datatrashfire

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by datatrashfire 4mo ago
i have to be honest, each time a friend or co worker has demod or explained their “smart home” setup, i have always been pretty underwhelmed. a lot of complex doodads, money, and seeming never ending troubleshooting, to solve what seem to m
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by datatrashfire 5mo ago
i feel a lot of people in tech have this incuriously deterministic attitude about llms right now… previous <expensive capital project> revolutionized the world, therefore llms will! despite there really nothing to show for it so far o
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by datatrashfire 5mo ago
both my kindle and wife's work great and we have been using them regularly. they are actually very well made and durable devices.
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by datatrashfire 6mo ago
as a clickhouse architect, i can’t help but feel they would have been better served by understanding their db’s native capabilities better before jumping into implementing this. row level access control, resource quotas, scheduling policies
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by datatrashfire 7mo ago
or just at any point in the last 20 years to the present works too
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by datatrashfire 7mo ago
the problem is as a means of cash it’s inferior to existing systems in pretty much every dimension. more expensive, slower, more risk, higher volatility. the cash story for crypto is not good.
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by datatrashfire 8mo ago
premise is wrong. have seen a number of claude/codex disasters that never make it to production with clients, yet consumed an enormous amount of human time and bandwidth. expertise and effort is and will continue to be for the forseeab
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by datatrashfire 9mo ago
i bought a builder license from newegg in 2017. unfortunately i was not diligent about saving the product key. this was actually the third time i had been in this scenario after changing hardware. no idea why it wouldn’t work this time arou
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by datatrashfire 9mo ago
i recently upgraded a computer. windows 10 deactivated itself due to the hardware change. i tried everything i could to reactivate. microsoft support told me my only solution was to buy a new license. microsoft treats its customer with cont
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by datatrashfire 9mo ago
i think the author is pretty clearly making the point the trade off is not worth it to him. which is not all that suprising given that seems to match the preferences of most people given the popularity of apple hardware which has for a very
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by datatrashfire 9mo ago
lol no it won’t
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by datatrashfire 10mo ago
every generation thinks they live in unique times. that there existed some idyllic lost time innocence. it’s a fantasy.
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by datatrashfire 10mo ago
Electrifying the economy is not a path to 0 pollution.
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by datatrashfire 10mo ago
No sympathy for Larry here! Just the point that development is going to coincide with some level of increased pollution. Even an electrified economy with 0 carbon emissions is going to be ecologically devastating after all the mountain top
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by datatrashfire 10mo ago
Would you accept 0 pollution if it meant you had no electricity, electronic devices, or access to transportation? All of those things create pollution.
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by datatrashfire 11mo ago
It undermines the value of decentralization itself given intermediaries tend to pop up in all of these various platforms and become the dominant way to use them.
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
Why is water used for golf a waste vs other uses?
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
Major city police are typically some of the highest paid public employees of any area. Often with a more generous pension tier than what is given to other public employees. Ie starting pay for SFPD is $115k-$164k https://www.join
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
Am I missing something? Predicts AGI through continuous learning in 2032? Feels right around the corner to me. > But in all the other worlds, even if we stay sober about the current limitations of AI, we have to expect some truly crazy o
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
Except for Finland nobody has actually created a long term geologic disposal site. Like so many problems, the issue is dominated by political coordination, not physical limits.
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD Because the deficit was positive between 1997 and 2001, during Bill Clinton’s second term as POTUS.
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
Fedora desktop is actually a really nice experience in 2025. I switched in maybe 2022, after getting annoyed by the surge in nagging. The last time I tried desktop Linux was maybe 2008. Things have come quite a long way since then.
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
No advice, I just hope you find your way, whatever that may be, to make life work for you. I am sorry you are struggling.
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
None of the institutional market intelligence products I’ve ever worked on in nearly a decade of doing this do. Why? Cause they wouldn’t otherwise work. Many APIs require specific user agents. Tools like curl impersonate require specific us
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
> - Scraping without a contact method, or at least some unique identifier (like your project's codename), in the user agent string. This is a very effective way to make sure you won't get any scraping done!
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
> I believe that one day there will be great code examining security tools. Based on current state, what makes you think this is given?
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by datatrashfire 1y ago
It’s an independent company with HQ in San Francisco, CA.
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
Had a similar experience. All our guests at a dinner party were hoping he would escape.
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
I missed the part where there was an actionable takeaway about how I as a practitioner am supposed to differently.
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
Ingress pricing is indeed cheaper. POST is $0.005 per thousand requests on standard and $0.0025 on express one. Egress and storage however are more expensive on express one than any other tier. For comparison, glacier (instant), standard an

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