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by pphysch 2y ago
Invest in high quality software kernels and professionals that can comfortable build with them; divest from low-quality "wrappers" around said kernels, which is most SaaS. >90% of SaaS are some (expensive, low-quality) wrapper
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by pphysch 2y ago
Conspicuous consumption should be shamed, not the other way around as this article does.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Gotcha, that makes more sense.
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by pphysch 2y ago
>same product but new name, probably cheaper parts, The new $100 TV Streamer has 32GB of RAM. 32GB of consumer RAM alone is at least $50, and that doesn't include any of the other stuff (graphics, cpu, nic) that makes a minimally us
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by pphysch 2y ago
To me there is a profound difference between the flag-waving, corporate, pinko-hating, anti-social pseudo-patriotism exemplified by Reagan, which is still popular today, and actual patriotism. "Patriotism" as superficial brand-loy
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by pphysch 2y ago
No it's considered part of the "global south" relative to "the West" Japan/ROK are also sometimes considered "Western" due to being key components of Washington's force projection
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by pphysch 2y ago
I don't know that it's an "innovation" as much as a lucky break. I would say it's one of Minecraft's systemic flaws, actually. It greatly constrains how smooth exploration can be in what is otherwise an interes
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by pphysch 2y ago
How is trusting a dynamic DNS provider different than trusting Tailscale's coordination nodes?
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by pphysch 2y ago
The entire point of a LWN article like this is to accurately summarize the patch sets and email discussions for casual readers. No need for the snark.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> "I've assumed an average chain length of 10 for rhashtable in the above memory calculations." > Reviewers were, as ever, skeptical in the face of assertions about performance without corresponding measurements. Peng
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by pphysch 2y ago
> In Python, I've even heard of people writing types in source code but never checking them This is my main approach. Type hints are wonderful for keeping code legible/sane without going into full static type enforcement which
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by pphysch 2y ago
Source code in a vacuum is still valuable as a way to deal with missing/inaccurate documentation and diagnose faults and their causes. Raw training datasets similarly has some value as you can analyze it for different characteristics t
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by pphysch 2y ago
That would be more analogous to the build toolchain than the source code, but yes
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by pphysch 2y ago
More specifically why are they running extra endpoint management software that receives automatic updates from the Internet... This is basically the IoT apocalypse scenario (AC is down??) but ironically not affecting many IoT devices, I ass
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by pphysch 2y ago
I give them every opportunity to ask questions and even use search/LLM, as long as they acknowledge it. Most candidates just fundamentally aren't practiced enough.
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by pphysch 2y ago
One neat feature of OpenSSH server is the AuthorizedKeysCommand config, which lets you fetch (or generate!) a user's keys from anywhere, e.g. a curl response. With this you can easily set up a centralized SSH keys system without the pi
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by pphysch 2y ago
One of the first questions I ask is "create a dictionary with three elements in Python and assign it to a variable" The amount of insane answers I've seen to that one alone... Then if they pass, I test proficiency by having t
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by pphysch 2y ago
It sounds like you are describing a smartphone with a traditional camera form factor?
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by pphysch 2y ago
> But logs shouldn't be your primary source of data, metrics should be. Metrics, logs, relational data, KVs, indexes, flat files, etc. are all equally valid forms of data for different shapes of data and different access patterns. I
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Clean up a little code here, there, everywhere. What does "clean up" mean? If you mean run a safe code formatter on some 20 year old PHP code that was written in vi, sure. But if you mean refactor, this sounds rather idealist
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by pphysch 2y ago
> They are the second factor and require an attacker to have the password too. For every leaked database of SMS messages there are 1000 leaked databases of account credentials
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by pphysch 2y ago
> I don't know why anyone would jeopardize their career like this. Publish or perish.
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by pphysch 2y ago
"Few" doesn't mean <60 it typically means ~5 or <10. Getting high-quality audio for an arbitrary private citizen via public means isn't that easy, especially for folks like me that don't post video on public s
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by pphysch 2y ago
> "Shove Stupid Shit Someplace Secret" This sums up the broad concept of Compliance and security in general. The people who pretend to care about compliance (i.e. management) don't have the technical know-how to grok the i
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by pphysch 2y ago
Speech generation has gotten really good, but there's simply no way to faithfully recreate someone's vocal idiosyncracies and cadence with just "a few seconds" of real audio. That's where the models tend to fall sh
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by pphysch 2y ago
To be fair to Bitcoin, the world's largest economic bloc is actively building an alternative to USD/Western banks for international settlements, with blockchain technology. It doesn't have anything to do with the libertarian
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by pphysch 2y ago
In 2019, RAND published Extending Russia [1], which explored various and prescient hostile means to deal with its current government. It recommended economic warfare against Russia, which, since 2022, will go down as one of the great geop
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by pphysch 2y ago
It would be cool if newer (imperative) languages had a clear protocol to delimit the simple core of the language from the advanced, library-building features. Like Rust has `unsafe` blocks, imagine a `advanced` or `metaprogramming` block th
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by pphysch 2y ago
And yet anonymity/privacy is already dead for the average consumer, and we don't get to benefit from a public, reputable SSO service...
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by pphysch 2y ago
> That could have brought us to a world wide peace in 1945, but only the First World went along with this idea. The Second World rallied around endless revolution and war until we get a worker's paradise. And the Third World tried t

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