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by andyhedges 4d ago
With Y2K we fixed the issue, if a bunch of work hadn't had gone into that then there would have been wide scale impact. Critical systems were fixed hence no disaster, it wasn't people fussing about nothing.
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by andyhedges 1mo ago
Only if you have a Beowulf cluster of tiktoks
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You Can't Count on a Key(primecrunch.com)
2 points by andyhedges 1mo ago|0 comments
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The prime your computer finds while you sleep(primecrunch.com)
3 points by andyhedges 3mo ago|0 comments
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by andyhedges 3mo ago
It's interesting, the "discernment horizon" as Yegge puts it: the point where humans can't verify an answer because checking it is harder than producing it. I'm not sure it's quite that simple. I have a couple
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Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft(primecrunch.com)
32 points by andyhedges 3mo ago|6 comments
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Show HN: A distributed computing project for finding primes of the form k·2^n−1(primecrunch.com)
1 points by andyhedges 3mo ago|0 comments
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by andyhedges 5mo ago
For the LLM it's a probabilistic set of strings that achieves the outcome, the highest probability set didn't work, try the next one until success or threshold met. A human sees the implicit difference between the obvious thing no
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by andyhedges 5mo ago
It's when they sniff the glue, then things get wild.
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by andyhedges 5mo ago
Isn't the what sftp is? sftp multiplexes commands and data, and is single port without all the old fashioned two port negotiation of FTP.
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by andyhedges 6mo ago
Yes, I'm saying it's not a good analogy
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by andyhedges 6mo ago
> We require age minimums for driving, voting, and drinking because we believe maturity only comes through lived experience. Not true, we do this because the 99% of the time it's true, however there are people who would be perfectly
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by andyhedges 7mo ago
Nuance!? This is The Internet, we can't be having any of that here.
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by andyhedges 7mo ago
I have it (claude, codex) summarise what we've discussed about a design, big change, put it in an MD file and then I correct it, have it re-read it and then do the change. Then later if it goes off piste in another session tell it to r
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by andyhedges 4y ago
Can't you just reset the password on account without the dot it in? Lock them out.
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by andyhedges 4y ago
Couldn't you play a WAV too? But they were too massive at the time for most peoples bandwidth.
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An Explanation of Huffman Coding(blog.hedges.net)
6 points by andyhedges 7y ago|0 comments
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How to attract great people (to work for your company)(blog.hedges.net)
2 points by andyhedges 7y ago|0 comments
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by andyhedges 8y ago
Yes, but the concept existed in 'process servers' 'EAI hubs' and various other names. EBS caught on as the defacto term later.
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by andyhedges 8y ago
SOA is more than just RPC it's about the decomposition of your organisation in to cohesive (from a functional(ity) perspective) units of software, to reduce the need to make the remote calls, but more importantly allow you to organise
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by andyhedges 8y ago
SOA never required an ESB, this was simply vendors trying to shoehorn in a saleable unit of software - which they succeeded at better in the 90s. Likewise I've seen people implement microservices with an ESB in the middle. Long an shor
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Learn the Fundamentals Not the Shiny New Technology(blog.hedges.net)
3 points by andyhedges 9y ago|0 comments