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by cedws 11mo ago
I can't see any justification for an AI device. Smartphones are already a perfected form factor developed over decades. They consolidate many other devices people carried in the past. Now most people only need to carry a phone, and may
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by cedws 11mo ago
Aside from other security features already mentioned Go also doesn't execute code at compile time by design. There is no airtight technical solution, for any language, for preventing malicious dependencies making it into your applicati
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by cedws 11mo ago
Remember when they arrested Pavel Durov? I don't buy their official reasoning. Dear European friends, our leaders are tightening the screws. If we don't make our voices heard this is only going to get worse. https://x.c
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by cedws 11mo ago
You're not really supposed to 'export' keys. Any time you move a key you risk exposing it. The idea of PKI is that only public keys move, the private key stays in one place, ideally never seen.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Secretive is a bit friendlier to set up but I'll probably switch to this anyway so I have one less app on my computer. Plugging my blog post for how to achieve this on Windows 11: https://cedwards.xyz/tpm-backed-ssh-key
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by cedws 11mo ago
Tell you what, if you claw back the £100m+ blown on Michelle Mone's shitty PPE and other countless millions in corrupt COVID-era contracts then you can spend it on a digital ID scheme. But don't you dare tell us there's no mo
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by cedws 11mo ago
My grandmother has been through the same thing. She was scammed out of all of her savings by accounts impersonating a particular celebrity. Thankfully the bank returned all of the money, but the perpetrators will never be caught, they opera
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by cedws 11mo ago
Yes, I watched a video[0] about using CHECKs and pg_jsonschema to do this in the past. However this only checks for conformance at insert/update time. As time goes on you'll inevitably need to evolve your structures but you won&#x
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by cedws 11mo ago
Thanks, I was also wondering why they don't use RAG.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Stuffing data into JSONB columns always makes me feel uncomfortable. Not necessarily for performance/efficiency reasons. You also loose the strong schema that SQL gives you, you don't get to use constraints. You might as well use
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by cedws 11mo ago
Going to hijack this to ask a question that’s been on my mind: does anybody know why there’s no agentic tools that use tree-sitter to navigate code? It seems like it would be much more powerful than having the LLM grepping for strings or re
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by cedws 11mo ago
>I'd say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software. This sentence is carefully crafted. It's an opinion, not a statement of fact, so he can cover
553.
by cedws 11mo ago
I'm not going to engage with you on a debate because you aren't acting in good faith.
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by cedws 11mo ago
I don't even know what the selling point of AI is for regular people. In the 60s it was possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children. That's completely out of t
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by cedws 11mo ago
That’s funny. I spotted a similar issue in their Go SDK[1] a few years back. I was pretty appalled to see such a basic mistake from a security company, but then again it is Okta. [1]: https://github.com/okta/okta-sdk-g
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by cedws 11mo ago
My completely unqualified opinion is that this kind of behaviour is linked directly to intellectual ability. Returning the cart requires self-discipline but also implies a thought process around upholding and creating social order. Even fea
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by cedws 11mo ago
Thanks, I wasn’t familiar with the background story.
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by cedws 11mo ago
I see. It sounds like it would be a source of countless headaches, and I don’t think I’d ever want to do something that risks breaking the program like that, but I guess that’s why I’m not a game programmer.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Could you explain a bit more about that code path optimisation? Why wouldn’t the compiler eliminate dead code? It seems like a very haphazard blunt force optimisation method.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Apple seems to be avoiding building server hardware for some reason. It seems like a big opportunity, besides AI, the power efficiency of their chips would surely be attractive for datacentres. I think momentum is building for moving away f
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by cedws 11mo ago
I think us software people tend to think in absolutes. Yes, completely banning VPNs is very difficult. But for a totalitarian government, reducing VPN usage by say 60% is a win. You only have to make it difficult enough for the layman.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Voyager 1 is 15B+ miles away. Kind of mind blowing.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Yes, I believe this too. The internet is heading the way of balkanization - politically divided subnetworks. Archival services are more important than ever, as well as software such as Tor, WireGuard, and v2ray.
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by cedws 11mo ago
As a 24 year old this is the biggest kick in the teeth, and I had no say in the matter because I wasn't old enough to vote. Apparently the EU is in discussion with the UK to continue the Youth Mobility Scheme - I hope it happens.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Why hasn't Meta tried this given the huge amount of R&D they've put into VR and they had literally John Carmack on the team in the past?
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by cedws 11mo ago
Post is a bit sparse on details and seems to be more about the backend than the infra itself. Would be interested to hear more.
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by cedws 11mo ago
Would performance improve if the tiles were stitched together and fed to a vision model, and then tiles are selected based on a bounding box?
568.
by cedws 11mo ago
TIL, that looks pretty nice. My go-to for when I want to 'just fucking run a container' is Fly.io, all you need to do is put together a TOML manifest. If your bill is under $5 they give a 100% discount too. (not affiliated with or
569.
by cedws 11mo ago
I'm talking about true horizontal scaling where load is sharded across replicas. Active-passive is easy. Handling web traffic is also easy. Backend business logic is not so easy. If you're message driven you can maybe have a set o
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by cedws 11mo ago
Big instances are cheap relative to the cost of implementing horizontal scaling (at the app layer), plus engineering cost of Kubernetes or whatever your preferred orchestrator is, plus the heavy cloud tax on going "cloud native."

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