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Rp8yXmdmr··on Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
No way, dreams don't have to be realistic, that is what makes them dreams not goal or checklist. And I miss the time I still had any.
Rp8yXmdmr··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
We are down to 3 manufacturers thanks to RAM boom and bust cycles. The remaining ones are the one that know how not to over invest.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers
The thing that changed was perception. People no longer believe loyalty to employer is worthwhile, just as they no longer believe hard work is what gets people rich.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
You are absolutely right. The dangerous part of NPM packages is the post-install script. Therefore moving from JavaScript to Java removes the threat.
Rp8yXmdmr··on The Website Specification
> encourage sites to improve their markup

With Google's quest for "zero click" search results I am not sure if there is still any pressure applied on site creators. Does SEO matter anymore when my first "organic" result is below AI overview and sponsored links? Why should anyone help third parties to rip content from their website?

Rp8yXmdmr··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
I was surprised when they dropped the requirement, not now.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Nvidia and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI
It has to be most lukewarm product reveal ever. What was the point of such coordinated advertising/PR campaign, just to announce lite/refresh version of Spark DGX?
Rp8yXmdmr··on Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services
11 USA states have Non-Recourse mortgages where you also are "not on the hook for a single penny."
Rp8yXmdmr··on Cloudflare Flagship
Cloudflare is already too powerful, their anti DDOS solution is just too good. But their serverless products/features don't really build on that, they are just another hosting company.
Rp8yXmdmr··on I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline
Artifact in this context is whatever is produced by build process. That is common convention in CI/CD context. And the base definition for "artifact" is very wide: anything artificial, as in not natural but made by humans.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Unicode 18.0.0 Beta
I would be more interested if they are ever going to cancel HAN unification. Looking at their "Factors for Exclusion" list it could be summarized by "we made some mistakes in past but are sticking to it" :D
Rp8yXmdmr··on Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
> he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others [...] He got caught through a mistake that was really dumb in retrospect.

It seems to be common occurrence. I still can't get over that one hacker who dumped stolen data on forum, to sell it/prove his capabilities, in form of tar.gz archive, that accidentally included his entire home directory

Rp8yXmdmr··on Jensen–Shannon Divergence
Every time I end up on wikipedia page for some math or CS term I just give up on reading and search for other source, any at all. I know it is supposed to be an encyclopedia, and I am sure definitions are technically correct but it just isn't what most people need. I remember wikibooks project tried to bridge that gap but it never got popular enough. I guess it is just easier to compose short notes compared to writing full blown manual, and its much harder to split such work.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
On one hand browsing web is completely impossible without adblocker. On the other hand the only sites that can survive without any ad revenue are product spam blogs that participate in "Amazon PartnerNet" and similar affiliate programs. Well, unless Google AI starts stripping referral link or replacing them with own one (Honey/Brave style). Do we even need search engine when there are just few hundreds of huge sites left?
Rp8yXmdmr··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
I am not sure results of single test launch matter much. The issues with SpaceX IPO aren't even related to rockets: it is the very low float, Musk making himself irremovable from CEO seat, and buying xAI at inflated valuation. If people are willing to buy such stock, even V3 blowing up at launch pad won't stop them.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup
> $2M in OpenAI tokens

How about real money or even Apple Gift cards?

Rp8yXmdmr··on Apparently Google hates us now
Wasn't that already clear 2 years ago, with introduction of AI Overview? And "Zero click search results" was a goal for Google for much longer.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Reminds me about similar "manifestos" about netiquette, properly asking questions, searching web and answering emails. And I expect exactly the same impact - none.
Rp8yXmdmr··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
There is a cascading effect when malware targets developers and uses stolen credentials to push more infected packages. And not everyone is even aware they were affected, so there are going to be additional data leaks discovered some time after initial infection wave.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Google changes its search box
They are not even hiding. I stumbled upon on some niche subreddit where autor asked for advice on maintaining pool of about 50 accounts, as he has trouble to keep up with attrition by his own, yet it is too small to justify investment in "commercial" tools.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Google changes its search box
> 4) SEO will finally die.

I recently search for some generic home appliance term and google's AI Overview blurb ended with "For more information about repairing home devices check samsung.com" (non clickable)

I am sure SEO companies will claim they can make that happen on purpose, and people will pay them for that.

Rp8yXmdmr··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
Those magic new jobs, that are possible only due to LLM existence, should start hiring any day now.

Jokes aside, for a second there might appear a niche for "authentic human work", but that would be dead on arrival, at least considering fate of Etsy - flooded by "handmade" goods few years ago.

Rp8yXmdmr··on Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes
Isn't German economy strongly tied to performance of its car manufactures? Them being out competed might started about 3-4 years ago but the impact on other sectors would take some time.
Rp8yXmdmr··on Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
It looks like there is a switch with "both"/solo"/"forward" option and the "both" option automates that tiny delay between both ejections. On the other hand ejections from both planes at same time is just pilots reaction speed.
Rp8yXmdmr··on When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug
There are so many overlapping TLA we should have moved to 4 letters long time ago.
Rp8yXmdmr··on When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug
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