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by perlgeek 11mo ago
Another aspect to consider: when you reduce the amount of permission anything has (like here the returned token), you risk breaking something. In a complex system it can be very hard to understand what will break, if anything. In a less com
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
Now somebody will uses this to hide their malware, somehow...
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
https://openai.com/charter/ > OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits al
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
Because training a model is expensive, takes a lot of time, and new models need to be evaluated. But you are right: the trend to represent some helpers compactly so that they don't eat up much of your context window, that's all a
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
You can also pay a commercial sec vendor if you don't want to rely on their goodwill.
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
Just this year I ran into the year 2038 limit in MariaDB where converting between Unix timestamps and ISO dates (don't remember the direction). By the time this happened, a new version was already out that had that limit lifted, but th
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
I don't have any insider knowledge, but it's not hard to imagine a customer with a fleet of machines that will run out of LTS soon. The project that replaces them is already on its way, but of course delayed. So now, what do they
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
Of course it mostly helps those who pay for it. But the availability of 15 years LTS is also a good argument for Linux in some corporate decision making.
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
When I'm writing new software, I kinda hate having to support old legacy stuff, because it makes my life harder, and means I cannot depend on new library or language features. But that's not what happens here, this is probably mos
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
I've used typst for generating PDFs before, how good is its HTML output?
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
Some scattered thoughts on that: * If everybody does it, it won't work so well * I've seen cases where folks pinned their dependencies, and then used "npm install" instead of "npm ci", so the pinning was worthl
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
At my employer, we have a small script that automatically checks such generated config files. It does a diff between the old and the new version, and if the diff size exceeds a threshold (either total or relative to the size of the old file
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Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays(nature.com)
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
Somewhat related, a psychologist I talked to in the 2000s said she really liked the Patronus concept in the Harry Potter books. You imagine an entity that's fueled by your positive memories and emotions, and that protects you from cert
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
There's also horizontal (intergenerational) gene transfer, though you might not call that "inheritance".
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
The article is about how difficult it is to study the effect in very simple organisms, and your criticism is that it's not yet studied in much more complicated organisms. Guess we need a few more decades (or centuries)...
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
One reason for collaboration is to raise the bus factor. For small to medium-sized applications, it's not hard to get a single good developer to crank out feature after feature... but they're the only one that understands any of i
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
It's no surprise that microorganisms evolve quicker to adapt to environmental changes. (At least for evolutionary / genetic changes). That makes me wonder if we'll soon see mammals with gut microbiomes that can digest micropl
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by perlgeek 1y ago
It sounds quiet inefficient to me. The energy differential comes from the different salt concentrations, so you have to move a lot of water to exploit a relatively low mass differential. Mentions of efficiency are conspicuously absent from
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"We are sorry for overwriting the manual translations of all our volunteers. We have disabled the workflow and are working on restoring the old, manual translations. We had planned to use the translation bot to help you guys, but based
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by perlgeek 1y ago
There might have been another VCS involved in between, dunno if it was SVN.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Heh, I can relate. We employ a lot of Linux and Windows admins, for them it's usually not a big problem. We also have a small finance team (typically around 2 employees), and finding somebody with a finance/billing background who
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I agree with basically everything you've said, but I'd add that I sometimes wish we had a way to sometimes pop up a GUI for very specific tasks. For example, enabling a fast multi-select of rows in a longish table (or even worse,
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Yes, we still have a TUI to our core CMDB and billing. With 500+ employees, not everybody is happy with it, so we also built an API and a web app to access and manipulate the most central data. But, we also have some power users who absolut
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by perlgeek 1y ago
If you link to a page with ads on it, will that webview load count as an ad impression?
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I recently listened to a podcast episode about Enron, and one of the red flags was that they reported profits on paper, but didn't generate cash flow proportional to their profits. Both Amazon and Nvidia probably don't need the ca
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VC investments are inherently high-risk, high reward. That is, most of the investments will go to zero, but hopefully one or two really good ones make up for it. In order to make that work, you have to invest in many different startups, w
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by perlgeek 1y ago
The real lesson they should learn is to not rely on running images and then using "docker commit" to turn it into an image, but instead to use proper image building tools. If you absolutely have to do it that way, be very delibera
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Probably not much larger at all, because the image doesn't need to contain Rust toolchain. I don't know if the rust compiler produces bigger binaries, but for a single program, it'll not make a big difference.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> Shell (which probably means specifically bash) Debian has ongoing efforts to make many shell scripts (like postinst Scripts in packages etc.) non-bash-specific. A minimal Debian installation doesn't contain bash, but rather dash,

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