mannyv

9 ms·

121.
by mannyv 11mo ago
As many writers have said, the problem with "safe," "beneficial," etc is that their meanings are unclear. Are we going to be AI pets, like in The Culture (Iain banks)? Would that be so bad? Would AI curate us like pets a
122.
by mannyv 11mo ago
IMO the problem is he was going for "real AI" instead of "fake it until you make it" AI. Then LLMs came and it still wasn't "real enough."
123.
by mannyv 11mo ago
While that may be true, there are people that move the needle more than others.
124.
by mannyv 11mo ago
There are people IRL that actually use em dashes and colons. Just because em-dash usage is the latest trend in "spot the AI" doesn't mean that everything with an em-dash is AI generated.
125.
by mannyv 11mo ago
One real world task for this would be to log into safeway.com and click all the coupons. It's something Comet can't seem to do. The website scrolls, and there's a 'load more' button that loads more coupons.
126.
by mannyv 11mo ago
Moving to IPv6 works until it doesn't.
127.
by mannyv 11mo ago
QUIC might be great, but what about the PHY layer? How are they simulating that? Can the PHY later handle packets that take forever to arrive? And what happens if you have half a packet? How would this compare to, say, using the same stuff
128.
by mannyv 11mo ago
What this outage teaches you is that when a third party vendor fails and the internet breaks you can point the finger at them with no issues. If your shit breaks and everyone else's shit is still working that's a problem.
129.
by mannyv 11mo ago
Why do we need a plan for pennies? Reporters et al always want 'a plan,' which is ironic because they have problems planning more than a week in advance.
130.
by mannyv 11mo ago
Communication/language depends on shared context. The more context you share the shorter the trigger for evoking that thing and that context. And if you share no context communication becomes very difficult. I wasn't aware that th
131.
by mannyv 11mo ago
Not retiring the debt was a choice. The practical reason for not retiring the debt was that the world needs a zero risk benchmark. The did retire the long bond, though.
132.
by mannyv 11mo ago
Go Limp Go! For all the engineers that say management doesn't matter, I give you David Limp. Management doesn't matter until it does.
133.
by mannyv 11mo ago
And the people rejoiced!
134.
by mannyv 11mo ago
The US is already the world's largest oil producer and has been for a while. We don't need venezuela's oil. Time to update your cliches.
135.
by mannyv 11mo ago
It seems like a common thread for de-clouders is they run RoR.
136.
by mannyv 11mo ago
"It works, until it doesn't." The question is, at what point does it not work? Vacuuming is grief enough. Rebuilding the index sounds like more of a nightmare than with Solr/Lucene. And what happens when indexing fails?
137.
by mannyv 1y ago
There are times when low power is better, because it allows the router to ignore far away clients. In simple terms, far away = more work to communicate = more airtime = less throughput. It probably only matters with multiple devices.
138.
by mannyv 1y ago
The author talks about Java and cache coherency, but ignores the fact that the JVM implementation is above the processors caches and per the spec can have different caches per thread. This means you need to synchronize every shared access,
139.
by mannyv 1y ago
They should terminate TLS at the LB and use normal connection inside...unless they have some HIPAA privacy-like regulation going on.
140.
by mannyv 1y ago
The estate of the dead person would be on the hook for the bill, unless the spouse co-signed. You might want to check that.
141.
by mannyv 1y ago
Iron Sky is just a movie...as far as we can tell.
142.
by mannyv 1y ago
It's strange that they didn't try to negotiate lower pricing or just use another storage service. Or, just have the lambda delete the file or change its storage tier once processing is done. Or, just use a lambda instead of a prox
143.
by mannyv 1y ago
You talk to your account rep to do a guaranteed spend in exchange for a discount. Some services get large discounts, some don’t. Depends on utilization. For 10k you should get a lot.
144.
by mannyv 1y ago
Given how hard it is to understand AWS billing, especially if you have custom pricing, I doubt his numbers are anywhere near correct. That said, I hope they're using their prime Visa card so they can get some cash back on that spend.
145.
by mannyv 1y ago
This is why we use us-east-2.
146.
by mannyv 1y ago
It sounds like you picked the wrong platform because you didn’t understand what you were doing. That’s not a technology issue.
147.
by mannyv 1y ago
It depends on you understanding your app and how things need to be structured. We have what essentially is a video CMS, so we have two parts: a management UI that end-users use and a backend that actually delivers the video and collects met
148.
by mannyv 1y ago
No, it's because we changed the way we process our metrics. Previously we processed our metrics by consolidating them into multidimensional entries on a minute basis. We moved to single metric second-based collection, because it was ge
149.
by mannyv 1y ago
Actually, scalability is cheap. Our AWS bill until recently was around $160-$200 a month. To get the level of HA and performance would require at least 20 boxes in two data centers. Dev/test/prod with an HA db and a backend that n
150.
by mannyv 1y ago
The reason you don’t this in psql is that for some versions of Postgres case is significant and you need to use quotation marks. I ran into this at one point and it drove me bonkers. Older versions of pg let you create cases identifiers wit

More ›