rmbyrro

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by rmbyrro 2y ago
the search form doesn't work on Firefox mobile android
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
as chinese manufacturers expand abroad, the rest of the world will learn where the chinese "efficiency" comes from
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
if you don't have high bandwidth requirements, like for background / batch processing, the ovh eco family [1] of bare metal servers is incredibly cheap [1] https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en/
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
about security, most businesses using AWS invest little to nothing in securing their software, or even adopt basic security practices for their employees having the most secure data center doesn't matter if you load your secrets as env
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
pretty much my personal experience in a newer generation, just without the Atari, IBM, and basic a lot of employers actually like engineers who come from a personal hacking background more than traditional paths, because we're truly pa
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
it's not a BSD license if it has a "common clause" call it whatever you want, but don't ever mention a BSD License if you've modified it.
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
> Google is groaning under the weight of sacrifices made specifically so these SREs can play in their engineering playground every day they're literally doing that. google has +$300B net positive assets. [1] they could distribute th
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
And Youtube wouldn't last long on its own. Regarding infra, they were not capable of reaching the scale they needed and were already struggling by the time they got acquired. On the money side, they couldn't attract advertisers as
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
> Now my functions just downloaded the file from S3, if it was newer than the local copy if you have strong consistency requirements, this doesn't work. synchronizing clocks reliably between different servers is surprisingly hard. y
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Didn't it cost society to raise us to adulthood so that we can work for Google and other businesses? How many people have sacrificed their time and attention, directly or indirectly, to our benefit, since we were born? Yet, nobody&#x27
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
If it costs nothing, why don't we both get together and build a money-printing machine as well? You say like it's something easy anyone can get done. Have you ever tried? If you try to build a sustainable and successful business,
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
which should make the employee proud, and I'm sure Google is compensating them very, very well. let's also not forget that the people involved didn't create this in a vacuum. it cost Google a LOT more than their compensation
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
if their execs want to get arrested the moment they step out of China, sure
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
you can be agnostic while not objectifying the female image to a point of forming a generation of young man that are addicted to porn and can't talk and connect to a real women
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
some types of content are indisputably disturbing for kids, like violence, war footage, sexualized content (esp. a sexualized female image targeting male kids & teens), etc
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
such bans do work. one or a few will find ways to circumvent, but the vast majority will end up complying. our minds tend to fantasize a lot about our early days. our memories are flawed and what we remember now are full of gaps filled with
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
losing 2fa gives me anxiety. google auth is sync'ing now. it's a terrible idea from a security standpoint, though, which gives me even more anxiety... i guess i can't avoid security-related anxieties
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
it's a bit ironic that Meta ended up becoming the largest "open ai" org. all right, yeah, it's not "open source", but hey, it is open to use and they're publishing their research openly as well.
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Compared to the radius of the known Universe, it's in the ballpark
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Careful who you wish on your door...
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
> Do you think the ai is really running that command? Yes, they're calling it "agentic" AI or "tool use". > or could run that shell command with appropriate privileges? Yes, it's called humans doing stupi
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Sonnet isn't good at debugging, or even architecting. o1 shines, it feels like magic. The kinds of bugs it helped me nail were incredible to me.
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Google models have huge contexts, but are terrible...
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
In the early days of ChatGPT, I'd get constantly capped, every single day, even on the paid plan. At the time I was sending them messages, begging to charge me $200 to let me use it unlimited. Finally!..
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Loved the fish analogy
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
The OVH Eco-line (Kimsufi, So You Start..) are incredibly good and affordable. I have a few beefy servers, which I use to create my own VPS service on top of Proxmox. I'm not a sysadm and it's still simple to setup and maintain. E
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Oh shit, did some VC or PrivEquity buy Hetzner? Will we have HWS soon?...
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
A good alternative to the sqlite cli is litecli [1]. I've been a happy user for quite some time. [1] https://litecli.com
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
Sonnet is better than 4o for virtually all use cases. The only reason I still use OpenAI's API and chatbot service is o1-preview. o1 is like magic. Everything Sonnet and 4o do poorly, o1 solves like a piece of cake. Architecting, bug f
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by rmbyrro 2y ago
The Israeli will not recognize the authority of this ICC bench, because it's a politically motivated prosecution. They've lost before the trial even began.

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