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foobiekr··on Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite
It's not an issue, write-new-and-swap is probably the best approach for this type of application.
foobiekr··on Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
I want to know so that I can make plans. Including end of life plans, in all senses.
foobiekr··on ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
It wasn't just "permitted." The technology under discussion here was funded by the US the DOE and Intel and deliberately transferred by the US to ASML (and not, for example, a Japanese company or Samsung) as part of a soft power exercise.

It's crazy that Europeans keep citing ASML as a strong example of European innovation.

foobiekr··on Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
There is always a risk of things like this. For example, to make my winecap bed, I had to get a bunch of woodchips. There is no way woodchips that one will buy in bulk are not contaminated with the spores of other wood-eating fungus.

What you learn is how to positively identify the mushrooms you intend to produce/eat. It doesn't take long. I've only had alien mushrooms show up once.

foobiekr··on Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
Mushrooms are everywhere. There used to be a subreddit of "weird mushrooms" like growing out of people's couches or in the bathroom, etc. In all cases, this is a sign of rot due to water intrusion.

You can grow mushrooms at home, it is fun. The only risk is that the mushrooms with high spore production are not great to have in a closed residence, especially oyster mushrooms which produce very high spore loads. There are vendors who produce cultures of sporeless oyster which can be used to grow oyster mushrooms indoors.

Outdoors, at least in most temperate areas, you are limited to things like shitake on logs or winecaps. The latter are incredibly easy to grow, and very good taste wise, but they are temperamental and basically grow on their own schedule, infrequently.

foobiekr··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
How would releasing the prisoners stop the settlers and other issues?

What Israel has been doing for decades at this point is completely unacceptable. Hamas is a bunch of terrorists, but in context they are the inevitable outcome of Israel's continuous mistreatment and ongoing antagonism against all of their neighbors stretching on for fifty years.

You really have to wonder what the hell is wrong with the Israelis that they can't stop being aggressive towards literally everyone around them.

foobiekr··on Keep Android Open
What is the advantage of moving sooner vs. moving later when rough spots have been smoothed over?
foobiekr··on The Great Unwind
Wine is more stable as an API to target than any of the native Linux technologies.
foobiekr··on Data centers in space makes no sense
The problem is that software people are clueless.
foobiekr··on Data centers in space makes no sense
And if France decides to jam you until you play nice?
foobiekr··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Space based power arrays with microwave transmission to massive ground fields has been discussed for nearly sixty years. It doesn't make economic sense, at all.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/space-based-so...

I would love it to be a thing, but it is not a thing.

foobiekr··on Data centers in space makes no sense
The lifetime of a GPU in practice is around 3 years. There is no way this plan is going to work. Musk knows that, he's just counting on stupid people to buy into the SpaceX IPO on hype.
foobiekr··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Musk lies with ease and routinely. This and Optimus are both just more examples of that.
foobiekr··on The Startup Graveyard
A lot of acquisitions are tech and talent and the details matter. A startup that gets acquired for $30M after burning $70M is definitely burned.
foobiekr··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
They aren't just showing people how to use their software. Stop defending the bad guys.
foobiekr··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
Palantir does a ton of customization and consulting for specific use cases. This isn't like Microsoft Excel being used to track uranium enrichment in Iran, it is a direct, explicit part of their business.

Even if you do nothing else of impact in your life, you can stop defending the bad guys.

foobiekr··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
Due to background, I know a lot of people who work at google, and while many of them will give lipservice to ethical concerns, none of them have made any changes at all because, and this is an exact quote, "the money is too good."
foobiekr··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
This take is so wrong it qualifies as delusional. The valley was all about money and nothing but money by any means by no later 1996 when the dotcom got under way. In 2001 I was at a company actively engaging in meetings with a certain three letter agency wanted us to build a secret project to tap oc192 cables at various service providers while talking about how the internet was bringing freedom and openness to society.

Tech has been a cesspool for thirty years.

foobiekr··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
Same. I would never allow anyone who has Palantir on their resume to be hired in any company I have influence over. They are the brownshirts of the tech industry, worse even than the people poisoning children's minds at Meta.
foobiekr··on LLM Problems Observed in Humans
Once it’s in the context window the model invariably steers crazy. Llms cannot handle the “don’t think of an elephant” requirement.
foobiekr··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
The NTP server thing was especially egregious given that the transition to everything being under TLS was underway and clocks matter in that situation.
foobiekr··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
"What happens when multiple devices in your /8 want to listen on port 80 and 443 on the public address?"

This is a feature not a flaw. The average person doesn't have anything acting as a server, and that's a good thing, because the only servers they'd have would be embedded garbage in poorly maintained or completely abandoned IOT devices with incompetent code that should not be publicly exposed, ever, in anything but a call out model.

foobiekr··on The Illustrated Transformer
> would never be able to perform well on novel coding or mathematics tasks. We were wrong

I'm not clear at all we were wrong. A lot of the mathematics announcements have been rolled back and "novel coding" is exactly where the LLMs seem to fail on a daily basis - things that are genuinely not represented in the training set.

foobiekr··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
I am sorry that has been your experience. I have worked in a lot of "rough/gruff/hardcore" environments, almost all of my career, at companies that are widely recognized to be fairly political and antagonistic, and none of them have ever, ever been even remotely like this.
foobiekr··on Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops
What other option do they have?

This is a "the horse might sing" situation for the whole market that focused on breakthrough-level results (AGI, ASI, or even just "not going off the rails after the third response").

foobiekr··on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
Agreed.

A good example might be one that came up recently (on "Tasting History") is musk, which tastes of and has the bouquet of laundry detergent, or basil (which if you eat it plain and in isolation has a bizarre chemical flavor and bouquet), etc.

foobiekr··on Golang's big miss on memory arenas
I have done the same; it's not natural to do it this way. Go should actually express an explicit mechanism to do this. When I did it, it felt exactly like trying to use epoll from Go: you can do it, it just feels like crap.
foobiekr··on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
It's an obvious cost optimization. Make the consumer directly cover the cost of inference and idle inference hardware.
foobiekr··on Golang's big miss on memory arenas
Two big issues in Golang are that you can't actually build an arena allocator that can be used for multiple types in a natural way.

The other is that almost no library is written in such a way that buffer re-use is possible (looking at you, typical kafka clients that throw off a buffer of garbage per message and protobuf). The latter could be fixed if people paid more attention to returning buffers to the caller.

foobiekr··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
It really wasn't. MacOS classic was full of vulnerabilities as was OS/2 and Linux up through 2004. Windows dominated because it was the biggest ecosystem.
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