coldbrewed

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by coldbrewed 4d ago
Your bank's mainframe would like to know your location.
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by coldbrewed 9d ago
In this metaphor the police are corrupt, running a protection racket, and might get drunk and shoot you while your dealer is in the mafia. The mafia link might be a problem at some point but the person with the badge and the gun is a proble
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
The difference is that their TV wasn't spying them but our TVs definitely are (aka ACR).
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
In practice this requires duplicating the upstream build and release pipelines, so now you need yet another agent running in the background (+ periodically going off the rails + eating tokens) which incurs more up front cost and cognitive o
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
Exactly, kinda like what we did with CFCs! Granted fossil fuels are much more ubiquitous than CFCs and comparatively more difficult to replace, but we have prior art for changing industrial practices in the interest of improving climate con
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
I'm still on opus 4.6 for a healthy chunk on work; the technical competence has lagged behind but the slop-comment generation and misdirected self-initiated actions on newer models ultimately burn more time than a little more babysitti
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
Show me a fully LLM-generated database with an implement that's clear, documented, and adequately bug free. Codebases degenerate when the authors do not understand the system in which they operate and make changes that degrade the cohe
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
Virginia has more power infrastructure in place but said infrastructure is already seeing significant DC build out; I know little about power distribution in Louisiana but would be surprised if there was extensive spare capacity in the tran
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
With the amount of cash OpenAI is splashing around they could easily write it into the contracts, but the current incentive structure prioritizes time between ground breaking and powered GPUs in racks. OpenAI has shown complete disinterest
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
This is a collection of "OpenAI will boldly act in the abstract to provide air coverage for Texas leadership." With data centers under construction one would think they would have examples of successes or projects in progress avai
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
For a standalone Pi power via USB is fine. As soon as these devices get embedded or you're running more than two in proximity the USB spaghetti gets pretty miserable. There are so many quirks with the Raspberry Pi that make it a pain t
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
Send an email to the Digitalocean abuse email with the time ranges and origin IPs.
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
We see constant abuse from the Tencent ASN/associated ACE ASN, and I've memorized the china169 backbone asn as AS4837 because of thr nonstop crawlers splattered across their network ranges. It's not possible to ID the operato
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
I do not like anime but holy crap do people with anime pfps make excellent software engineers and terrifying red teamers.
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
The Internet was fully functional and full of competent people when it was a much weirder place. Converting all spaces into the equivalent of dress shirts and blazers doesn't reduce anyone's competence but does make the experience
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by coldbrewed 1mo ago
The problem in both of these cases is to how prioritize the complexity of the domain vs. the cognitive overhead of the implementation vs. the computational complexity. If the domain is complex and best represented by modeling the domain, mo
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
We shouldn't tolerate slop in any form, especially not in commit comments. What we should care about is communicating design decisions, intent, and especially we should explain concerns that can't be intuited from reading the code
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
Duckdb has a server mode[1] which might alleviate some of those pain points. SQLite is a bit more precise in that only a single connection can write to the DB which provides more concurrency but still has pain points. For a single file DB e
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
SQLite is _the_ tool of choice for local SQL databases with minimal overhead. If you needed a single file DB for an OLAP workload, SQLite was still the best option even if the technology wasn't an ideal fit. Duckdb is exciting specific
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
IANA chemist but my guess is that it's of particular interest because PTFE surfaces are especially non-stick, and non-PTFE surfaces have good options that require less exotic chemistry. The question I have is how long will it be till t
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
The water was likely redirected for agricultural purposes and the farmers won't/can't surrender it on top of drought, if it's anything like the US. Would be real cool if we could make investments like this though.
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
Wait a minute, weren't these the same people using layoffs and RTO to take down their employees down a couple of notches? And the people who were telling the world that AI would destroy white collar work? Could these possibly be the sa
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
Can I buy a 40mm grenade launcher without a FFL? No, I can't. Can I legally manufacture and install an auto sear on my AR? Also no. Would it be sick if I could? Hell yes. Do I own a delightful selection of firearms, including AR patter
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
Isn't it fascinating that the people making the most extensive use of infinite feeds and A/B testing for maximum user engagement are also the massive platforms with dominating network effects and captive audiences? It's like
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
Exactly this. Residential proxies are _the_ tool that makes stealth browsers and massive scraping work, and it's overwhelmingly done without informed consent.
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
Hang on, let's go back - clarify for me how we're calling an addictive feature in a product built by the wealthiest corporations on the planet a matter of individual free speech? Precisely whose free speech would be harmed here? S
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
We already do limit harmful speech, at presence it's limited to speech and will immediately cause harm (the whole "shouting fire" thing) and the demonstrable addiction properties can be reasonably shown as harmful. It's
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
I work at a CDN that provides bot detection services. I agree that there's baseline necessity in terms of fraud detection, and if not necessity then definitely financial motivation to fingerprint. But these days, abusive scraping is fa
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
Addiction is an extremely complex public health crisis. Letting people starve on the street is bad, giving people benefits will result in some abuse, and real change would come from more comprehensive treatment plans but we're not read
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by coldbrewed 2mo ago
The concern is that attestation turns into another mechanism to monitor and control people; see how age verification turns into surveillance.

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