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birdiesanders··on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
I feel like lead in toys is worth a comeback, the "simpler times" people pine for were because lead.

I joke, of course.

birdiesanders··on What is a transformer model? (2022)
It's essentially a process if denoising a spectrogram, and as such the data is processed that way.
birdiesanders··on Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
So cool to see products pop up with support for Civo, I've been with them from day one and it's a good feeling having a Civo button in that program.
birdiesanders··on Poop: Performance Optimizer Observation Platform
I'll be making poop part of the CI development process starting Monday.
birdiesanders··on Ask HN: Is split keyboard worth the effort?
I did this same move about 8 months ago. I'm so much more fluid than I ever was before. Colemak and a good layering setup has made me much more "authoritative" when using the computer. It takes time, and patience. Just keep at it, jump in discord and chat a few hours a day, build that flow.
birdiesanders··on Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks
That's the heartbreak in ml dev, an entire company of golang code, no way to avoid tossing in a pile of python I don't want to look at.
birdiesanders··on Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
This smells like marketing copy.
birdiesanders··on Apple co-founder Wozniak ABOUT Tesla ‘They robbed my family of so much money’
He spoke at my conference on Tuesday in Tampa and said "Autopilot is the equivalent of a drunk driver." I've never been happier.
birdiesanders··on Bright flash is a black hole jet pointing at Earth, astronomers say
Backwards
birdiesanders··on Walmart, CVS face trial for homeopathic products next to real meds
It is, but at least CVS stopped selling them years back. Now if only they could have a second stroke of rationality this would all be moot.
birdiesanders··on Whodunnit? – Facts Related to the Sabotage Attack on the Nord Stream Pipelines
Well that's one giant hot mess of rhetorical garbage and conspiracy theories.
birdiesanders··on Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man’s nose near Razorback Stadium
That's not vegan.
birdiesanders··on Fart Stack
Ahahahahahaha
birdiesanders··on The Enclave lock, called unpickable for nearly 4 weeks, has been picked
Thank you!
birdiesanders··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
For the curious, my friend Jim picked this lock. https://youtu.be/hBKM5odMTds
birdiesanders··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
It moves the attack from being against the lock to being against the door/frame/walls.
birdiesanders··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
Kromer Protector, unpicked since the late 1800s. There are unpickable locks, you just can't afford them.
birdiesanders··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
LPU unite! This is birdie, I hope your day is excellent!
birdiesanders··on Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?
k8s is just Linux, if you forget the Linux there is no hope.
birdiesanders··on Ask HN: Who is hiring developers 30/32/36 hours a week?
My company has a 34 hour, four day workweek. We are looking for a Golang dev. Civo.com/careers
birdiesanders··on Lens – The Kubernetes IDE – version 4.2 is out now
An amazing tool that gets looked past too often. It makes so many tasks that are slow with kubectl nearly instant and most importantly, consistent.
birdiesanders··on Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B
Try running 15k containers, dnsmasq and powerdns fall over pretty fast. I have to run a BIND cluster of 3 machines to support the days when I am running at-scale testing of software (low load, but high instance count is a better fit for my work these days). I use 4th gen i7 machines as DNS resolver/caching servers, and using dnsmasq on the same machines I start to have issues around 400 clients, massive latency, broken responses, tons of crazy stuff. One BIND instance and I can get to about 7500 clients before it starts to get squeezed.

The difference is huge in other ways, though. Configuration, operations, and maintenance of the BIND cluster is 20 fold more involved, and when things break, they can break in really confusing ways. Such is the world of computing though, the better something performs, the more places it has where you can mess it up.

birdiesanders··on Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform
Thanks for the awesome work over the years!
birdiesanders··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
It’ll be worse than you think it will be.
birdiesanders··on Ask HN: Non-web developers, what do you do?
DevOps I would say, mostly lots of kubernetes work, and building various services to help us maintain them.
birdiesanders··on Blu-ray player keeps cycling on/off whenever plugged in
I would beg to venture expired certificate, firmware goes to validate itself, comes back expired, crashes because this scenario wasn’t considered, repeat.
birdiesanders··on Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5
I tried this, it doesn't seem to work, unless I am missing the obvious somewhere along the line.
birdiesanders··on The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
Huh, odd to see Blono on the internet. Peoria and Bloomington/Normal are pretty much forgotten outside of Central IL. I run a small repair shop and a software design company in Peoria. Might have to go pay a visit to the only computing celeb we have here!
birdiesanders··on Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?
I am. I have a fully developed product, a multi-lingual evacuation alert platform, but I don't have anyone in my life with actual time to help me kick it into viable revenue.
birdiesanders··on Ask HN: Is GraphQL still relevant?
I would go so far as to say it is just now getting truly relevant.
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