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by tormeh 10mo ago
This is generally the mainstream take on it. These laws are not generally seen as good. However, if dictatorship comes back, the law is meaningless, so what a dictator would use a law for is a moot point. As for whether it's ingrained
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by tormeh 10mo ago
What I'd really like is a TV with DisplayPort. How is this not a thing? IIRC you cannot buy a display with DP that's larger than 45 inches, give or take - they just don't exist. I think this is really weird. Like, I'd pa
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Well, time is money, right? If someone files a complaint and goes through with whatever proceedings ensue you can bet that it's not a single mom working a full-time job. For police officers, on the other hand, enforcing this law on beh
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Germany does not protect free speech the way the US does. You're free to voice any opinion, but the exact wordings in which you are allowed to do it are restricted. You are allowed to say "I hate Merz" but not "Merz is a
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by tormeh 10mo ago
It's illegal to insult anyone in Germany, and has been for a long time. Libel, slander, and insults are all criminal (not civil) offences. I know what you're thinking: "That sounds crazy" - Yeah, it kinda is. In practice
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by tormeh 10mo ago
GitHub has a container registry. That going down can cause pod start failure. I agree the source code probably doesn't need infinite nines, but the container registry is different.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
An optimal business only cares about whether the invoices get paid and the shareholders are hyped. Everything else is noise they block out. Not saying Microsoft is optimal, but this is just a business doing business.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Sleep()s that increase exponentially every month seem like a good solution. When the API has a 10 second latency hopefully someone starts asking questions. If not I think brownouts are a decent idea.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Software evolves over time, along with business needs. What seemed like (or even was!) a good idea at some point will almost surely cease to be a good idea at some point in the future. Breaking the API is totally fine if there's a good
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Got to hand it to them - Fraktur is an annoying font. It looks cool, though.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
A system only needs one programming language to be useful, and when there's only one it's basically always C.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
They're looking for free publicity. "This French company launched a tool that lets you 'vibe' an application into being. Programmers outraged!"
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by tormeh 10mo ago
This is what I also see. AI is used sparingly. Mostly for information lookup and autocomplete. It's just not good enough for other things. I could use it to write code if I really babysit it and triple check everything it does? Cool co
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by tormeh 10mo ago
It's boring, alright. You're gonna curse this moment when you realize you've become a yaml engineer. Actually, I bet AI is pretty good at creating those damn manifests. It's mostly regurgitation after all.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Kafka isn't magic, but it's close. If a single-node solution like an SQL database can handle your load then why shouldn't you stick with SQL? Kafka is not for you. Kafka is for workloads that would DDoS Postgres.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Apache Iggy seems like a project with a lot of momentum: https://github.com/apache/iggy
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Note I ignored the 10x part. I'd find it a bit lame if a language came out that's 1.1x better than Rust because we're now in the awkward position of having rewritten lots of stuff in the second best language. However, should
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by tormeh 10mo ago
I think block chains are inherently fine. The issue with bitcoin is that it isn't inflationary. Yes, yes, the supply increases over time, but that's also true for gold, and I've yet to hear anyone call gold inflationary. If a
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Industrial IoT is far from useless. Consumer IoT is pretty dumb, but let's not get too sad about the IoT as a whole.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Oops, skipped the 10x part. If it's really 10x better that would indeed be amazing. That's basically the leap from C to Rust in domains that C is not good at.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Honestly I'd be a bit disappointed if something better came along tomorrow. Just as we as an industry spent all this effort moving to Rust something better comes along? Lame. Obviously I want better languages to come out, but I'd
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Well, some news organizations are more than willing to spread fake news as well, so it's hardly limited to social media. I think it's just in-group vs out-group mentality, and a need to hate.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Thankfully LLMs are a dead end, so nobody will make it to AGI by just throwing more electricity at the problem. Now if we could only have a new AI winter we could postpone the end of mankind as the dominant species on earth by another coupl
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OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output(tomshardware.com)
5 points by tormeh 10mo ago|2 comments
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Looks like it has a solid amount of contributors. Exciting! Some other attempts like Fluvio seem to have lost momentum.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
All I remember from my experience with VHDL/Verilog is that they really truly suck.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Would you really earn more money doing this than monopolizing online search advertising? Because I find that hard to believe. Hardware seems like a miserable business.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Maybe. Maybe not. The uncertainty has value in and of itself, assuming Russia et al. experience the same uncertainty.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Obviously. Have you seen the Cybertruck? But I guess this is the price of the US remaining in NATO.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Cool. Doesn't solve the problem of German bureaucrats (corporate or government) expecting papers that simply do not exist in the country of the person being requested papers of. This really happens all the time and is quite vexing to t

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