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by pphysch 10mo ago
Economic consolidation is one thing, consolidating under a malign foreign ideology is another. Definitely worrying.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
> Because historically this has been found to be the most critical issue killing nations. This sounds tautological, like "stable states are stable". There are many stable states that don't have term limits on their head of
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Deadlock is an F2P live service game with a (very) Early Access release & development model. Entirely different situation than bundling a finished HL3 + Steam Machine to achieve big sales.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
A killer app is a great way to sell a "console". Windows port can come later.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Last week's announced Genesis Mission from the Department of Energy could be the vehicle for this bailout. 1. Government will "partner" (read: foot the bill) for these super-strategic datacenters and investments promised by O
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by pphysch 11mo ago
No, but it is an argument against "ASN.1 is superior to protobufs". Many modern high-volume telemetry systems use gRPC for a good reason, it wins in the "pragmatic" department.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
> ASN.1, a protocol from 1984, already did what Protobuf does, with more flexibility. After working heavily with SNMP across a wide variety of OEMs, this flexibility becomes a downside. Or SNMP/MIBs were specified at the wrong abstr
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by pphysch 11mo ago
That's like saying the entire point of `rm` is to -rf your homedir.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
You genuinely don't understand that <median real wages have been stagnant/decreasing for decades in USA, particularly in relation to skyrocketing housing/education/medical costs? Do you have any situational awareness
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by pphysch 11mo ago
> It is seen as more and more normal to track one’s partner through Find My iPhone or an AirTag, even though the potential for abuse of this technology is staggering and obvious. There are all kinds of new products, such as a biometric r
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Please don't engage in bad faith. If the supply of something you need doubles, but your buying power halves, you are not necessarily better off. This is a straightforward argument.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
"Just build/produce more" (abundance) sounds fantastic if you are part of the upper classes who have been on the right side of wealth inequality trends. It allows us to avoid the issue of inequality. Just grow the pie!! But s
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Just saying, "other languages have bug reports" is a exceptionally poor way to promote Julia =3
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by pphysch 11mo ago
What does indexing syntax have to do with Julia having a rough history of correctness bugs and footguns?
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by pphysch 11mo ago
I would keep the explicit key= assignment since it's more than just a single literal but otherwise the second version is more idiomatic and readable.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Deeply ironic for a Julia proponent to smear a popular language as "fundamentally broken" without evidence. https://yuri.is/not-julia/
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by pphysch 11mo ago
The design and success of e.g. Golang is pretty strong support for the idea that you can't and shouldn't separate a language from its broader ecosystem of tooling and packages.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
There are rational explanations for this. When software fails catastrophically, people almost never die (considering how much software crashes every day). When hardware fails catastrophically, people tend to die, or lose a lot of money. The
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Widespread cognitive atrophy is virtually certain, and part of a longer trend that goes beyond just LLMs. The same is true of other aspects of human wellbeing. Cars and junk food have made the average American much less physically fit than
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Yes, and the conspicuous lack of signal is itself a signal. "Get me all the individuals in this geo area that have atypical communication patterns..."
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Paying Azure a little bit to run an AD instance for you, IF you need to run your own IDP (a big if), is not a bad play and does not prevent you from saving lots of money by not using a dubious product like Okta.
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by pphysch 11mo ago
For your average enterprise it really is that simple. Register some IDPs. Connect a backend. Add some clients over time. Yes, you need someone to wear the IAM admin hat. But once you get it configured and running it requires 0.1 FTE or less
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Sadly many people will spend a million dollars to use Okta for their 10,000 logins/day (read: <1 tps) instead of running their own Keycloak or Authentik or whatever. OIDC is not scary, and advanced central authorization features (be
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by pphysch 11mo ago
"Plug into right power socket" Same language, opposite meaning because of a particular noun + context. I think the only thing obvious here is that there is no obvious solution other than adding lots of clarification to your prompt
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Echoes of Kissinger on Theranos' board (and many other examples, no doubt).
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by pphysch 11mo ago
OpenAI going poof would have a negative impact on TSMC demand (revenue), right?
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by pphysch 11mo ago
Parsing arbitrary CSV is one thing, but using text files with field- and record-delimiters is another. When used as an intermediate data format, you can often get by with naive splitting on characters (especially if you use a less common de
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by pphysch 11mo ago
> I am still struggling to understand the way in which many people naturally form casual connections with others. Repeated exposure. The first "relationship", or deep conversation, or jam session, or whatever, is always way mor
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by pphysch 11mo ago
I do think human-readability is a useful feature, to some extent. Human operators should be able to sanity-check individual components of the system for correctness, and this is so much easier if intermediate data formats are "human re
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by pphysch 11mo ago
The perfect configuration system would be able to support any number of parameters, enforce arbitrary validation rules, be searchable, provide metadata, examples, descriptions for each parameter, provide an audit log of who/why somethi

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