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by fathermarz 1y ago
Confused is the perfect word to encapsulate how I feel about this post. Collapsing purpose built scalable services into a single server is not “going off cloud”. It’s is more like “simplifying my tech stack”
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by fathermarz 1y ago
No I actually will double down. Exactly what I said and just because he states it and calls it out, does not mean it isn’t true. My point was actually to say, AWS bills are expensive, IF you are using their built for purpose and scale techn
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by fathermarz 1y ago
I’m fundamentally confused. A server in a datacenter is still the cloud. Taking something off the cloud means you have hardware somewhere that you physically manage and pay the power bill. This is simply collapsing the built for scale tools
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Let me ask a different question. Large refactor that ended up in a 60K line python PR because the new lead didn’t feel like merging it in until it was basically done. Even ask other devs to merge into his branch and then we would merge late
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Doesn’t this mean that some percentage of Microsoft’s investment is being given directly to their competitor? This feels like a bubble moment.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
I have been seeing this a lot. Does this add new meaning to “a picture is worth 1000 words?” I think I saw a benchmark on HN for formats of text files given to an LLM to see which would give better results. I wish that study had thrown in i
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by fathermarz 1y ago
It’s interesting that Valve can be ridiculed for both fostering the gambling market AND dismantling it. By no means am I picking a side of this fight, but I think Valve wants to stay off the radar of the gov and keep printing money. The rea
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Excellent, thank you taking the time to respond. It makes sense now and is very clear. Great work!
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by fathermarz 1y ago
This post is eliciting different feelings for me. 1. Congratulations on getting a product into a major chain’s distribution network. That is a feat and is something to be proud of. 2. Do I think this product should exist? No. There are ser
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by fathermarz 1y ago
I do appreciate what’s being said here and I think there is a balance to strike. Is it a good idea to plan and design before jumping into code? Absolutely. Is it worth spending a month thinking of the perfect system when you don’t have cust
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Does it have Windows APIs for sub systems like certificates/auth stores?
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by fathermarz 1y ago
It’s less about them being “not all there” and more like the level of disconnected they are from modern society. The last time they had the average job (if ever) was before credit cards existed and it was $0.50 for a loaf of bread.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
As I mentioned above. I do not like Microsoft, but there is a difference of intention. In your over-characterization, you forget the fact that they provide product/services to users. Regardless of their strategies and how they build th
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by fathermarz 1y ago
> How do you define “malicious”? Malicious to me is intent. Microsoft does not store my emails to snoop or to potentially steal my assets. It Is a side effect of the systems they have created to ease user friction. Some might argue that
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by fathermarz 1y ago
> to use a different program for turning equations to pixels? They explain in the comment why it was risky (new thing instead of tried and true methods, not a large user base, etc.) and yet you minimized their explanation, over simplifie
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Correct. For the main composition, many artists don’t use samples. But for ear candy and other flavors, I would argue that most do. Remember, difference between producers and musicians, and there is a lot of overlap.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Correct, but think upstream from Splice. Most percussion, risers and ear candy come from the same place. Think back to Super Seal records and crate digging. If you use samples, regardless if you subscribe to Splice or not, the sample you fo
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Microsoft Servers != Malicious Actors Computer
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by fathermarz 1y ago
If you don’t understand what they mean and are hunting for pedantic discoveries in explanations of a problem, then please try to dig deeper and contribute more meaningfully, as per the HN guidelines.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
As someone who has been producing music for 20 years, this is absolutely incredible. I remember when I started building things from samples in FL4 and just how mind bending that was. I am so excited for this to actually get new ORIGINAL sa
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by fathermarz 1y ago
I can understand the frustration, however, part of the skills you have acquired should be taught and shared within teams you work with. Such a skill is meaningful, but the ability to pass on that skill to Juniors is more important than the
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Also they got hit with the most recent supply chain attacks on NPM. They aren’t exactly winning the security game.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
I don’t think the best way to communicate with someone is by questioning their character and intentions, then simply demanding something of them. All this blog post does is show that you need to mature in both your communication style and y
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by fathermarz 1y ago
When creating a backup, it attempts to condense sectors through some non-standard proprietary algorithm that shifts addressing and tries to roll it up. It wouldn’t be an issue if when restored it reversed this process, but it does not and l
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by fathermarz 1y ago
This is becoming known the software supply chain space, but Acronis software tampers with backups and lots of companies are dropping it. “True Image” couldn’t be further from the truth. Recommend Clonezilla for sure.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Not all LLMs are created equal and can be used for different aspects and workflows. I think the important bit is to gravitate to the tool that gives you the closest to your expected outcome. Copy pasting code into ChatGPT gives me unreliabl
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by fathermarz 1y ago
I’m at a large firm of ~1000 employees, only about 25% are devs and everyone is being told they should be using LLMs/AI Agents or they are going to be behind. Even to say, if you don’t adopt these tools, we can find someone who will.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
If you are going to release a new set of models and eliminate the old ones, your new smallest model should have equal capabilities equal to or greater than your old models of similar size. This is not a routing problem. This is a driving th
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by fathermarz 1y ago
Google is raising prices for most of their services. I do not agree that this is due to the cost of compute or that this is the end of Moore’s Law. I don’t think we have scratched the surface.
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by fathermarz 1y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hamburger button on the top left. Usually top right… or am I hallucinating?

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