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by ris 3y ago
The commit contents can tell you what changed, but it can never tell you why it was changed, what the authors thoughts were, what corner cases they took into account, whether it was a temporary workaround for something that's no lo
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by ris 3y ago
I completely realize this, but simply the act of assembling that DAG in an imperative language adds a layer of cognitive load that is undesirable in something that's supposed to _declare_ configuration. Pulumi YAML looks tempting but i
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by ris 3y ago
This doesn't wash. The DOM is a declarative model, but that doesn't mean that a javascript program can't be a horror story of side effects and improperly grasped execution order.
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by ris 3y ago
Firstly I don't have any particular faith in them either given their business model appears to be sending them towards a similar path. Secondly, I think encouraging people to write their infra configuration in a general purpose imperat
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by ris 3y ago
> Reviewing those PRs require engineer time from a HashiCorp employee No it doesn't. There's nothing stopping them delegating that task to community members apart from the desire to retain corporate control.
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by ris 3y ago
Luckily I've just remembered I don't need to maintain or contribute to terraform providers anymore.
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by ris 3y ago
> not contributing back Have you ever looked at the number of unreviewed PRs on Hashicorp projects?
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by ris 3y ago
> Nerfstudio I see a trademark cease and desist in your future...
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by ris 3y ago
I've been extremely impressed by pybind11 for c++/python interop.
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by ris 3y ago
This is my main takeaway too. As a one time OpenBSD enthusiast (and still admirer), now I'm a bit older I find the continual smugness starts to grate. Truth is, Linux has a lot more constraints on how it can implement something because
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by ris 3y ago
This appears.. naive at best. But it appears to get distracted by the performance of the random number generation approach it's going to use - which, for the quality of random numbers they would need for this, shouldn't be a probl
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by ris 3y ago
Was going to say the same thing, only ours was the stainless steel one (No. 10). Lasted us well into the 90s.
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by ris 3y ago
Is there a rule against this? There shouldn't be - add an infosec element to Formula E!
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by ris 3y ago
It's cool and everything but I don't go along with the whole why-don't-people-just tone of the whole thing. I think it's fairly understandable to want to limit the number of micro-optimized implementations of however man
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by ris 3y ago
Reminder that S3 supports bittorrent natively.
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by ris 3y ago
"Sod it, let's just stick it all behind another vm"
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by ris 3y ago
Dear lord why would you use GeoServer for anything in 2023
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by ris 3y ago
I guess this is "astrophotography" for the sake of making pretty images, because I couldn't imagine the "computational AI" features he mentions towards the end of the article doing anything but horrify even an amate
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by ris 3y ago
> No, I think it's a very sensible assumption. The problem is it's an "assumption" that is rarely easy to correct when it's wrong. > As far as I can see, virtually every GNU/Linux OS has shared libraries
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by ris 3y ago
Except the entire argument here is that it doesn't cooperate very nicely with other package managers so I'm not sure how your point holds together.
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by ris 3y ago
> you're ultimately interacting with a a layer on top of what the original package was designed to do This is fundamentally necessary, because the "original package" (for some value of "package") doesn't car
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by ris 3y ago
> Then comes Python, which introduces the same nightmares which the author experienced. Python packages that use system shared libraries are troublesome. The nightmares come from pypi packages and their assumptions that e.g. the particul
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by ris 3y ago
I keep having to say this to people - if you're unsure about nix/nixos, "diving in the deep end" and using nixos as your desktop operating system is probably just going to annoy you. I really suggest using nix on a reg
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by ris 3y ago
> Tangentially, it would be great if we got cryptographic digital identity cards like Estonia has for signatures but that’s more of a long term goal Wonderful. Until every second web service starts to require a signature from such digita
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by ris 3y ago
Inferless provides Serverless GPU solutions
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by ris 3y ago
Account recovery codes & other means of backup authentication until I can generate new MFA tokens. It's really not a big deal, whereas it looks like the next big cloud hack will be.
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by ris 3y ago
This. For me a TOTP app/tool will only ever output codes. If it offers to let me do anything else with the key, it's a no-go.
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by ris 3y ago
Something I've been thinking a lot about lately is the potential historical usefulness of LLMs which have been selectively trained on material from before a certain date, presumably resulting in a model exhibiting attitudes of the time
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by ris 4y ago
Only tangentially related, but I think it would be fascinating to see an image-generating model trained only on imagery from before a certain date. Or, for that matter, a LLM only trained on content before a certain date, presumably exhibit
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by ris 4y ago
Ah yes if there's one thing the world needs it's another package manager to fight with the other seventeen on your system.

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