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by gmuslera 2y ago
Coming from Timescale, the proposal is not to use the best kind of database for a workload, but to use one database but then multiple extensions for workloads that Postgres may or not be the best fit, moving the multiple layer one level dow
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Letting the patient worsen his health by doing nothing, try to improve things slowly in something rational but that by now it may take longer for him to survive or giving him this potential snake oil that you don't know if it will kill
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by gmuslera 2y ago
The safest path is undo what we did, somewhat stop adding more fossil carbon to the system, and capture the excess that we added since preindustrial times, and then some extra to unwind what some positive feedback loops added by their own.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
NTP, BGP, MTU and a lot of other acronyms should be also in the list of not trivial to trace root cause for things that goes from big outages to mysterious malfunctions, specially if there are many parties or servers involved. And the secur
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Hoping for relief by the end of El Niño could be short lived. The latest La Niña years were among the hottest years of this century. And regardless on which stage of both we are now, positive feedback loops change baselines, every push forw
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Something clicked when he was saying that SendGrid and Mailchimp are clean, and it remained till the end. Email born as internet, something decentralized. But it is getting harder and more complex to have your own mail server, because you h
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Having a webserver listening on ipv4 may get something like that sooner or later. All the tine you get vulnerability scanning by different actors and goals, be aware of that or not. With hostnames is just another layer, that may have more r
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Remember the Not be Evil? And how minimal used to be the Google search (and gmail) user interface? This is just another step into that direction. All the other optimizations were intended to minimize the intrusiveness of those anti optimiza
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by gmuslera 2y ago
As Data would say, it is fully functional.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
A Dyson sphere at a distance similar to the one from Earth to Sun needs more matter than the one that can be found in a single solar system. Ringworld had the surfaces of several planets flatted out in real scale among all its geography, an
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by gmuslera 2y ago
There are emergent processes that would make people from some centuries ago wonder how they ever become to be. And it goes beyond technology. Pervasive internet, information and social networks, are technologies, but how that has changed us
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by gmuslera 2y ago
We are talking about megastructures taking millenia to be build, requiring more resources than the ones that can be found in a single solar system, and that probably requires materials that may not be possible at all. And they are an answer
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Those are close to the places in Europe where they are growing triffids?
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Today's solar storm might be a good way to prove if we could ever rely on that, even if it were possible.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Not all that energy will end as heat. And the surface that it may cover won't be significant compared with the Earth one. And if it is, it may shadow enough surface to actually cool down Earth. In any case, it won't be worse than
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by gmuslera 2y ago
If it is not a black swan event it should had been considered in the budget.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
OpenAI (or some other AI company) could run a similar ad regarding web sites, specially the knowledge based ones. Why to visit a gigantic amount of websites filled with ads, fake news, clickbaits, rants and more if I can ask ChatGPT about s
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by gmuslera 2y ago
In the ST:TNG episode, it was about a chess-like game, so even if you had all the information, still you could lose making no mistakes. But in real life, having all the relevant information is something that may be pretty uncommon. Speciall
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by gmuslera 2y ago
In 250 million years, whatever is around by then, if things are left alone. Hominids has been around 5M years, mankind 200k years, civilization 10-20k years, and global civilization less than 200 years. And in the last 100 years we changed
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by gmuslera 2y ago
It should not be very surprising considering the amount of vulnerability scans that have all internet exposed sites for several php applications and related patterns. It have the other kind of rot, if it was sitting there for long enough ti
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by gmuslera 2y ago
It is not "for our safety". They have used it, to name a case, for commercial secret stealing, like they did with Petrobras a decade ago https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nsa-spying-on-petrobras-f_b_3... It can
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by gmuslera 2y ago
The most relevant one should be https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/ when is tried to change moon brightness with laser pointers. In the end, with current technology, we change the moon orbit, with light.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Define apocalypse, in the terms of what will remain at the very least. All technology (including discarded old computers) will be unusable? All digital media will be erased? All printed books (specially the IT ones) will be burned down? All
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Maybe the wording is correct. Looks like a hard limit on doing what a LLM just do. If it goes beyond that, then is something more, or at least different, than a LLM.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The future T series will move much better, you won’t have a reason to be scared about.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Could that speed up the rate of obsolescence of older iOS devices? You need to go to 12+ Pro to get more than 4GB of RAM.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
If we were using a base 12, 24 or 60 from the start, the metric system would had used those bases. It is not about the metric system, is about our numeric system. Metric may be not perfect, but is not in the same category of mess that is th
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by gmuslera 3y ago
There is no way to solve the problem without taking out what is causing it somehow. But it should not be the only measure taken. Saying so, if the problem is money, the groups that made themselves astronomically rich putting directly or ind
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The problems to be solved keep changing, at the very least because our very previous problems solutions. Even "not having anything to do" is a problem. And everything is an absolute that may be meaningless in the real world. The l
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The images are generated, but the training set may be argued or not that they had some rights attached, even it they were the ones that the social network where they were posted and scrapped from had. There are is money to be made in a way

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