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by molf 6mo ago
That sounds terrible! Glad you made it out alive and hopefully recovered well! Out of curiosity: how much did you take per day?
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by molf 6mo ago
It's only a matter of time before laptops get 5G. Macbooks have been rumoured for a while to get cellular modems. [1] This will probably help adoption. On the one hand it will generate more IPv6 traffic. On the other hand it will expos
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by molf 9mo ago
That's very interesting! It links to: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10/a-new-breed-of-analyz... and its HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348
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by molf 10mo ago
> Every company out there is using the cloud and yet still employs infrastructure engineers Every company beyond a particular size surely? For many small and medium sized companies hiring an infrastructure team makes just as little sen
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by molf 10mo ago
Interesting. Is this an issue with RDS? I use Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and it's been rock solid. No issues; troubleshooting works fine; all extensions we need already installed; can adjust settings where needed.
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by molf 10mo ago
> I'd argue self-hosting is the right choice for basically everyone, with the few exceptions at both ends of the extreme: > If you're just starting out in software & want to get something working quickly with vibe coding
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by molf 11mo ago
What is needed to evaluate OCR for most business applications (above everything else) is accuracy. Some results look plausible but are just plain wrong. That is worse than useless. Example: the "Table" sample document contains che
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by molf 11mo ago
This is a philosophy. One which many people that write Ruby subscribe to. The fundamental idea is: create a DSL that makes it very easy to implement your application. It is what made Rails different when it was created: it is a DSL that mak
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by molf 1y ago
Good question. There's a few reasons to pick UUID over serial keys: - Serial keys leak information about the total number of records and the rate at which records are added. Users/attackers may be able to guess how many records yo
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by molf 1y ago
There is a big difference though. Serial keys allow attackers to guess the rate at which data is being added. UUID7 allows anyone to know the time of creation, but not how many records have been created (approximately) in a particular time
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by molf 1y ago
ASML CEO: Mistral investment not aimed at strategic autonomy for Europe "In the long run, all AI models will be similar. It's about how you use the models in a well-protected environment. We will never allow our data and that of o
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by molf 1y ago
Not only are the CEO + COO French, they recently hired Le Maire, French ex-minister of Finance as a strategic advisor. ASML has also been rumoured to exit the Netherlands and relocate to France. It is definitely a political move.
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by molf 1y ago
If there were a culture of always including the original source, or journalists massively advocating to include the original source, then surely the CMS would cater to it. I think it's safe to draw the conclusion that most journalists
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by molf 1y ago
I feel this is an insanely distorted take. How about extreme and utter irrelevance (such as after building a thing nobody wants)? Or how about this, arguably the most common: slightly successful; nobody hates it but nobody loves it either.
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by molf 1y ago
The key insight is that you can represent different features by vectors that aren't exactly perpendicular, just nearly perpendicular (for example between 85 and 95 degrees apart). If you tolerate such noise then the number of vectors y
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by molf 1y ago
But ultimately it suggests this test; which only tests an empty loop? def test_empty_drc(): drc = Mock( spec_set=DockerRegistryClient, get_repos=lambda: [] ) assert {} == get_repos_w_tags_drc(drc)
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by molf 1y ago
I’m not sure this is good advice. I prefer to test as much of the stack as possible. The most common mistake I see these days is people testing too much in isolation, which leads to a false sense of safety. If you care about being alerted w
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by molf 1y ago
Not just in dev tools; that mess is also in your source code...
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by molf 1y ago
The points about visual hierarchy are spot on, in particular on macOS. I think Apple has two realistic paths forward to resolve this mess: 1. Double down on the aesthetic and gradually redesign apps to improve the hierarchy. That would mean
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by molf 1y ago
It would help tremendously if OpenAI would make it possible to apply for zero data retention (ZDR). For many business needs there is no reason to store or log any request at all. In theory it is possible to apply (it's mentioned on mul
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by molf 1y ago
Totally get your point, but math is still a human creation. The symbols, language, and frameworks we use are cultural, and disagreement over proofs like this one shows math depends on shared understanding, not just objective truth.
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by molf 1y ago
This is the first time I hear about keeping soy sauce in the fridge. Is this common?
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by molf 1y ago
C itself is fast; it's calls to C from Ruby that are slow. [1] Crossing the Ruby -> C boundary means that a JIT compiler cannot optimize the code as much; because it cannot alter or inline the C code methods. Counterintuitively this
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by molf 1y ago
Of course it would hallucinate. It would just pick arbitrary/wrong values.
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by molf 1y ago
Agree 100%. We built a very niche business around data extraction & classification of a particular type of documents. We did not have access to a lot of sample data. Traditional ML/AI failed spectacularly. LLMs have made this supe
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by molf 1y ago
This seems like a business problem more than a design issue. Systems need to evolve alongside the business they support. Starting out with a simple design and evolving it over time to something more nuanced is a feature. Your colleague was
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by molf 2y ago
"It didn't happen to me, therefore it is not a problem."
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by molf 2y ago
I think he argues that more thought should go into explicitly designing the behaviour of a software system ("What?"), independently from its implementation ("How?"). Explicitly designed program behaviour is an abstractio
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by molf 2y ago
> The first snakebite antivenom was made in the mid-1890s and the method has changed little since: snakes are “milked” for their venom, which is injected into horses or sheep and the antibodies that their immune systems then produce are
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by molf 2y ago
Is it satire because many of the buttons and links don't work so you can't actually finish anything? If it’s serious, I doubt it provides much real value. Developer experience is built on accomplishing actual tasks, not the surrou

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