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awesome_dude

766 karma · joined September 30, 2017

I'd love to write something clever and insightful that marks me out as unique, but I'm just another guy on the internet over sharing my opinions.

I'll do my best not to overstep, but I expect that of you too.

Maybe I has all the neurodivergence, maybe I don't, I'd love to have some reason for things that haven't gone swimmingly well, religion, class, neurodivergence, but the truth is, I believe in luck.

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awesome_dude··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
This is the key truth that we keep forgetting
awesome_dude··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
There's absolutely no way to account for humans, who can be tricked, or pressured, or just make human sized mistakes.
awesome_dude··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
Um. how do you verify the contents? The history is for the contents you now have, not what might have been
awesome_dude··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
In the same way that a google search is .

LLMs are still playing word association - humans have something a little more complex going on where the word has meaning.

awesome_dude··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
The easiest way to find that out is to TIAS
awesome_dude··on If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
>socratic method exists. almost none follows it.

I have a hatred for people who think they can use this method.

If used incorrectly which it is a great percentage of the time it confuses the student. The person employing the socratic method must actually know the answer and where the student is in their mind. Failure on either account makes it pointless.

Ask anyone unfortunate enough to ask for help on IRC

awesome_dude··on We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
I agree that this notion that companies make these decisions is bad, bad on the grounds that it's people working for those companies that make the decisions, they hide themselves away, but the company itself isn't doing anything - is always a human making the decision
awesome_dude··on 4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls
This is the load-bearing result
awesome_dude··on Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
Alternative headline: participating in Harvard study found to have disturbing effects after one week
awesome_dude··on Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
pffft - 901 Bus to Broadmeadows station, then jump onto the train to Southern Cross

Total cost: $AU2.85

Takes FOREVER though :)

awesome_dude··on The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
Microsoft don't release the costs as you know, but

Compute and Storage for Free Tiers: Hosting code for over 150 million developers and processing over 2 billion GitHub Actions (CI/CD) workflows a month requires astronomical server power and data storage. The "Free" tier is a massive cost sink that Microsoft treats as a loss-leader marketing expense

Let me know when you understand how that's not free.

awesome_dude··on The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
> Github is ripe for disruption and I hope it is disrupted soon.

It's an expensive, low revenue generating site.

There are, and have always been, competitors, including "host it all yourself" solutions, but nothing has really stuck.

How is it "ripe" for disruption?

awesome_dude··on AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
Considering it's random characters being typed, and a skilled typist who is aiming to accurately type words out can hit between 70 and 100 words per minute - I would say that my monkeys could "type" an order of magnitude faster than 1 char per second
awesome_dude··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
Just FTR - 1 character per second is glacially slow - it's 12 wpm - fine for (slow) transcription, but the monkey typing exercise doesn't require them to know what they are typing out
awesome_dude··on AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
>that could be a factor of intelligence

Could is carrying a lot of weight here.

Because, what's really happening is we're saying "Oh these things are what defines intelligence" then implementing them and /discovering/ "oh wait, there's more to this than we knew".

We've known, for decades, for example that an IQ test is not a measure of Intelligence, even though people still refer to it as though it is. A computer passing an IQ test, therefore, would have been thought of as possessing intelligence way back when, but would not now.

Oh, on the point of "creativity" - is a RNG "creative"? It creates a value unbounded by human intervention (in theory, yes Pseudo RNGs have limitations) - therefore it must be creative... right?

awesome_dude··on Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking
score 5: funny
awesome_dude··on People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
Having the network that can lift you up IS the luck
awesome_dude··on xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout
Should people disengage with Hn because they don't like your opinion?
awesome_dude··on Devtools must be open source
> On modifying software [..] It was fun and satisfying, but it ended up being a bit of a pain to keep updated.

I don't mean this as a criticism in any way - but the need to keep your changes current is a strong motivation for getting those changes incorporated upstream.

awesome_dude··on Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
There's little point in me telling the world how I like my dinnercooked, unless the world both understands exactly what I mean, and cares
awesome_dude··on My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault
I mean - if there are multiple sdcards in the device - and they each contain a hidden partition - how is the X-RAY going to determine that the reported 5GB (or whatever) isn't matching the devices actual 7GB (for example)
awesome_dude··on My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault
> They pay other people to notice this stuff for them!

Money, even at state level, is not some infinite resource (and neither is time).

States put effort into what they consider worth investigating - no state strip searches every incoming traveller, and goes through every item in their possession - it's possible for them to do, and if they did they'd find a hang of a lot more contraband, but it's costly, time consuming, and politically risky.

awesome_dude··on Advertise in ChatGPT
Advertising is every site's last resort - but it's the only damn thing that pays the bills
awesome_dude··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
Right - your comment was very poorly articulated - and loaded with supposition.

Your claim is that the reason people cannot buy the vehicles ISN'T because they are being dumped BUT because the government SAYS they are being dumped and has therefore actively prevented them from being sold.

The supposition is that it's an accurate claim by the governments - there are reports that the Chinese manufacturers are being restricted by their government and that there has been a period of over production, but how much of that is true and how much is propaganda is very difficult to actually ascertain.

awesome_dude··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
Yes, I am well aware of the definition of dumping - that fails to explain why people cannot buy them.

If they're being dumped there is an oversupply, and people are spoilt for choice. The market is awash with the dumped product.

Not being able to buy them is the exact reverse of that.

awesome_dude··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
Wait - what?

You cannot buy them because they are dumping them??????

awesome_dude··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
I am not surprised - I am, however, surprised how little people pay attention to the risks involved with the practice.
awesome_dude··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
I love how the pro nuclear crowd deals in misinformation to denigrate anyone that dares not agree with them.

They asked for my standard - despite it being a tactic to try and throw the thread, they got their reply and then complained.

You decided a pile on was appropriate with some wild theories that only live in your imagination.

awesome_dude··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
He literally mentioned tonnes of waste being generated.

But don't let that get in the way of a good pile on.

awesome_dude··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
> We also know how to get rid of it entirely, leaving only material that will decay to safe levels within hundreds of years

In the interests of fairness, is like a citation showing that

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