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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Yeah, I’ve always held a soft spot for CRIU, but I don’t see it battle-tested enough to trust big, gnarly closed-source third-part vendor enterprise Java products to run under it. And if I’ve reduced an open source piece of kit’s execution
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> A two-digit number of these devices was meant to form a cluster of sorts... That embedded constraint is fascinating. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, given the same substrate constraint, what direction would you have taken?
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Can someone please explain how the patent covers non-obvious work? This reads to me like tunneling with VPN's, and after we have so many on our hands, that one naturally reaches for sprinkling some conventions and automation on top. We
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
> How does that thought process even work? As it was explained to me, it was territory marking/office politics. Editors back then were very powerful when it came to decisions on content. They did not take kindly to anyone explaini
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Oy vey, "no chance" is putting it lightly. A lot of this BASIC code had roots in the 1960's-70's. Back then, editors ruled the roost of print magazines where this code often showed up within, and in books of collections
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That is, shall we say, a champagne problem (a problem we want to experience). Mass life extension potentially unlocks compounding effects that can lead to some bootstrapping outcomes. Expertise can be deployed deeper and/or broader a
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
I sometimes wish there were Talmudic-like annotated regulations that discourse upon the history and context of each regulation, down to the precise punctuation mark, word, line when those granularities have meaning, so we don't have to
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
> Rewrite every software, so that every programs handle their own private keys ? Yeah, that's a nightmare, not gonna happen. PCI 4.0 disallows using Full Disk Encryption to fulfill its encryption at rest requirements, because it d
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> This is very close to the hype of that era. I'm too dense to grasp the site's mathematical propositions (I don't have the mathematical grounding to understand Borel algebra not to speak of Borel Hierarchies). So it was
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
The general rule of thumb I've personally observed (YMMV) with those who hold such absolutist externality related positions is they hold it right up to the minute that someone else much more powerful and deep-pocketed than they start u
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
A lot of my friends who in their younger years held this position rapidly backpedaled after they added babies to their homes. There are very effective sound mitigation solutions available though, if you're willing and able to afford to
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
> ...managing that "proper ACL" that doesn't fit your business is a hell of a problem that nobody will get right... I'm not sure there is a way to get this right unless there is a programmatic integration into the o
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
The inference engine Watson is still out there. Branding of IBM's Generative AI entry is branded watsonx [1]. Pushed aggressively internally, widespread high-impact production traction-driven cash gushing accounts remain elusive, but b
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Indirection, responsibility splitting, and accountability factoring are enormously effective organizational tools that allow formal influence to be wielded within organizations through informal means that are legally impossible to prosecute
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
> money warps everything it touches. I wonder what would happen if money transactions frame dragged transaction metadata along with the money. Today, the money is public data, but the far more interesting transactional metadata exchang
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Perhaps marking a turn of Apple considering itself the center of an ecosystem to the center of the ecosystem, trapped within an echo chamber of its own hall of mirrors?
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A flattening I’m watching with interest is the gradually increasing digital integration of the physical world. I’m hopeful that it opens the door to at least tap the brakes on the enshittification of our physical artifacts. For example, the
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
> If Multics had been treated as a research project rather than being a plan to invent a ton of new stuff and build a system that would be deployed in volume, everybody would be singing its praises today. I wonder if Multics had to be
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Did you get the number of commits off of the network graph? I use "git log" to pull the number of commits but had no idea the GitHub web site could count the number of commits between two repositories from the most recent commit o
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Lest anyone think the December Air Force decision to eliminate Boeing from the competition was due to Boeing's ongoing leadership failures manifesting first as engineering and manufacturing quality issues, and now as real-dollar design
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> What are we supposed to do about it? This situation is a smaller economic stage upon which the same script is playing itself out on the larger economic stage. The FIRE economy [1] and its accompanying regulatory capture apparatus that
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
It will take awhile before regulatory requirements catch up and leverage technology that is already available today, but automated lineage capture of Relationship Bill Of Materials (RBOM) is already possible. We lack the data interchange st
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Gives a compelling reasoning and evidence of how agriculture was roughly simultaneously invented around the world.
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Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture(academic.oup.com)
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Having sat on a board of a 501(c)(3) organization before, it does indeed sound like a collapse of funding for their operating model, which is unfortunate for such a worthy mission. I've always wondered how well US-based donation-funded
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That's how I read it. Should be unsurprising in this tech economic environment and if some Fed watchers are correct, within the next 4-6 quarters, when the tech malaise extends to the general economic environment. When the cycle comes
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In short, no. The ArXiv paper mentions the human developer must supply a unit test (which can conceivably be coded with at least the assistance of an AI agent if not autonomously coded, but their experiment relies upon the former kind of un
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by yourapostasy 3y ago
For those not familiar with meld: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/ There is a GitHub repo of it that is now deprecated, this is apparently the official repo. I’m curious how these stack up to other, similar to
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by yourapostasy 3y ago
The network effects benefits of a large population using a common domain specific language and abstraction are easily overlooked when one on the inside of that echo chamber dealing with the warts of that context frame. I’m also not overly f
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I’d like to see the strong case for autonomous driving being the harbinger of generalized AI laid out. Specialized AI, with varying hardware support, has yet to solve the last-mile of 5-10% of autonomous driving in favorable conditions. In

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