klooney

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by klooney 2y ago
LLMs are even more limited than humans though- tiny context windows, can't really learn new things- which really raises the bar on writing APIs that are footgun free.
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by klooney 2y ago
A lot of the people writing are in the US, which mostly does R&D and services- broad automation of production is likely to be invisible here.
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by klooney 2y ago
Because people take input from the Internet and run it through them.
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by klooney 2y ago
No Great Leap Forward?
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by klooney 2y ago
I rolled out their "workloads for AWS" stuff recently, it was pretty slick to be able to have AWS IAM roles just translate to GCP roles. You don't have to run your own CA like you do for AWS Anywhere.
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by klooney 2y ago
There is a non-configurable kernel in there
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by klooney 2y ago
> So what now? Safari is going to be the leading force moving the web forward? Even Safari is massively subsidized by Google paying to be the default browser. If those billions go away, engineering investment will be cut.
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by klooney 2y ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/epa-approves-texas-clean-a... Sounds better for the environment than I'd feared...
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by klooney 2y ago
> Working with states and tribes to resolve massive backlog with State Implementation Plans and Tribal Implementation Plans that the Biden-Harris Administration refused to resolve (SIPs/TIPs) What's up with that?
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by klooney 2y ago
I'm impressed at how much better Oracle Java performs compared to Zulu, I'd been assuming all the JDKs were fungible.
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by klooney 2y ago
Here are the things that TF does that you are probably not going to get around to in a comprehensive way- - State tracking, especially all of the tedious per cloud resource details - Parallelism- TF defaults to 10 threads at a time. You won
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by klooney 2y ago
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/random/lat... is also very useful for this sort of thing, in case you want a persistent random value per resource- shuffle, id, pet, and password are all supe
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by klooney 2y ago
Solar panels fail pretty safe. I guess there's fire risk? Wind turbines are generally located in areas where rapid unscheduled disassembly would be harmless.
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by klooney 2y ago
Sure, but this is HN, and we get a lot of The Case For Nuclear Power articles coming through, and startups building micro reactors that everyone thinks are very cool- me too, honestly- but I think that the case against gets given short shri
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by klooney 2y ago
> grossly-improper maintenance would cause a fallout incident. At scale, in the long run, you will get grossly improper maintenance. I feel comfortable asserting that without feeling like a total cynic. It's not just nuclear either,
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by klooney 2y ago
You can't. The problem with nuclear is that it needs to be properly maintained forever. If you get an irresponsible government or power company that cheaps out in 30 years, oopsies, you're going to irradiate the local area. It&#x2
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by klooney 2y ago
> Feels a bit like saying that subsidising personal cars is good for the tank business. I mean, in WWII, a lot of car manufacturers made tanks instead. Buick made the Hellcat, Chrysler, Ford and a variety of train manufacturers made the
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by klooney 2y ago
REI is a purchaser coop, not an employee coop.
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by klooney 2y ago
LSPs can only do fairly narrow, predefined changes, I honestly get excited when I finally get something that'll fit in that box.
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by klooney 2y ago
The future of programming is SRE work for an engineering team of robots.
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by klooney 2y ago
Matt Yglesias wrote a great summary of this awhile back- https://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doom...
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by klooney 2y ago
George Washington is in play in this analysis.
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by klooney 2y ago
Worth drilling down on Direct Instruction- https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/guest-the-drawbac... > Want to raise reading comprehension scores? Direct Instruction (or direct instruction) is a surefire way t
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How the Rockefeller Foundation helped bootstrap the field of molecular biology(freaktakes.com)
2 points by klooney 2y ago|0 comments
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> 98% of all the attacks occurred during 9am – 4pm EST (US working hours). > There were zero cyber-attacks on Saturdays and Sundays with all attacks centralised between Mon-Fri. > No attacks occurred during Memorial Day and Indepen
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by klooney 2y ago
Rundeck uses this with its Docker images, though I haven't seen it anywhere else. Has anybody really used it in anger?
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I had no idea
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by klooney 2y ago
FreeBSD already ported it, I don't know a about the rest. Why do you think it's particularly tied to Linux?
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by klooney 2y ago
https://www.tesla.com/model3 says "From $29,9901"
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How America traded systematic improvement for quick wins–and lost both(population.fyi)
62 points by klooney 2y ago|15 comments

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