wiether

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by wiether 4d ago
I know that the current state of affairs with the AI labs bros can make the old antivirus villains look like lambs; still, I don't see how anyone would like to have anything to do with those guys.
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by wiether 4d ago
> people whose knowledge of esoteric patterns and language features was their whole identity I came across too many of those people in my career and I can't say I'm sad that LLM are taking this away from them. The worst
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by wiether 6d ago
Are you really buying and watching DVDs in 2026? I bought some complete series in DVD in the past but, even putting aside the inconvenience of having to manage discs in the player, there's the quality issue. I got my 1080p copies on th
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by wiether 9d ago
Their index being paywalled, it's not possible to answer about its content. I wanted to check if the 5 customers for which I already did a change on their Cloudflare settings today where on the list, but can't do.
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by wiether 10d ago
> for home lab testing So you're talking about a sandbox, not a prod server hosting personal data?
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by wiether 11d ago
> just giving the LLM the ssh keys and having at it. It’s pretty good. I'm mostly fine letting AI write code because its easily auditable and you can follow changes through the Git history. Whereas, it you let the AI go fre
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by wiether 11d ago
> So no fail over/redundancy? I think at minimum it should be two machines, so one can break. Do you have two instances of everything in your life? It's clear this product is intended for personal use. I guess you have
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by wiether 11d ago
Like the real ones, digital clouds can take many shapes. Sometimes it means "rented virtual resources", sometimes it means "stack of intertwined services", sometimes it means "SaaS", sometimes it means "al
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by wiether 12d ago
I did, yes. Particularly this one: https://lafibre.info/images/ovh/202202_incendie_ovh_strasbou... Only SBG1 was built from containers, it partially burnt due to its proximity to SBG2, but its SBG2, which was not
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by wiether 12d ago
> For anyone else wondering Me! Thanks for the explanations!
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by wiether 12d ago
I partially agree with the first part, but: > Oh and their "data centers" are just shipping containers that are prone to the occasional fire. AFAIK they have a very limited number of DC built reusing shipping containers,
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by wiether 12d ago
> But digging to invent a reason to hate it also doesn't seem necessary. I don't see where I expressed any kind of hate towards the device.
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by wiether 12d ago
I love my eInk displays, I love my bike head unit. But I don't see how they both fit together honestly. The pros of eInk: - low energy usage -> don't matter, current GPS units have +30 hours of battery life already - lo
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by wiether 13d ago
If they're talking about Google or Microsoft, putting more trust in the worst tech companies than in the TLD of your country seems crazy to me.
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by wiether 17d ago
I experience the exact opposite myself. Before AI, the only way I could get in the flow was by isolating myself from everything to avoid direct distractions (phone, emails, IM...) or indirect (having something else on my mind). It was somet
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by wiether 18d ago
Reading OP's analogy I was like "even him don't need this bike now..." I feel bad for him as a human, but as a cycling fan I'm glad that we'll have an interesting WC in Canada
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by wiether 20d ago
I find it terrifying
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by wiether 20d ago
As a French guy who grew up playing CS 1.6 on an AZERTY keyboard, I have a feeling that the people who made this website are either a generation above or below Millenials. Because it doesn't make sense: you don't make a website in
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by wiether 1mo ago
I was about to talk about it for my fellow citizens ; clearly an awesome app! Fun fact, Bloctel, the service that was supposed to allow us to ask not to be harassed, leaked last week... https://www.universfreebox.com/article
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by wiether 1mo ago
Putting aside the sycophantic wording around the orange leader and the total lack of details of how it's going to achieve what they are promising and what is actually going to happen, it's funny to see the distinction between gov
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by wiether 1mo ago
Aren't all DC equipped with gas generators as backups? And they have to run it for an hour every quarter to make sure they work?
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by wiether 1mo ago
> The smell of fried croquettes I have this on my way back how, well, fried potatoes/chips actually, and I hate it. But yeah, this description matches the city I live in here in France.
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by wiether 1mo ago
> I want a job without unnecessary friction, without interpersonal drama, even one that's low stress. That's part of how I see an "easy" job. Where I can focus on working on the actual tasks at hand. Doesn&#x2
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by wiether 1mo ago
I discovered it recently, and I find it quite funny I'm not really into botany itself, but I enjoy their rants about how people manage "green" spaces
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by wiether 2mo ago
> They also, for reasons I simply cannot fathom, go out and buy a green Range Rover. I associate people driving green Range Rover with Dennis, so I'm not surprised that the people you're talking about love it. https:&#
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by wiether 2mo ago
I see lots of small consulting companies doing weekly/monthly lunch/dinner events with "everyone" and then boasting about it on LinkedIn, with pictures of the tables. You can clearly see who are the consulting people, an
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by wiether 2mo ago
> for example, you wouldn't hire a 70 year old writer for your commercial project no matter how brilliant they are If you hire them, then you own the work you paid them to do, no?
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by wiether 2mo ago
The next closest region is Tel-Aviv, I guess it's pretty obvious they won't put their workload here. And after that it's Mumbai, 2500km away. That will easily double your latency, which is someone that you can feel in usage.
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by wiether 2mo ago
Seems to be the idea to me: don't use a no longer supported +10yo laptop as a daily driver, but convert it to something useful for free. Being a laptop, the power draw is almost negligible and it doesn't take much space.
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by wiether 2mo ago
That's what I meant, yes! I always have a hard time with this one because, in French, it's not a towel that is thrown: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jeter_l%27%C3%A9ponge The French version version naturally

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