jeffrallen

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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
Christ, what an asshole.
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
Would be fun to write a program that arranges to send the input into dc(1) and just outsource the whole problem to Ken or Rob or whoever wrote it. :)
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
> could spread airborne ...and even though it was more or less immediately clear it could, the public health authorities dragged their feet admitting it was spreading via airborne transmission (to preserve PPE for healthcare workers), al
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
As a European, enjoying the environmental quality of life our regulations provide, I'm ashamed to admit it might be impossible to make chips here, as it's probably a dirty industry that Europe prefers to keep offshore.
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
> Probably they copy and paste my reply to their bots. You must not give in to the temptation to mention pirate talk, Klingon, or goblins. But now that I've put the seed in your mind, you probably (hopefully) will. :)
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
It does not take anything more than listening to instructions and remaining calm to do a tandem parachute. Doctors and nurses on average have those skills. And those who volunteer for a mission like this undoubtedly do.
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
> DROP DATABASE dhsproddb Lol. Heroes. (But only because of the DHS in the DB name. DHS is a vast hive of villainy.)
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
They use Go and Rust. If Oxide thinks they can keep the supply chain risks of their langiage ecosystems under control, I think the rest of us can too.
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
European companies might prefer hosting open models on Exoscale's dedicated inference platform. (I work on ops for that product.)
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
IV. Workaround Accept that everything is broken and terrible and yet somehow find a way to keep a sense of humor and smile about it.
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
Puttin' the CVE in execve.
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
An eternal golden braid running from Twain to Stoll, from pen and ink to AI hallucinations. Who would have thought? :)
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
This looks like excellent work, it's reminding me of things I learned from Welch Labs vidoes. Given the amount of time I budget for keeping up with this stuff (regrettably too low) I'll wait until Welch Labs presents something on
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by jeffrallen 5mo ago
Little changed in 500 years: https://web.archive.org/web/15080511133831/https://www.vatic...
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
I wish the opposite was true: that when I tell Gemini I want "a diagram of X" that it immediately breaks out Python and mathplotlib, instead of wasting my time with Nano Banana.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
That's fine, the stupid companies are privatizing profit by abusing the public commons... Let them pay.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
They were routed to the integrated time machine in PS, and sent to the year 2026 when they would be rendered in mobile phones, then the bitmaps would be sent back in time to your boss's printer.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
But does it say "PC LOAD LETTER"?
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
"I'm sorry Hal, I can't do that."
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
I can't read it because I'm not a healthcare professional.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
Dude only made it 20 years with Emacs. Weak. I've been using it since 1994. Whoa, shit, I'm old.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
Or if your colleagues are "smarter" than you they make it in Clojoure instead, with an EDN-but-with-subroutines config language, so that not only yaml-aware editors are useless, but EDN-aware editors cannot make heads or tails of
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
If it was less than 100 gb, he probably should have just loaded the whole thing in RAM on a single machine, and processed it all in a single shot. No S3, no network round trips, no chunking, no data warehouse.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
Some days, it would be better to build a working not-kubernetes than debugging the not-working kubernetes.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
They have not (re-)engineered their system, even via temporary hacks, in the last 12 months to defend itself with soft failures, circuit breakers, hard quotas, etc. It's that simple.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
I talked with a friend there around 2018 and he dissuaded me from applying, then quit a few months later. He already knew...
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
Just to spell this out more clearly for the back row.of the classroom: The price is what the customer will pay, regardless of your costs.
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by jeffrallen 6mo ago
So much good stuff is happening at https://exe.dev , keep it up guys!

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