There’s usually a very good reason for that. It’s called complementary products. You don’t use something because it needs something else to be useful. That something else is not being made, because there’s no use for…
Yup, there’s righteous dub involved in orbital adventures
Ukraine, for whatever reason, was denied access to the DARPA innovation pipeline early on. Thus, they had to make their own to survive. Now, not only is there something moving much faster, than that flow of innovation…
15+ years of Estonian public sector IT experience, former chief architect of the country here. AMA. This source code being open is great, but it’s not the wole story. E-voting is deliberately designed to fit into the…
Oh my sweet summer child. During the paper voting, only the act of casting the vote happens on paper, the rest (tallying, allocation, voter lists etc) is all electronic. Both in Estonia and elsewhere.
That doubt usually turns out to be politically motivated rubbish. People publish nice blog posts and videos before their articles get published. People scolding there being an open wifi hotspot during vote counting.…
There’s a reason all ballots are destroyed after the contesting period ends. Someone in the future might find a way to compromise that anonymous key and there’s no reason to take that risk.
True. Nothing can be fully trusted. That’s true for everything, though, including paper voting. Clear schemes exist to cheat there and there’s computers involved in tallying the votes anyway. So what’s the reason to…
They are in a vicious circle there’s no good way out of. Building and operating their services is not operationally profitable. Therefore they need more funding. The only way to get more funding is to get a wider…
I’ve never drank. Half a glass of what I was told was a really good champagne at my wedding 27 years ago. That’s it. It was a conscious decision at first, based on alcohol problems of a family member, then a habit. I’m…
It’s a question, because a lot of money is riding on people developing a mental model of a llm being something else than a computer program.
The search function has also become patently unusable. I was looking for a specific bike widget. No luck, doesn’t exist according to Google search and Gemini. Fine. Unlikely, but fine. And then, there it was, a week…
Very well done, OP! Lots of reflection, methodical approach, practical design. I’ve also gotten back to making physical things recently. I did not recognize the feeling at first, but soon realized I’m looking forward to…
Same. It’s a tiring exercise keeping up with what is going on in Giant Steps. I marvel at the intricacies I can’t mostly even begin to understand but it doesn’t speak to me musically the way eg Watercolors or Kind of…
Lemmy. The man, the myth, the legend. Like with Ozzy, there was no stage persona. I’ve met him on a street the day after the gig looking exactly as he did on stage the day before. If you listen to stories about him,…
Thinking and writing are complementary processes. If you write things where you don’t have to think, let the AI do the typing. No harm done. But any writing, where you actively think while you type not about what the…
I have removed a person from a project. Doing their share of work, paying them exactly as agreed. Because they decided to have Claude write 10 pages of feedback on about 5 pages of content I created even after I asked…
The author does not emphasize a significant reason why this is. In Russian Orthodox belief, there is no purgatory. This is one of the key reasons they consider the catholic heretical. In their belief system, the…
This assumes the current demand will continue. Which is unlikely given the order of magnitude difference between capex by the Big Folks and the revenue generated by that capex. Given they now need to fund this spend…
What’s the rationale of all this? I mean countries have gotten (mostly) rid of black books without such systems. Maintaining such a solution must be horribly expensive and what if it goes down?
Quadlock makes a special dampening mount for this reason.
What makes large things slow is not the individual pieces of code but the way the architecture dynamically reacts to changes in the load. Sync vs async calls, buffers, parallel vs sequential processing. This includes…
Harassment is not permissible. But if he had been a black researcher in, say, microbiology, it wouldn’t have materialized to that extent. His research tried to shame a very large chunk of the society for being racist.…
Everyone deserves compassion. I feel sorry for him. But the fact remains, that he deliberately used lies and deception to gain a high social position in a very politically derisive context. It couldn’t have come as a…
Maybe it’s niche, but if you do endurance sports like triathlon, you can easily become a power user. I think I did. You constantly look at your watch during workouts. It does navigation on trails, it measures your heart…
There’s usually a very good reason for that. It’s called complementary products. You don’t use something because it needs something else to be useful. That something else is not being made, because there’s no use for…
Yup, there’s righteous dub involved in orbital adventures
Ukraine, for whatever reason, was denied access to the DARPA innovation pipeline early on. Thus, they had to make their own to survive. Now, not only is there something moving much faster, than that flow of innovation…
15+ years of Estonian public sector IT experience, former chief architect of the country here. AMA. This source code being open is great, but it’s not the wole story. E-voting is deliberately designed to fit into the…
Oh my sweet summer child. During the paper voting, only the act of casting the vote happens on paper, the rest (tallying, allocation, voter lists etc) is all electronic. Both in Estonia and elsewhere.
That doubt usually turns out to be politically motivated rubbish. People publish nice blog posts and videos before their articles get published. People scolding there being an open wifi hotspot during vote counting.…
There’s a reason all ballots are destroyed after the contesting period ends. Someone in the future might find a way to compromise that anonymous key and there’s no reason to take that risk.
True. Nothing can be fully trusted. That’s true for everything, though, including paper voting. Clear schemes exist to cheat there and there’s computers involved in tallying the votes anyway. So what’s the reason to…
They are in a vicious circle there’s no good way out of. Building and operating their services is not operationally profitable. Therefore they need more funding. The only way to get more funding is to get a wider…
I’ve never drank. Half a glass of what I was told was a really good champagne at my wedding 27 years ago. That’s it. It was a conscious decision at first, based on alcohol problems of a family member, then a habit. I’m…
It’s a question, because a lot of money is riding on people developing a mental model of a llm being something else than a computer program.
The search function has also become patently unusable. I was looking for a specific bike widget. No luck, doesn’t exist according to Google search and Gemini. Fine. Unlikely, but fine. And then, there it was, a week…
Very well done, OP! Lots of reflection, methodical approach, practical design. I’ve also gotten back to making physical things recently. I did not recognize the feeling at first, but soon realized I’m looking forward to…
Same. It’s a tiring exercise keeping up with what is going on in Giant Steps. I marvel at the intricacies I can’t mostly even begin to understand but it doesn’t speak to me musically the way eg Watercolors or Kind of…
Lemmy. The man, the myth, the legend. Like with Ozzy, there was no stage persona. I’ve met him on a street the day after the gig looking exactly as he did on stage the day before. If you listen to stories about him,…
Thinking and writing are complementary processes. If you write things where you don’t have to think, let the AI do the typing. No harm done. But any writing, where you actively think while you type not about what the…
I have removed a person from a project. Doing their share of work, paying them exactly as agreed. Because they decided to have Claude write 10 pages of feedback on about 5 pages of content I created even after I asked…
The author does not emphasize a significant reason why this is. In Russian Orthodox belief, there is no purgatory. This is one of the key reasons they consider the catholic heretical. In their belief system, the…
This assumes the current demand will continue. Which is unlikely given the order of magnitude difference between capex by the Big Folks and the revenue generated by that capex. Given they now need to fund this spend…
What’s the rationale of all this? I mean countries have gotten (mostly) rid of black books without such systems. Maintaining such a solution must be horribly expensive and what if it goes down?
Quadlock makes a special dampening mount for this reason.
What makes large things slow is not the individual pieces of code but the way the architecture dynamically reacts to changes in the load. Sync vs async calls, buffers, parallel vs sequential processing. This includes…
Harassment is not permissible. But if he had been a black researcher in, say, microbiology, it wouldn’t have materialized to that extent. His research tried to shame a very large chunk of the society for being racist.…
Everyone deserves compassion. I feel sorry for him. But the fact remains, that he deliberately used lies and deception to gain a high social position in a very politically derisive context. It couldn’t have come as a…
Maybe it’s niche, but if you do endurance sports like triathlon, you can easily become a power user. I think I did. You constantly look at your watch during workouts. It does navigation on trails, it measures your heart…