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by zbentley 1mo ago
Even putting secrets aside, the environment is a crappy place for config data. It's got a maximum size cap, is trivially introspectable by via any process that can read `/proc`, and sucks at representing hierarchical or structured
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Firmly agree. A lot of sibling comments are talking about environment mutation (which does have issues); I want to talk about environment read access. The environment is a standard, locate-able, read-only at runtime k/v store in ev
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Isn’t this the plot of The Andromeda Strain ?
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Or good old FAT+symlinks from the MacOS partition might be sufficient, if you don’t need large files. NTFS, ironically, is pretty stable via FUSE on Mac if you need more than FAT allows.
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by zbentley 1mo ago
I like this idea, but a prerequisite would likely be removing or substantially revamping patent and related IP law. That is probably also a good thing; I’d love if the bar to which process specificity in a patent was held was one that was s
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by zbentley 1mo ago
> or if it’s just throwing together words in a way that only make sense to its own model of language. alwayshasbeen.jpg
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Isn’t that basically what thinking mode is?
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by zbentley 1mo ago
My unprovable pet theory is that, especially for writing about technical topics, the RL process has an open-ended way to weight things for quality: textbooks and first-party docs preferred to old stackoverflow answers and obscure blog/
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Why on earth is this an online service and not a no-internet-access app? “No data leaves the tab where it runs” is a way harder assertion to validate than “execute this linter on your code in an environment without network access”. Addition
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Depends. Are you searching for the complicated thing by identity, or in a system that caches identities and/or interns objects of the type you’re handling? All Of those can result in searches being word-based and thus vectorizable&#x2F
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by zbentley 1mo ago
It looks like threads and a copy-on-write data structure or memory mapping.
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Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal(kubernetes.io)
6 points by zbentley 1mo ago|0 comments
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by zbentley 1mo ago
The state already tells adults what content they can consume. Truth in advertising laws, pornography restrictions, MPAA ratings and age restrictions, pirated media, and so on. Even with a default of freedom of speech, the state has numerous
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by zbentley 1mo ago
There's a big difference between "the state should start doing something that it does not do/hasn't ever done" and "the state controls something and it should change the way it does that". That's not
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by zbentley 1mo ago
I didn't make that argument. I responded to the statement: > You think the state should restrict what adults do on their phones? The state already does that.
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Not GP, but I'd define it as anything which presents or orders/prioritizes user-generated content based on preferences not explicitly specified by the consuming user. That'd be something like "default to chronological
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by zbentley 1mo ago
The state already restricts what adults do on their phones. You can't buy drugs or look at CSAM. You can't use your phone while driving or operating dangerous machinery. You can't install apps which facilitate piracy. You can
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Maybe, but I'm not sure how that might work. Meta was being sued by states in federal court, here--not the federal government. Is the theory that they would have paid more in penalties had not the White House pressured the federal cour
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Maybe. I had the ... I'm not going to say "pleasure" or "displeasure", because it wasn't a particularly voluntary experience but it was an enlightening one ... of talking with a couple of newly extremely wealth
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by zbentley 1mo ago
We always hoped that we wouldn't live to see the dystopia in Snow Crash become reality. We never imagined that we'd live to see Snow Crash depict a utopia by comparison to what we got.
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Like security guards' families. Awful, but not without historical precedent.
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C2PA and Pixel Glitter Milk(hackerfactor.com)
4 points by zbentley 1mo ago|0 comments
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Is it? ELF's specified enough that I can't imagine that it's too hard to avoid checksum mismatches between traditionally-modified ELF binaries and ELF-SELF-ELF-modified ones. Like, it's an ugly spec, but it's clea
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by zbentley 1mo ago
You joke, but even very simple/cheap AIs already make it a way bigger pain in the ass than it used to be to identify growth hacking fake user/signup/activity bullshit in all sorts of situations. It was already bad out there.
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Congratulations, you have reinvented RFCs, architecture reviews, linters, and integration tests. From first principles. With cutesy names.
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Eh, I think you can add it to the application’s write path everywhere and not need it at deployment time. Edit: I had vouched for and replied to parent, but it appears to be an AI HN responder that substantially regurgitates summaries of co
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Yes, handle statefulness is very important. A cheap way to detect and handle this condition in your application code is to call fstat on the open file handle and check the number of references. If that number drops to zero, you have an orph
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by zbentley 1mo ago
I think there is an important typo: > what happens if other processes had open file descriptors pointing to new Should end with “old”, not “new”.
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by zbentley 1mo ago
I don’t buy the “LLMs are the new compilers” claim. Compilers take an agreed upon specific intention “implement X via Y code in order to achieve Z” and make it executable. LLMs in the hyped methodology just take “Z”, and decide on an X and
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by zbentley 1mo ago
Fair, but I still think it’s not worth it. Distribution alone would be a pain. Also, what about views? Let’s say I expose my tables in a convenient non-materialized view. You query that view, bake the query plan into an executable, and ship

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