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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
> The issue comes down to actual skilled people hours to do the work and resource constraints to do so. It comes down to incentives. If you want broad security you have to do more than hope that every water utility will both hire good pe
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
My wording was ambiguous. “national infrastructure” can refer to either the infrastructure in our nation or infrastructure managed by the federal government. I meant the former.
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
There are 1000x as many tax payers and the government still makes sure every single mom who gets a venmo payment for $60 pays taxes. National security is a federal responsibility, they should absolutely do their jobs.
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
It’s the same regulatory/incentive toolbox as any industry, including possibly accepting lower security standards for tiny treatment plants just like we accept less security for podunk airports. > make the feds do it National Securi
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
There are 150 million taxpayers and the federal government regulates all of them. I don’t see why they can’t audit 0.1% of that. If there are 150,000 utilities then absent some regulation, some of them will fuck up. If we want fewer fuckups
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
The federal government makes sure everyone who sends a venmo for $60 pays taxes on it so yeah I think securing our national infrastructure is not an unreasonable expectation.
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
Kind of feels like national security is the job of the federal government. Seems fair to say the federal government should do their job. They started a war for no reason and failed to anticipate not only these infrastructure breach but also
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
Yes, utilities shouldn’t be negligent, but national security is 100% the federal government’s responsibility. If the vulnerabilities were so trivial, then it’s even more damning that the federal government was caught with its pants down, pa
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
There are more than two numbers, so we don't have to force this weird "it's either 0% waste or 100% waste" dichotomy. No one is claiming the Biden admin didn't waste a cent, the claim is that the Trump administratio
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
I can't tell from that article whether they're opposed to nuclear energy or whether they don't think nuclear is the best use of the money (e.g., compared with renewables).
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
Are they getting 30% of votes because they oppose nuclear power? Is that the single issue for that party's supporters?
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
I wonder how these LLM SDKs compare. Is this in the same category as Google’s ADK? Or maybe ADK is a higher level (agents are a higher level than models)?
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by throwaway894345 2mo ago
Who is opposing nuclear power? Or are you trying to imply that advocating for renewables is “opposing nuclear power”?
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
A company not going out of their way to make it expedient for you to transition off of their cloud isn’t “lock in”.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
More likely it’s just not worth going out of their way to support niche deployments like that. I’ve been using various clouds for years, I’ve done half a dozen cloud migrations, currently working at a multicloud org—the vendors aren’t doing
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
I'm not sure I agree (or maybe I misunderstand--I assume you're saying "the tool needs to be standard"?), but people use non-standard tools in C all the time. Every build tool or package management solution in C is non-s
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> Of course not, but an easy checkbox, a best practice AWS or terraform guide and someone doing AWS certified X associate makes it easier to happen without anyone ever really discussing it. I'm defending your employer or their minds
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
GPGPU? General Purpose GPU? If embarrassingly parallel CPU algorithms weren't offloaded to the GPU previously, why would the A100/H100 price drop make a difference? We had cheap GPU in the past and we still left plenty of performa
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> At $dayjob we have the same mentality and as a result have a load of managed read replicas that are never used for anything (not reporting, not read only queries, not backups because $cloud handles it) that cost every month. Obviously
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
malloc and free are part of the C standard library. I don’t see the point in picking nits between language features you don’t have to use and standard library functions that you don’t have to use.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> C's most famous issue is that it doesn't have a dynamic memory management concept at all. You can implement manual memory management on top of C, like you can in any language, but it is not a core feature. If C had manual mem
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> As long as it’s crystal clear from the source code, or I have a tool that tells me which line of mine is responsible for the allocation. The tool is the escape analyzer, but I don’t think anyone has made it ergonomic yet.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> Although it turned out in the end that C++ developers actually wanted to use C++. Survivorship bias. You're only looking at the people who remained C++ developers. A bit like a politician bragging that they have 100% approval rati
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
Go already runs on microcontrollers, but _just like C_, care must be taken to avoid using features that are not compatible with microcontrollers (such as dynamic memory).
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> I believe everyone agrees that a "better C" has to have manual memory management. This seems completely wrong. Manual memory management is perhaps C's most famous issue. I'm sure _someone_ thinks manual memory manag
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
I agree, though as a side note I'm very curious to see how models will begin steering _our_ language. If you have popular models repeating "load-bearing" to every developer, eventually I imagine developers (especially junior
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
I've been using Go regularly since 2012. Worker pools are completely valid and idiomatic in Go. Not sure how you read that quote and concluded "toy".
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
Agreed, and more than that, those siloes are governed by democratic processes. Of course, democracy doesn't preclude abuse but it's a lot better than private governance.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> lack of ambition so severe it borders on criminal I'm not sure what timeline you're thinking about, but JWST was launched pretty recently and it's pretty ambitious. But more to the point of my earlier post, NASA's &
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
Yeah, the anti-regulation people when NASA experiments: "look at all these failures! Cut NASA funding and give public funds to the guy who purchases elections!" The same people when SpaceX blows up a bunch of rockets: "wow, l

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