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by solatic 5mo ago
Not all alerts are created equal. You should generally have three levels of alerts: critical (which pages somebody, time-to-fix should be ASAP), warning (creates a ticket, time-to-fix should be within a few days), and suspicious (does not n
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by solatic 5mo ago
I think a spreadsheet is still helpful in this case. > So you need to consider the emergency of moving somewhere in a political and legal climate not known in advance. Fair enough. So do the financial planning, and ask yourself, how much
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by solatic 5mo ago
The most helpful tool here, I've found, is maintaining a personal finances spreadsheet. It's one thing, without a spreadsheet, to have the emotion of "I'm not going to have enough and I need to save more to make sure I h
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by solatic 5mo ago
Azure's management APIs break connections coming from outside Azure's network every time they use DNS to execute a blue/green swap on their public load balancers. Existing connections are not gracefully drained. Terraform sta
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by solatic 5mo ago
Decisions rarely need to be made on-the-spot in synchronous meetings. You can have asynchronous approaches with shared documents and RFC processes, where you make everything available if people want to contribute to areas that they find
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by solatic 5mo ago
I have no doubt that this approach works better than recurring meetings, but I do want to point out the trade-off, which is that this approach requires much more management attention and energy to keep their finger on the pulse and ensure a
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by solatic 5mo ago
> only a concern if you're charging money No, it's a concern if you care about impact. Improving commercial profits is one kind of impact that is relevant to for-profit corporations, but there is also impact like "improv
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by solatic 6mo ago
> Even if you RAID them, there's not a good way to move that VM to another host if there's a RAM or CPU or other hardware issue on that host. This is the critical point. All hardware fails eventually. The CPU and RAM are, in a
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by solatic 6mo ago
Quite the opposite: retirees will flee to low cost of living areas, taking the money that they spend in other sectors (food, health, entertainment, etc.) elsewhere.
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by solatic 6mo ago
There's multiple tools that generate architecture diagrams from text/code (Mermaid, LikeC4...). You start using one and tell the model to generate the text for the architecture diagram and it'll do it. Stuff like https:&#x2F
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by solatic 6mo ago
Considering that people expect literally the same thing, I can understand how even small regional differences can seem extreme. Like not finding any beef on the menu in India, or any bacon in the Middle East.
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by solatic 6mo ago
Your point isn't contrary to LLMs or LLM-powered robotics. LLMs have access to the entire human corpus, including documented regional specializations, as you describe. The LLM knows via sensors where it is and what local conditions are
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by solatic 6mo ago
> "post capitalist society" was the recognition that capital ceased being the primary factor of production. No matter how much capital you throw at a problem, if you can't retain people that know what you're doing, yo
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by solatic 6mo ago
Most commenters here: "Mythos is powerful because you can point it at a whole codebase, if you point the smaller models at a whole codebase and iterate through small sections of code, you'll get too many false-positives to handle.
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by solatic 6mo ago
> here, against much more numerous opponents, it no longer has the crushing advantage that it has in air power Be careful not to compare absolute sizes of militaries (which matter in a long term, strategic sense) to the number of soldier
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by solatic 6mo ago
Your analysis presumes air power alone. Assets are seized by cavalry (in modernity, APCs and tanks) and held by infantry. Nothing new under the sun. The only reason anybody is thinking of destroying civilian infrastructure (wealth) is becau
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by solatic 6mo ago
The cost of building all the tunnels is astronomical. Making tunnel boring cheap, fast, and resilient to different soil types + rock would also pay huge dividends for urban mass transport (subway lines).
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by solatic 6mo ago
Certainly economically. NIS-USD exchange is now 3.09 and continuing to drop, reflecting optimism. Strategically, it remains to be seen what will happen to the nuclear material in the peace talks. If Iran emerges from the war with an intact
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by solatic 6mo ago
mv /Users/beepbooptheory /Users/snappy
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by solatic 6mo ago
You're correct, but your assertion needs a qualifier: it's hard for small investors to make a long-term bet that a stock will go down. Large investors do not need to purchase index funds, instead they can direct index and purcha
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by solatic 6mo ago
> I've never seen Iran care one bit about influencing or bothering any country outside of its sphere of influence Its sphere of influence includes Israel, Gaza (Hamas), Yemen (Houthis), Iraq (various Shia splinter groups), and Leban
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by solatic 6mo ago
> What makes you think they will give nuclear weapons to terrorists or use those weapons at all? a. They have armed and financed their terrorist proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and others), who used those arms and capital to commit a
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by solatic 6mo ago
People repeat themselves saying "JCPOA was highly flawed, but it was better than nothing", as if JCPOA would have prevented Iran from getting nuclear weapons. It would not - it only delayed Iran getting nuclear weapons, and so b
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by solatic 6mo ago
Author seems to not care about the prospect of the Iranian regime developing nuclear weapons, putting those weapons into the hands of its terrorist proxies, and sitting back while those proxies turn Western Europe and Palestine into radioac
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by solatic 7mo ago
Ukraine is a poor example here because we've been poor allies to them. Drones are manufactured in factories that can be bombed, stockpiled in warehouses that can be bombed, transferred to the front lines in trucks that can be bombed. B
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by solatic 7mo ago
Defense budget is an abstraction. At the end of the day, there are only so many factories with only so many raw inputs producing only so many interceptors per day. You cannot simply increase the defense budget in the event of a war of attri
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by solatic 7mo ago
The math and economics on missile defense are broken. If your adversary uses nuclear-tipped missiles: within hours if not days, you are virtually guaranteed to suffer impact. Congratulations, New York is under a mushroom cloud. Lose. If you
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by solatic 7mo ago
The ban is on reporting the exact locations (i.e. coordinates) of where missiles land, because it's information that is useful in helping the enemy to calibrate where missiles will land. Reporting on other details is perfectly acceptab
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by solatic 7mo ago
I think you're the one confusing something here. Wishing for "juicy corporate customers" - why? You might as well say that you wake up in the morning wishing for an ocean of money to flood your accounts and become Scrooge McD
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by solatic 7mo ago
Arguably, only Apple is able to pull this off, due to huge investments in their supply chain and fully ordering out entire factories. It also comes in the worst political climate for their competitors. Dell, HP, and others announcing large

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