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by torginus 7mo ago
'The outage of a single server is a tragedy, the outage of an entire AWS region is a statistic.' - Stalin probably
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by torginus 7mo ago
I think they're trying to implement every management fad with AI agents and see if improves performance. Personally, I have tried pair programming, and it hasn't really felt like something that works, for various reasons - the mai
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by torginus 7mo ago
That color shows up a lot in stairways apartment blocks and school corridors and bathrooms in ex-Soviet bloc countries. My two guesses are that it was colored like that get the pilots feel like they were in a particular environment - a fami
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by torginus 7mo ago
Yes I remember this story, and something like this was the case - the product's readiness and market viability was overstated, and the company has been tossed around between investors for quite a while.
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by torginus 7mo ago
As an owner of household solar panels, there are weeks, sometimes even months with very little solar products, especially during the colder months. While I don't regret getting them, they are absolutely not good enough to be the only s
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by torginus 7mo ago
> The 5th generation F-35 is a great airplane[1], and they've made 1300 of them since 2016. Because in that time, F14,F15,F18 and F111 variants have been made as well, the total number of which is more than 10k. The testament to the
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by torginus 7mo ago
That's my point. The SR71 makes for a much cooler topic of discussion, but in a war, it matters how many planes you have. Even a thousand jets isn't really that much when fighting a country of millions.
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by torginus 7mo ago
I think while these kinds of projects are cool, but I think the point of my parent comment is that volume matters. If you can do something, its interesting and great for bragging rights, but making and operating thousands of airframes (espe
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by torginus 7mo ago
I suggest you read the book Skunk Works by Ben Rich, to get reliable account about the SR-71 and its relation to Soviet air defenses from the horse's mouth. Besides, it's genuinely well-written and enjoyable book
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by torginus 7mo ago
I am not the one making those. If you read an article about how a Lamborghini Aventador was faster than a Nissan GT-R, you would go 'well, duh, it costs 20x as much'.
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by torginus 7mo ago
There's no 'S-300' as such, there are sets of fire control, target acquisition and tracking radars, and various types of missiles, each of which can be upgraded, and mixed and matched to some degree, with some combinations be
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by torginus 7mo ago
Lasers have very limited applications, they have an inherent line of sight limits, and even the most powerful ship mounted lasers that can do like 50kW, take a minute to boil a kettle of water away, more if you wrap it in tinfoil. And a sho
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by torginus 7mo ago
Yeah, you often read stories on the internet about how the SR-71 could easily outrun the MIG-25, proving US technological superiority, but those don't really take into account that there was like a dozen made of the former, with titani
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by torginus 7mo ago
Yeah, there's the Flamingo, Ukraine's cruise missile that uses old turbofan engines near the end of the service lives. But Ukrainians mentioned, that they're looking to mass produce low-cost engines using steel for their blad
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by torginus 7mo ago
I mean, most AC circuit breakers use electromagnets to trip on overcurrent (as well as bimetallic strips using thermal methods for sustained high current). Electromagnets dont work for DC, so your breaker will never trip. For thermal protec
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by torginus 7mo ago
I dunno, it was the same for me and creative writing with AI. First it looked like it was crazy inventive, good at writing snappy dialouge, and in general a very good font of ideas. Then the same concepts, turns of phrase, story ideas kept
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by torginus 7mo ago
I don't think so. There are tons of self hosted models for video (they are smaller and easier to run). Most people serious about this stuff usually have their own pipelines.
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by torginus 7mo ago
I'm kinda surprised about how hard GenAI fell on its face in the arts (including SD and other video generators). It seemed so promising, when SD came out and it turned out the model fit on people's GPUs. People started making LoRA
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by torginus 7mo ago
I mean it depends, but for dual rated stuff has both a voltage and current limit, both of which are way lower. Like typically a 230V/20A AC switch can switch 24VDC/2A. And the energy is not in the equipment, its in the mains (or
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by torginus 7mo ago
I've had discussed with people familiar with the matter, and they convinced me its really not worth it for many reasons, the main one being safety - DC arcs are self sustaining - AC voltage constantly goes to zero, so if an arc were to
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by torginus 7mo ago
Why do people belittle CRUDs? Or even call them that? I have written quite a few applications, where there was a frotend which displayed things stored in a SQL db, with certain operations allowing you to modify said db, which I guess would
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by torginus 7mo ago
Do they have any other usecase behind Wine? My guess would be MS SQL server, but is that correct?
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by torginus 7mo ago
I agree with you, that big companies just run so much stuff that it makes sense that there should be a control plane, and thats quite unlike how most microservices are supposed to be architected. In fact this is not even an 'architectu
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by torginus 7mo ago
Kids who play video games grow up, and get off Fortnite, and you have to convince the next generation to sign up. And anyways, the population who plays these kind of live service shooters is relatively constant imo, and there are new games
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by torginus 7mo ago
Considering AGI has been degraded into a generic feelgood marketing word, I can't wait to get my AGI-scented deodorant.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Yeah, and even if we accept that models are improving in every possible way, going from this to 'AI is exponential, singularity etc.' is just as large a leap.
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by torginus 7mo ago
I remember there was a conversation between two super-duper VCs (dont remember who but famous ones), about how DeepSeek was a super-genius level model because it solved an intro-level (like week 1-2) electrodynamics problem stated in a very
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by torginus 7mo ago
I don't think Ipads are selling well. I have an old style basic one (from 2019 I think?), and the only thing I use it for is to read articles and occasionally look at emails, for which it's perfectly adequate.
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by torginus 7mo ago
An anecdote I like to tell: I once participated in implementing a system as a monolith, and later on handled the rewrite to microservices, to 'future-proof' the system. The nice thing is that I have the Jira tickets for both proje
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by torginus 7mo ago
I think SQL alone is great if you didn't drink the microservice kool-aid. You can model dependencies between pieces of data, and the engine will enforce them (and the resulting correct code will probably be faster than what you could

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