BillinghamJ

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by BillinghamJ 6mo ago
Isn't that... exactly what the Mac Pro was? PCIe support was the primary point
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by BillinghamJ 7mo ago
Main distinction I tend to see is just whether you're doing line management or not, which tends to be the EM track Beyond that, agree it seems like it can just be anything in virtually any title
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by BillinghamJ 7mo ago
Systems running core government functions should be set up to be able to efficiently execute their functions at scale, so I'd say it should only restrict extreme load, ie DoS attacks
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by BillinghamJ 7mo ago
Then why mince words, and why accept new non-enterprise clients - just be clear it's maintenance-only and existing customer-only.
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by BillinghamJ 7mo ago
Seems strange not to just... say nothing and merely remove any mentions of an enterprise offering from the website. All this blog post can do is make people nervous and lead to customers moving elsewhere. Revenue will drop, and further comp
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by BillinghamJ 9mo ago
They'd still at least buy reinsurance etc anyway. All unlimited liability insurance companies (e.g. motor insurers in the UK) have reinsurance to take the hit on claims over a certain level - e.g. 100k, 1m etc. For extreme black swan r
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by BillinghamJ 10mo ago
Changing/layering architecture adds risk. If you've got a standard way of working you can easily throw in on day one whose fundamentals then don't need to be changed for years, that's way lower risk, easier, faster It is
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by BillinghamJ 1y ago
ChatGPT can easily do Monte Carlo simulation in its "thinking" step, and has done many times for me. e.g. I asked it to compare savings interest between regular banks and median returns from premium bonds. It's not difficult
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by BillinghamJ 1y ago
Interestingly, in the UK, comprehensive insurance is now generally cheaper than "third party only" or "third party, fire & theft" cover The reason is because the insurance companies want you to care about the car as
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Tell HN: Humanloop acquired, sunsetting Sept 8th
12 points by BillinghamJ 1y ago|6 comments
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by BillinghamJ 1y ago
Legit from whose perspective though? Around an authoritarian government maybe widely viewed as reasonable/justified, but doesn't sound legitimate to those governments
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by BillinghamJ 1y ago
So a CDN with... higher latency for people on Earth?
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by BillinghamJ 1y ago
On iPhones, there is an option - "reduce white point" in the vision/display accessibility settings, and also low power mode. You can force low power mode to remain on with the Shortcuts app
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by BillinghamJ 1y ago
How trustworthy really are humans?
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by BillinghamJ 1y ago
Although it has a core section that does run underground through tube-like tunnels, it isn't classified as a tube line :) So isn't part of the "London Underground"
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by BillinghamJ 2y ago
Google Sheets can do that - https://officewheel.com/group-dates-in-pivot-table-google-sh...
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by BillinghamJ 2y ago
Maybe they mean fast in terms of the screen refreshing?
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by BillinghamJ 2y ago
This is actually only an option if you qualify under Apple's definition of "reader" apps - ones that are pure content-consumption, nothing interactive etc. If you don't qualify as a "reader" app, what you'
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by BillinghamJ 2y ago
Password managers can store the passkeys just like they store passwords. 1Password has had strong support for them for quite a while now
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
I'm not sure why that'd inherently be a problem? Knowledge that some record exists about a medical event at a particular time is not too problematic, compared to _who_ it happened to
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
It will work - the magnetic interaction happens through the plastic, just will be very slightly weaker than one with additional magnets due to the tiny gap. The video shows it mounted on a MagSafe charger
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
https://support.apple.com/en-ie/mac/repair 289 EUR for all 15"/16" MBPs The only reason they'd require a full top case replacement would be if there was additional damage making them unable to
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
I don't know how you'd define "light load", but I have a few services that average about 100rps. Only 1 active container most of the time, they're allocated 128MiB RAM, with a p99 utilization of 55%. They don't
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
The AI bits seem to be the one feature that is completely useless. I've tried all of the functions and eventually ended up with all of them disabled
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
One of those board members already did sign!
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
The year 1 is also completely arbitrary though? Humans existed long before then too. It doesn't really matter when the epoch is, as long as everyone uses the same one, and negative values are supported as appropriate
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
Isn't the real issue that the control plane isn't decentralized/redundant? Entirely dependent on PDX
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
I meant in terms of achieving the intended outcome for the end-users. Is it actually desirable to ensure there's a resolution when really they need to decide?
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
I don't think there's truly any technical solution to "two users edited the same piece of text" tbh. You can try to be smart about it in various ways, but at the end of the day you're still going to hit situations w
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by BillinghamJ 3y ago
Git has much more explicit conflict resolution though, which covers a lot of the risks involved

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