hinkley

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by hinkley 5d ago
How about a nice game of chess?
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by hinkley 6d ago
Someone allocated those GPUs.
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by hinkley 7d ago
Rust could not work in a world where compilation was a single threaded affair. I think it exists now instead of in the 90’s and 00’s in good part because of this. I don’t think it’s an accident that it has succeeded as multicore took over.
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by hinkley 9d ago
We have alliances with Japan and S Korea which predispose us to believing we might be able to get a clean supply chain from them if a new Cold War starts. Out other options don’t even pass a giggle test and that’s the state of the world unt
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by hinkley 9d ago
I go to status pages to find out if 1) I’m crazy, 2) if our IT fucked up DNS. Every service I’ve ever paid for or someone paid for on my behalf has gaslit me about their status page because it’s impolitic and bad for sales to update the pag
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by hinkley 9d ago
That doesn’t feel exactly right but it’s a lot closer than what I’ve gotten and it’s common enough that people will get it. Maybe.
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by hinkley 10d ago
I don't think that people often understand that if reliability doesn't increase before an adoption cycle, the lack of it will limit the success of the adoption cycle. If I'm tasked with getting a tool to be used at least 2x
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by hinkley 10d ago
After a merger we ended up with 2 operations systems and one of them thought the other one were clowns. But they thought everyone were clowns so it was hard for the rest of us to tell. They never actually apologized for being assholes, but
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by hinkley 10d ago
Surely there's a word for this, but I haven't learned it. The problem with load balancing also shows up in employees mass quitting. It's the same queuing theory problem but I don't know the name of it. Essentially, when
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by hinkley 10d ago
You should be slightly careful about that. I saw a User's Group presentation by a guy at Speakeasy, they had made a whole logistic system that looked a lot like a CRM manager but not for customers, for dealing with how flaky Covad was
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by hinkley 10d ago
But is often wrong itself. Before 9's became a thing, people built systems that required outages, and those outages would happen outside of business hours. However that's also why some transactions had to complete the next busines
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by hinkley 10d ago
Except that customers lean so hard on those extra nines that they create processes where no work can be done when the service is down. Less reliable products aren't allowed to become bottlenecks in the first place, at least at any B-ti
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by hinkley 10d ago
I want a good chart not a percentage, because one service being down at 2 am for 3 hours is not the same as another service being down for 45 minutes during my peak hours of productivity.
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by hinkley 10d ago
Downdetector also doesn't have a motivation to lie. I've yet to find a status page that wasn't lying about the actual status. Also 97% up is bullshit for the 3% of people who are offline. Saucelabs was doubly bad for this bec
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by hinkley 11d ago
Data's probably more like air. We are still trying to figure out how to hold people accountable for how they misuse air for manufacturing and power production. Water and soil were easier to work out, but we still flounder a bit. We&#x2
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by hinkley 13d ago
In 2010. Nobody has a phone to check the time and call people anymore, and haven't since smart phones became de rigeur.
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by hinkley 17d ago
At this point I don't even really need a phone. Nobody makes calls anymore and I can use my watch for 911 calls. What I need is a more portable iPad. But that would cannibalize iPhone sales.
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by hinkley 17d ago
I'd like to think if Steve were around, the apple watch would have been pushed for more battery life and connectivity instead of more health monitoring, which is a gimmick people mostly use for a few months and then turn off. I'd
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by hinkley 17d ago
There was a while where the bezels were getting smaller and the pixels cleaner where getting a new iphone/ipad pretty much kept pace with my declining near vision. But these days I pretty much need to buy different pants so the goddamn
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by hinkley 17d ago
At this point it's feeding screen addiction. When I go for walks I only bring my smart watch. If I break an ankle or someone has an emergency we can talk. But I can't pull up a bench and doomscroll for an hour.
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by hinkley 17d ago
I feel like they should have started with a folding iPad.
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by hinkley 17d ago
I didn’t say it’s happening. It’s a next step that has already been tried by others, though.
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by hinkley 17d ago
The problem with number 2 is that it creates an allowance for people to plant the wrong tree in the wrong place and have fallback instead of being rewarded for their complete lack of forethought by having their tree summarily removed. One o
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by hinkley 18d ago
I'm remembering cooking recipes. Here's a simple recipe for deviled eggs with only four ingredients. My great grandmother was born during the Great Depression. They valued foods that could be made with cheap ingredients. [four par
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by hinkley 18d ago
You lack imagination, which is a liability in this field. Not your creds. Nothing stops the manufacturer from making a deal to get an account from XFinity and shipping the creds on the TV. Then they can exfiltrate data from anyone who has
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by hinkley 18d ago
I was about to switch carriers anyway, that was the kick in the butt I needed to make the call and schedule an appointment. Some parts of these organizations are aware that some of their rent comes from inertia. Other parts don't reali
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by hinkley 18d ago
XFinity has some bullshit where your router provides an AP for other XFinity members. My understanding is that it uses bandwidth you aren't paying for to carry this signal rather than using up what you paid for, but still it's bee
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by hinkley 18d ago
> for a few turns at most before they completely forget Which sounds more like Claude has ADHD than the user does.
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by hinkley 18d ago
You're going to hell for that bit.
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by hinkley 18d ago
Do you suppose it's just that it's aping humans who say too much without saying anything or do you think maybe this is a stalling tactic to get people to spread out their transactions? Like how theme parks generally don't do

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