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by lokar 5mo ago
Ah, yes, I misunderstood. And I have seen cases where a direct CPU alert makes sense, but 99 times out of 100 times I see it, it's nothing but trouble. Worse, I tend to see the cpu alert when there are no end to end synthetic alerts,
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by lokar 5mo ago
IMO, the root of all of this is the almost total inability for most managers, and most eng orgs to measure individual engineer output in any useful way. And in particular in a way that lets you reliably compare engineers to each other. Des
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by lokar 5mo ago
Even a synthetic probe needs a few failures to trigger an alert. You should not alert on cpu, ram, etc
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by lokar 5mo ago
We are seeking a solution to a social problem, not just a technical problem. If it fails to achieve most of the social goals, it won't be used and you get something worse. Welcome to the real world.
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by lokar 5mo ago
For every different counties rating system? What about Wikipedia?
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by lokar 5mo ago
A header is probably better than a tag. The goal should be to satisfy most reasonable governments. A neutral technical standard and an international organization to maintain the the ontology for content descriptors
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by lokar 5mo ago
My point was they shouldn’t give an age rating, but instead a list of standardized content descriptors
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by lokar 5mo ago
Do the app stores have per-country rules to decide a rating?
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by lokar 5mo ago
The page having a simple rating assumes there can be one mapping from content to rating for the whole world. I doubt we can even have one for North America and Europe.
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by lokar 5mo ago
I think it really needs to be per-page. And, if we are going to do this the “design” should be global and anticipate a range of cultures.
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by lokar 5mo ago
And that started when we hired a couple people who were into competitive programming an started an event/contest
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by lokar 5mo ago
It would be interesting to hear the other side, the people running support. I wonder what fraction of requests are answered by basic knowledge and stuff clearly in the docs. At some very high fraction I could see a lot of pressure/in
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by lokar 5mo ago
Use the nearest airport code with passenger service? SNA
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by lokar 5mo ago
Inert gas?
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by lokar 5mo ago
IME “common sense” is code for “we don’t need to listen to experts about this”
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by lokar 5mo ago
Is there much direct evidence of sexual misconduct vs just influence peddling? FWIW, I found: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas... An interesting listen on this world (which I
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by lokar 5mo ago
We will take all of the white South Africans
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by lokar 5mo ago
So, the illegal activity continued, so the clock did not start?
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by lokar 5mo ago
Rambling in the sense of not being well prepared, like he had an idea and some points to hit, but not a script. The content was good, for me.
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by lokar 5mo ago
What is the substance of the appeal? IANAL, but AIUI, it's pretty hard to appeal a finding of fact from a jury.
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by lokar 5mo ago
A bit off topic, but about commencement speeches... Marvin Minsky spoke at my graduation. It was around the time when it seemed like genetic therapies might solve all kinds of problems, and there was a big debate, moral objections, etc. Mo
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by lokar 5mo ago
Has anyone seen a detailed analysis of the starlink business that includes the cost to re-launch sats as they burn up?
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by lokar 5mo ago
My company also used all 3 (at a very large scale / spends). MS was nice, but useless / incompetent technically. Anything non-trivial took forever to get a straight answer or resolve. We rarely got to speak directly to anyone w
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by lokar 5mo ago
The death penalty should be reserved for people who violate a position of public trust and authority.
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by lokar 5mo ago
It might be simpler/faster to get US based transit providers to block the Russian ASN
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by lokar 5mo ago
Well, Denmark would have been the one to agree.
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by lokar 5mo ago
Condescension is one of his core skills. Ask any long time googler
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by lokar 5mo ago
IP reputation lists predate Gmail by many years (eg spamhaus). I know Gmail used to use them, and may still. It would obviously make sense to keep their own stats as well.
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by lokar 5mo ago
You are confused. They are not "security" roles, they are compliance roles. That's all most enterprise customers really care about. They satisfied all of the compliance rules, and are following "best practices" (
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by lokar 6mo ago
This is because of the water rights system in the west. Water belongs to the first entity to have used it over a 150 years ago. Municipal water agencies have to buy at market rates.

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