choeger

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by choeger 2y ago
> Sooner or later, you just start testing with the other teams' production/staging environments rather than deal with local incompatibilities. That's probably about the time when your development pace goes downhill. I thin
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by choeger 2y ago
I don't think that moving the whole thing into our orbit would make much sense. The biggest amount of delta-v is necessary to leave Earth's gravity well. Once you're there, going from and to asteroid is time-consuming but doe
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by choeger 2y ago
Let's see if some data protection officials have the balls to sue companies that use that on their work machines. It should be obvious that this technology and some "AI"-based analysis makes for a nifty "productivity ass
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by choeger 2y ago
While this might sound great at first, it comes with a tangible risk: In a worker-owned enterprise, workers cannot freely sell their stock (or it would not be worker-owned for long). So their wealth is tied to the company and the value of e
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by choeger 2y ago
> You or I can not buy stock in them. But that means employees cannot sell their stock, either. So if one of those millionaire employees retires and the company goes bankrupt one year later, the million is worthless all of a sudden.
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by choeger 2y ago
Well, that explains why Cuban cigars are impossible to get since a couple of years...
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by choeger 2y ago
30 degrees north. That's about Kairo, for reference. I would not be surprised to see Mangroves at that latitude. It's probably more surprising that these areas aren't already subtropical. Climate change seems to reduce whatev
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by choeger 2y ago
Or, and that maybe a radical idea, YOU DON'T INSTALL THIS FUCKING SNAKE OIL IN THE FIRST PLACE. The idea of antivirus software is laughable when Adobe cannot implement a safe and secure PDF parser then how can Crowdstrike while simu
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by choeger 2y ago
It massively increases your attack surface but lets you tick the "cybersecurity" box on your audit. It's a good trade for many people, it seems.
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by choeger 2y ago
It's eye-opening how bad our crucial IT infra is nowadays. Running in-kernel third-party tools (AV) on critical infrastructure on Windows? Central banks? Control towers? Seriously? We should fire everyone involved and start IT from s
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by choeger 2y ago
Where I live, most people will hesitate to buy into a yearly plan. I'd suggest to make it possible to gift someone x years of your service, because that's something many people will happily do. The only thing to avoid here is an
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by choeger 2y ago
The obvious downside is the number of examples computed. A simple unit test can easily take 100 times as long when property-tested. Besides, it would be really cool to have property-based integration or hybrid unit/integration tests. O
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by choeger 2y ago
> It works because when you have a bug/error message, instead of spending a bunch of time on Google/searching on stack overflow for the exact right answer, you can now do this: That's not how I work since I stopped being a
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by choeger 2y ago
> Furthermore, if you are a software engineer and you haven't included tools like github copilot, or cursor AI into your workflow yet, I simply don't consider you to be a serious engineer anymore. You've fallen behind. Tha
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by choeger 2y ago
Ozempic reduces appetite, right? So food producers cannot be happy about it.
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by choeger 2y ago
Regulatory fears, not fears of getting it wrong. That's just trying to pass the buck to agencies or lawmakers. As soon as someone in this chain gives in, e.g., an official short before retirement or in need of a consulting gig in the &
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by choeger 2y ago
You are not free to perceive any information. In our society, some people have the right to decide whether or not you can watch a particular football game, look at a particular image, or know a particular prime number, as ridiculous as that
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by choeger 2y ago
> ??! You've got a system of unpredictable reliability and you're going to let it handle money? Yes. Recall phone banking? I imagine it like that. Potentially via a chat service like Whatsapp or signal. You'd start with si
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by choeger 2y ago
"AI" (or rather language models) will change the world. But in a very different way. They aren't (and won't become) AGI. They aren't (and won't) replace software engineers (but maybe help them to write better
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by choeger 2y ago
Capers are very common in my family's refrigerators, but still mostly used for a single dish (Königsberger Klopse). And the jars have been tiny for as long as I can remember. So it seems to be a universal design decision.
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by choeger 2y ago
A radical point of view. And as such it is of course wrong ;). First of all, there are languages where dry-running your code with all parameters mocked is still a valid test run. Python, js, and Perl for instance make it very simple to have
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by choeger 2y ago
Will this drug ever stop giving? What does it do next? Stop dementia? Fix short-sightedness?
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by choeger 2y ago
What everyone seems to be ignoring when it comes to autonomous cars is that the last 1% or 0.1% or whatever remains unsolvable for "AI" might not really matter. We can change roads, ffs! At the bare minimum, we could fence off dif
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by choeger 2y ago
Rationally it's more like a "oh shit we're too late to exit now" situation. The stock would have crashed if they'd denied the package. So they voted for it and hope to sell afterwards for a better price.
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by choeger 2y ago
We know for a fact that cats, dogs, and humans do.
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by choeger 2y ago
It's a shame that TeX the great typesetting system comes with TeX the ungodly complex language. There's literally no chance to create good tooling for TeX because of this. There's very little chance to optimize rendering of l
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by choeger 2y ago
This. The next time, there's a real disagreement in trade policies, Europe is going to be fucked. Microsoft does have access to literally everything and no one even seems to understand that, because no one understands what "clou
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by choeger 2y ago
Let's hope they continue making progress. Expected failures are fine. Unexpected failures have the potential to derail such a program for years.
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by choeger 2y ago
Interestingly, when I switched to HO during Corona, I put my glasses away as I was working on a notebook (sometimes even outside). My eyesight has improved markedly over these last years. I still need glasses gut the effect is definitely un
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by choeger 2y ago
It's a long-used term for improvements in manufacturing due to increased scale.

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