mrweasel

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by mrweasel 9mo ago
A few years ago I talked to an developer advocate for Azure. I wanted to know why it took for ever when you wanted a new public IP. My take was that it felt like they went out on the internet to look for an IP to purchase from a 3rd. party.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
> If only any of that was useful! I'm apparently in the top 500... I really should get a better hobby.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Microsoft did do the experiment (Project Natick) where they had "datacenters" in pods under the sea with really good results. The idea was simply to ship enough extra capacity, but due to the environment, the failure rates where 1
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
AI has changed nothing in terms of learning to program, it's every bit as complicated as it ever were (well languages are better now, compared to the 1960s, but still hard). Becoming an expert takes years, if not decades. If someone ha
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Sadly even if Microsoft had a few lineups of laptops that they'd use internally and recommend, companies would still get the shitty ones, if it saves them $10 per device.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
No, no they really aren't, but I was thinking the "scraping industry" in the sense that that's a thing. Getting hosting in smaller datacenters is simple enough, but you may need to manage your own hardware, or VMs. Many
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
The two first I'd get behind, the latter two I just don't think matter too much. Algorithmic, for profit, social media is by far the worst technology ever foisted upon humanity. Even most of the issues with AI/LLMs become moo
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
> You can’t get much crawling done from published cloud IPs. Think about why that might be. I'm sorry, if you legitimately need to crawl the net, and do so from a cloud provide, your industry screwed you over with bad behaviour. Go
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Anyone could scrape the net, then modern scrapes came along with their shitty code and absolutely no respect. The reason why so many of us block or throttle scrapers is because they miss behave. They don't back off, they try to by-pass
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
First of: Google has not once crashed one of our sites with GoogleBot. They have never tried to by-pass our caching and they are open and honest about their IP ranges, allowing us to rate-limit if needed. The residential proxies are not nee
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Right, Microsoft have the ability to recover the key, because average people lose their encryption keys and will blame Microsoft if they can't unlock their computer and gain access to their files. BitLocker protects you from someone st
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
They have a recovery sheet you can print. If you lose your key, you can use the recovery information on that piece of paper to regain access. You put the recovery information in a safe place. That is also exactly why people like myself are
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
I don't think that's motivated by money. The US companies simply solved more interesting problems. Working for a start up in the Bay area trying to invent a new industry, or scale systems to global is generally more interesting th
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Assuming that people are solely motivated by money, which most aren't. You can't pay me enough to put my children into a school system that has "active shooter" drills. After a certain point money stops being a motivatio
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
While I don't think this is trauma in the traditional sense, it might be something similar. My father-in-law, who known her for decades, told me that it's a crush on one of the band members. Basically a teenage crush that never go
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
My wife and I have been helping a friend of the family move and part of it was dealing with the hoarding. The part in the article about "just buying a new umbrella" is so relatable. We where moving our friend and she needed an ext
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
I don't know about others, but we have special rules for Google, Bing, and a few others, rate-limiting them less than some random bot. The problem is scrapers (mostly AI scrapers from what we can tell). They will pound a site into the
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Old scanners were SCSI, which made me wonder if you could use them as boot devices, if you could stuff the scanner driver and OCR software into the BIOS. Might be easier now that we have uEFI.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
I don't really see any mentioning of a new API, beyond their Vertex AI thing, and I don't know how comparable that might be. Also it is capped at 50 domains (by default). It is perhaps a clever legal workaround. They must sell acc
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
It's the same as long Twitter posts, strung together by endless tweets a few years ago. People have a platform, they use that. If you don't make it a habit to post long articles, why bother with a new platform when the one you hav
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
This might be me reading it wrong, but isn't shutting down the full-web search going against the ruling mentioned in the Kagi post? > Google must provide Web Search Index data (URLs, crawl metadata, spam scores) at marginal cost. Ma
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Running this on Azure Postgresql, even migrating to CosmosDB, cannot be cheap. I know that OpenAI have to deal/relationship with Microsoft, but still, this has to be expensive. This is however the most down to earth: How we scale Postg
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Sure, but it also guarantees that people will think twice about buying their service. Support should have reached out and informed them about whatever they did wrong, but I can't say that I'm surprised that an AI company wouldn&#x
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
But the energy from windmills doesn't have a CO2 tax (it did at some point) and it frequently provides most, if not all, of the Danish energy (electricity) consumption. There's ONE coal fired power plant left in the country and it
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Arguing that European business should be allowed to pollute the environment more, because that's what China does is a little backwards I think. In my mind we should enforce the rules on a per product basis, rather than per country. Whe
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
> Well, OK--but at what cost? It costs less? The Danish organisation for green energy interest (biased I known) has calculations that shows a 5 billion DKK saving per year for the Danish consumers. So about €0.02 per kWh. I also think yo
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Had Russia indeed invaded Ukraine in three days, I don't think the EU today would have been any less dependent on Russians energy than in 2022.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
I've used DDG since, 2012, and switched to Ecosia about three years ago. In my experience if DDG or Ecosia can't find something, then neither can Google. In some cases I still check with !g, but Google is now worse than both DDG a
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
So you use Google. Kagi still rely on Googles index.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
The lines where pretty blurred already. If you search for the exact name of an app, I think that needs to go first in the results, the ads can be the third or forth. Having ads show up before the "correct" app is incredibly danger

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