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by tbatchelli 2y ago
well, you usually put a load balancer and multiple instances of your service to handle individual server failures. In a basic no-lb case, your single server fails, you restart it and move on (local failure). In a load balancer case, your lb
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by tbatchelli 2y ago
Do you know of any fault tolerant system? Asking because in all the cases I know, when we make a system "fault tolerant" we increase the complexity and we introduce new systemic failure modes related to our fault-tolerant-making-s
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by tbatchelli 2y ago
This event is predicted in Sydney Dekker’s book “Drift into Failure”, which basically postulates that in order to prevent local failure we setup failure prevention systems that increase the complexity beyond our ability to handle, and intro
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by tbatchelli 2y ago
I have one of these for earthquake preparedness, along with large containers with water. I think i got it 10 years ago from Costco, and I sure hope not having to try the food out. Since Covid times we’ve been keeping a healthy stock of shel
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by tbatchelli 2y ago
And others might be able to buy a house for the first time. The issue with houses being the main form of families to acquire wealth is that newcomers to the market have it much much harder to enter participate in it as time goes on and hous
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by tbatchelli 2y ago
The M3 MacBook Air now can be bought off the shelf with 16GB (as opposed to custom order). This means you can buy them at discount retailers like Costco, which usually means $100-$150 off. Custom models rarely ever get a discount.
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by tbatchelli 3y ago
I don’t think the market can take what would probably be a very expensive EV, at least not at scale. EV sales in the US seem to be stalling, in part because the charging infrastructure is not fully there, and in part because of cost. The p
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by tbatchelli 3y ago
> There's no "easy way to find quality sources", that's mutually exclusive nowadays. Whatever is mainstream and easy to find gets automatically gamed through SEO junk, advertising and astroturfing, and becomes poor qu
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by tbatchelli 3y ago
Maybe we'll have paid mods, but not paid by Reddit, but paid with people and organizations with money, an agenda, and some societal changes in mind.
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by tbatchelli 3y ago
Interesting thought. If they can be fired, they were employed.
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LLM Pal: Write alongside an AI, right in your editor, via an LSP(github.com)
1 points by tbatchelli 3y ago|1 comments
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by tbatchelli 3y ago
Currently supports Emacs, but sounds like there are plans to support VSCode too. “ Write alongside an AI, right in your editor, via an LSP tied to local/cloud AIs. A hackable implementation that lets you roll-your-own prompt-engineerin
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Darklang is going all-in on AI(blog.darklang.com)
3 points by tbatchelli 4y ago|1 comments
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
Darklang, an innovative programming language, stops development on their “traditional” IDE and goes AI-first.
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
My argument is not wether this was optimal by any metric; my argument is that they are already having employers go around the store opening cabinets, many times multiple times for the same customer. That incurs in the same menial work as
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
At this point it would be better if they moved back to pre-self-service stores, and have the product behind a counter, and store clerks that will get you what you ask. As things are now, it’s the worse of both worlds: you still need a clerk
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
I am no expert, but the right to be forgotten is not absolute. You can’t commit a crime and then ask for evidence to be removed, for example. Not tell your bank to remove your tax-related transactions.
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
Right, same as the saying “you can control expenses but you cannot control revenue”, as the logic to cut expenses; if applied recursively you end up with $0 expenses…and and $0 revenue.
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
This project is mostly ClojureScript. That's quite of an endorsement of the clojure ecosystem.
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
yeah, it also probably means that the ones that stayed are getting laid off, but the ones that left are probably in a better situation
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
I have played others, yes. Architecturally, OB-6 and Prophet 6 are very similar as they share a lot of the same circuitry. They are both great synths, and I am sure I'd love a prophet 6 if I had one. But I always perk up when I hear th
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
I see where you are coming from, but one of the things that I didn’t understand until recently, when I got an OB-6, is how much these synths are music instruments (vs. something you can use to make a track). They are closer to a guitar or a
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
Dave Smith popularized the polyphonic analog synthesizer in the 70’s and 80’s with the Prophet V, pioneering the use of integrated circuits to make synths. The company he built was called Sequential Circuits for a reason. A Bay Area pion
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
To each their own, I guess. I also pay for Apple Music and have access to all that music, but there is no substitute for curation with a sense of taste and musical direction. For me, having access to all the music in the world is only margi
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by tbatchelli 4y ago
SomeFM is such a rarity these days, a reminder of how we believed the Internet was going to be. They take recurring donations. Probably the best way to help them and one of the best investments for me, as keeping it up and running is a way
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by tbatchelli 5y ago
The question could also be: "will you enthusiastically want to rehire them 6 months after they are let go?". It seems fairly common for C-level execs to have a limited understanding of what people actually do.
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by tbatchelli 5y ago
I think in California it's CCPA that not only protects personal data, but also against the non-consented collection of data by devices owned by the person or in the person's own home.
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
Definitely people still use. We are heavily invested and investing in clojure and clojurescript.
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
I was just covering one side of the equation. I don't like censorship, and as they say: you should legislate as if your opponent is the one that will apply the law. You can apply censorship to take care of one "good" reason,
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
People are rational most of the times, and act based on the well of knowledge they have at the time. When you choose to promote certain content because of its high engagement benefits you given its controversial nature, then you are poisoni

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