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by cedws 11mo ago
I want to frame this and put it on my wall. Coming up with a greenfield microservice design with arbitrary responsibilities and intercommunication feels so stupid to me. Why not build the thing as a monolith and split parts out when you act
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by cedws 1y ago
Big context window is an amplifier for LLMs. It's powerful to be able to fit an entire codebase into a prompt and have it understand everything, versus it having to make N tool calls/embeddings queries where it may or may not find
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by cedws 1y ago
The petition against the online age verification law was hilarious. It got a few hundred thousand signatures and the response was just "lol no." The Labour government had an opportunity to kill pointless government overreach and w
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by cedws 1y ago
The way I think of is is that crime is like a market. When the consequences are low, crime will rise. If you introduce such severe consequences for crimes that criminals never dare do it again, crime will inevitably fall. Singapore seems to
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by cedws 1y ago
Does anybody have security concerns about running games with Proton/Wine? Games already have a massive attack surface and I can imagine there are some nasty bugs lurking in the compat layer that would enable RCEs not possible on Window
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by cedws 1y ago
I'm confused. I had the same initial reaction as you and then read further and it sounds like the image was actually provided by a client? > The problematic user image had an astonishing 272 layers, each representing a commit
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by cedws 1y ago
Is managing servers really such a lost art that even governments with sensitive data must cede to AWS/Azure/GCP?
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by cedws 1y ago
I would argue that taste is the ability to reason about one's own preferences. A person who doesn't consider themself to have a taste in music and listens casually won't really be able to reason about why they like the music
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by cedws 1y ago
When you say “sleep medication” what do you mean specifically? AFAIK melatonin is safe but diphenhydramine overuse is linked to dementia.
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by cedws 1y ago
Not sure why your comment has been received negatively when it seems to be obviously true. Yes, "significant" is ambiguous and I wouldn't be surprised if the intention is to give themselves discretion to go after whoever they
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by cedws 1y ago
You only have to have kompromat on one person high up to get the result you want.
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by cedws 1y ago
Other than capital what prevents a new player entering the smartphone market? In the US Apple is at ~50% market share and Samsung ~30%. These are not colluding entities so there must be enough theoretical freedom to create a smartphone that
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by cedws 1y ago
It just props up the monopoly. Appeased consumers have no reason to buy other products. There is no financial motive for Apple to do good because they can do bad until government forces their hand, and they have no reason to fear competitio
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by cedws 1y ago
This is the actual problem to be solved. The bureaucracy of forcing the hand of tech companies every time consumers scream loud enough is a shitty solution.
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by cedws 1y ago
It sounds like your problem is with the patent system then. The point of patents is to grant exclusive rights to a technology in exchange for sharing information.
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by cedws 1y ago
Being on the side of the consumer means being on the side of the free market. If you don’t like the charging options of an iPhone, don’t buy an iPhone. If you don’t like the OS of a Pixel, don’t buy a Pixel. If the consumer is choosy and do
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by cedws 1y ago
Equivalent in what way? A Samsung, a Xiaomi, a Google phone have all of the necessary capabilities to live a modern life.
588.
by cedws 1y ago
You had the choice to buy another phone.
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by cedws 1y ago
Is there any way to read this other than Trump is cuddling up to crypto because it’s a tool for him and his cronies to make dodgy money?
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by cedws 1y ago
You have correctly identified there is more complexity to this than is addressable in a HN comment. Are you asking me to write the laws and design a government-operated pentesting platform right here? It's pretty clear whatever securit
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by cedws 1y ago
For the protections part: it means creating a legal framework in which white hats can ethically test systems without companies having a responsible disclosure program. The problem with responsible disclosure programs is that the companies w
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by cedws 1y ago
IMO it’s no wonder companies keep getting hacked when doing the right thing is made so painful and the rewards are so meagre. And that’s assuming that the company even has a responsible disclosure program or you risk putting your ass on the
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by cedws 1y ago
Did I understand correctly you’re using it for file processing? If so does it yield reliability benefits? We have an assortment of jobs written in Go that process files of various types (CSV, Parquet, TXT) in S3 too. The issue we have is t
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by cedws 1y ago
Thank you!
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by cedws 1y ago
I’m fascinated by the sound of Erlang/BEAM but I’ve never found the time to actually try it. How are people using it in production? Do you write all your service logic using it or delegate specific parts to it?
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by cedws 1y ago
Making such a claim should at the very least require proof that the information wasn’t in the training data.
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by cedws 1y ago
When I see people with Ghibli style profile pictures it's an immediate signal they have no taste.
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by cedws 1y ago
I hate that the internet is being destroyed in the name of iPad kids
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by cedws 1y ago
I think Apple hardware must be incredibly underutilised across the board. Every new generation of iPhone or MacBook they boast about lofty performance gains, but who is actually complaining about their iPhone not being fast enough? Nobody I
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by cedws 1y ago
I've said exactly the same thing on HN myself. However for this problem what do you suggest? Using namespaces is better than using no namespaces.

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