's changed is a) our second-by-second dependency on the Internet and b) news/coverage.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
Also, isn't this the promise that k8s had from the beginning... that it would be the one cloud abstraction to rule them all?
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
It's possible the FAQs were generated by one process and the answers were generated by another.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
I guess that's the kindest possible interpretation. The other interpretation is that the answer is not a good one.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
> But I will say that the shutdown of ADP is Apple being on the right side of the geopolitical fight, as inconvenient as that may be to you and me. I don't think there's any blaming of Apple going on here. This is about dealing
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
This bit of the FAQ was such a non-answer to their own FAQ, you really have to wonder: >> What is the memory bandwidth supported by Ascent GX10? > AI applications often require a bigger memory. With the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU that su
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
I have this problem badly enough I was interviewed for this article: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/work-colleague-same-... You wouldn't believe some of the things that have shown up in my inbox.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a phenomena that I was already aware of.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
It's a practical workflow that's actually adopted by the community.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
That's where you're wrong. It's not the opposite of the Smalltalk approach.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
> The image meant you basically got whatever state the developer ended up with, frozen in time, with no indication really of how they got there. That wasn't a function of the image system. That was a product of your version control&
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
Yeah, I wasn't making any comment about the Trump administration; just repeating what the norms are, because it seems like we need reminding about them.
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
There are lots of layers on pardons before they get to Presidents, but Presidents have traditionally taken a hard look at pardons before providing them. There's been a couple of "mass pardons" where maybe you wouldn't
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
s/catched/caught/g
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
Kind of by definition, that's not exactly surprising, yeah?
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by cbsmith 11mo ago
We used to joke that it should be called SCSl: System, Cables, Scanner last.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> ERCOT actually does a pretty okay job, all things considered; it's hard to invest heavily in winterization for rare events when you're having to invest heavily in new generation to keep up with steadily increasing baseline lo
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by cbsmith 1y ago
An infinitesimal leak becomes a problem if it is done an infinite number of times... execve seems like the preferable choice on a lot of grounds.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Why did this get shared today, and why the excerpt posted on Bryn Mawr? Not complaining. I'm just wondering if there is some context I'm missing.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
What's amusing is the original use case for HUD displays was to reduce attention problems. ;-)
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I've built several DynamoDB apps, and while you might have some expectations of internal behaviour, you can build apps that are pretty resilient to change of the internal behaviour but rely heavily on the documented behaviour. I actual
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by cbsmith 1y ago
So close to getting push driven architecture...
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Behold, the power of the anecdote.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I think you're making the original poster's point for them. It's very clear a minority government is not the one forcing OSA on people. They don't even have the power. Arguably, minority rule is more democratic than majo
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I think there are lots of advantages to running a model locally. Saving money is one of them, but that's only if you can keep the thing busy. You wisely put the "free" in quotes for a reason: you paid money for the hardware t

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