waterTanuki

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by waterTanuki 6d ago
I find it hard to believe any enterprise willing to drop over $40k on a workstation PC would choose `Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment` over Ubuntu.
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by waterTanuki 6d ago
> [01:42] A pilot called for ﬂaps to be set to 20 degrees, and the other pilot cautioned they were too fast. The other pilot made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording. The
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by waterTanuki 6d ago
Turnaround at a gate and a life-or-death go-around judgement are two entirely different operations governed by entirely different sections of the FAA. Also this was Amazon, not Southwest.
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by waterTanuki 8d ago
> - the proof generated by our model was very different from theirs and also goes far beyond the published literature I'm hearing two completely conflicting stories. Buckmaster is claiming the approach used by OpenAI is so strikingl
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by waterTanuki 8d ago
Ok, so what is the exact number of preventable deaths per year to build a silicon god you would be ok with?
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by waterTanuki 8d ago
> What's the most dangerous thing that's happened with an LLM so far? I don't know, maybe a mass shooting? https://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5953021/openai-tumbler-... Oh, and let&#x
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by waterTanuki 8d ago
Hi, fellow American here. Me and quite a few others are getting real tired of the constant name-dropping of mega-corporations that do not care about your safety, health, or well-being. This does not resonate with anyone except a small circl
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by waterTanuki 10d ago
> The market for people who want to install Linux on a Mac laptop is very tiny. It's only going to grow every year as apple stops releasing OS updates for perfectly functioning hardware.
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by waterTanuki 13d ago
People didn't start using iPhones because they were just better than existing alternatives. Apple did a lot of marketing to get the name out and people excited. Then they stuck around because the product was actually good. We're s
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by waterTanuki 13d ago
It's clearly marketed for remote communities with little to no connecting infrastructure. Think Alaskan wilderness or Hawaiian island hopping. This isn't for getting from LA to Denver for skiing.
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by waterTanuki 13d ago
> For the many people who resist the AGI label possibly ever being achieved, I'd be curious to hear takes on what would make you think Astra is yet to be AGI, and what would still need to be achieved for this to effectively be AGI f
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by waterTanuki 21d ago
The mere suggestion that this admin is doing this or anything else for the wellbeing of its citizens is a complete departure from reality. It's very clear what the motivations are, and just because they don't seem harmful in isola
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by waterTanuki 24d ago
You're conflating the opportunity cost of having a child with the actual logistics of raising a child. Cities are by definition economical logistical hubs. It's where the jobs and opportunities are. Most people aren't saying
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by waterTanuki 24d ago
The real cost of suburbia has been aggressively hidden for decades and is only now becoming realized as even gen-Z buyers with college degrees are getting priced out of starter suburban homes. The solution is to aggressively tear down draco
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by waterTanuki 24d ago
> Yours will reallocate every so often, invalidating element references. append_only_vec requires only &self to push, Then the crate is lying about its intentions or performing black magic using RefCell under the hood to go behind th
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by waterTanuki 24d ago
Cities being dependent on workers being present at commercial office buildings appears to be a uniquely American problem. Most of my American friends I know turn to the suburbs as a default for "family" style living once they have
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by waterTanuki 27d ago
If you're referring to Masayoshi Son he's Korean by ethnicity, Japanese by nationality.
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by waterTanuki 27d ago
> append-only-vec > This is a pretty simple type, which is a vector that you can push into, but cannot modify the elements of. The data structure never moves an element once allocated, so you can push to the vec even while holding ref
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by waterTanuki 27d ago
> I think we should be taking a more “batteries included” approach to language and library design. The entire reason we’re in this mess is because we’ve decided it’s ok or maybe even preferable if stdlibs are rail thin, rendering base la
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by waterTanuki 27d ago
New person in sales joined my company a few months ago and on the very first introduction they handed me a vibe coded app and asked me to review it for them and put it into production. Haven't spoken to them since. They haven't
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by waterTanuki 27d ago
how can you make such a bold claim so early with 0 evidence? A successful (and much more realistic outcome) could be to make a font that is financially infeasible for LLMs to parse but easy for humans.
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by waterTanuki 27d ago
They are in the business of justifying blame from the executives to the frontline. Executives keep or increase their bonuses, layoffs ensue. If you are the decision maker of a company, and you can pay a team a few hundred thousand a year us
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
It's harder to leak multiple S3 keys than a single postgres key.
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
Anyone can re-create the hosting part of GitHub. This is not the difficult nor the expensive part. It's the actions. The compute to run them isn't cheap at scale nor is the amount of auditing you need to do for security and compli
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
That's already how it works at the data-plane layer. I'm talking about the control-plane layer where tailscale needs to maintain a server that gets its state from somewhere (they need to know where to route your data, what your pe
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
So the Zed team essentially sidelined numerous requests for a UI extension API to make something that will only ever be used in demos. Good thing I can just fork the editor. This is how you lose the trust and goodwill of your users.
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
Tailscale likely deals with a lot of security-sensitive traffic, given the nature of the service. I'm guessing one of the requirements they were given was to have a tiny blast radius in case encryption keys got leaked, and that meant i
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
When the barrier to entry for software was high, free unlimited publicly hosted git repositories made sense. Not only did you have to have some basic understanding of software, but a grasp on git itself. Now that the calculus has changed, I
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
Adding onto this I and many others have asked for a ui extension API to actually make use of AI tools and they've adamantly refused. Until someone else with the time and resources to fork and maintain it comes along, it's just in
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by waterTanuki 1mo ago
Good for the construction companies, the billion dollar corporations, and the whole 4 people needed to run each one. Not once instance of these datacenters has proven to be beneficial for the communities and economies they're located i

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