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by walrus01 1mo ago
Within this context it's specifically people in the ISP and telecom business, most of whom have been in the business 15, 20 or 25 years now. Some of us started out as junior NOC techs, junior sysadmin/Linux/BSD guys in the la
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It's not that I don't read a great deal from a wide variety of sources, but that I reserve the small amount of free time I have per day for back-and-forth discussions (like this one) with groups of people I am fairly sure are not
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Once again PLEASE DRINK A VERIFICATION CAN (note this is from 2013, and while its origin is as a shitpost, it's prophetic) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/632877-halo-4/66477630
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by walrus01 1mo ago
As exemplified by a major project recently started by the French government: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260417-france-to-remove-windo... https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/fr
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I have found that the only way to deal with this these days is basically to only use my time to discuss things with people in private, invitation only forums. HN is a rare exception for "I am pretty sure you all are not bots (yet)&quot
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> I often handwrite the code myself, but I’ve found that LLM coding assistants’ limitless patience ameliorates the drudgiest work of coding. I've been using a few different "smart" LLM to work on an analysis, parsing, sear
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by walrus01 1mo ago
https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.s...
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by walrus01 1mo ago
The last couple of years have provided us with ample material that if it showed up as a recorded voice audio log found in in "Horizon Zero Dawn" or its sequel, it would be entirely believable. You could even take a number of the
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Kind of unavoidable now for hosting companies purchasing new hardware, much as diesel costs are affecting trucking companies. Let's say theoretically that a company decides to buy raw rack space+power colo and DIY your own router setup
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by walrus01 1mo ago
They're literally even deporting Afghans who supported the US, who are in danger of being tortured and killed by the Taliban if returned to Afghanistan, to the Central African Republic: https://www.google.com/search?&am
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> I'd probably already have been extradited to the US and be awaiting sentencing. Bold of you to assume it wouldn't be a direct ticket to the new gulag in El Salvador.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I'm saying a staging/testing environment is a good place to prove your specific configuration of "smart" LLM isn't going to do something wildly wrong, before you even think to trust it in a production environment. A
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Another and more immediate concern is that anything which contains subcomponents/subsystems or parts from US origin companies runs into ITAR and MTCR [1] issues with the US federal government. There's a number of very complex Euro
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by walrus01 1mo ago
While admittedly this can be a bit risky, there's a lot less possible blast radius or thing that can go catastrophically wrong if you give the LLM the ssh keys and sudo access on a KVM VM (or equivalent) that's been created as a b
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It's 11 issues total and by one person, and the project says here in the thread the issue is being addressed. Please put down the metaphorical pitchforks and torches.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
If you don't mind me asking a question to better understand your perspective: Are you old enough to have personally experienced and built self-hosted things before the advent of AWS, cloud hosted stuff, or is your text above (which I
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by walrus01 1mo ago
The eclipse is also going to pass directly over Abha, Saudi Arabia. The high elevation parts of Saudi Arabia in that region are already their own modest successful tourist attraction. For an example of what it looks like, google image searc
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It exists but only in the conceptual / R&D and politics funding stage right now. I hope it succeeds but they're going to need significant amounts of money and real world launch capability to catch up with SpaceX and Amazon Leo
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I'm thinking this will also saturate the western Europe (or at least France, Spain, Portugal) RV rental market. If you've seen the small RVs that people rent to park along the side of the road on Tour de France routes in summer, s
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> The only way Europe can have a Starlink similar network is to launch it from their own soil and reuse the first stage. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any properly funded euro alternative to starlink that that has progressed beyond
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> It's not screens that are bad, it's what you do with them and how you use them. Congrats on being a good parent, but there's a lot of people out there who put much less conscious effort into it than you apparently do. R
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I feel inclined to agree with this based on my observation of batteries that can actually be purchased (not hype PR things where people announce a miracle 450Wh/kg batttery). The electric VTOL companies in this niche that survive may u
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by walrus01 1mo ago
If you visit the B&H retail store in NYC they sell all kinds of stuff for basically everything that is more "pro" level which is beyond what you can achieve with a regular smartphone with its built in lenses. Particularly for
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by walrus01 1mo ago
In the US state of New Jersey some counties restrict the sales of tools and hardware (like something you might need to urgently buy for a home repair from Home Depot) on Sundays: https://www.google.com/search?&q=new+jers
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I'm using the main line firefox release on MacOS here, and yeah it does seem to do that... Clearly google already knows what browser I'm on from useragent as the most rudimentary ID and other browser fingerprinting measures as we
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by walrus01 1mo ago
B&H Photo Video is probably the most well known example, they won't accept an order on the sabbath. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=b%26h+sab... But the site still functions to browse.
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Microsoft announces monthly hour usage limits for Xbox game pass(news.xbox.com)
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I have the aforementioned 3B+ and one Pi 4 (I forget if it's 1GB or 2GB). For me they still serve the same purpose as the original for weird headless tasks like eyeballing a furnace needle gauge. One of the reasons I mentioned in my or
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Not to be confused with Microsoft Bob: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> Why was Anthropic forced to remove their model from access for any none-US citizen It's really quite simple, they've decided to metaphorically kiss the ring of the current leader of the US executive branch of government. I&#x

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