mnahkies

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by mnahkies 1y ago
Tying legislation/compliance requirements to specific vendor (Apple/Google) that happen to be dominant today feels wild to me (as opposed to open standards). Surely that directly entrenches their moat, and raises the difficulty of
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by mnahkies 1y ago
One way we dealt with this in the past was assigning an "affinity" to each tenant and basically routing their writes/reads to that host, excepting if that host was down. You would still get weird replication issues/confl
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Not a bathroom one, but the number of times I've tried to pay for public transport with my work/office fob is mental. Generally happens on days where I'm feeling sharper than average but also consumed with problem solving
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Fun thing is I'm actually onboard with that if all said data stays local and in my control. I can understand why it's beneficial to providing a more useful experience, but also very concerned about the potential negative externa
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Yeah this is a fair take - I guess my unwritten stipulation was don't expect anything from the JavaScript standard library to behave as you'd expect, outside of fairly narrow paths. TBH even when working with other languages I&#x2
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by mnahkies 1y ago
It's probably improved the past 8 years or so, but I remember Safari was particularly bad for bugs around DST and just dates in general back then, even when using valid input. We ended up with a bunch of Safari specific workarounds tha
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by mnahkies 1y ago
It's a fun quiz, and there's a lot of surprising behaviour. However in my opinion from a practical perspective it mostly doesn't matter. Think hard about whether your use case really cares about local time, try and find ways
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Really wish that GCP had a AWS lightsail equivalent offering. I'd happily make use of services like GCS and PubSub for my personal projects if they did, but I can't justify the GCE cost
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by mnahkies 1y ago
> we can dig holes and transfer materials into anything we need with the practically free daytime energy. I guess you mean stuff like this https://gravitricity.com/ - I believe there's a few old coals mines in Scotl
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I'd expect storage/batteries can help smooth this out by providing shiftable demand/production (with the right local control software running on/near the inverter) Eg: https://www.next-kraftwerke.be/knowl
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I don't think the author has seen k8s done well. They imply that serverless is necessary to achieve a "you build it you run it" setup, but that's false. We operate in a self-serve fashion predominantly on kubernetes, and
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I'm probably missing something, so would be great to get a ELI5 for this. How does storing passkeys in a password manager materially differ from the very long/strong passwords I'm already storing in my password manager? (and
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I often submit minor bug fixes or features to fairly popular projects, and as an outside contributor the communication can be very async. It's typically limited to GitHub PR/issue discussions, and sometimes the latency is measured
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I'm no expert, but I'd imagine privacy plays (or should play) a big role in this. I'd expect that compute costs mean any learning would have to be in aggregate rather than specific to the user which would then risk leaking in
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by mnahkies 1y ago
In case anyone else is interested, I managed to get chatgpt to spit out an almost complete grammar https://github.com/mnahkies/node-scim/pull/7 - it's not perfect, but it did significantly better than wh
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by mnahkies 1y ago
My understanding of it is that it's just a bunch of well known HTTP endpoints that a server will call as things happen (eg: user is disabled). I think the general intention is that these can/should be retried until the caller rece
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Agree on the emails (even just from mobile devices having a habit of putting capital letters in unintentional places), but I was more meaning the attribute keys, eg "username", "familyName" being case-insensitive. I&#x27
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Something I found odd / unnecessary whilst building a SCIM client was that fields are supposed to be case-insensitive: > Attribute names are case insensitive and > are often "camel-cased" (e.g., "camelCase") W
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by mnahkies 1y ago
So one of the use cases we're serving in production is predicting energy consumption for a home. Whilst I've not tried, I'm very confident that providing an LLM the historical consumption and asking it to predict future consu
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Phone call was available, but I choose chat in this instance. It wasn't a particularly complex conversation - I outlined my experience, and my doubts from my research and he came back with availability and some direction. I was on holi
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I've been a bit of a skeptic around that, but recently had an amazing experience with a small motorcycle rental company where we arranged everything over Whatsapp. They had a basic website that outlined their general terms and bikes on
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I'm not sure if you're implying that very small language models would be run in your raspberry pi example, but for use cases like the time series one, wouldn't something like an LSTM or TiDE architecture make more sense than
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Sure, and in those cases you'd typically have a dedicated repository storing said schema and migrations. It's important to manage your schema in code for various reasons from change control to standing up development databases, et
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I'm still haunted by a bug caused by the JSON serializer our C# apps were using emitting bigints as JSON numbers, only for the JavaScript consumers to mangle them silently. Kinda blows my mind that the accepted behavior is to just over
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I asked it (the codex cli from GitHub, so guess the codex-mini model) to implement some changes to a SQL parser, and solve typescript build errors/test failures. I found it pretty amusing to get back: "Because we’re doing a fair a
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by mnahkies 1y ago
The worst / most amusing example of this I've seen in the wild was a third party line of business application that was sequentially triaging "pending tasks" to assign priority/to workers. Our cloud provider had an a
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I wonder if there's any value in these kind of rules for detecting AI slop / "vibe coding" and preempting the need for reviewers to call it out.
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I tend to agree. I don't know the differences between the two well enough to know if it was the case here, but in my experience sometimes you need to innovate on a fork, or from scratch in order to create the space/freedom to do s
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by mnahkies 1y ago
Last I checked it was only Azure offering the Nvidia specific confidential compute extensions, I'm likely out of date - a quick Google was inconclusive. Have GCP and AWS started offering this for GPUs?
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by mnahkies 1y ago
I think there's a related problem where profiling/measurements can be made poorly and not reflect the real world. Eg: indexing or partitioning a database table may appear to make things slower if you don't have both a represe

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