johnthescott

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by johnthescott 1mo ago
pretty sure clang is older than sql. hal agrees.
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by johnthescott 2mo ago
+2 for humidity. great work. keep it simple.
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by johnthescott 2mo ago
after going through my first quake in valley, years ago, i shut windows at night, cause every strong breeze woke me up thinking a quake was coming. bummer.
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by johnthescott 2mo ago
years ago i lived next door to a bar popular with off duty emts. interesting, to say the least.
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by johnthescott 3mo ago
lecunn was at facebook after llmama3.1, says ai.
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by johnthescott 3mo ago
amen.
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by johnthescott 3mo ago
for smallish databases, where uuid is surogate id, i would trust dbos/postgres replication. replication is just too hard to role your own. tangentially, for dbs with large blobs, lot's of easy tricks when uuids are immutable dige
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by johnthescott 3mo ago
i spent a weekend with an ai expert trying to get claude to generate code from a yacc grammar for a new language and a smallish set of examples. claude never seemed to get past the bnf syntax.
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by johnthescott 4mo ago
"elegance and speed go hand in hand" - d. mcilroy
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by johnthescott 4mo ago
pg_pachy ?
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by johnthescott 4mo ago
ai has no fear.
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by johnthescott 4mo ago
otherwise limited to "keyword" search ...
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by johnthescott 4mo ago
if truly "every byte matters" then why java?
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by johnthescott 4mo ago
"gui"? what gui? my take is terminal is just quicker than "gui".
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by johnthescott 4mo ago
shared libraries does not imply shared in ram only.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
write code like your life depends on it. cause it does if you are any good.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
> They tend to gloss over the untold suffering, great depressions and world wars that took us to get here.. spot on. you gotta wear shades to survive, future so bright.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
those who know how work for those who know why.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
> We present a non-asymptotic theory of generalization what is a non-elephant animal (to paraphrase stan ulam)?
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
consider participating in the honey pot project to block ips of proven bad guys.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
consider the honeypot project to block ips.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
makes sense. i can see things getting complex very quickly. seems most versions would be better managed at application level, zfs/btrs snapshots not withstanding.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
> Conversely, you can query a database without SQL. fond memories of quel.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
we only perceive the past.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
or use rsync.net and a cronjob.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
yep. for immutable blobs use crypto digest as db key and store blobs in file system.
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by johnthescott 5mo ago
yep. born 1960.
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by johnthescott 6mo ago
rule zero. reading is mostly work.
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by johnthescott 6mo ago
spread a false story in public news and monitor cell call graphs.
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by johnthescott 6mo ago
telcos already have strong teams themselves who monitor towers.

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