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This was one of the promises of Java. You write your application and then you get a virtual machine (JVM). As time goes on you only maintain the virtual machine while the application remains the same.

It’s a common pattern in enterprise IT to take a useful spreadsheet and turn it into an application. Without fail, they turn into a forever chase of excel features re-implemented (and poorly) on some front end. Entire teams dedicated to features that would be two clicks away in excel ootb.

What Putin is feeling out is the very real possibility he uses a nuke on Kyiv or invades/attacks a NATO member and Europe just wrings their hands and turns away.

edit: there's no difference between launching a conventional cruise missile and one armed with a nuclear warhead. You'll only know after the attack not before.

That article is ridiculous “More expensive tomorrow, more affordable today”. It reads like a predatory credit card offer and is full of what if’s.

High property taxes pushing down the sales price of a house does not help the buyer or seller. The buyer is going to pay the same, just more in taxes vs the loan, and the seller is going to get less because high taxes have reduced the value of their home.

What if the person who owns the land is working class? That’s who property taxes hit the hardest, working class people with a mortgage.

Drive through New Mexico, there’s a lot of land.

Isn’t California one of the richest states in the richest nation? Does that government really need more revenue?

This is how the government countered the people demanding the end of debtor’s prison. And it’s not “transferred on death” it’s whenever the house is sold whether the owner is alive or not. Property tax is just rent paid to the government and the taxman always gets their dues one way or the other.

As a parent of two teenagers in public magnet HS (one of which is top 10 in the US) I still say homeschooling is by far the best and what my wife and I would have done if it was an option.

Home school is best, private school if you can, public school if you must.

I’ve long thought if you doubled tax revenue or halved it the public services rendered would be the same. Tax revenue is not the problem.

Narrator: Kendrick’s feet were never shackled.

To me it was about sublime getting a little too popular for web development. MSoft needed an answer and so vscode was born.

"I can see by eye ..." ??

that's a new one hah

What ads? I’m trying to find these in settings at the top per the article. I don’t see any.

It happens. There use to be a joke during the first big DC build out phase that went like if you're ever going into the wilderness take a 1ft length of fiber optic cable with you. If you get lost bury it and a back hoe operator will appear and sever it within an hour. You can get a ride back with them.

> unless you have a bunch of money to throw at hobby projects.

there are lots of people with very expensive hobbies, see sailboat racing for example.

The token price isn't the only reason to run a model locally though. You can do additional training to specialize or remove censorship that may be a no-no per TOS with cloud GPUs.

> They didn't just generate something with a magic box.

It doesn't matter who found the error nor how it was found. An error is an error.

There's going to be all kinds of weird stuff like this surfacing everywhere until after the mid-term elections in November. Youtube is full of it right now, it's just going to get more ridiculous and crazy for the next several week.

My grandfather was like this, grew up in the depression and fought in the pacific during ww2. His garage was full of coffe can after coffee can filled with random nuts and bolts. When I was a kid every meal with my grandparents was 50% leftovers and they had a giant garden. Waste not want not indeed.

> Maybe it's faster but explosive diarrhea is also a faster way to produce shit.

i'm in the midst of a very large global roll out of a new system including about 24 separate erp integrations. My team's system is dependent on another system coming online first then we go then the integrations come online then a massive data migration happens and ends with all the associated testing. So like a huge number of dependencies and I'm second in line. Today we get word that the first system is having issues with a vendor and will not come online as scheduled (our dry run deployment is tomorrow and spans all next week as each dependency gets their turn. Week after next is PROD.

We're not heavily integrated into that first system but we are in spots and so there's a reason why they go first. Writing around that system is feasible but we're looking around 5k lines which isn't a lot but there's still testing and sign off. My offshore team is in bed, meanwhile they, and onshore, all have other shit to do anyway so pulling them just puts everything else behind.

I tasked an agents to make the changes as soon as i woke up to the news, they got it mostly right. It took two rounds of fixes with some offshore testers who stayed up late but the PR got in and merged. We just did (literally like 5min ago) a validation run against our target system and we're green for tomorrow. I told the testers to goto bed and then i pulled up HN and opened a coke.

There's no way in hell that would have happened without the coding agents we had on tap. So, yeah, i find a lot of value in the rate at which AI can work on code even if it's not perfect every time.

They say "some" data, i wonder what percentage that really is. I haven't seen pictures but I find it hard to imagine all of me-south-1 was completely leveled to the point where's there's just nothing left. On the other hand, if you have 100 rows of racks and then randomly take out a contiguous 10% across both rows and columns it may be functionally equivalent to taking out everything.

> to-do list becomes securing weapons, vehicles and fuel.

I toured a datacenter once back in the early 2000s and they showed me 30 days of generator fuel storage. When i asked them why 30 days and not 35 they replied "we're such a major customer of both electricity and fuel that if we don't get electricity or fuel for 30 days there's way bigger problems than your website not being online" hah.

not really defending salesforce but OAuth+REST is a pain? Pretty plain vanilla in terms of integration requirements.

i don't think it's that normal which is why it's newsworthy. I'm a father of a 16 and 14 year old. The 14 year old had a youtube channel when he was 9 or 10. I helped him set it up, he was making Minecraft tutorials which I thought was pretty cool.

titties-club is a little passé these days (in my industry anyway) but yeah if you're with a group that represents 7 digits then spending 5 to show them a good time is still pretty common.

> Do people legitimately make this mistake? “oops, I put it on the company cards”?

i've done this with like a cup of coffee but not something like a game for my kids! What happens in my case is the charge is not approved for reimbursement and it's up to me to pay the bill. I feel bad for that father.

edit: it's a corporate card but it's in my name so I can actually charge whatever i want but the company only reimburses approved charges, whatever is left over is up to me to pay. As a sibling comment said, what everyone does is use their regular personal cards for the rewards/loyalty points and then submit receipts for reimbursement manually. In consulting where you travel a lot this can be thousands per month in rewards.

> random ID’s that don’t mean anything and no information whatsoever

If you use salesforce you know what all of that stuff means. Just click on one, it’s not rocket surgery.

You can click on any of the instances and then the service that is down to read the updates. It’s not 100% clear but some sort of issue with a “legacy login service”. The latest updates say a fix is rolling out.

i'm not in the cybersecurity business so someone who is explain SOP to me in times like this. Let's say you and your team are 90-95% confident an attack has taken place and your systems have been breached. How far down in the list of things to do next is "Engage law enforcement"?

Until now, I would think it's pretty high up the list. Hugging Face never seemed to reach that step even though they had confirmed an attack. To me, if my systems were attacked and I was damaged I would notify the FBI of the attack in the same way I'd notify my insurance.