inopinatus

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by inopinatus 10mo ago
Well, you’re a little kinder than me, but I also agree entirely; and notwithstanding that it’s certainly a hard problem, I’d hoped/expected to find end-to-end behaviours at the heart of distributed consensus in a modern protocol, and i
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by inopinatus 10mo ago
I just read through the Matrix protocol documentation, coming to it from never having heard of Matrix before, and I have to say, it is hot garbage, reading like someone with no distributed systems background and hasn’t heard of lamport cloc
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by inopinatus 10mo ago
Here on the hacking news website we sure are persnickety about the difference.
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by inopinatus 10mo ago
The mindset of every browser vendor is that they are the OS now, and all that kernel and userland guff merely supporting infrastructure.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
I recommend having instant recognition of all the powers up to 2^24, this has proven very useful over the years e.g. when skimming quickly through a log searching for anomalies, flag patterns etc. If you recite them in sequence twice a day
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
It’s not too late to reverse direction and call it “Oi”. Could there be a more perfect verbal activation? They could get Jason Statham or Vinnie Jones to do promotion.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
More like the Sonos of networking gear, in that they were once kinda cool but squandered it with questionable product decisions.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
If I had a time machine I would go back and ensure that DSSSL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Style_Semantics_and_S... ) was the standard that got up.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
Any type system for Ruby objects that isn’t based on message/method response signature (i.e eigenclass), but instead relies on module ancestors (or worse, class), is fundamentally misaligned with the architecture of the language. A rem
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
The mistake is assuming we have to act as individuals.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
If you don’t think “you can just audit the binary with tools” is pushing back, then I don’t know what is, and especially so when you’ve framed the invitation with “I'd rather listen”. I’m reminded of the number of times I’ve had vendor
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
By pushing back on someone over trust, you’ve eliminated the interest I briefly held in evaluating Orion. It would’ve been far better to acknowledge the concern than nitpick it.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
There is also a matter of selective effort by staff senior enough to make their own choices. Many SDE3 (or whatever MS equivalent is) wouldn’t want to be associated with a dumpster fire product like Teams.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
Because the LLM is not a cognitive entity with a will, it is a plausibility engine trained on human-authored text and interactions. So when you tell it that it made a mistake, or is stupid, then those things are now prompting it to be more
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
From the other side of the Atlantic this sounds like straight Thatcherism, in which Chicago-school monetarism was an ideological anti-union weapon, and the Thatcher cabinet was not coy about it. However I think the US went that way first ev
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
So-called “homebrew” has only ever grudgingly provided the barest minimum of hooks to locally build your own variants of their packages, and compares most unfavourably to, say, maintaining your own easily-rebased fork of a BSD-style ports t
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
Similarly, the part of your body commonly referred to as “the bottom” is in fact closer to half-way down and not at the bottom at all. I will leave any possible joke about being legless after a night out in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the expert
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
I don’t usually speak like this on Hacker News, but for fucks sake, just give it a fucking rest already, you utter pillock.
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
Blog spam doesn’t intersperse the drivel with literary narrative beats and subsection titles that sound like sci-fi novels. The greasy mixture of superficially polished but substantively vacuous is much more pronounced in LLM output than ev
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by inopinatus 11mo ago
“Ideal” outcome here is likely a lot more time investment than the 95%ile-effectiveness “good enough” outcome; and in any case, an effective exercise prescription is as personally specific - perhaps even more so - than many pharmaceutical o
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by inopinatus 1y ago
That’s private, obviously.
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by inopinatus 1y ago
I used to do something like this but with ZFS on an OpenSolaris / Illumos storage server, exporting copy-on-write clones of snapshots of iSCSI volumes to boot Xen VMs on neighbouring blades, with tagged VLANs from each host because the
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by inopinatus 1y ago
23x75 to allow for a status bar and the possibility that the code may be quoted in an email. Also, it’s green on black. Or possibly amber. And yet I still have a utility named "~/bin/\uE43E"
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by inopinatus 1y ago
“tues lunch wip”
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by inopinatus 1y ago
I’m fond of saying “JS is a Lisp”. It’s not a hill I’d bother dying on, however.
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by inopinatus 1y ago
Turns out that this attitude was bullgrit all along.
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by inopinatus 1y ago
The full maxim I was taught being, “it’s either DNS or permissions”. The fatal design flaw for the Domain Name System was failure to learn from SCSI, viz. that it should always be possible to sacrifice a goat to whatever gods are necessary
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by inopinatus 1y ago
I could agree that you would not make poor assumptions. Your LLM, however, may experience cross-format feature superposition and consequential spurious activation.
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by inopinatus 1y ago
Would he by any chance refer to it as Zulu or Zebra time? The Z-suffix shorthand for UTC/GMT standardisation has nautical roots IIRC and the nomenclature was adopted in civil aviation also. I sometimes say Zulu time and my own dad, who

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