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by fcantournet 2y ago
I mean on the one hand I agree, none of these use cases seem legitimate, and most give off very totalitarian vibes. However for those that might not be purely 1984 inspired, I do think that we need to have legislation that is capable of mak
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by fcantournet 2y ago
It's "the way" that apple wanted it to be, but it's not the way that humans have chosen. Typically not a great idea to be against humans, especially the ones that give you money.
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by fcantournet 2y ago
Well in the first years of AI no, it wasn't because nobody was using it. But at some point if you want to make money you have to provide a service to users, ideally hundreds of millions of users. So you can think of training as CI+TEST
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by fcantournet 2y ago
Yes, the point I'm trying to make is that via 3rd party aggregator you can have massive price-fixing collusion without coordination, even with many actors (as long as those actors have converging interests)
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by fcantournet 2y ago
I think the most interesting part of this article is that this "collusion" is enabled via 3rd party data provider. This is a massive issue, that enables this sort of "uncoordinated" price fixing exercises, via 3rd partie
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by fcantournet 2y ago
Why do you need to evaluate people constantly and pit them against each other ? Why not give a raise to everyone and see what happens ? It's how we sent rockets to the moon, it seemed to work ok.
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by fcantournet 2y ago
The firehose of peak twitter was 80MB/s of compressed json IIRC. That more around x00k posts/s
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by fcantournet 2y ago
is counter-strike not a fps or ?
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by fcantournet 2y ago
I like this choregraphy inside a domain, orchestration across domains rule of thumb. I think it maps to what we did a few years ago at previous enployer (without actually formalising like this). Some cross-domain things are inherently orche
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by fcantournet 2y ago
Whether you use protobuf or avro/cap'n'proto/flatbuffers has little to no bearing on whether you need a registry for schemas.
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by fcantournet 2y ago
Your goal using a social media platform is to get the most usefulness out of it in the least amount of time. Their goal (with very large $$$ incentive) is that you spend the maximum amount of time on the platform (so that they can show you
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by fcantournet 3y ago
Usually corporations tend to act in their own good. Usually, corporations are better and faster at reacting than a government. Neither of those statements are supported by facts. It's very common for corporations to be driven to ruin b
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by fcantournet 3y ago
No it's not. That's a common fallacy of safety.
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by fcantournet 3y ago
Forward to what ?
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by fcantournet 3y ago
It's snake oil. It's renewable is the same sense that cow farts are renewable : if you dedicated the entire arable surface of the planet you could make fuel with it for 5% of our consumption. Don't get me started on the oil U
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by fcantournet 3y ago
You can install rust toolchain with https://rustup.rs/ in 1 minute, and git clone some project to see for yourself. It's impossible to answer your question directly, as it depends a lot on dependencies and language fea
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by fcantournet 3y ago
That's quite an indictment of C++. I concur but still.
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by fcantournet 3y ago
Dependencies are dependencies in rust as in C++. I found it's extremely rare that homegrown library that have similar functionality to (used) open-source libraries are better from a security stand-point. At least in Rust a large part o
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by fcantournet 3y ago
Not without regulation, and the US decided to do away with those for some reason. It's just too much money to abuse your position in market A to pivot into market B. Capitalism - regulation => utilities's entire point is to cap
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by fcantournet 4y ago
The speed of technology is absurd. I operated the Object store in a small scale public cloud company in the EU in 2014 and we had about that capacity over 12 racks drawing 5-7kW each probably.
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by fcantournet 4y ago
Those would not contain PII from your users though, unless you have terrible policies about copying personal information in random Google Docs.
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by fcantournet 4y ago
Holy shit ! They make $3.5B/y of Revenu qnd they can't afford 9k employees ? How much are they paying them ? and what are they doing with the rest of that huge pile of money ?
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by fcantournet 4y ago
It is cheaper to run a nuclear power plant though. Like a lot. Also uses about 50x less material per MWh
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by fcantournet 4y ago
Twitter ran ALL its infra for $1.7B in 2021. It made $5B in revenue that years, and was profitable with gross profit margin of 20+%. Your calculations are full of shit. And trying to fire 50% of the workforce and have the rest leave because
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by fcantournet 4y ago
I'm ok with sharing my location with maps (and therefore google) WHILE USING MAPS. Not when I'm reading my emails, or searching for something on the web.
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by fcantournet 4y ago
Ubuntu is the largest deployment footprint, then debian, then RHEL. I wonder where Centos users went, given it is not the same anymore, but it used to run all of facebook at some point.
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by fcantournet 4y ago
That's a pretty huge violation of layer isolation. Software should focus on being hardware efficient, hardware on being energy efficient, and energy on being CO2 efficient. If you want clean energy : great I'm 100% with you but a
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by fcantournet 4y ago
No it wouldn't. There is no definition of democracy where 51% of the people enslaving the 49% would constitute a democracy. Except the one you just imagined for the purposes of "winning" an argument on the internet. This is w
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by fcantournet 5y ago
Real good
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by fcantournet 5y ago
If you built a proto as fast as possible to test hypothesis ? yes. IME it's always been a mistake to keep the MVP's codebase (and a pure catastrophy when said codebase is dumped on another team)

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