jethro_tell

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by jethro_tell 25d ago
I've worked in both tech and construction. Never seen a tech worker go home and come back with the soles of their shoes resoled overnight because they didn't have a better option for work tomorrow. Is that the best option? Gener
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by jethro_tell 4mo ago
yes, they have. It just costs a shit ton of money and is extremely difficult to get the suits to sign off on TWO full 'cloud services' bills. It generally doubles your cost and workload and increases your uptime by a couple hour
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by jethro_tell 4mo ago
It's basically what leads to extended downtime almost every time. There are just some things in the stack that are still single points of failure, and when they fail it's a mess.
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by jethro_tell 5mo ago
You might be counting out the value of government and military contracts that might not want to do business with a wild card. SpaceX is killing it because the US government gives them a bunch of contracts, but if stability is slightly more
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
I am serious, mechanical watches are fascinating but they are much less accurate that a cheap quartz watch.
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
I’ve never heard the bring one or three, I’ve always just heard three. I think that exact saying implies that if you have two and one isn’t working out you’ll go crazy but if you have one you’ll be oblivious until it’s too late. A well ser
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
Two is one and one is none
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
You can definitely average two relatively accurate chronometers but you if you only have two it’s difficult to tell if one is way fast or way slow. In a perfect world they drift less than a minute per day and you’re relatively close to the
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
I hope not because I’ve been doing my US taxes on Linux for 15 years. It’s probably a specific windows desktop app, probably TurboTax by intuit, the company that lobbies to make filing your taxes hard and to destroy any free simple governme
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
My sister was the same, she brought her machine over, I booted a Ubuntu disk and did the disk config in the install and then she set the rest of the stuff up and I haven’t heard from her about it for 5 years, other than that I check if she’
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
Which for AI companies would be every public GitHub page to start.
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by jethro_tell 8mo ago
If you do regulate. We currently have full regulatory capture in most industries and regulators that are doing their jobs are either hamstrung or the laws are so far behind the industries that they can’t or won’t work. The key to proper re
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by jethro_tell 9mo ago
What gui were you running?
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by jethro_tell 10mo ago
Seems doubtful as this guy has spent a lot of time wigg the this and can’t get one.
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by jethro_tell 11mo ago
Well, There's not going to be much because it would violate NDA, but, nothing is 'elastic'. Somewhere, someone, has to buy a set amount of servers, based on a running capacity projection and build those into usable machines.
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
Sure, and when I go, 'I'm just going to slap this together and if it dies I'll rebuild it' I run on ext4 instead of an experimental service. If there is a reason that I need to run something 'experimental' you
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
Who’s using an experimental filesystem and risking critical data loss? Rule one of experimental file systems is have a copy on a not experimental file system.
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
He could release a patch that can be pulled by the people that need it. If you’re using experimental file systems, I’d expect you to be pretty competent in being able to hold your own in a storage emergency, like compiling a kernel if that’
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
I do know that though that assumes some things about os and shell. Run a full screen term on my machine for a good chunk of my workflow and I just like to have time and battery in my term. I render it as ‘(15:35) [80} <hostname> $ ‘
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
That’s not a typewriter no matter how much you’d want to make that connection.
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
The internet, especially post phone keyboards, is extremely inconsistent about punctuation. I’m not sure how anyone could think an llm wouldn’t be.
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
I mapped to alt space, which breaks things some times ten years on, but I just drop whatever is bound to that key in my DE and move on.
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
Given a situation in which you have a decent way to guess user names, such as ‘first-initial-lastname’ how much entropy does this take away? It seems like I’ve seen several of these over the years when a patch to parse comments would probab
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
They re-keyed it specifically so it could be nested, however, they mention the prefix key is intentionally dumb and ment to be remapped, probably to ^a like screen.
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
The difficulty here is that in the example above, it's unlikely, given any amount of scale, that the two people were on the same team. They were doing different things with the same data and probably didn't know what the other wa
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
I thought it was so I could go back 1 year and say, 'I was against this from the beginning and I was quite vocal that if you do this, the result will be the exact mess you're asking me to clean up now.'
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
That’s still how most Linux OS installers install. They just do that for you. It’s still used for recovery but recovery partitions have kinda gone out of fashion as the ability to consistently boot has gotten better. Additionally, thumb dr
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
Why?
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by jethro_tell 1y ago
So, we aren’t factoring in natural resources and the different values they have either then?
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by jethro_tell 2y ago
The quality is probably pretty good. This is called body doubling and is exactly the concept here.

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