Because your entire premise here sort of betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept? So we stop vaccinating people here, and require everyone that enters be vaccinated. Problem solved! Except not really,…
As a kid I have memories of driving a bit out the edge of town to a big steel plant for almost exactly this reason, it's not totally insane. There's plenty of free parking, free admission, giant pool with some small…
In the first case, I've connected to someone else's server and actively done the damage of deleting their data. In the second case, I've provided instructions on how to destroy the data, said "don't do this", and then…
I think unit tests are documentation in the same way that a Dockerfile is... it's not. The tests don't paint the bigger picture, explain why, etc. That said, if you pitched me something like a Jupyter notebook style doc…
Yeah, that's a reason to do it too! And one I'd hope would land with most people, but "respect and decency" aren't universal unfortunately.
Yeah, after the dozenth time with the same person where the "help" is "playing 20 questions to finally get the stack trace out of them which they should have sent in the first place and then then error explains exactly…
I've had this same policy since before AI. I kind of formalized it for myself (and this team) after enough instances of "I'm trying to do X. It's not working. Help." type messages. You need to put as much effort into…
> I'm thinking Apple might just be better at figuring out what specs actually matter, and which specs just make nerds happy but don't actually sell. (except liquid glass, they failed on that.) Or maybe this is just a…
Admittedly I'm not buying Enterprise Grade(TM) stuff, but... For simplicity I just use 10G LR modules everywhere. A pair of fiber transceivers is $25. Pretty sure last batch of 3M pre-terminated fibre cables I was…
As a daily GitLab user, I'd say that would be the main criticism I could levy at it as well. It does feel like there are a number of "and the kitchen sink" type features that are just there to check a box in a RFP or…
> Yeah it's just a semantic pet peeve. Let me ask you this: What is a "Language Model", if this is a "Large Language Model"? Inversely, if a 1.5B model is "Large" then what is the recent 1T param models? "Superlarge"?…
Hey now! I've got a half terabyte of RAM at my disposal! I mean, it's DDR4 but... it's RAM! And it's paired with 48 processor cores! I mean, they don't even support AVX512 but they can do math! I could totally train a…
> I don't think your definition of spam matches the one that I understand it to mean. Spam is random email from someone you have not had contact with before firing messages to every address they can find anywhere on the…
> Hard tap water or mineralized drinking water will coat your work area in chalk-like dust. Also, y'know, your lungs. Deep inside your lungs. Running tap water in an ultrasonic humidifer's going to spike the particulate…
> When you've lost someone in a car-accident it's not much condolence to know that e.g. an airbag could have saved him/her but "back in 2026 it was deregulated because the car-companies have proven that there's no…
All modern browsers require certificates to be published in the certificate transparency logs in order to be considered valid. These are monitored, things do get noticed[0], and things like this can and have lead to CAs…
But what if the wolves become unstoppable?
> Why would you think Canada is fine when the government can freeze your accounts at will? Can we stop with this nonsense at any point? The government can declare an emergency. Certain actions can be taken during an…
I tried to find any of the original text so I could try in my editor, but couldn't so I can't say for sure but... At least copying and pasting a bunch of unicode private use characters and stuff, they're not only…
> SSDs booted faster and launched programs faster and were a very nice change, but they weren't that same sort of night-and-day 80s/90s era change. For me they were. I still remember the first PC I put together for…
I'd easily believe that bird songs are vastly more complex and interesting than we currently understand! If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy Benn Jordan's video of "saving" a PNG to a bird:…
> That said, you need to ask your account manager about (1) discounts in exchange for spend commitments, and (2) technical assistance. Depending what precisely you mean by the second one, you may not even need an…
> Not to mention the incoherence that one day its a tool to bring jobs back, the next day its just a negotiation tactic so they get reduced/dropped on a country by country basis over and over. I thought it was…
I... Well, I had started explaining point by point how wrong this is but frankly the answer is just "all of it, very". I've driven summer tires, all season tires, winter tires, and studded winter tires in every season…
I just fired up a container on my laptop... running on kubernetes... running in a linux VM. It's lightly dynamic (no database or filesystem I/O). While I've also got enough other stuff running that my 15 min load…
Because your entire premise here sort of betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept? So we stop vaccinating people here, and require everyone that enters be vaccinated. Problem solved! Except not really,…
As a kid I have memories of driving a bit out the edge of town to a big steel plant for almost exactly this reason, it's not totally insane. There's plenty of free parking, free admission, giant pool with some small…
In the first case, I've connected to someone else's server and actively done the damage of deleting their data. In the second case, I've provided instructions on how to destroy the data, said "don't do this", and then…
I think unit tests are documentation in the same way that a Dockerfile is... it's not. The tests don't paint the bigger picture, explain why, etc. That said, if you pitched me something like a Jupyter notebook style doc…
Yeah, that's a reason to do it too! And one I'd hope would land with most people, but "respect and decency" aren't universal unfortunately.
Yeah, after the dozenth time with the same person where the "help" is "playing 20 questions to finally get the stack trace out of them which they should have sent in the first place and then then error explains exactly…
I've had this same policy since before AI. I kind of formalized it for myself (and this team) after enough instances of "I'm trying to do X. It's not working. Help." type messages. You need to put as much effort into…
> I'm thinking Apple might just be better at figuring out what specs actually matter, and which specs just make nerds happy but don't actually sell. (except liquid glass, they failed on that.) Or maybe this is just a…
Admittedly I'm not buying Enterprise Grade(TM) stuff, but... For simplicity I just use 10G LR modules everywhere. A pair of fiber transceivers is $25. Pretty sure last batch of 3M pre-terminated fibre cables I was…
As a daily GitLab user, I'd say that would be the main criticism I could levy at it as well. It does feel like there are a number of "and the kitchen sink" type features that are just there to check a box in a RFP or…
> Yeah it's just a semantic pet peeve. Let me ask you this: What is a "Language Model", if this is a "Large Language Model"? Inversely, if a 1.5B model is "Large" then what is the recent 1T param models? "Superlarge"?…
Hey now! I've got a half terabyte of RAM at my disposal! I mean, it's DDR4 but... it's RAM! And it's paired with 48 processor cores! I mean, they don't even support AVX512 but they can do math! I could totally train a…
> I don't think your definition of spam matches the one that I understand it to mean. Spam is random email from someone you have not had contact with before firing messages to every address they can find anywhere on the…
> Hard tap water or mineralized drinking water will coat your work area in chalk-like dust. Also, y'know, your lungs. Deep inside your lungs. Running tap water in an ultrasonic humidifer's going to spike the particulate…
> When you've lost someone in a car-accident it's not much condolence to know that e.g. an airbag could have saved him/her but "back in 2026 it was deregulated because the car-companies have proven that there's no…
All modern browsers require certificates to be published in the certificate transparency logs in order to be considered valid. These are monitored, things do get noticed[0], and things like this can and have lead to CAs…
But what if the wolves become unstoppable?
> Why would you think Canada is fine when the government can freeze your accounts at will? Can we stop with this nonsense at any point? The government can declare an emergency. Certain actions can be taken during an…
I tried to find any of the original text so I could try in my editor, but couldn't so I can't say for sure but... At least copying and pasting a bunch of unicode private use characters and stuff, they're not only…
> SSDs booted faster and launched programs faster and were a very nice change, but they weren't that same sort of night-and-day 80s/90s era change. For me they were. I still remember the first PC I put together for…
I'd easily believe that bird songs are vastly more complex and interesting than we currently understand! If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy Benn Jordan's video of "saving" a PNG to a bird:…
> That said, you need to ask your account manager about (1) discounts in exchange for spend commitments, and (2) technical assistance. Depending what precisely you mean by the second one, you may not even need an…
> Not to mention the incoherence that one day its a tool to bring jobs back, the next day its just a negotiation tactic so they get reduced/dropped on a country by country basis over and over. I thought it was…
I... Well, I had started explaining point by point how wrong this is but frankly the answer is just "all of it, very". I've driven summer tires, all season tires, winter tires, and studded winter tires in every season…
I just fired up a container on my laptop... running on kubernetes... running in a linux VM. It's lightly dynamic (no database or filesystem I/O). While I've also got enough other stuff running that my 15 min load…