pmontra

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by pmontra 6mo ago
Do people really chat with LLMs like "bro wtf etc..."? I would expect that to trigger some confrontational behavior.
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by pmontra 6mo ago
Yes, there is nothing novel in "to harden a system we need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers spend exploiting them." That's what security always looked like, physical security included (burglars, sniper
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by pmontra 6mo ago
> East-west security -- traffic between devices within a network -- is enforced by ACL8 zone isolation. Devices communicate only with their designated service gateway. The service gateway communicates only with the designated cloud servi
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by pmontra 6mo ago
I uploaded a picture, maybe a difficult one. It described somebody like me and like the opposite of me. Every single commercial suggestion was about something I never bought on my life. I got the feeling of those weather forecasts with an i
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by pmontra 6mo ago
I use to send pictures over the camera wifi from my Sony W500 to my phone. The main purpose is backup (think I'm in the middle of nowhere or with little internet for days) and then to send them to friends with WhatsApp. If I'm at
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by pmontra 6mo ago
Choosing tools is not easy. Last time I bought a laptop was 2014. My goal was running Linux. My other requirements were, in order of importance, without explanation: 3 physical buttons below the touchpad. That removed really many laptops. T
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by pmontra 7mo ago
A data point: the parent of an about 140 IQ son told me that her son was in a room with other 120+ IQ kids. They started to talk and quickly formed groups. Those groups turned out to include kids of very similar IQ. The ones between 140 and
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by pmontra 7mo ago
A customer of mine is running on Ubuntu 22.04 and the plan is to upgrade to 26.04 in Q1 2027. We'll have to add performance regression to the plan.
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by pmontra 7mo ago
TDF is https://www.documentfoundation.org
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by pmontra 7mo ago
Developers and their customers mostly gave up design many years ago and used frameworks like Bootstrap because they are good enough, they are cheap to create, they increase speed to deliver with no external designer in the loop, etc. That m
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by pmontra 7mo ago
20 year olds are bewildered when they see me opening a computer and replacing stuff instead of bringing it to a shop. "Where did you learn to do that?" It used to be the only way, everybody with a computer did it. The strange thin
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by pmontra 7mo ago
I've been working on a Rails + Vue project for 3 years. Plenty of experience of Rails (all of its years) but not much experience of SPA frameworks before then. The first year has been slow on the Vue side because I had to learn its wei
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by pmontra 7mo ago
That's correct. Furthermore if RAM prices keep going up and staying up, many people won't buy a new PC and they will switch everything on their phones. So the current market could be the undoing of Windows.
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by pmontra 7mo ago
Fighting sports are divided by weight (boxing, judo, etc) but no woman would even be close to winning in the same weight category of men, so we will never see a woman in those sports at the Olympics or anywhere it matters. And who would pic
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by pmontra 7mo ago
That could be a useful feature. It's got vibes from the 90s, when there were a lot of different browsers and some of them allowed users to annotate pages and links [1]. I'm sure that there are a number of extensions to do that and
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by pmontra 7mo ago
From what I see on the other side of the ocean, the same applies to Europe, at least to Italy. Add to the list: wake up early, drive to customers all the day long, learn to always smile and be kind to customers even when they don't des
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by pmontra 7mo ago
If I care a little bit about that random number I might reach for my phone and look at the digits of the seconds of the current time. It's 31 now. Not appropriate for multiple lookups.
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by pmontra 7mo ago
It's not a deterrent, far from that, but it's probably what I'll have to do to be able to carry with me a sane device.
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by pmontra 7mo ago
That happened at toddler stage of brain development and of knowledge buildup. Let's suppose that you meet adults that never saw cats and dogs. You show them a picture a cat and a dog. Do you expect that they need to see 100 of them bef
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by pmontra 7mo ago
If you see one picture of a zebra, fly to Africa, see a real zebra, you recognize it as a zebra. But zebras are really unmistakable. If you see a picture of an oryx and a picture of a kudu, maybe you remember the shape of their horns and a
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by pmontra 7mo ago
They don't operate in my county AFAIK. However that reinforces my idea that the endgame will be a pristine Android phone in a drawer at home with the banking apps required for accessing their sites with 2FA and another phone in my pock
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by pmontra 7mo ago
You have to wait one day only once, when enabling the feature. I agree that enabling developer mode could be a problem but mostly because it's buried below screens and multiple touches. As a data point, I enabled developer mode on all
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by pmontra 7mo ago
I think that parties can win elections by pointing fingers at what people do with their phones, but they can't create enough concern by pointing fingers at the Canbus and at hacking cars.
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by pmontra 7mo ago
Before webrings and the very first directories and search engines, the tools for exploring the web were memory, bookmarks and the links sections of web sites.
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by pmontra 7mo ago
It's not only bug fixing. It's what happens to phones too: updates for a fixed number of years. I don't see the point to pay a premium for a new car (it's not a tool for my work) so I always buy second hand. My Citroën C
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by pmontra 7mo ago
That's done by arranging a demo (the very old way) or (better) by deploying to a staging server. The customer meets with you for a demo not very often, maybe once per month, or checks what's on the staging server maybe a couple of
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by pmontra 7mo ago
It's buried in the About page, but it uses different terminology. They definitely have to review their copy. > Automatic Updates: Updates never touch your running system, only taking effect on reboot. > Resilient: Due to the atom
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by pmontra 7mo ago
Maybe it's because of the example, but if the LLM knows the GitHub CLI and I bet it knows it, shouldn't it be able to run the commands (or type them for us) to count the open PRs on foo/bar? However I see the potential proble
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by pmontra 7mo ago
The humans in the video shot easy balls to the robot, which returns more difficult balls. It's the human that is doing all the running. The robot is quite static. However with better software and better hardware is possible that the ro
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by pmontra 7mo ago
The Italian way looks similar to the Swiss way. In detail: When I go to cast a vote in Italy I bring with me my state issued photo ID (everybody has one, I mean: must have one) and a state issued sheet of paper with the address of the place

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