cathalc

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by cathalc 7mo ago
I hear great things about OrbStack; unfortunately the licensing tied to their free offering doesn't play nicely with corporate environments (and we're cheap!). I switched to Colima instead and couldn't be happier.
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by cathalc 11mo ago
That is shamefully poor security.
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by cathalc 1y ago
Yeah this made zero sense to me - I have never seen someone consider POST secure because it can't "be seen". Security through obscurity and all that...
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by cathalc 2y ago
"Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" by Jonathan Blow comes to mind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko A fantastic talk.
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by cathalc 2y ago
Legal aliens absolutely have the same First Amendment rights as citizens.
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by cathalc 2y ago
After years of trialling a variety of notebook setups, I eventually fell back to vscode & git. I've even given up on Markdown (nothing wrong with it, I just realised I never actually view my own notes in parsed Markdown so I stoppe
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by cathalc 2y ago
On that point, I don't think most adults understand the ramifications either!
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by cathalc 2y ago
As someone who's never even seen the term written before, that's exactly how I pronounced it..
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by cathalc 2y ago
This is truly music to my ears!
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by cathalc 2y ago
Very similar experience. My instinct would be to fight the sickness and push through, but in reality you need to stop immediately and try again in a few hours. Your tolerance tends to build exponentially!
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by cathalc 2y ago
Hmm perhaps you are right.. There's no context on the page about what ">128k" means so possibly a bad assumption on my part!
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by cathalc 2y ago
That's a surprising statistic. I quite literally don't know one single person who owns both a Mac and iPad.
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by cathalc 2y ago
Absolutely. Gemini results tend to drop off after 128k tokens according to RULER: https://github.com/hsiehjackson/RULER
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by cathalc 3y ago
This. Most companies running on AWS/GCP/Azure are paying nowhere near the advertised costs. B2B deals are not like consumer ones. Often times companies will "trade" their own business' service in place of cash.
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by cathalc 3y ago
Anecdotally, I am yet to meet a single person, in or out of my professional life, who thinks ChatGPT is in any way sentient.
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by cathalc 3y ago
>The post-mortem results are presented as if events happened as a random set of unfortunate circumstances: Public RCAs are nothing more than carefully curated PR stunts to calm customers. You can be sure the internal RCA is a lot more da
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by cathalc 3y ago
That's interesting.. I wonder if we have the same roadblocks here (Ireland/EU), or if there's just zero innovation in the area. Probably both.
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by cathalc 3y ago
Not a US citizen so forgive me - but does the IRS not auto file tax returns for "regular" incomes - those managed fully by your employer? In my country, it's automatically done for those with "regular" incomes, even
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by cathalc 4y ago
We're experiencing a lot of performance issues with Istio in larger clusters of 4-5k pods and several k services, where high churn rates causes the control plane to go ballistic. KWOK allows us to reproduce this load without spending a