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by gnat 1y ago
I can't speak to tornado warnings, but here in NZ we've been getting tsunami warnings once every year or two and it didn't take long for people to go "yeah yeah yeah" instead of "oh crap".
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by gnat 1y ago
Ugh. Each of these points is a classic reliability precaution – yet all were missed simultaneously. As one analyst put it, Google had “written the book on Site Reliability Engineering” but still deployed code that could not handle null inp
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by gnat 1y ago
https://archive.is/2025.06.21-100511/https://www.wsj.com/tec...
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by gnat 1y ago
"I definitely wouldn't want my dentist to take a risky moonshot in pursuit of excellence". Excellent comment. I was aware as I was writing it that consistent mediocrity is indeed a profitable target. Perhaps we're quibbl
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by gnat 1y ago
I feel like you're saying that education (as practiced by the US military) is a somewhat reliable process for taking unskilled people and making them skilled. I agree. The US Military have admissions criteria. They bounce people out in
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by gnat 1y ago
I think there’s an analogy in the dumb management dream that there’s a process by which you can replace these expensive skilled workers with cheap unskilled idiots and still get great results. Another variation: the magic process that lets
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by gnat 1y ago
Definitely do that. Nothing can replace your kids or take the loss away, but it's bloody good to know that I always ended each call and farewell with "love you" and he knew from my words and actions that I loved him. I have r
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by gnat 1y ago
Our 23-year old son died two and a half years ago and while I'm sure SDAM helped me to get through the horrible immediate times, it's quite sad to be without a lot of detailed memories and events that I can look back on to relive
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by gnat 1y ago
The librarian and the article cited don’t claim that the book classification system is the traditional book classification system of Māori. You are reacting to a claim of your own creation. Each god has a bunch of different associations&#x2
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by gnat 1y ago
I used to blog Four Short Links for O’Reilly Media — every day, four interesting technical things around the net that caught my eye or seemed to be part of a bigger trend. I have a Real Job now but still collect interesting links. Here’s my
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by gnat 1y ago
Computers and the Internet started with academics. Distributed systems were theoretical before they were practical. The first sites of the Internet were universities and the first non-academic site was a milestone. Harvard and Dartmouth and
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by gnat 1y ago
My first thought was "oh, it's Perl's taint mode" which added another layer of meaning to the CaMeL name.
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by gnat 1y ago
"The Future" by Naomi Alderman was an entertaining novel, somewhere between mystery and thriller, set in the world of high-tech luxury doomsday preppers. I enjoyed it a lot. She either knows the SF tech world well or has access to
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by gnat 1y ago
"Don't leave your comfort zone. Make your comfort zone bigger." This really resonated. If you think of your discomfort as the work of making your comfort zone bigger, it's less intense. A meta-story can help.
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by gnat 2y ago
Not a mention in the article of pulling models from HuggingFace. Clickbait headline?
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by gnat 2y ago
Rumsfeld cited it. It was written by Lin Wells, titled "Thoughts for the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review". https://library.rumsfeld.com/doclib/sp/2382/2001-04-12%20To%...
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by gnat 2y ago
I find it a comfortable, fast, long-range, and mostly reliable car. I enjoy driving it. I do not enjoy being associated with Musk. If I could trade my four-year-old Tesla for a four-year-old EV of equivalent comfort, speed, range, and relia
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by gnat 2y ago
Parent literally said so … > Our prompt is currently very simple: "OCR this PDF into this format as specified by this json schema" and didn't require some fancy "prompt engineering" to contort out a result.
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by gnat 2y ago
I'm possibly answering a different question than the one you meant to ask, but I feel like I think and program better if I set my terminal and IDE to retro colours. Green screen terminal, Turbo Pascal colours. (aka the colours of my yo
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by gnat 2y ago
Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen. It's a short book, with second-by-second description of the unfolding of a research-based hypothetical nuclear war that starts with North Korea launching an ICBM towards the United States. Al
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by gnat 2y ago
Anyone have a recipe for running pihole on one’s laptop and proxying traffic through it? One you’ve used and can endorse pls. I too can Google. :)
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by gnat 2y ago
You should keep in mind that you’re disapproving of your father’s lifestyle choices and his choices were not determined by the drug. Many people make different choices on those drugs. Eg once they’ve lost some weight and it’s easier to mov
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by gnat 2y ago
Such a good book. This is the book that cemented exponential rate of improvement in my mind.
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by gnat 2y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378806
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by gnat 2y ago
Choked is the American idiom I associate with the same phenomenon. (Anglo Kiwi who lived in US for 10 years and is equally amused by both cultures’ idioms)
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by gnat 2y ago
"Learned" in University but it wasn't until Jeff Friedl's Perl Conference talks that I really became one with the regex engine. He taught you how to think like the regex engine and thus how regular expressions would be i
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by gnat 2y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Because you said “it took a small team … and then I resigned”, it was unclear that you were part of that small team and instead made it sound like you left because the problem was fixed.
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by gnat 2y ago
https://archive.is/2024.07.01-132457/https://www.chicagotrib...
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by gnat 2y ago
https://archive.is/2AeIi > The researchers analyzed the health records to estimate the percentage of Covid patients who had long Covid one year after being infected. The lowest rate of long Covid in the study, 3.5 percen
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by gnat 2y ago
This is an advertising front page for a company, with no obvious connection to Choose Your Own Adventure. Whoever upvoted it, you should click through first.

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