Twirrim

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by Twirrim 3d ago
I miss the days when my tech feeds used to routinely include these style of "Wonder what's going on here?", and "I did sometimes ridiculous with <something I'd never expect to have complicated electronics>&quo
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by Twirrim 4d ago
It'll just be telling you what the data it ingested claims. Not what is necessarily true. It's as subject to garbage in, garbage out as anything, and you don't know what it's actually trained on.
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by Twirrim 6d ago
The NTSB report will detail what can be done, and they will have full access to every bit of information involved in the incident. They have a well deserved reputation for the quality and accuracy of their incident reports, and they don&#x2
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by Twirrim 6d ago
The branding on the plane is Prime Air, but it's not actually Amazon owned and run. Instead it's a cargo airline (21 Air) that they contract with to operate cargo flights with Prime Air livery on the planes. It'll be interes
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by Twirrim 6d ago
It's very effective, I'm certainly persuaded to never touch their products. A remarkable own goal given that if they'd literally held their tongue, I'd be at worst indifferent.
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by Twirrim 6d ago
I've had more than one half-serious conversation with SVPs here that every staff/architect level engineer should have to spend at least 6 months working on the engineering team that directly interacts with the largest customers.
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by Twirrim 6d ago
The slight drawback is that AOT compiled Java code's performance isn't as good as the JIT compiled form running on the JVM. There's a reason why folks keep coming back to JIT compilation. It's hard to beat the value tha
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by Twirrim 7d ago
I played it about a year ago for the first significant time after having bought it some point a long time back. It's... fine? It kept me engaged until it didn't. Part of the "didn't" came about because I was being
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by Twirrim 9d ago
There was nothing surprising in that email chain at all, looking at it as someone with lots of experience in large companies. In a twisted kind of way, the replies were reasonable and logical. They're not dumb, they can see it was crap
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by Twirrim 14d ago
I'd be curious whether block level de-duping would add value too in their case. You effectively achieved that to some degree with storing the deltas.
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by Twirrim 16d ago
> If one person can spend 2 days fighting to prevent 1h of useless work for all of the people running curl, that person has saved the software industry millions of dollars worth of developer time. Working in a large company, that used to
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by Twirrim 16d ago
> Lots of teams that are supposed to be in charge of security don't ask "does this CVE affect us", but simply shift the burden of patching downward and outward Unfortunately, I've had many a frustrating session with c
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by Twirrim 19d ago
>... A single command to roll back applied migrations with Flyway Community Edition, no license, no undo command, no crying in the club. Oh here we go... > ... Here’s how it works, buckle up girls. sigh . Yeah, no.
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by Twirrim 22d ago
I'm always a little cautious about "tried it in the store" experience. If I nuke and rebuild my machine (either Linux, or Windows), it's always significantly faster than it was before. Over time stuff just tends to acc
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by Twirrim 29d ago
We occasionally (maybe once a year) use a meal service for a couple of weeks, especially if it's a busy week. The recipes sheets they provide drive me absolutely nuts working from them, to the point where I feel like I have to re-write
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by Twirrim 29d ago
Right, and when it gets filled, the OOM killer comes along and does its thing.
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by Twirrim 29d ago
Where? I don't see a single one from clicking around a bit on the site. The landing page doesn't even say what it is, just some audio thing somehow tied to Dr Oz (can't actually exercise it, because I run firefox). Why is t
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by Twirrim 1mo ago
I've been wondering lately if this is about the end of the road for me for a career in tech (I've had a good long one, so.. maybe?). I'm so tired of AI Slopped architecture documents, code, messages in slack, emails etc. I&#
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by Twirrim 1mo ago
You can't rely on people spotting the significance of such changes
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by Twirrim 1mo ago
I've had _some_ success by asking Codex write a full plan, broken up in to logical phases, complete with git commit points along the way. It's probably not quite how I would approach doing git commits, but they're at least lo
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by Twirrim 1mo ago
> So you write software for a platform you know nothing about? That's how a sizeable chunk of software is written and shipped. Runtime detection of CPU features is very much a thing, and is in fact used extensively in software you u
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by Twirrim 1mo ago
Unsecured Firebase... yet again. Plus the added bonus of unresponsive CTOs and employees that don't seem motivated or capable of taking ownership and at least driving things forward.
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
I bought a whole bunch of GE LED bulbs figuring big name, probably more reliable. Nope. Diabolically bad. Never again.
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
Independent testing of prismml suggest quite a capability drop off outside of their cherry picked benchmarks. I'll be curious to see what this model achieves though.
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
This is one of the things that is tiring me out the most. Previously people could have these "ohh shiny" ideas and would lose steam before they could be implemented, especially in areas they're clueless about. Now people can
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
I poison their requests with crap, particularly because they were the worst offenders for sheer request rate. The site has maybe a hundred pages, and I'd see them hit at a sustained 20 rps for weeks on end, same content being pulled o
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
It is depressing listening to engineers I respected, who now just parrot incorrect information at me from their LLM. One smart engineer seems to have entirely offloaded all thinking and conversations to one, with just occasional editing. It
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
It's one of those "I hate it, but I get it" situations. Migrating metering over to a whole new format on AWS's scale is a scarily large undertaking.
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by Twirrim 2mo ago
I got known as a "Chaos Monkey" at AWS, and have sort of carried on that title. It's not exactly accurate, but tech stuff just breaks around me, and it's very, very rarely my fault. I'm pretty cautious and resist

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