lll-o-lll

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by lll-o-lll 24d ago
> in the field for the wrong reasons It’s an interesting view-point. What are the “right reasons” to pursue an intellectual discipline? To selflessly further the total sum of knowledge? > No reason to mourn them leaving What field? Wh
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by lll-o-lll 24d ago
> But there's still play. There's still curiosity. And there's still the drive to understand something for yourself. Yes, but think about what that implies if those are the only motivations left. Gone are the professions.
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by lll-o-lll 24d ago
> We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work This is the crux of it and goes far beyond Mathematics or Computer Science. To get a bunch of humans to do anything, you have to motivate them. Kleos and Timē; renown and stuff. T
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by lll-o-lll 28d ago
> "You can't debug something just by reading the code." This is exactly how I debug things. When I first started working I was forbidden from using the debugger “you won’t have a debugger in the field”. Being able to read
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by lll-o-lll 1mo ago
The revolving door between politician to made man (lobbyist) seems like a bit of a problem, no? These poor ex-politicians/staffers need to earn those mil+ salaries or they couldn’t effectively save these poor industries from demise? Pe
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by lll-o-lll 1mo ago
The dpop thing is oauth. It’s providing a significant enhancement to preventing token replay, or token theft, at the cost of some request size bloat + an additional key verification.
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by lll-o-lll 1mo ago
No. Client assertion flow is for services (or agents).
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by lll-o-lll 1mo ago
All my days of low level stuff were in the windows world where async/cancel was supported since nt kernel days at least. Wrapping this coherently at some level of abstraction was always worth doing, although threads are just one way. O
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
Clearly we have the same employer. Get off hacker news and get back to work!
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
I’m not expecting much from the comment side of things! But I’ve played with FoundationDB over the last couple of years, and see it as such incredible technology for the enterprise. The trouble is that as a “foundation”, it’s not immediatel
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
Interesting. I found this article that does point to Amit Patel as the originator of “Don’t be evil” at google. “Mayer explained that Don't Be Evil was coined in 1999 by one of Google's first engineers, Amit Patel, who shared a
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
And writing “Don’t be evil” everywhere. I suspect being the “originator” is contested; but this wonderful nerd, who made Red Blob Games, is the spirit. Barren Realms Elite and Falcons Eye were my favourite doors games as a teen (written by
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
> an observability and operability library for CL systems, and a large scale log, metrics and tracing platform that leverages these - in about 200K lines of code and tests. This sounds really really interesting. I don’t suppose you can s
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
> college here gives students with ADHD double time on exams No offence, but this is a ridiculous thing to get worked up about. Various neurological conditions exhibit in people just being “slow” in exams. No one ever diagnosed me with a
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
I used to throw up and faint as a youngster, when having to do talks. Was unable to call people on the phone for years. Anxiety is a bitch. However, the only way out is through. I confidently speak in front of 100’s regularly. I can pick
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by lll-o-lll 2mo ago
RF as in radio. Radio waves have this nasty habit of leaking out past the fence: https://cyote.inl.gov/content/uploads/24/2025/12/CyOTE-Case-... In water/wastewater much of infrastructure is ph
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by lll-o-lll 3mo ago
It’s not a paper HQ, but it is for tax purposes.
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by lll-o-lll 3mo ago
Femto second laser lightsabering through insect heads + electron microscope to provide an MRI style animation through the insect. All in what appears to be some guys garage done as hacker as hacker can be. It’s crazy cool.
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by lll-o-lll 3mo ago
I did not say that humans anthropomorphise every rock or stick. The point is that we are hard-wired for this possibility . Perhaps something more relatable? A cat? We ascribe all sorts of emotions to instinctive feline behaviours. It doe
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by lll-o-lll 3mo ago
That’s not a solution. Humans are wired to anthropomorphise; we do it with sticks and rocks. How much more so with LLMs. We’ve invented a technology that hijacks that part of humanity more effectively than anything ever. Asking people to “n
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by lll-o-lll 3mo ago
Cool. I will assert a magic 8 ball that gives the correct answer. Are we done?
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by lll-o-lll 3mo ago
Having worked on SCADA software in the past, I find the evolution of the control room UX fascinating. You can see in these pictures, where every input and output is a real physical thing, just how much density of information was required
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by lll-o-lll 3mo ago
Not a doctor, this is how it was explained to me by my doctor. Paracetamol/acetaminophen has a therapeutic dose that is uncomfortably close to the fatal dose, but is otherwise as safe as any drug can possibly be. So long as you don’t t
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by lll-o-lll 4mo ago
If we are going to start discounting economists based on failure to correctly predict things like - interest rates - then you’re going to be chopping the entire mainstream field. If any economist was ever beholden to making accurate predict
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by lll-o-lll 4mo ago
> Let the kids play. To a point. Plenty of people from previous generations with missing digits and hands thanks to play with commonly available fireworks of the area (Australia based, so no idea how common that remains in the US). My ow
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by lll-o-lll 4mo ago
So VB6 or earlier is what you are probably remembering, and VB has a fascinating history as it started life as a wysiwyg design tool before it was attached to any language. However, you need to remember that these simpler tools were a produ
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by lll-o-lll 4mo ago
> Perhaps the biggest difference I see from millenials and gen z is that the degree in which they realize the difference between having earned the right to expressing your opinion and expressing your opinion. This made me laugh so hard!
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by lll-o-lll 4mo ago
“Tinker in my garage” for low level things. If I’m playing around with a custom layer 2 protocol, python is not my language of choice. Basically, if what you are tinkering needs precise control over the bits and bytes, Zig (or C) are design
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by lll-o-lll 4mo ago
Seeing as I can get about 200K TPS from a networked DB in my environment, I have to question your setup here. In the real world we are looking at things like RPO (recovery point objective) and RTO (recovery time objective). You need to cons
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by lll-o-lll 4mo ago
We’re all enterprise. If you have 200 WF’s/sec each with 200 events, it sounds to me that you have a sizeable amount of work flowing through this system. 17 million workflows per day? Can I call these transactions? Do these transaction

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