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by rixed 2y ago
Totally by chance I decided to read this post, first thing in the morning (in other words, also first thing in 2025). I must say that despite the rather negative or snarky comments here I have found more depth in this text than what I expec
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by rixed 2y ago
> The goal is to study how different LLMs interpret financial data and make decisions with real consequences. I don't really buy this. If the goal was to study how different LLMs interpret financial data there would be no use for ac
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by rixed 2y ago
Create a reader like Artemis and wait for people to upload their own bookmarks?
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by rixed 2y ago
I see. Well, I believe AI will really be useful for programming (as opposed to gluing libraries together until it passes the tests) when it will acquire the ability to reason properly enough with new concepts. But then, they will also benef
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by rixed 2y ago
> Using sqitch in production, the main issue is that it effectively has no knowledge of what is happening except for running psql files for you. I came to the conclusion that you can not have anything more than that without compromising
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What Pgroll offers does not come for free: it puts some constraints on your schema and what migrations you can perform. Most "automatic migration" tools I've seen are designed for the easy migrations ("horizontal" c
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Who's closing the door?
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by rixed 2y ago
Pgroll shines if you are doing slow rollouts. Recently on the market for a tool to manage SQL migration patches with no need for slow rollouts, I reviewed many such tools and the one that impressed me was sqitch: https://github.c
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by rixed 2y ago
Do you honestly believe all crimes are equally investigated with the same diligence and budget like in a tv show?
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by rixed 2y ago
Well, it fixed a perceived wrong. Oftentimes injustice is what actually hurts. I do believe, though, that there is a vast spectrum of behaviours in between non violent inaction and an isolated random killing, that make a lot more sense in e
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by rixed 2y ago
Interestingly, you must know that any printing equipment that is good enough to output realistic banknotes are regulated to embed a protection preventing this use case. Even more interestingly, and maybe that could help understand that even
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by rixed 2y ago
Would you be able to recommend a project whom author did engage in such public story telling from early on?
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by rixed 2y ago
Just tried it for 15 minutes. Impressions: - Your website and your app looks neat, although I'm not a fan of "children colorbook" style. - I like that you can vary difficulty level without having to "unlock" longer
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by rixed 2y ago
If that's practical experience that you need, I remember reading some studies comparing the reliability and efficiency of nomad vs k8s under load (spoiler: they do not look very good for k8s). If that's popularity that you need, t
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by rixed 2y ago
They were also a bit far from the Americas, which might have contributed to the economic boom of Europe more than the faster spreading of new ideas via books, no?
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Interesting but that's still not a totally fair comparison because the you of 30 years ago might have found them harder.
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by rixed 2y ago
> I’m not certain we’d want to create incentive for less polluting compounds over security. Sure we do, if that pollution causes a greater risk. Those two security costs seam hard to compare though.
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by rixed 2y ago
Because hackers are individual human beings, and as such are motivated by a whole variety of reasons, money being just one of them. When running small companies they still tend to be motivated by other things, such as proving a point, achie
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by rixed 2y ago
> secondary school pupils aren't able to pass maths and physics exams from 30 or 40 years ago But can pupils from 30 or 40 years ago pass today's exams?
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by rixed 2y ago
Internet is a faster printing press therefore more people can be subjected to more lies than before, but the issue at hand, the one mentioned in Sagan's quote, is orthogonal to that question and predates it. Did the printing press star
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by rixed 2y ago
These machines always make me think of, and sorely miss, my old companion the vaio pcg-c1. Anyone else used to use one of those?
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by rixed 2y ago
Is nomad still around?
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by rixed 2y ago
Thank you for the exhaustive depiction of the situation. Also an ex SRE from long ago, although not for borg. One of the learnings I took with me is that there is no technical solution that is good for several orders of magnitude. The tool
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by rixed 2y ago
Contrary to popular belief, k8s is not Google's tech stack. My understanding is that it was initially sold as Google's tech to benefit from Google's tech reputation (exploiting the confusion caused by the fact that some of th
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Isn't that the reason cookies were invented in the first place? To keep servers stateless?
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by rixed 2y ago
Sure, one of the effect of CoCs is that it can be easier to get rid of an assohole who, even if he is productive, can have a negative impact (not a judgment about the case at hand wrt. Kent Overstreet). But there are so many other effects t
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by rixed 2y ago
Yes, this fits my experience as well. Oftentimes I've heard people who are not and have never been software engineers ask "When we want to built a bridge, engineers can tell how long it will take and how expensive it will be, how
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by rixed 2y ago
Replying to the "dead" comment below (I wish HN killed only spam comments): > Mainly because i feel the rest of the world lives in a Disneyland like state of fake security that is guaranteed by the United States and never has t
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by rixed 2y ago
As a European, I find the reactions from the US politicians as related in this Al-Jazeera article quite choking : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/how-us-politicians... But maybe biased though.
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by rixed 2y ago
I find your framing interesting. But most importantly, even if nothing changes in the requirements or the team, the mere new information that is learned while implementing the project is often enough to change the estimate considerably.

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