flmontpetit

It used to be a diverse place without much to tie all the boards and users together save for a shared commitment to counter-culture. Then GamerGate and Donald Trump happened. "Every board is /pol/" was one of the most frequent replies you would see for a while until all the halfway decent people left.

/g/ is where I and a lot of people learned about FOSS advocacy and now it's just gamer hardware and transphobia.

As far as realizing the prophecy of AI as told by its proponents and investors goes, probably not. LLMs still have not magically transcended their obvious limitations.

However this has huge implications when it comes to the feasibility and spread of the technology, and further implications with regards to economy and geopolitics now that confidence in the American AI sector has been hit and people and organizations internationally have somewhere else to look for.

edit: That being said, this is the first time I've seen a LLM do a better job than even a senior expert could do, and even if it's on small scope/in a limited context, it's becoming clear that developers are going to have to adopt this tech in order to stay competitive.

You probably meant the same by "dedicated machine" but HAOS runs great in a VM too. I run mine on Proxmox and it's been rock solid.

Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada

Remote: Remote or hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Professional experience with C#, .NET Core, TypeScript, React, Angular, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure and AWS, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://flmontpetit.github.io/resume/ (source code: https://github.com/flmontpetit/resume)

Email: flmontpetit@gmail.com

Hi there, I'm Fred. I'm officially a full stack software developer with 10 years of experience in the field. In practice I've done just about everything from level 3 tech support to maintaining production stacks. I have designed scalable, highly available distributed systems from scratch and can solve any problem from deep OS integration to end-user-facing graphical interfaces.

I am primarily interested in exiting the world of .NET development in search of new challenges. I consider myself well versed in PLT and DS&A and am confident I can adopt any new stack very rapidly. I do my best work in small multidisciplinary teams dealing with a high volume of problems.

Have a splendid day.

Either you're trying to gaslight me, or we're on completely separate levels. This will be my last attempt at interfacing with you.

> Congratulations for your situation in life and happiness. Many people will never know that.

Correct.

> Then you must feel very privileged because of your ethnicity, your country of citizenship, and education.

That's the point. My political ideology is not self-serving. I am part of those who benefit from the status quo. I recognize all of that.

> You're the one that raised the example of the garbageman/artist and just because I point out some flaws in that example, your personal situation makes this a strawman?

You did not even allude to the "garbageman/artist" example. You insinuated that I was "complaining" and "feeling entitled to other people's money", which is trite conservative bullshit.

If we keep "sanitation work" and other difficult, menial tasks to their minimum rather than putting people to work for profit first and foremost, then the people who DO clean toilets and collect garbage will have more time in their week to find purpose and actualization elsewhere. Currently they are overworked and alienated and you would have us believe that's a necessary thing.

I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others. Find something more solid to lean on than a straw man.

If those who feel entitled to the work of others enrage you, then perhaps you should point your anger at the parasitic bourgeoisie who siphon wealth away from society for doing absolutely nothing useful.

What if you are a garbage man and an artist? What if you collect garbage for, say, three days a week?

How much of your labor is absolutely necessary, and how much of it consists in generating surplus wealth for the benefit of your capitalist overlords?

I'm personally hoping "post-capitalism" takes off

Utah will be uninhabitable. You'll have to struggle for survival in the Manitoban jungle.

To be honest you don't need to work very hard to achieve this.

> The World's Top 26 Welfare Recipients Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion, Says Oxfam

> Argon2 is a key derivation function, the winner of the password hashing competition and should be used for new projects. In case it isn't available, use Scrypt. Any other KDF is nonoptimal.

Probably not worth going for the marginally-better-but-new-and-fancy KDF if you don't have a reliable implementation available for your language.

Pretty much agree with everything else otherwise

How does waving your hands in the air "feel more human" than using your opposed-thumb-equipped hands to interact with some material object?

Primordial guac

I think there's a difference between "enthusiast market segment" and "investment commidities". Also even Yamaha grand pianos aren't typically purchased by individuals. More like venues, etc. AFAIK most of those prestigious Steinway models wind up in the lobbies of luxury hotels. Point is those things justify their prices in a way that $1500 keyboards don't.

But honestly I'm being cynical for no reason here. Those guy can spend money on whatever makes them happy. I am in no place to judge.

Seems less like diminishing returns and more like mass hysteria at this point. The only people I personally know of who are as detached from the rest of the market are those guys who collect Telecasters.

We're talking about an office here, not a SS regiment.

It feels like you're trying to argue for the sake of it

That's true, but "exploitation and abuse of laborers" and "tubercular beef" were ultimately caused by the same thing.

Upton Sinclair lamented the fact that nobody really got the point of The Jungle.

I think after all this time he is about to be proven right.

> The beaches surrounding the atolls are sinking due to erosion caused by waves and this is exacerbated by rising sea levels.

> In addition, because the sea level is rising on the islands, Tuvaluans must continually deal with their homes flooding, as well as soil salination.

> Soil salination is a problem because it is making it difficult to get clean drinking water and is harming crops as they cannot grow with the saltier water. As a result, the country is becoming more and more dependent on foreign imports.

> Tuvalu has adopted a national plan of action as the observable transformations over the last ten to fifteen years show Tuvaluans that there have been changes to the sea levels. These include sea water bubbling up through the porous coral rock to form pools at high tide and the flooding of low-lying areas including the airport during spring tides and king tides.

Re: land increase

2% is within the margin of error and experts have raised issues about the accuracy of data collected prior to 1993.

Source : http://probeinternational.org/library/wp-content/uploads/201...

It is also understood that growing coral reefs combat sea level rises to an extent, but that this biological mechanism is not infallible.

In any case, the rising sea levels are a matter of fact :

> The 2011 report of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program published by the Australian Government,[297] concludes: "The sea-level rise near Tuvalu measured by satellite altimeters since 1993 is about 5 mm (0.2 in) per year."

Lastly, there is no meaningful difference in this context between a completely submerged island and an island that is in the process of becoming submerged by the sea. You are arguing a moot point.

Tuvalu is a WIP

https://www.thoughtco.com/geography-and-history-of-tuvalu-14...

That's just off the top of my head

Silly reactionary hyperbole.

Our peaceful and sustainable coexistence with the rest of the world (natural or otherwise) has always required the curtailment of some liberties.

You cannot sell tubercular beef and poison the population. For the same reason, you cannot submerge island nations and cause droughts that make other regions of the world inhabitable. Deal with it.

Until the pendulum swings Republican again and he gets thrown into jail. Remember Chelsea Manning?

The problem is that those who get unfathomably rich off of "business" will employ this tremendous power to erode the barriers between what's an acceptable business venture and what is not.

Capitalism is not a "disease" really, it's a legacy system whose fundamental mechanisms are becoming an increasingly large source of dysfunction.

Yeah but a "common ancestor of humans" would imply some sort of convergence, which could have happened at any point

Do we know for a fact that all life derives from one organism? Could the conditions that allowed it to come into existence not have occurred in multiple places?

It looks like you're looking for a colocation host. You basically rent out rack space in someone else's datacenter. Your options are mostly constrained by geographical location though so HN is probably not the best place to ask. Maybe try some IT professionals in your entourage?

I personally only have experience with Cologix and I can vouch for them. Good installations, good network speeds, etc. My previous employers' entire infrastructure runs there pretty much. They're based in North America.

However you don't necessarily need to access the rack yourself. I believe most will install the server for a fee if you ship it directly to them.

It's also pretty expensive. 2U of rack space can cost something like $99 USD a month. It's worth it on the long run if you need extremely beefy servers though.

Truth is an abstract concept. We only ever get an interpretation, and this interpretation needs to be properly apprehensive of how information is disseminated and interpreted. Proper editorializing is far more important than you realize.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the contents of this article. It does not undermine the climate change (read: scientific) "agenda" in the slightest. However, considering the sheer amount of people who only read article titles and form rigid opinions nonetheless, this article's title specifically is potentially harmful.

Pretty sure "on-prem" means on your infrastructure, and what you're looking for is commercial hosting

It would help if you could clarify your requirements