kensey

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by kensey 3mo ago
> LLMs aren't mapping applications, they're reasoners. No they aren't. They're statistical token generators. They do not understand concepts such as "distance from a given location or coordinate point". I
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by kensey 3mo ago
What I've seen more than anything else is that Kubernetes built an ecosystem (of contributors and users, but also of companies invested in its success) that none of its competitors could or would. There was apparently a faction with
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by kensey 8mo ago
Tom Segura has a standup bit in one of his specials about cop reality shows, and how people think talking to the cops is going to work out great for them. " Lawyer up . You can't handle that s**. Everybody's like, 'I&
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by kensey 1y ago
> When you read plenty of papers you aren't going to read them again to cite them. But in fact I do exactly that, exactly because experience has taught me that my memory of what is in a paper is fallible and I should at least cursor
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by kensey 1y ago
What people currently refer to as "generative AI" is statistical output generation. It cannot do anything but statistically generate output. You can, should you so choose, feed its output to a system with actual operational c
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by kensey 1y ago
> I wish I could hammer one thing through the skull of every "AI SAFETY ISNT REAL" moron: if you only start thinking about AI safety after AI becomes capable of causing an extinction level safety incident, it's going to be
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How the Pacific got its bend (2017)(mn.uio.no)
2 points by kensey 1y ago|1 comments
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by kensey 1y ago
Why did the Pacific tectonic plate suddenly change direction 50 million years ago?
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by kensey 2y ago
It’s also already becoming an issue for open-source projects that are being flooded with low-quality (= anything from “correct but pointless” to “actually introduces functional issues that weren’t there before”) LLM-generated PRs and even s
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by kensey 2y ago
Ludicity wrote about exactly this a little while back: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-b... "...There are fencers that seriously train that can barely score a point on me. I can barely s
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by kensey 2y ago
Given that part of those "safeguards" were enshrining weird AI doomer logic in a federal agency's mission and trying to put a doomer in charge of enforcing it, some of them could use dismantling.
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by kensey 2y ago
My vague recollection is that that concern was that the etcd store (specifically the keys pertaining to the Vault pod spec) could be modified in some way that would compromise the security of the encrypted Vault store when a Vault pod was
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by kensey 2y ago
Not necessarily (although that doesn't necessarily mean I think this is OK). Payment-card-based verification is a longstanding method of doing prima-facie verification like this. When you give your credit card, you give your billing
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by kensey 2y ago
IBM didn't just fork Vault to make a statement -- IBM Cloud Secrets Manager was (openly) built directly on Vault OSS.
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by kensey 2y ago
Analyst consensus I've seen on long-term price has been floating around $32-34 per share. Take that with as much salt as you think it needs but it's at least interesting that it's within shouting distance of (but not over) t
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by kensey 2y ago
Almost all the talk I saw internally, from well before to well after the license change, about competitors "taking advantage" of our open-source versions was about TFC competitors like Spacelift, Scalr, etc. and Terraform OSS. Th
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by kensey 2y ago
> was always told early on that although they supported vault on kubernetes via a helm chart, they did not recommend using it on anything but EC2 instances (because of "security" which never really made sense their reasoning).
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by kensey 2y ago
Vault's client-based pricing was (is) the worst thing about selling it. When I was there, nobody in sales liked it except the SEs and account reps dealing with the largest customers (and those customers loved it because it actually sa
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by kensey 2y ago
One of the reasons I left when I did was that it was starting to get really obvious that an acquisition was likely and I desperately did not want my work e-mail address to end in oracle.com.
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by kensey 2y ago
* Red Hat wasn't ever "in financial trouble" -- their revenue line was up-and-to-the-right for a ridiculous number of consecutive quarters. Even when they missed overall earnings estimates, it was rarely by much and they sti
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by kensey 2y ago
What are you talking about? The December 2021 IPO price was $80.
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by kensey 2y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. First of all your percentage of ownership is unrealistic. I joined in November 2019 and got a grant of a few thousand RSUs that fully vested before I left, and that I still have most of, plus
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by kensey 2y ago
For me the smelliest part of this is the timestamps. The C&D is dated April 3. The InfoWorld article is timestamped 8:49 AM PDT, the same day, and the files called out in both places are the exact same five. There is no way I can s
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by kensey 2y ago
Who is your direct manager? If it's not one of these PMs, get them involved in this conversation with both. If it is, that's whose tasks get priority. If it's "both" but one is a dotted-line report, the dotted-li
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by kensey 3y ago
Small consultancies also tend to fall into the trap of having one client (often their first client) that they utterly depend on the money from... but who doesn't depend on them to be able to survive. That customer almost always knows
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by kensey 3y ago
That was my first recollection -- after CoreOS' Flannel, I think the next two (or at least two of the earliest) overlay networks available for Kubernetes were Weave Net and Calico (whose core maintainers started Tigera). Flannel is st
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by kensey 3y ago
With my browser full-screened and set at 133% zoom for the sake of my eyes, literally 100% of the screen real estate is either ad content (the largest section of which appears to be trying to load a broken image or video, so it's just
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by kensey 3y ago
This is a big reason I became disillusioned very quickly with US federal contracting and have distanced myself firmly from anything to do with it for the past several years. To a contractor the idea of saving the taxpayer money by accompli
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by kensey 3y ago
I have one of those little “binary clocks” (it technically displays in BCD, but it’s still “binary”, right?). When I first set it up, it was running really fast —- like it was gaining hours over the course of a day. Turns out it had a bu
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by kensey 7y ago
You can easily grow so large that you hit a limit of what a given cloud provider will allow (e.g. API calls or IOPS) at a price that fits into your budget for a task, even if you're not actually especially large. (AWS will give you al

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