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by kobalsky 9mo ago
> Month 2: The Cracks Start Showing > First production issue: a service kept crashing with OOMKilled errors. > ... > I spent three hours figuring out: > ... > What the difference between requests and limits even means so h
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by kobalsky 9mo ago
you can ask the LLM for an adhoc report. it can look at the schema, run the queries and give you the results. of course you can just give it read access.
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by kobalsky 11mo ago
also the API was working fine while the dash was down. if you don't have the keys make sure to grab them for the next one.
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by kobalsky 11mo ago
> - How is it possible that other users of Aurora aren't experiencing this issue basically all the time? How could AWS not know it exists? I know that there is no comparison in the user base, but a few years ago I ran into a massive
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by kobalsky 11mo ago
Well, it used to be justified but if they are lowering their rates it's in part because they are starting to get replaced by regional wallets. Personally I think it's fantastic they are losing ground because it really rubs me the
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by kobalsky 11mo ago
running home assistant on a raspberry with a zigbee usb hub is a weekend project and it gives you full control of your devices, you don't need internet access or any cloud subscription to control them.
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by kobalsky 11mo ago
the first thing I thought was building a robot dog with these, they probably already built an evangelion with these they aren't showing us
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by kobalsky 1y ago
why would you go through the trouble of doing SSR on a user profile form? it's not needed for SEO, caching it is pointless, the server won't render it faster than the client so you are not speeding up anything. what's the poi
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by kobalsky 1y ago
CZ crime was not complying with anti laundering US laws, which basically meant he didn't do KYC to keep USA users out. He got 4 months. SBF stole user funds to basically role play as a billionare.
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by kobalsky 1y ago
MCP servers are basically a tool call registries, how could it be worse than a regular tool call?
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by kobalsky 1y ago
Banks wouldn't have made an error like this public. Maybe if there was an investigation an audit trail exists that could bring that to the public. With crypto this isn't an option, you screw up in public by default, there's n
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by kobalsky 1y ago
you are mixing up concepts. crypto assets like BTC and ETH are insanely volatile, I agree with this, don't put your retirement money there. crypto coins issued by an entity, like in the article, you can trust them as much as you trust
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by kobalsky 1y ago
I didn't want to discuss whether the banking system provides or not a trustable audit trail when someone screws up, because I don't know about it and I don't want to speculate whether stuff gets sweeped under rug or not. with
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by kobalsky 1y ago
well, then you are the target demographic of that headline, keep rolling on the confirmation bias. the only reason this is public is because the blockchain ledger is public and unmodifiable. if this mistake had been made on banking system,
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by kobalsky 1y ago
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. This is already implemented on the ESP32 by the hardware vendor. EDIT: to further clarify, there are no gotchas or anything, you can use your own servers and require the images to be signed or not.
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by kobalsky 1y ago
the GPU market is not what it used to be, it's not some checkbox some executive needs to check to say "we are doing something". the chips are so valuable now NVIDIA will end up owning a chunk of every major tech company, ever
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by kobalsky 1y ago
my tinfoil-hat theory is that on each OS iteration Apple adds a new feature that leverages the latest chips hardware acceleration features and for older chips they do software-only implementations. they ship-of-thesseus the crap out of thei
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by kobalsky 1y ago
you can have 2 identical partitions on the ESP, the OTA flashes the inactive partition and signals to bootloader to attempt to boot it from there. the device is restarted, if the new firmware is working correctly you signal the update proce
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by kobalsky 1y ago
> Being able to ignore parallel rendering, RSC, hooks, etc, and just write simple code for simple sites again would be fantastic. I don't understand this statement. You can use the basics without involving yourself with anything com
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by kobalsky 1y ago
that sounds like clinical depresion, I'd check with my endocrinologist to get blood work done
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by kobalsky 1y ago
I have seen it doing incredible stuff. One shotted adding a feature that included modifications to a proprietary backoffice system, db schema updates, defining new api models, implementing changes on the backend and then on the frontend. I&
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by kobalsky 1y ago
If you offered them a place to do leverage trading, you would be getting extradited to the US. Failure to do your KyC is no excuse. Be careful what you put in that menu.
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by kobalsky 1y ago
> How does Claude deciding to end the conversation even matter if you can back up a message or 2 and try again on a new branch? if we were being cynical I'd say that their intention is to remove that in the future and that they are
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by kobalsky 1y ago
You can unironically defeat the person detector with a box a la Metal Gear. Kojima was truly thinking ahead. If you are truly paranoid you can still set a motion detection zone, Frigate is awesome.
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by kobalsky 1y ago
big companies doing stuff for free can kill industries. 10 years is enough the ensure that any professional and company trying to make a living from earthquake early detection systems is working on something different. yeah, someone will po
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by kobalsky 1y ago
> I have never used tor so novice question: why not? bandwidth is a scarce resource on tor.
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by kobalsky 1y ago
You're confusing belief with accepting the current scientific consensus.
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by kobalsky 1y ago
Running Windows from a ZFS partition with its own dedicated GPU, viewed through looking-glass on the Linux host at 1440p@120Hz, has been super useful. I set it up originally for gaming, but nowaways I install a lot of disposable software th
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by kobalsky 1y ago
This feels like a nothingburger. There isn't even a hint of how the virtual human works or a demo or anything. Just lots of back patting about the clever name.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> So relaxing while also so darkly funny it has that early internet screamer vibes, I was a bundle of nerves all the time.

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