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by arpinum 5d ago
They could have embedded Cedar into their system without adding on-premium burden.
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by arpinum 6d ago
My complaint is about your customer's choices, not yours. The customer solved their problem, but they also created the problem in the first place by building on an abstraction that hides capabilities they need.
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by arpinum 6d ago
https://openai.com/index/advanced-account-security/ > Automatic training exclusion. People working with especially sensitive information may opt not to have those conversations used for model training. With Adv
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by arpinum 6d ago
Documentation is not complete, it also protects your data from being used in training.
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by arpinum 6d ago
Turn on "Advanced Account Security", that prevents model training from being turned on.
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by arpinum 7d ago
> the database is the last thing you want to re-invent good news, FoundationDB is already invented, and just slightly more tested than others on the market.
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by arpinum 7d ago
CO2 does better with large temp deltas, like hot water tanks. Radiators don't produce large deltas - the inlet to outlet diff is typically under 10 degrees. But they run at higher pressures, making the manufacturing more expensive.
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by arpinum 7d ago
This is frustrating to read. Tigres is built on FoundationDB, but doesn't expose all FoundationDB operations like transactions, range reads, and get mapped range. They go through all sorts of complications to handle these issues, inclu
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by arpinum 18d ago
It's mainly naming conventions so functions read more like a sentence, so `send_action(to_cell: X)`.
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by arpinum 18d ago
I use Typestates and Newtypes extensively. The metric that shows Typestate and Newtypes are beneficial is: How many method calls or parameters can be called / used that compile but are not valid use cases. You want to minimise this num
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by arpinum 18d ago
Foundationdb has a good solution to this. Uses three regions, sync writes to regions 1 and 2 which should be near each other, sync writes to region 3. If region 1 dies then region 3 pulls last commits from region 2 before serving traffic. S
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by arpinum 19d ago
It gives evidence the viability of nuclear is a political choice. China is using proven designs and delivering a good price for base load.
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by arpinum 19d ago
They added new enterprise features, free ride is over if you want any improvements made to the service in the last 8 years.
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by arpinum 19d ago
SMR is driven by funding, insurance, and regulation. China doesn't have these issues and builds conventional at a great price. China is building 37 reactors, only 4-5 are SMR-type units, and are larger at 600MW. The rest are standard P
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by arpinum 22d ago
EU only capped fees for 4 party systems, and only for consumer credit cards. business credit cards and 3 party systems (American Express for example) are not part of the cap and you can get more rewards with these card types.
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by arpinum 29d ago
> Web distribution, which is available only in the EU ... require every alternatively distributed app to go through Notarization — a baseline review focused on basic functionality and protection from serious threats. This is quite a big
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by arpinum 1mo ago
ETL from DynamoDB into Ducklake
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by arpinum 1mo ago
Dose makes the poison. And some substances are beneficial at low doses and harmful at high doses. Do you foreswear aspirin?
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by arpinum 1mo ago
Sadly the government lost my trust to use the capability responsibly, I've opted out of future messages. https://www.gov.uk/alerts/opting-out
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by arpinum 2mo ago
It's a response to laws that prohibit advertising of alcohol in certain countries at certain times of the day. There may be a trend towards these products, but the prohibition prompted the advertising change.
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by arpinum 2mo ago
Same with the drinks companies, they switched to explicitly advertising their zero alcohol beers.
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by arpinum 2mo ago
I set --max-cost to 100, it bailed before finishing. Unknown if I would get full results for $105 or $500. Either way I lost $100.
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by arpinum 2mo ago
I use a in-memory database per unit test with both rocksdb and sqlite, it is a game-changer to get better quality tests. Overall premise is wrong though. Moving the database out of process will change performance characteristics and data ar
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by arpinum 2mo ago
Starlink is popular in rural England. Trenching fibre to farmland isn't economical and poor DSL is often the only other option.
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by arpinum 2mo ago
Red flags: - Tests Postgres 16, not 18. - Uses t4 burst instances in AWS, shared CPU in Hetzner. - Test fits in memory. - Fails to say if load generator is in same AZ. - Says their own service "includes a standby and automatic fai
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by arpinum 3mo ago
> You are correct, but you will never sway the account you are replying to. Check their comment history. Me above: > I don't have an opinion on the legally correct answer, reading the full decision and dissents I'd give a sl
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by arpinum 3mo ago
Jurisdiction has multiple concepts, you are thinking of territorial jurisdiction. There is also personal jurisdiction, feudal jurisdiction (serfdom), political jurisdiction. Thomas is reacting to Roberts. Roberts spends time talking about t
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by arpinum 3mo ago
"subject to jurisdiction" does not mean "has to follow US law", that is territorial jurisdiction. Subject to jurisdiction means political jurisdiction and allegiance. That is why children born to members of Native Americ
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by arpinum 3mo ago
> The 14th amendment grants Jus Soli. End of story. But it isn't the end, it then qualifies who gets Jus Soli. And that is the debate. > The people who drafted the 14th and ratified it were in favor of Jus Soli Thomas cites Sen.
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by arpinum 3mo ago
You didn't read the decision, it was up for debate in 1898 Wong Kim Ark. Every justice cites it. Wong Kim Ark gives 4 exceptions, and it isn't clear if those exceptions are comprehensive or not. And you didn't read the majori

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