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by perlgeek 1y ago
Who runs around with a 100gb+ /tmp partition? Our default server images come with a 4.4GB /tmp partition...
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I've been doing online banking with German banks since at least 2002, and never payed a single cent in fees for transfers. Funnily enough when I spent some time in Scotland in 2007 I opened a local bank account there, and OMG: * they
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by perlgeek 1y ago
It's fine to have a non-zero false-positive rate, when you then have an effective way to appeal decisions based on these false positives. The lack of effective appeal seems to be the real problem with paypal.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
This is researched as a potential treatment to an acute viral infection. For the duration of the treatment, you can accept the increased risk of bacterial infections. Just like you accept the risk of increased yeast infections while treatin
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by perlgeek 1y ago
In table tennis, applying spin on the ball toss during service is forbidden. To make sure you don't apply spin, you have to toss the ball with open palm. Of course, once the racquet hits the ball, spin is a huge component of the game,
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by perlgeek 1y ago
At least it's terrible user experience to have to click on the "more" button several times to see the number of items you actually wanted to see. But yes, one could probably also construct a series of queries that reveal prop
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by perlgeek 1y ago
"Fun" Fact: ServiceNow simply passes this problem on to its users. I've seen a list of what was supposed to be 20 items of something, it only showed 2, plus a comment "18 results were omitted to insufficient permissions&
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Just using an LLM as is for therapy, maybe with an extra prompt, is a terrible idea. On the other hand, I could image some more narrow uses where an LLM could help. For example, in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, there are different methods t
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by perlgeek 1y ago
This isn't about conflict, it's about how humans read it. Let's say I have two modules, "telnet" and "ssh", and both have a "connect" function. When I read "import connect, (long list of oth
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> Needless to say, the early high was soon filled with inevitable dread, as the items and lists in the app kept on growing and I struggled to keep up with the brutal requirements of life as it is. That resonates with me. I also think tha
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I like 99% of this, and the thing I don't like is in the very first line of the example: > import abs, epsilon from math IMHO it's wrong to put the imported symbols first, because the same symbol could come from two different l
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Then why does it produce different output?
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by perlgeek 1y ago
GPT-5 simply sucks at some things. The very first thing I asked it to do was to give me an image of knife with spiral damascus pattern, it gave me an image of such a knife, but with two handles at a right angle: https://chatgpt.c
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by perlgeek 1y ago
"Stargate" in the name really sounds like OpenAI has lost touch with reality. (Didn't they at some point also say they wanted to build their own semiconductor fabs? That went in the same direction).
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by perlgeek 1y ago
There are so many options that could be done, like: * for each statement, give you the option to rate how well you understood it. Offer clarification on things you didn't understand * present knowledge as a tree that you can expand to
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Same for path lengths. Some build systems (eg Debian + python + dh-virtualenv) like to produce very long paths, and I'd be inclined to just let them.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Losing stock to wolves and bears was why we used to have shepherds, shepherd dogs, fences etc, at least in Europe. Eradicating predators created a very convenient, intermittent period where this was less of a necessity, but it also had quit
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by perlgeek 1y ago
One of my main reasons for staying with Firefox is that in the long term, I think it's good to have a diversity in browser engines. Back when I started web development, there were standards, but nearly everybody just coded to what Inte
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> Private lookups of a plaintext database are possible and have been for a while now (5+ years?). The problem is it often requires some nontrivial preprocessing of the plaintext database, or in the worst case a linear scan of the entire
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by perlgeek 1y ago
FHE might allow arbitrary computation, but I use most services because they have some data I want to use: their search index, their knowledge, their database of chemicals, my bank account transactions, whatever. So unless Google lets me enc
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I'm sure some engineer at cloudflare is evaluating something like this right now, and try it on historical data how many false positives that would've generated in the past, if any. Thing is, it's probably still some engineer
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I guess another reason is that there isn't too much IT infrastructure that Russian trains depend on. There are ticket sales systems for people being transported, but much is freight trains, and if there was an easy way to disrupt that,
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by perlgeek 1y ago
On the other hand, once you have a well-established IT automation around your production, and people aren't trained in pre-automation production, it's actually quite hard to go back to manual. Probably also depends on the complexi
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by perlgeek 1y ago
An outage of roughly 1 hour is 0.13% of a month or 0.0114% of a year. It would be interesting to see the service level objective (SLO) that cloudflare internally has for this service. I've found https://www.cloudflare.com&#x
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by perlgeek 1y ago
There's a constant tension between speed of detection and false positive rates. Traditional monitoring systems like Nagios and Icinga have settings where they only open events/alerts if a check failed three times in a row, because
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I really hope somebody reading this article (or HN thread) writes a doc patch to mention that. I'm unlikely to get it myself today, and by tomorrow I've probably already forgotten it :-(
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by perlgeek 1y ago
CGI scripts were one of the reason that perl was optimized for a quick startup time. I just did a `time perl -e ''` (starting perl, executing an empty program), it took 5ms. 33ms with python3, 77ms with ruby.
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Security Advisory: Airoha-Based Bluetooth Headphones and Earbuds(insinuator.net)
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by perlgeek 1y ago
The abstract of the paper mentions temperature differential of 1.3°C and 2°C - not really inspiring for use in a refrigerator. Neither the article nor the abstract go out of their way to compare the efficiency of the new system to tradition
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by perlgeek 1y ago
This is some very black-and-white thinking. If you haven't grown up with every semi-publicly spoken word recorded and made searchable, you aren't used to restrict what you say to those that you are OK with being recorded. But, eve

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