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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
In rural America, the major telcos choose not to help, and that is a big factor here. You can't do stir/shaken crypto attestation of calls over TDM, but the big guys refuse to sell SIP trunks to rural operators. see [1] for more o
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
Two things. 1. If it's not written down, it does not exist. This needs to be a ruthlessly enforced rule. I know we all love those Mel the Programmer stories, but that's a story about fragility. Similarly if you are relying on SRE
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
The UK power grid operators famously plan for massive demand surges at eg the end of major football matches. I cant imagine what their forecasters thought of the England-Mexico nail biter. Half the nation heading to put the kettle on, half
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
And inversely, steer away from (named competition). If I was Corp A competing with Corp B, what stops me, today, from flooding reddit etc with anti-Corp B material to pollute the model, and then paying OpenAI to not just nudge users towards
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
This is an odd little device. It seems you can only call other express chat users? it's reminiscent of cellphone systems from the old old days like Nextel walkie talkies. Also I see its available in India only and given the feature res
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
I'm going to mangle the terms of art here, but the ur-problem is that labels of routing, like phone numbers and email addresses, get confused with labels of identity, and then with indicators of trustworthiness. Everything is built to
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
I sometimes feel that when the industry moved from pets to cattle, what really happened is that the cattle turned out to need an exotic farm to live on, negating the savings. You can have a few honking servers or you can hand massage exotic
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
I worked on STIR/SHAKEN for the two biggest US operators. The techies tried very hard to make it work, and, indeed, there was a brief time when it worked pretty well, but, the incentives from Corporate were and are fundamentally misali
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
The problem with (Enterprise, 365) is that it's critically underpowered for precisely the kind of knowledge work that the 365 power users need it for. Summarizing emails or Word docs, or creating a ppt from an email, are essentially pa
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
Cuts two ways. Why should I pay $200 for a BigBrand dog bed if this knockoff site shows SHRDLU has the same thing for $40? We all know that BigBrand gets it from the same supplier. The real knockoff problem I see is that you buy what you th
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
I wanted to sympathize with OP, but I sense that the blog post was written while they were still fuming, and some of their behavior during the process (esp the first job) gave me pause. Maybe its just the timing that makes it feel aggressiv
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
I see what you did there. Touché.
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by kjellsbells 3mo ago
Oh Baldrick, you must have attended one of the great Universities. Oxford. Cambridge. Hull.
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
Amen. Normal office work is wildly different from what we read about on HN. If you were a CEO, determined to lay off all your people, you would want to really zero in on having your AI solve these very unsexy problems: extract data from Off
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
Some would say, "Oh, Windows Update again"
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
I feel that OP should be congratulated on trying! I dont see this experiment as any kind of "failure". Something was learned, and OP is better off for it. Computing and science literature would be a lot better off if people, like
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
The text that SCOTUS put out today discusses this in great detail. You might agree or disagree with their reasoning, but they consider what "obvious" means in light of the text and the writings of the time plus references to old c
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
Its been "day 2" at Amazon for a long time now. I guess the Leadership Principles need an update.
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
I do wonder how Microsoft will manage the transition of the NT generation. Raymond Chen has been doing this kind of work for thirty years. He probably has, what, another ten years, max? Who are the next generation of Windows gurus that will
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
The problems isnt LLMs per se, it is the shift to trusting the output of the machine coupled with a decline in verifying that the output is reasonable. It's basically what your teachers warned you about with wikipedia in eight grade ex
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
Yes, around the Word 6 era. It also had a plain-blue-screen mode for the real WP diehards.
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in fiction, and many others in reality, such as the UK PPI scandal, the Maxwell pensioners, and (US) all the malpractice cases like Vioxx and asbestos...
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
AIUI for volatile parts the buyer can agree a contract to secure supply, but the price is only set at ship time. And the buyers can't complain about that imbalance because there is always someone else that the seller can offload their
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
The database wars of the late 1990s were full of this kind of stuff. Oracle, Sybase, IBM etc invested heavily in tuning specifically for benchmarks like TPC-C just so they could post ads in the Wall St Journal saying theirs was faster. I do
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
I'll state up front that I'm not German and have no experience of incorporating in Germany save for what my German friends tell me. Yet their complaints rhyme with OP's. Assuming they are well-founded, what stops a market ent
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
I don't recall NPR, but I do recall an interview with one of the US Olympic team doctors who has done extensive work on pointe and dance-related injuries. see: https://selinashah.com/press/interviews/
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
You could say, your talk made A Bigger Splash than you expected.
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
There are several reasons why old docs work. First, release velocity approximated documentation velocity. If you only released once a year, your docs had time to be polished. Second, simplicity. Think of the length of the man page for ls in
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by kjellsbells 4mo ago
The fourth crusade was wild. - let's go and reclaim Jerusalem from those non-Christian infidels! - Sure. We're gonna need a bigger boat. Let's ask the Venetians. - Here are your ships, guys. - Err, we have no money. - Sigh. o
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by kjellsbells 5mo ago
I sure would hate to be a human developer named Claude right now. You wouldnt get credit for anything and every problem would be laid at your feet.

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