mnahkies

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by mnahkies 11d ago
What are people's thoughts/experiences about dual licencing? Eg: is there a clean way to dual license such that hobbyist, and exploratory work (eg: a proof of concept done in a commercial setting) are allowed, but using it in prod
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by mnahkies 20d ago
Does anyone know what the impact on prompt caching is? I like the idea of dynamic tool/skill sets, but wonder if it needs to be part of the new session workflow where you would choose a group to activate rather than this dynamic.
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by mnahkies 1mo ago
It's funny you say that, as one of my weekend projects today is setting up https://www.authelia.com/ to achieve the same. I probably won't allow everything through it (eg: postgres, clickhouse etc can stay on tail
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by mnahkies 1mo ago
One of my primary use cases for tailscale/VPN is that I can happily run stuff (grafana, gitea, etc) and not have to be panicked about monitoring for CVEs - I serve it all over HTTPS but I don't want to put it on the public interne
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by mnahkies 1mo ago
Through my weekend experiments, I've found I can get way better outcomes, and an order of magnitude less cost with my slapped together sandboxed omp setup plus ZDR openrouter models (DeepSeek, Kimi, etc) than I've ever seen from C
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by mnahkies 1mo ago
I think the key part is about aligning incentives and outcomes - if your security and compliance departments are only judged on "were we breached, did we pass our audits" then there's a risk they won't weigh the tradeoff
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by mnahkies 1mo ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate here. As a developer, I quite like monorepos to a certain size (eg: until they get big enough that the tooling we typically use outside of big tech starts to fall down). As an AI, I'm not su
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by mnahkies 1mo ago
Why not both? Driver-less (or even just with drivers) mini buses, without fixed stops and dynamic routes/stops based on demand. I guess you don't want to stop more times than needed, so maybe you'd want to cluster the demand
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
My return on premium bonds this year (so far) is roughly 3.2% annualised - it's not bad considering that it's tax free, and secured by the government
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
Primary use I have for it is hosting internal services that I don't want on the public internet - do the same at work, it reduces the attack surface hugely
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
I believe they batch requests so the same weights in vram are shared across many requests https://www.baseten.co/blog/continuous-vs-dynamic-batching-f...
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
Unfortunately many banks in the UK no longer offer a web portal or physical branches. I'd love to see legislation that mandated a functioning web experience for critical services like this (banking, utilities, etc) - otherwise it will
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
I think it's a pretty reasonable split of responsibilities, and not uncommon. Eg: JDK + maven + junit + tomcat Making these components pluggable is arguably how we get innovation (eg: yarn/pnpm, jest/vitest, etc)
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
As another commentator said "do nothing" is a decision. There's a distinction between "don't make a decision and hope someone else makes a decision" and "we acknowledge we're deciding to do nothing ab
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
In terms of the expert observation, I've seen this happen a number of times in conjunction with "not invented here" (and probably been guilty of it myself at times) - "the commodity solution doesn't do X that we wan
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
Yeah you could run a single instance with multiple frontends - but the way I'm currently running things the public haproxy instance doesn't have network connectivity to the private services, meaning there is no way I can misconfig
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
Finance somehow accidentally paid me approximately a whole years salary at once when they did the first payroll run after we were acquired. My first thought was I hope they didn't make this mistake for everyone, and second thought how
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by mnahkies 2mo ago
Personally I think wildcard certs are more secure in many instances - if you're just running one load balancer/reverse proxy then all the private keys are going to the same place anyway. You get the upside of not leaking your subd
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by mnahkies 3mo ago
No, I'm not using the gog client (I'm on Linux). It's things like the Witcher 3's launcher. It's the steam version, but Crusader Kings also hangs for a bit if you block it's network access
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by mnahkies 3mo ago
I'm aware, and I'm choosing GOG when I can now, though even then I see phoning home (or attempts to) happening (opensnitch is useful for that https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch ) - I've paid for som
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by mnahkies 3mo ago
When I brought half life 2 there was a lag of about 2-4 years before I could play it for the first time - I didn't read the fine print, and on a dial up connection I couldn't get past the steam client updating in a reasonable amou
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by mnahkies 3mo ago
They specifically mentioned HFT so I suspect they care a lot about processing speed
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by mnahkies 3mo ago
The UK tax system also has a bunch of unfortunate cliffs, and tapers that create >60% marginal tax rates and worse. There's a calculator here that illustrates it well https://tax-cliffs.britishprogress.org/calculator
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by mnahkies 3mo ago
I think the litmus test is roughly "is this obviously AI created" - if it's a well crafted PR that doesn't do the things you mention, and solves a genuine issue in a sensible way then you'd not be able to tell. The
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by mnahkies 4mo ago
I don't have so much knowledge about EV repairs, but I got burnt by this on ICE cars already - had a car fail a regular fitness test on suspension bushes, they weren't replaceable without replacing the whole arm(s). What should&#x
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by mnahkies 4mo ago
In every of these threads there's a bunch of snarky comments, either acting like this class of attack is exclusive to npm, or that nothing has been done about it. I don't think that's fair. There's plenty of comments men
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by mnahkies 4mo ago
In my experience with a relatively modest number of concurrent workflows (think hundreds) you'll be pushing several thousand transactions per second through that postgres instance. As best I can tell it doesn't do any batching of
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by mnahkies 4mo ago
I've used their (same family of company) email hosting services lightly in the past and found that to work well also. For the DNS I'm paying like $1 a month which is probably more than it needs to be, but sufficiently low that I&#
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by mnahkies 4mo ago
It's not European, rather a New Zealand company but I find https://zonomi.com/ pretty good. There's a Lego resolver that works fine https://github.com/go-acme/lego - although my only complain
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by mnahkies 4mo ago
One issue I've seen with LLM's is adding superfluous code in the name of "safety" and confidently generating a bunch of stuff that was useful in years gone by, but now handled correctly by the standard lib. I'm of t

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