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by nine_k 7mo ago
When paying for a (rare) failure is cheaper than paying for the (constant) absence of failure, it's just natural. You know, the optimal amount of fraud in a payment system is not zero. The optimal amount of fatal aircraft incidents is
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by nine_k 7mo ago
The incursion was by a fire engine which was hurrying to handle yet another incident. The weather was foggy, it was raining, and the incoming plane was already low, so it was pretty hard to tell it apart from many other lights shining from
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by nine_k 7mo ago
We as a society are both ATCs and plane passengers, and most often, the latter. And when an overworked ATC makes an error, we indeed may fail to survive.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
> nearly everything that matters in practice: where the matches are, how long they are, and how many there are I would say that regexes that matter in practice, e.g. when digging through logs, have clear boundaries that curb the pathol
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by nine_k 8mo ago
I noticed that Southern Europe often basically ignores both heating and cooling, especially close to the warm sea. But with heat pumps becoming normal in the North and in the US, they become mass-produced, and the prices fall. Same has happ
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Thank you for your project, it's elegant! It's pretty obvious that one-way binding is a two-way binding with one of the roads not taken. I see that e.g. a careful naming scheme could make it obvious what is reactive, and what is n
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Disclaimer: I only read description, did not try to code. What I like: the smart compiler that determines the actual dependencies, no need to declare them. Apparently the compiler is so smart as to compute the DOM diffs at compile time, whi
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Or it's two 300kW fast EV chargers working together. A typical home just consumes rather little energy, now that LED lighting and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Would a hedge fund that does not want to trust to a public AI cloud just buy chassis, mobos, GPUs, etc, and build an equivalent themselves? I suspect they value their time differently.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
In the mindshare, certainly. Bun to Deno is what Zig i to Rust: a much simpler, much easier way to overcome its common predecessor's shortcomings. Not nearly as thoroughly and revolutionarily, but still.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Is there a good example of an Open Source project that was born out of VC money? Not a failed attempt of hockey-stick growth that open-sources its code upon shutting down commercial operation, but a genuinely healthy FOSS project that start
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Indeed! But only after a year or so of using it in production, so that the drawbacks would be discovered.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
"We rewrote this code from language L to language M , and the result is better!" No wonder: it was a chance to rectify everything that was tangled or crooked, avoid every known bad decision, and apply newly-invented better appr
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by nine_k 8mo ago
> I want an OS that just works! This is exactly why modern Windows is problematic. MacOS is better. A right Linux distro (e.g. Fedora Silverblue) on right hardware (e.g. Thinkpad T series) also just works™; this basically the same kind
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by nine_k 8mo ago
This is normal to return a terse message to a remote user via API. The remote user may be hostile, actively trying to gather information useful for breaking in. But the local user who operates pf is already trusted, normally it would be roo
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by nine_k 8mo ago
What, not an ML model?
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by nine_k 8mo ago
I wonder if it's possible to guide the intonation in any way.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
The problem is that these people holding the actual purse don't care enough about their subordinates' experience. They care about the price tag, and about compliance. Apparently the makers of Teams think about the same. None of th
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by nine_k 8mo ago
How do we expect that everything goes all right if we give prod access to a pack of very smart dogs that know some key tricks? Now the same, when humans actually leave the room? My answer is simple: it just won't be all right this way.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Let's see how well it works for them. Apparently Salesforce had been a bit overly enthusiastic about layoffs, and recently had to backtrack.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
This is the kind of runaway self-improving development that proponents of the singularity keep talking about. The problem is that training appears to be really slow and expensive. Some quality thinking is required to improve the training ap
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Scams and "social engineering", as known for a long time, could be a good approximation.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
> silently wrap around, producing incorrect and unpredictable Now I'm more scared to use OpenBSD than I was a minute before. I strongly prefer software that fails loudly and explicitly.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
But this vulnerability is enabled by a very creative exploitation of the complicated bind mounting scheme used by snap-confine. Just reading about these mounts between /usr/lib to /tmp and back triggered my sense of a poten
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by nine_k 8mo ago
I love trackpoint for navigation and UI control. But it's not that great for drawing / painting (even though I did use it for that, successfully).
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by nine_k 8mo ago
I frankly would care little about the speed; it can always be improved with a better propellant. I would care about a cheap ability to guide the rocket. If it's there, it may be consequential for a real (para)military application. (A q
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by nine_k 8mo ago
I don't see it to be such a pain. > Bundle a full application into a Single Executable. Embed a zip file into the executable, or something. Node sort of supports this since v25, see --build-sea. Bun and Deno support this for a l
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Zip files are created in such a way that they can be a part of an executable file. (This is how self-extracting archives used to work.) Support for reading zip files is lightweight, and is present almost everywhere. A ZIP fork embedded into
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by nine_k 8mo ago
> days, not hours At some moment I realized that reviews are holding things back most of all. I started to jump to review my team's code ASAP. I started to encourage others to go review things ASAP. It works even in relatively lar
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Dataclasses can skip validation, hence they are faster, when you can trust the inputs.

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