lbriner

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by lbriner 2mo ago
We see the same thing in the UK and probably lots of countries. Data Centres are large, expensive and secretive so most people will have all kinds of theories about why they are to be resisted at all costs. * Job attrition because "AI&
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by lbriner 2mo ago
Definitely cost although your idea does sound more attractive. A small footprint much further away from the boundary than normal. You could even make them look nice but since demand is massive and timescales so long, I think anything that m
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by lbriner 2mo ago
I remember wanting to be important by upgrading the size of my monitor from the default 14" to 21" but unfortuantely, it also took up 50% of your desk space so I split the difference and lived with 17". My very first work exp
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by lbriner 2mo ago
I'm not sure I understand the logic that we wouldn't hire Juniors because now we have AI. What jobs are Juniors doing that AI can now do? I don't get juniors to build me entire web sites or implement complicated agentic piece
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by lbriner 2mo ago
Air traffic control have a very specific remit and it isn't as comprehensive as people assume. You can have "no service", "radar service" and "full service" and what they will advise you about is limited,
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by lbriner 2mo ago
This was the partial cause of Air France 447. Pilots were so used to "the plane won't make a mistake" that they were not aware/not trained properly about things that are nothing to do with the FMS like frozen pitot tubes
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by lbriner 2mo ago
I love this stuff. Seems like a massive untapped market if you get in partnership with a manufacturer. There are enough train buffs around the world, although I guess the tricky bit is that the dashboards are all different. I found it surpr
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by lbriner 2mo ago
Something that seems obvious but not always implied by people's comments is that people are rarely trying to match an entire document with a regular expression so it doesn't really matter that "HTML is not a regular language&
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by lbriner 3mo ago
Then the plane takes longer than the train!
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by lbriner 3mo ago
I thought pine trees were particularly acidic or their pine needles are, which is why the floor of pine forests is not very diverse, just large blankets of dead needles. The second part is right though, these are important but very long ter
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by lbriner 3mo ago
Developers don't like being measured for good and bad reasons. The good reason is that there is lots of effort that we expend that isn't always captured in metrics like long pieces of design or training others etc. The bad is that
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by lbriner 3mo ago
Same story. Ran a set of about 20 postfix mail servers for my company. Prided myself on being proactive, setting everything up correctly. Using things like DANE even before they were mandatory but the trouble was always random blocking whic
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by lbriner 3mo ago
I've always wondered why airlines are so bad at managing jet lag for passengers. On a long-haul with Virgin Airways from SFO to LHR, instead of telling people to sleep early in the flight and waking them up for food before arriving at
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by lbriner 3mo ago
You can use the Ralph Wiggum technique: https://ghuntley.com/ralph/
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by lbriner 3mo ago
Trying to be positive, there are lots of researchers in the world trying to improve forensic anthropomorphic techniques for the betterment of mankind and this is an interesting enough project to work on? But yes, if they had malaria, does i
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by lbriner 3mo ago
This guide is nicely formatted and very helpful but I think the comments prove that all it has done is taken a subset of the information from the manual and decided that "these parts are important" whereas the comments then unhelp
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by lbriner 3mo ago
The problem with this is people investing their time/expertise/money/energy into the common good and then have a small number of people ruining the benefit for their own ends, knocks the well-meaning out of the most positive
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by lbriner 3mo ago
I'm British but I always understood it as the second meaning. e.g. "We were going to consider XYZ but now it's a moot point because the project is cancelled."
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by lbriner 4mo ago
The US is very different from Europe. You have enormous amounts of space so even a Data Center that is "close by" is probably still a mile or more. In smaller places like European countries, the data centre wall might only be 100
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by lbriner 4mo ago
This does bring its own share of problems. 1000s of companies are registered in the UK with literally no checks. No address checking so people just pick a random address to register from the phone book! When it comes to tax issues etc. it t
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by lbriner 4mo ago
They have enough employees to build native apps that run super quick but are still seduced by the web portability argument which, as we all know, is mostly untrue even now and which introduces all kinds of non-deterministic latencies/e
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by lbriner 4mo ago
It depends on the distribution. The reason it is often used is when there are extremes in the distribution like a handful of people paying $1B per year on a property pulls the mean upwards. Also depends whether you can about the middle more
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by lbriner 4mo ago
pistachios is not the same thing as "food" it is just a small percentage of it. "Food" is important, pistachios not so much.
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by lbriner 5mo ago
I assume they have no way to track your sales back to this system via whoever else in government you sold to. Defaulting to "nothing" is not reliable because maybe you did and they want to know whether this whole thing is really m
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by lbriner 5mo ago
I also think the UK are very tight with money (not sure about other countries). There are lots of people, according to our local Clarks shoe shop, who get their feet measured and then just buy their shoes online to save a few pounds. People
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by lbriner 5mo ago
Serious question: If there are so many LLMs on online forums, who is doing it? Is it just 1000s of research students or something more nefarious? Is it AI businesses building up evidence that their output is as highly scored as humans there
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by lbriner 5mo ago
The scary thing for me is that in the US, the President and by extension the DoJ has a lot of power to override any legal protections that exist in most countries. In the UK, the Prime Minister or the Home Office cannot ring up any of the e
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by lbriner 6mo ago
Funny that I just saw this after have "Console temporarily unavailable". I am currently at the stage that: 1) I think Claude Code is very impressive 2) I think pretty much everything else about them is terrible. * Support really p
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by lbriner 6mo ago
This is such good advice. I think new founders are sometimes intimidated by customers, especially well-known brands, we don't want to upset or annoy them instead of being open about not being able to afford to run loads of pre-sales te
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by lbriner 6mo ago
Been through this many times. Have no problems and then all of a sudden, servers get blocked, same misleading error message about it being temporary, same annoying auto response that "we cannot see anything wrong" and same opaque

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