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When you click "Dive Deeper...", it says "Yes, 2026 is next year."

> And, even if it did, 99.99999% of folks wouldn't read any of it anyway.

One approach that I've seen work is start the meeting by having everybody read a document (see https://www.sixpagermemo.com). It's fresh on everybody's mind, and everybody just read the same content.

I didn’t know for years that you can ask it to do things remotely over SSH.

What I have seen work in the past is testing using a production backup as a final step prior to releasing, including applying database scripts. In this case, the permissions change would have been executed, the query would have run, and the failure would have been observed.

> Looking over this PR, the vast majority of the code is a DWARF library by itself. This should really not live in the compiler, nor should it become a maintenance burden for the core devs.

I think this is a good point, that publishing a library (when possible, not sure if it's possible in this case) or module both reduces/removes the maintenance burden and makes it feel like more of an opt-in.

> Metaprogramming style in C++20 only has a loose relationship to previous versions. It is now concise and highly maintainable. You can do metaprogramming in the old painful and verbose way and it will work but you can largely dispense with that.

This was my takeaway as well when I revisited it a few years ago. It's a very different, and IMO vastly improved, language compared to when I first used it decades ago.

> To my knowledge rather consulting firms are great at selling the necessity of lots of consultants consultant days: Just let the customer talk very openly about their wishes for the project, and you immediately get an insane scope explosion for the project, i.e. it "needs" an insane amount of consultants over many years to implement all these wishes.

"Oh yeah, we can do that!" Boom, there's a team...somewhere...working on it. It's a line on an on-site project manager's status report.

> For final grading I saw the excavator trucking out what looked like native soil and trucking in rocky soil.

They sell the topsoil and replace it with cheap (rocky) fill. Every. Time.

Yes. I started taking medication, which helped pretty much everywhere in my life.

It also helped me take a step back and realize that sometimes I unconsciously stayed at jobs due to the continually changing (typically stressful) environment.

This was me before talking to a therapist about ADHD. It explained...so much.

The Google Agent Development Kit (https://google.github.io/adk-docs/) is really fun to play with. It's open source and supports both using a LLM in the cloud and running locally.

PVWatts will help you figure this out: https://pvwatts.nrel.gov

According to PVWatts, a 10kW solar system would get me very close to my average usage in December. I'd be way over in the summer, could probably get away with a 4kW system and dial back use during an outage. I can lease two Powerwall 3 batteries from my utility company for $55/mo.

Or look at: https://www.franklinwh.com/products/apower2-home-battery-bac...

Edit: this also looks like a good option: https://www.santansolar.com/product/the-homesteady-kit/

We used to lose power 3-4 days a winter in our old house. It would have been really nice to have heat. A generator or smaller system could handle that.

I think it drives the instrument cluster too. Maybe instead of a new head unit, what we will need in the future is an open version of Android Automotive OS, like Lineage for our cars.

We use CarPlay with our Mazda. The heads up display on the windshield displays the next turn information from Apple Maps.

Edit: it looks like Lineage has support for Android Automotive: https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/

It's about GM and Google getting the data (https://www.motortrend.com/features/apple-carplay-android-au...). Switching from Android Auto and CarPlay to the Android Automotive OS (AAOS) means the auto manufacturer gets the data that was going through the phone.

CarPlay is a purchasing factor for me personally. I've always liked Volvo, but now that they all run AAOS the last few times I rented one I had to reboot the head unit when I got in the car to get CarPlay to work. Funny how vehicles running AAOS don't really integrate well with a competitor...

> Altman has played an absolute blinder by making the success of his company a near-existential issue for several of the largest companies to have ever existed.

Yeah true, the whole pivot from non-profit to Too Big to Fail is pretty amazing tbh.

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm forcing myself to learn it because it looks like that's the way PyWorld is going. I don't dislike uv as much as poetry. But I guess I never really ran into issues using pyenv and pip. shrug Maybe I wasn't working on complex enough projects.

Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaiVApKfmc - "Avoid restrictions and blocks using the fastest and most stable proxy network"...they're pretty upfront with this, aren't they?

Oh, and they will sell you the datasets they've already scraped using mobile devices: https://brightdata.com/lp/web-data/datasets

This actually explains a phishing attack where I received a text from somebody purporting to be a co-worker asking for an Apple gift card. The name was indeed an employee from a different part of the large company I worked for at the time, but LinkedIn was the only possible link I could figure out that was at least somewhat publicly available information.

This should probably be required in all CS curriculum: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-tll-008-social-and-ethical-r...

> It depends on your workload.

Very much this.

Small team in a large company who has an enterprise agreement (discount) with a cloud provider? The cloud can be very empowering, in that teams who own their infra in the cloud can make changes that benefit the product in a fraction of the time it would take to work those changes through the org on prem. This depends on having a team that has enough of an understanding of database, network and systems administration to own their infrastructure. If you have more than one team like this, it also pays to have a central cloud enablement team who provides common config and controls to make sure teams have room to work without accidentally overrunning a budget or creating a potential security vulnerability.

Startup who wants to be able to scale? You can start in the cloud without tying yourself to the cloud or a provider if you are really careful. Or, at least design your system architecture in such a way that you can migrate in the future if/when it makes sense.

Right? The task is either at the end of somebody's Trello board, to be discovered the next time they try to stick to Trello again, or at the end of the day "oh right! Dock the butter!" when walking out to the parking lot.

While ChatGPT tells me it's unable to access the linked page directly from Grokipedia (lolol), I was able to download the content, copy/paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to fact check it. I think I will do this more often, with other sites (and other models) as well, going forward, as Chat is able to categorize statements as being correct vs. misleading vs. flat out wrong.

> The article does seem a bit much though. I've noticed a lot of the Grokipedia articles just go on.

And yes, that's what I'm noticing as well. There is a clear attempt to establish a narrative.

> I've spotted surprising amounts of confidently-stated nonsense

I find this to be the most annoying aspect of AI. The initial Google AI results were especially bad. It is getting better, but still spout info I know is false without any warning.

Like, I find blowhards tiring enough in RL. Don't really want to deal with artificial blowhards when I'm trying to solve a problem.

> However, there is an increasing userbase whose first experience of computing was in these locked-down tablet and smartphone environments. They aren’t so demanding about little things like proper filesystem access or the ability to run unsigned code. They might not blink if that goes away.

I would also suggest that there is another user base who has been using computers for a long time, before GUIs existed, is fed up with fighting malware, welcomes the protection of a sandboxed, protected system, but doesn't understand the importance of having the option of escaping the sandbox. These users might not see the loss of not being able to install a kext on Mac OS without booting into Recovery Mode. But they will notice the loss when, at some point, we can't run anything that isn't signed on any platform.

Google and Microsoft are slowly moving towards the Apple model because it works as far as decreasing support costs go.

When the day comes that there isn't any hardware we can purchase that we can't install OpenBSD/Linux/whatever we want, it will be too late. We have to push back before then somehow.

The one thing that has worked for me multiple times is using a calorie counter like myfitnesspal integrated with something like Apple Health and/or Strava. If it’s easy to enter food into the calorie counter and the exercise apps just track movement without having to do much, the rest is just ignoring the hunger pangs that go away after a couple weeks. That’s the hard part of course. :)

> There will be other meetings, but you need not participate. Send an eagle in your place.

Thank you, I missed that.

It's pitch decks all the way down.

> Bluebird, cardinal, warbler, thrush. Avian friends you know well.

And I have a new favorite naming convention.

> “Barendregt. Church is too mainstream.” > “It won’t be JavaScript for much longer.”

Douglas Adams teaches SICP.

I might have missed it, but didn't see anything on HN about this oops: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/pa...

> While most operations are recovered, requests to launch new EC2 instances (or services that launch EC2 instances such as ECS) in the US-EAST-1 Region are still experiencing increased error rates.

> We continue to investigate the root cause for the network connectivity issues that are impacting AWS services such as DynamoDB, SQS, and Amazon Connect in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified that the issue originated from within the EC2 internal network.

So, kinda? Some global services depend on us-east-1...

> Global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints such as IAM updates and DynamoDB Global tables may also be experiencing issues.

Basically, you know it's going to be a bumpy day when us-east-1 has an issue because your ability to run across regions depends on what the issue is what the impact is.