motorest

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by motorest 1y ago
> Fine particulates don't 'bother' you until you have that lung cancer diagnosis. Care to point out a source that supports a hypothetical link between rubber wheels and lung cancer?
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by motorest 1y ago
> I'd argue that the number of homelab folks have a whole CICD pipeline to update code and rebuild every container they use is a very small percentage. What? You think the same guys who take an almost militant approach to how they b
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by motorest 1y ago
> My point was that one should never expect a politician to admit that, (...) That's the problem with your false dichotomy: Trump already admitted tarrifs create economic problems. https://fortune.com/2025/02&#x
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by motorest 1y ago
> With learning, aren’t you exposed to the same risks? Such that if there was a typical blind spot for the LLM, it would show up in the learning assistance and in the development assistance, thus canceling out (i.e unknown unknowns)? I d
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by motorest 1y ago
> I mentioned k8s because when people talk about the benefits of containers, they usually mean the systems for deploying and running containers. No, it sounds like a poorly thought through strawman. Even Docker supports Docker swarm mode
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by motorest 1y ago
> Absolutely everything they said makes sense. Not really. It defies any cursory understanding of the problem domain, and you must go way out of your way to ignore how containerization makes everyone's job easier and even trivial to
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by motorest 1y ago
> Or they have explored other options and find docker lacking. I don't think so. Containerization solves about 4 major problems in infrastructure deployment as part of it's happy path. There is a very good reason why the whole
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by motorest 1y ago
> You have to be fair though, politicians always blame someone else and its usually the last person that was in charge. I don't think this is a reasonable or informed take. It's quite obvious that the tarrif lunacy is single ha
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by motorest 1y ago
> That is the key. The RPi works for idling, but anything else gets throttled pretty bad. I don't have a dog in this race, but I recall that RPi's throttling issues when subjected to high loads were actually thermal throttling.
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by motorest 1y ago
> It's wild that a president can say, "I don't like Elon anymore, so out of retaliation, I'm canceling all his government contracts," and ~40% of the country doesn't see that as corruption in any way, shape,
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by motorest 1y ago
> With docker, someone has to rebuild every container that contains a copy of the library. I think you're grossly overblowing how much work it takes to refresh your containers. In my case, I have personal projects which have nightly
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by motorest 1y ago
> Tools like Ansible exist and can do everything you mention on the deploy side and more (...) Your comment is technically correct, but factually wrong. What you are leaving out is the fact that, in order to do what Docker provides out o
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by motorest 1y ago
>>Oh my god no, docker is so damn useful I will never return to package managers/manual installation. This. These anti-containerisation comments read like something someone oblivious to containers would say if they were desperate
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by motorest 1y ago
> There's your problem. Docker adds indirection on storage, networking, etc., and also makes upgrades difficult as you have to either rebuild the container, or rely on others to do so to get security and other updates. None of your
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by motorest 1y ago
> My laptop from 2011 idles at 8W, with two SATA SSDs. some benchmarks show the Raspberry Pi 4 idling below 3W and consuming a tad over 6W under sustained high load. Power consumption is not an argument that's in favor of old laptop
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by motorest 1y ago
> Why do you need to update docker? For starters, addressing security vulnerabilities. https://docs.docker.com/security/security-announcements/ > I kept my box running for more than 1 year without upgrading
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by motorest 1y ago
> What is the difference between the two? There isn't. Referring to experimentation as "playing with" feels like a attempt to demean the output.
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by motorest 1y ago
> But what would trump have done if he retained the presidency and lost congress? Trump is blaming Biden for the obvious outcome of Trump's tarrif nonsense. What do you think Trump would have done?
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by motorest 1y ago
> What I love about the process is that it seems to have developed by playing with fire. Also known as experimentation, which is the whole basis of the scientific process.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Seems like the LLM is giving correct output if it’s generating a plausible string of tokens in response to your string of tokens. No. If you prompt it to get a response and then you ask it to cite sources, if it outputs broken links th
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by motorest 1y ago
> The approach of generating something and then looking for hallucinations is just stupid. To validate the output I have to be an expert. No. You only need to check for sources, and then verify these sources exist and they support the cl
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by motorest 1y ago
Taken from the blog: > Why are we talking about “graduate and PhD-level intelligence” in these systems if they can’t find and verify relevant links — even directly after a search? This is my pet peeves, and recently OpenAI's models
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by motorest 1y ago
> Both Perl and Python are from the same generation, and both are active and both have their latest release in 2025. I don't think that's what they mean by "Python" or "Perl". It sounds like they have a size
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by motorest 1y ago
> Imagine dealing with a VCS that has to handle 15 years and a few petabytes of binary assets. Part of the problem is that you're fabricating imaginary problems that no one is actually experiencing, and only to try to argue that the
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by motorest 1y ago
> I was one of those maintainers. So you're already wrong there. Please point out exactly where support for DiffX was implemented in either Mercurial or SVN.
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by motorest 1y ago
> They are using it. Which mainstream VCS supports this format?
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by motorest 1y ago
> Git is using a proprietary variant on top of Unified Diffs. What definition of "proprietary" are you using?
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> Lets add JSON to everything. What's wrong with JSON?
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> JSON doesn't seem a good choice for representing metadata in a format that aims to be universal. It is unnecessarily complicated for this purpose IMO That's an odd statement. Can you please explain why you believe that JSON i
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by motorest 1y ago
> They all do things so differently that you end up creating and maintaining a separate parser for every SCM's diff format (...) ...and you seriously believe that pushing yet another ad-hoc format, and one which no one at all uses,

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