bhawks

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by bhawks 1mo ago
If you read further you'll see that in 2025 they spent $40 million additional and served 300000 people - so $130/user? The metrics for this project don't sell it - the politics do. You'll either love it or hate it.
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by bhawks 6mo ago
You're missing the parts where: 1: Roblox hosts your multiplayer gameservers in its pops for free, with a generous amount of free persistent storage and memory 1.a: Roblox handles scaling and SRE work for you for free - you're not
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by bhawks 6mo ago
Roblox games are all multiplayer - you get a game server running in their POPs and a generous amount of persistent storage and memory. How is that not a developer operational cost? Creators don't have to pay any hosting - Roblox will s
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by bhawks 7mo ago
| then they went back and said no, you need to remove those safeguards to which Anthropic is (rightly so) saying no. So one thing to call out here is that the assumption that DoW is working on specifically these use cases is not bullet proo
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by bhawks 7mo ago
What a failure as a species that parents are not trusted or believed to be capable of raising their children. Therefore let's build out the panopticon.
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by bhawks 7mo ago
CEL is useful for any custom computation you want to do on your critical path without having that blow out in a ridiculous fashion. Yes you can embed other languages however constraining evaluation costs is not a first class feature.
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by bhawks 7mo ago
The actions of the government should always be publicly observable. This is what keeps it accountable. The fear that a person might be unfairly treated due to a long past indiscretion does not outweigh the public's right to observe and
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by bhawks 8mo ago
The only logical end of this is that they should ban 3d printers and cnc mills to unlicensed individuals. Which, is probably the goal. Things like 3d printers, drones, GPUs, general purpose computers, vpns, encryption, talking to people in
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by bhawks 8mo ago
Every service provider dropped them. Cool weapon, let's use it more. Thanks for proving the point.
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by bhawks 8mo ago
New?! This isn't new. You just haven't been paying attention. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55615214 Or maybe it is fine when it happens to people you disagree with.
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by bhawks 8mo ago
Id agree if it were a VP of Eng (total mess) or Product (should know and be bought in on the dev process) but this is a VP of sales. Depending on the company they can be much more operational and I would just assume that they asked the indi
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by bhawks 9mo ago
| My personal take is that folks involved with the change severely underestimated the societal impact that it had. The fact that proper build support is non-existent to this day shows that agents are not a priority. That's okay if it
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by bhawks 9mo ago
J2ME was an alphabet soup of incompatible implementations stuck somewhere between Java 1.2 and 1.3. Getting code to run across device manufacturers was a huge engineering burden. In fact doing something like JetPack for that world would be
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by bhawks 9mo ago
| Android being Google's .NET, after Google being sued by coming up with Google's J++, Android Java dialect. The Oracle v Google was specifically over copyright infringement concerning the Java APIs used in Android's original
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by bhawks 10mo ago
That ship sailed decades ago. Too much software and middleware expects GET to not have a body and who knows how itll break when you start sending one. Obviously you can do it today and it might work and then randomly break when the code be
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by bhawks 10mo ago
The author of the article obviously didn't read the paper. The paper's finding focuses on goal adjustment/flexibility being a functional response when encountering difficulty meeting a goal. Disengagement had correlations wit
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by bhawks 10mo ago
Yeah you're right, Coinbase is definitely insecure as evidenced by this. The fact that lax security has never caused them to loose billions of dollars of customer funds is just luck and paper covering passwords on a whiteboard.
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by bhawks 10mo ago
Coinbase didn't halt trading or withdrawals during the Bitfinex hack. Somehow I think Nathaniel Popper would have been able to put that fact directly in his NYT article instead of a throw away tweet if there was a material impact. Heck
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by bhawks 10mo ago
That's a pretty big stretch of definitions. Whatever operations Coinbase had with Bitfinex were either to support market making activity or as a service for Coinbase's institutional customers to directly access bitfinex via their
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by bhawks 10mo ago
That is a great ancedote. Not saying it is untrue, but it is definitely true that Coinbase has never lost customer funds while operating in an environment with 0 safety nets and being one of the most lucrative targets. This leak over custom
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by bhawks 10mo ago
Yes no dynamic memory allocation, however there still are many ways to ABEND your COBOL program. The reliability aspect comes from the fact that these systems have been running for 40+ years, and places where it could have ABEND'd prob
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by bhawks 10mo ago
Having COBOL sources which match whats running in production is a load bearing assumption :).
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by bhawks 11mo ago
In my journey to Christianity I have found that as my faith grew my anxiety and depression became much more manageable. This really wasn't intentional on my part but Ive transitioned from a decade+ of actively managing with medication
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by bhawks 11mo ago
This is one of the reasons to embrace crypto - having an intermediary with direct control over your finances is absurd.
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by bhawks 1y ago
Id wager high frequency trading applications.
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by bhawks 1y ago
| If you mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud by default, you need to modify the default setting. Now that would require the competent configuration of the software by the government and proper usage by the individual. So leak g
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by bhawks 1y ago
Somehow I can run a webserver and anyone can browse it but if I make an app I need a DUNS number? What year is it? Couldn't the CA system, for all its problems, suffice?
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by bhawks 1y ago
In a data context CAS expands to content addressible storage. CasCache is "compare and set cache" which is definitely cool and useful as well as totally different from what I initially thought it was.
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by bhawks 1y ago
|Also worth remembering, it’s probably not possible to listen to Hamas or Islamic Jihad spokesmen on US media. I must have missed the news where Hamas or Islamic Jihad had established themselves in the US for decades and had been able to ge
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by bhawks 1y ago
Posix file system semantics are very complex. An in memory implementation is likely to have quality gaps that make it sub optimal. If you want fast tests /tmp is likely to be backed by tmpfs in memory. If you are paranoid you can use &

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