ifwinterco

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by ifwinterco 3d ago
Yeah the secure thing is to ignore all requests from domains without DKIM, but that would mean ignoring a lot of legitimate requests which is illegal. Revolut are known to be a bit shady but in this case they're damned if they do and d
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by ifwinterco 3d ago
Revolut are well known for using automated systems for all support and it being difficult/impossible to talk to an actual human
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by ifwinterco 3d ago
And there is a guardrail you can put in place that will guarantee this doesn't happen, which is to air gap the unaligned "cyber grade" model you're testing. They don't seem to do that, which means either they are: -
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by ifwinterco 4d ago
The london riots were sparked by the police shooting Mark Duggan for (allegedly, no good evidence) carrying a gun around in a taxi. People do definitely use regular taxis to transport both drugs and weapons sometimes
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by ifwinterco 4d ago
The modern way to progress to chin ups normally involves bands and eccentrics, but you can also just do partial reps (starting with the top of the movement) and gradually work on adding depth. (This also avoids the stress on your elbows tha
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by ifwinterco 4d ago
Jenson already wisely cashed out a lot of his holdings a while ago
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by ifwinterco 6d ago
Best way to improve the behaviour of other drivers (at least in the UK): drive a van, ideally an unmarked one with a couple of dents already. Miraculously everyone else suddenly learns how to drive and doesn't try anything stupid
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by ifwinterco 7d ago
Yep fundamentally different from back end because you don't control the client. In theory the client can do literally anything (for example, someone could be using an ancient version or have some features voluntarily disabled) and you
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by ifwinterco 8d ago
It’s an absolute clown show that it was down for 4 hours, but would you want to be flying in some of the busiest airspace in the world on a “backup” ATC system that isn’t normally used? Personally I would not
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by ifwinterco 8d ago
It's fine for fintech etc, but air traffic control software yes I imagine not so much. Likely either outsourced or done by people who are comically underpaid considering how important it is
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by ifwinterco 8d ago
Yep same with latest Claude models - code isn't really any better than Opus 4.5/4.6, but use 5x as many tokens doing random stuff that's mostly unnecessary. And yeah still for some reason they often can't understand how
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by ifwinterco 8d ago
To be fair Opus 4.6 was genuinely a really good model when it came out, in fact I'm not sure Opus 5 is even any better. It's definitely a lot slower, though
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by ifwinterco 10d ago
Should Europe also be controlled only by its indigenous population then? (Don't actually answer that I don't want to start a big off topic discussion, just saying if we want to be logically consistent...)
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by ifwinterco 11d ago
Again just run the numbers - full sun in summer vs cloudy day in the middle of winter even at only 40 degree latitude. Output in the latter case will be under 10% of full power and probably under 5%. It’s not bullshit it’s just physics, whi
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by ifwinterco 11d ago
Batteries can solve short term (days to a week at most) storage problems, they don't solve seasonal storage problems - making sure you have enough energy all the way through a cold, not very sunny, and not consistently windy winter. If
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by ifwinterco 12d ago
Batteries don't solve the storage problem, but surely you know this. China is pursuing the strategy you're describing, but there's a reason they're also building nuclear, they're increasing LNG infrastructure, they
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by ifwinterco 12d ago
I don't think you're unusual at all. The modern world is almost designed to make you crazy in some ways and makes it harder than it ideally would be to achieve these ideals (which is what they are, we're all human and none of
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by ifwinterco 12d ago
Also Sam, Dario et al have constantly (like literally, every single week at least) been telling us that AI is going to make all of us unemployable and have to live on welfare. Is it any wonder people hear that and go "hmm, no thanks&qu
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by ifwinterco 12d ago
Ultimately the common thread in most of these cases seems to be a lack of purpose and meaning in life in general, not really an issue with the specific work environment. The purpose of life is to make meaningful human connections, become wi
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by ifwinterco 13d ago
Hate to sound like a Marxist but... this is what happens when capital has this much power concentrated in so few people. Eventually the system eats itself. If you're in the right elite at the right time though, you can make a lot of mo
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by ifwinterco 14d ago
And you don't normally need to consciously countersteer on a push bike because of some combination of 1) lower speed and 2) much higher body mass relative to the bike, but countersteering is absolutely essential on a motorbike
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by ifwinterco 14d ago
At the time the Soviet Union had the Spanish government over a barrel because they were the only people who could/would supply significant quantities of desperately needed weapons (the opposing Nationalists were better equipped for rea
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by ifwinterco 14d ago
People take it for granted how insanely good modern internal combustion engines are after 150 years of continuous improvement. A modern petrol engine is a miracle in terms of reliability, performance, smoothness and (relative) lack of harmf
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by ifwinterco 15d ago
You're not wrong but for a lot of AI boosters it's also a political position - remember Anthropic and half of SV at this point is run by wide eyed effective altruists. Ultimately one cannot separate technology or science from poli
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by ifwinterco 15d ago
The more likely counter in a proper hot war context between major powers would be shooting down the satellites with ASAT weapons, which is technically feasible but politically a much bigger step
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by ifwinterco 16d ago
Physical stuff (window bars and a security door) is much, much more effective for that logic. Burglars know they’ll probably be on CCTV somewhere anyway but nobody in their right mind is trying to smash through a security door or saw throug
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by ifwinterco 17d ago
My understanding is OVH and Hetzner were traditionally more bare metal/VPS orientated (though maybe that's changed)? Fair though, I hadn't even heard of Scaleway, and that does look a lot more like a direct AWS/GCP alter
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by ifwinterco 17d ago
Yep, for once we had actual direct democracy in this country, they won't make that mistake again
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by ifwinterco 18d ago
You have no choice really if you’re a UK business, there is no UK (or French, or German, or Japanese for that matter) cloud that can do what AWS or GCP does
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by ifwinterco 18d ago
It kind of makes sense that critical financial infrastructure would be one of the things that doesn’t just run on AWS and accepts it goes down with everything else when us-east-1 goes down

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