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gizzlon

2,743 karma · joined December 3, 2010

Freelance backend developer and architect. Love to build new things, mostly in Golang and with Google Cloud Platform.

https://oyvindsk.com

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gizzlon··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
gizzlon··on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number
Just off the top of my head:

Here two other devices, that we know who belongs to, daily connecting to the wifi as yours

gizzlon··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
> It really comes down to the people and whether you have the expertise on the team

Aren't these people suppose to debug and fix complex problems in prod? And if they can do that, why can't they run and debug a log server?

Of course there are trade offs with any outsourcing decision. But I think we should have higher expectations of engineers

gizzlon··on Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested on charges connected to Minnesota church protes
Classic authoritarian playbook
gizzlon··on Tesla is committing automotive suicide
maybe you want one that can do nazi salutes? /s
gizzlon··on Tesla is committing automotive suicide
and drugs
gizzlon··on Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”
So the usecase is: I started with SQLite, but now I have too many terrabytes to fit on one server? That seems.. very uncommon.

And since moving it out of process, and even to another network, is going to make it much much much slower. You're going to need a rewrite anyway

gizzlon··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
I'm sorry, that sucks, it's a bad situation to be in :(

But I think we know from history, and other (attempted) authoritarian takeovers, that it only gets worse until people stand up and push back.

It's in their best interest to make everyone feel there's nothing they can do, there's no use in protesting etc etc.

I do think it works! And in addition to protests in the streets, and strikes, I think consumer boycotts would work. If a percentage of people stopped buying anything other than the necessities a lot of US companies would really feel it.

gizzlon··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
> I'm far too lazy to go to a big protest

Then you are part of the problem. Get off your ass and do something, before it's too late. FFS!

gizzlon··on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
> The implicit assumption that this is a bad thing is grounded in the assumption that anyone who is a STEM PhD is automatically someone the US government should want to employ

No, not really? That would be true if we were talking about hiring anyone with a STEM PhD. Or 1 random person.

In this case we have people leaving, and it's a group. So it's more like: The assumption that 10k PhD's, that we saw fit to hire in the first place, as a collective, are worth the cost.

Seems likely that they are: The cost is low, let's say $2 billion per year? For reference, Trumps Big Bill includes $300 billion in new defense spending and "over a ten-year period is estimated to add roughly $3 trillion to the national debt and to cut approximately $4.46 trillion in tax revenue".

Also, let's say there were too many, and you should get rid of 10 000 of them. I doubt the guy who keeps rambling for 1 and a half hour [1] and keeps getting "Greenland" and "Iceland" mixed up, is going to do a good job with it.

1: Seriously, I dare you to try to watch it, I tried. At least hes "draining the swamp" /s https://www.youtube.com/live/qo2-q4AFh_g?si=Hwu3MSXouOfEfJCa...

gizzlon··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Did you just link to grokipedia?
gizzlon··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
You can't, at least not where I live
gizzlon··on Trump Action Tracker
I think it's just manually. Believe they just started writing it down 1 year ago and started to categorize it later
gizzlon··on Apple, What Have You Done?
Apple have been drafting on past innovations and cashing in for a while now, yes? Very profitable, but it can't last forever.

Also, here's Tim kissing fascist ass on the same day ICE shot an unarmed man: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tim-cook-attended-melani...

gizzlon··on Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Why should we care what LLM's say about other LLM's?
gizzlon··on TikTok is officially US-owned for American users, here's what's changing
> And nothing happens on the scale you might imagine

Do you think it will be different with TikTok US, being owned by Trump's friends (and family?) ?

gizzlon··on TikTok is officially US-owned for American users, here's what's changing
”Instead of” or "in addition to" ?

Would not put it past them to influence what content people see on TikTok either.

gizzlon··on Miami, your Waymo ride is ready
that's a little weird since the driver will forget about it quite fast but the recordings could be stored forever and tied to you personally.
gizzlon··on Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU
yup, by going after Powell he is threatening the rest of them to vote the way he wants in the future.

While it would be great if people of the US started to show some backbone and resist this fascist takeower, I'm quite pessimistic. What's going on makes me really sad.

OTOH it's not too late!! We have seen trends like this turned around before.

gizzlon··on Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU
> Their goal is to make American blue collar manufacturing jobs viable again,

It's one of many stated reasons.

What the real reasons are is not really important IMO. But my money would be on something much more sinister and selfish

gizzlon··on Design Thinking Books (2024)
"Must read" ? Must?

GTFO with this hyperbolic language

gizzlon··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
That was then, as in it started several years ago.

You do know similar people to SBF have been pardoned by Tump, right? Not related to the money they gave him and his family, of course..

gizzlon··on Canada Announces Divorce from America
yes, Tump did quite clearly
gizzlon··on The challenges of soft delete
Chrome?
gizzlon··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
> No, it’s bullshit posturing you read on the internet.

yeah, I don't believe you, random, anonymous, throwaway account on the Internet

gizzlon··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
You say all the problems are man-made, but at the same time, that it's impossible to fix or improve anything?
gizzlon··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
Really? If I had to move to either, I would choose Canada 10 out of 10 times

Aren't all problems in Canada 5x worse in the US?

gizzlon··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
ouf, that's a lot of negativity and defeatism in one single comment.

I share your concern about growing inequality, but to lie down and give up does not help anyone

gizzlon··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
> Rule of law

Are you being sarcastic?

gizzlon··on Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees
Great! I just bought a 6 a few months ago and I'm very happy with it.

Might even get another one and run E or some other less googlified os

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