breakwaterlabs

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by breakwaterlabs 2mo ago
By what yardstick should we then measure the DoEd's performance-per-dollar, or determine whether it represents "waste"? Because it seems to me that a chief indicator that waste likely exists is an inability to show ROI.
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by breakwaterlabs 2mo ago
> There isn't really much waste in federal spending I do not believe anyone who has consulted in federal IT or worked on contracts is capable of making such a statement. All of the motivations for all parties are heavily bent toward
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by breakwaterlabs 3mo ago
> Old people don't have that because they Aren't insane . When did the industry put the onus on the user to understand how the computer works? What happened to the old days of Xerox PARC's HCI studies putting the user fir
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by breakwaterlabs 4mo ago
> I dislike how it is 'developers first' and not 'users first', There are user-centric and dev-centric Linux distros. Windows is "Microsoft cloud onboarding" centric, and the experience has been dramatically
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by breakwaterlabs 4mo ago
The arguments in this thread-- amounting to "it's a good general practice because I happen to like it" (rather than "it is a sane / discoverable / usable default") are precisely demonstrating why these iss
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by breakwaterlabs 2y ago
And this guy gets to rescind his license for nonpayment.
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by breakwaterlabs 2y ago
Lawyers, doctors, engineers, IT practitioners, the film industry,... It's extremely common and has been for literally millenia.
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
If I can be so bold as to chime in, perhaps "fundamentally flawed" because it's design means it will never be more than a very clever BS engine. By design it is a stochastic token generator and its output will only ever be fu
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
Many governments do have laws like this, called "sunshine laws". Enforcing them can be difficult though, and often enough they fail to achieve the transparency that is their goal while also substantially hindering process.
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
It seems wildly shortsighted as well. I think everyone here is pretty clear how they would ethically view such a thing, but view it from NIST's (/ NSA's) perspective for the sake of argument. Maybe there's a specific thr
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
If the system is not catching "I am a language model", I have zero confidence in its ability to detect crackpottery, much less more insidious things like P-hacking.
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
What percentage of papers in your average, reputable journal have been replicated? And how can one easily determine, while looking at a particular paper, whether it has been replicated? And whether those doing the replication have any undis
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
This is both a little off-topic and a little out of my expertise, but shouldn't the file descriptors in the query function be closed?
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
A system that generates plausible, seemingly authoritative information, but often makes hard to detect errors ranging from minor to outright lies is dangeorous. This goes double when the information is either difficult or impossible to veri
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
The article also gives the example of the phrase "as an AI language model, I..." being found in published papers. The fact that this slipped by the paper's author, their editor, * and the journal review* is not benign. I agr
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
That's pure marketing fluff, just like the difference between antivirus and EDR. Heuristic detection has been a thing for literally decades, and cloud-based antivirus which uses aggregate detection has been around for almost as long. I
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
Symbolic links and deltas are a thing. None of this is hard from a technology standpoint. Exchange just isn't the best designed or most modern software.
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
My recent discussions with multiple SAN vendors as well as quoting out cost to DIY storage has that number being far away from "reasonable". I do not claim storage is $5,000/TB but it is substantially higher than the $50&#x2F
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
I'm showing Exos x20 20TBs for ~$500 new. $300 is moving towards refurb / shucked prices.
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
In what world is 2160TB $100k? Current single disk solutions are around $25/TB for HDDs and ~$100/TB for NVMe. At a minimum you're looking at $54k just for raw capacity-- assuming no backup, no chassis, no networking, and no
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by breakwaterlabs 3y ago
First off, it's primarily kerberos with LDAP frosting. Kerberos is what makes the AD world go round and for much of what happens in windows its purely resting on tickets and the PAC, not LDAP queries. Second, there's a lot of spec