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by topspin 1y ago
> Those old HPs were engineering workstations built by an HP that at the time still cared about engineering. I agree. They are heavy and very strong, and chassis is very stiff. That mattered given where some of these ended up being use
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by topspin 1y ago
I built a disaster recovery system using python and borg. It snapshots 51 block devices on a SAN and then uses borg to backup 71 file systems from these snapshots. The entire data set is then synced to S3. And yes, I've tested the r
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by topspin 1y ago
> The question is why I've had one or more around most of my life. They're fun to play with and comedic. They genuinely like their people. They're simultaneously willful and cooperative. They have many habits and prefe
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by topspin 1y ago
"it was creating teams of commenters" The implications of that are breathtaking. Also, the synergy of X and Grok is pretty incredible. "@grok Is that true?" is a household meme now. We're all on a runaway train in
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by topspin 1y ago
Grok has apparently decided the qualification is no longer necessary. In related news, Grok is now a DOD subcontractor for... things. One wonders what the "Grok For Government" model surname might be. No wait, I have it: Skynet.
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by topspin 1y ago
I agree. It's practically click-bait, although likely unintentional.
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by topspin 1y ago
> Unless autonomous drones happen Autonomous drones are an inevitability. Enormous force multiplication is available with autonomy. We're talking about a few people, or perhaps one person, defeating battalions. The truth is autono
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by topspin 1y ago
> people would switch over to Brave Ironically, one can pay for Brave.
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by topspin 1y ago
That headline is... dysfunctional. "The Bayeux Tapestry will return to Britain for the first time in 950 years in a historic deal between Britain and France"
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by topspin 1y ago
I greatly appreciate the fact that solutions to the real concern you point out are not somehow bundled into this. There are many ways to deal with isolating the backend, and I prefer my own, and evolving them as and when I wish. Cloudfl
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by topspin 1y ago
> I'm sorry, I don't get the point. The point is the problem of exposing a port, as opposed to the additional problem of whatever security concerns you imagine your backend "process" may have. I suppose you may not
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by topspin 1y ago
> I can't imagine why it behaves this way. The warning implementation must be simple minded: if the variable is ever read then it isn't "unused." The compiler need only set a flag on every read, and later scan all th
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by topspin 1y ago
> (I checked) Thank you.
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by topspin 1y ago
But: DIV_ROUND_UP(psize, cols); I need sleep, so I'm not going to check, but that may appear to be an intermediate value to a C compiler, and thus escape -Wunused-variable.
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by topspin 1y ago
> why not let the AIs generate their own optimized languages? Excellent question. What would it end up looking like? Would it be full of monads and HKTs? Lambda calculus? WebAssembly? I hope to learn the answer one day.
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by topspin 1y ago
Having wrote "Had I not been told it was broken I likely would not have," should make it clear that this wasn't lost on me.
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by topspin 1y ago
Ok, so somehow that is causing confusion. I will clarify. The author asked that the reader attempt to find the flaw by inspecting the provided code. The flaw was obvious enough that I was able to find it. The implication is that if it we
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by topspin 1y ago
> So double down on languages that are more represented in training data? The pragmatic answer to that is: this appears to be highly effective. What I have in mind is something else, however. Consider the safety nets we try to build wit
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by topspin 1y ago
I don't believe I could have been more self-deprecating there. I know for certain I don't care to.
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by topspin 1y ago
I found it. All that tells you is that it's a simple problem. Had I not been told it was broken I likely would not have. It's the kind of bug that makes you stop breathing for a brief moment. So I ran this function through Gemi
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by topspin 1y ago
Had exactly the same thought. The first thing on the list: invalid reference/null pointer exceptions, or whatever they're called here.
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by topspin 1y ago
> we would have long since been calling it a systemic genocide Without knowing what "we" means, allow me to cite a few more recent BBC headlines, these related to "genocide": Gaza war: UN rights expert accuses I
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by topspin 1y ago
Recent BBC World headlines: Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from injuries (June 2) Gaza now worse than hell on earth, humanitarian chief tells BBC (June 4) Three journalists among five killed
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by topspin 1y ago
No, it does not. It might need to be part of the kernel to be included downstream in Linux distributions, if the file system developer fails to maintain distro buildable modules that don't eat people's data. Should developers pr
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by topspin 1y ago
> So large. :) Consider this: at any moment in history, the prevailing state the art in computing and information systems are characterized has huge, very large, massive, etc. Some years later, it's a portable device with a battery
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by topspin 1y ago
> Sometimes you have got to let things go. Yes, but it's too early for Commodore. Commodore is fondly remembered by Gen X, and Gen X is still alive and has the means to indulge its nostalgia.
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by topspin 1y ago
I'm noting the high frequency of think pieces from said naysayers. It's every day now: they're all furiously writing about flaws and limitations and extrapolating these to unjustifiable conclusions, predicting massive invest
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by topspin 1y ago
> There is no outside. And if there were, whatever they might dream up to do with outside would be rapidly banned.
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by topspin 1y ago
Pacifiers. For a while I watched dash cam video from police car chases. I'm over it now, but one interesting thing frequently happens: officers yank the drivers out, get them on the ground and cuff them. In most cases, the drivers a
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by topspin 1y ago
> it’s slower, less responsive and less stable And the remote application/desktop story is terrible. I won't consider it until remote is at least as good or better than Xorg, and I don't foresee that happening in my lifeti

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