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klooney··on OpenBSD 7.9
Nah, whenever I'm involved in a cloud cost audit, I routinely find boring unfashionable Ubuntu and RHEL servers someone forgot about with 5 year uptimes.
klooney··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
I honestly believe that most Silicon Valley developers could have their pre-AI output replaced by 10 dollars/day in Gemini 3 pay as you go spend.

I don't think existing companies will bite that bullet, but I think you'll see AI native companies in five years with like, a baffling small number of people.

klooney··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
There are two kinds of athletes that win global track events: - athletes from areas with bad doping enforcement (remote places in the mountains of Kenya, Jamaica) - athletes from countries with tons of surplus biomedical expertise (USA and other western countries)
klooney··on San Diego rents declined following surge in supply
Just turn SOMA into Hong Kong
klooney··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
What's the sleep situation? I have an ancient Dell with S3, which is totally fine, and a Mac for work, which is fine, but the modern standby situation, as summarized by people who are mad about it, sounds bad.
klooney··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
Sometimes the only way you can get basic engineering practices done like "have tests", "have a build system", "run the tests and the builds automatically", "insist that the above work" without management freaking out is to pay someone a lot of money.
klooney··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
You need regional state, or you're still back hauling to the db with all the lag.
klooney··on Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
Central Computer too
klooney··on Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2
I saw a Cybercab on the 280 today, it looked kind of cool but kind of weird, too. I wonder if it'll be the same thing physically.
klooney··on Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead
> Modernity is about not doing what your family says

The flip side is that rich and modern people feel lonely and sad that they don't have strong social bonds.

klooney··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Sailing. Good to focus your eyes on something not glowing, the cold and wet makes you feel really alive. There's a bottomless pit of cheap old boats and maintenance to learn about- or if you like buying toys, the sky is the limit.

I like racing dingies, adds a social aspect, but ymmv.

klooney··on Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure
The EU has been a huge free rider on defense and pharma spending from the US, they're going to have a rough time reorganizing their economies.
klooney··on Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
What do you need to get serviced every year? Do the tires wear out that fast?
klooney··on The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
He's a longtime OpenOffice/LibreOffice and now, I guess, CollabraOffice contributor.
klooney··on Miscellanea: The War in Iran
You can bomb a pipeline too
klooney··on Miscellanea: The War in Iran
> US is way more impacted by fertilizer disruption than China is.

China is also a big food importer, they'll feel it eventually

klooney··on Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses
Until the security team requires a password on the yubikey tap
klooney··on Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
> Potential Conflict of Interest: The government relies, in part, on third-party firms to vet cloud technology, but those firms are hired and paid by the company being assessed.

Hah. First time looking at FedRAMP?

The real reason for this, of course, is accounting, it moves it off of the government's books.

klooney··on Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
I love https://github.com/lucagrulla/cw , it's like tail for cloudwatch. It's super fast.
klooney··on Java 26 is here
There's so much Java development in the Bay
klooney··on Syria's Kurds caution Iran's Kurds against allying with US against Tehran
It's good advice, the US doesn't want to be there in six months, let alone six years.
klooney··on What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?
https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-updat...

They've started bombing the oil in infrastructure

klooney··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
Is this WITCH companies?
klooney··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
I hate the credentialism. What a bummer of a place to end up.
klooney··on Claude's Cycles [pdf]
> Experts will naturally use these systems more productively, because they know how to coerce models into the correct conditional distributions which light up the right techniques.

How much can you patch over with the models doing their own metacognition?

klooney··on China ramps up 'high stakes' tech race with US as economic imbalances deepen
> Beijing is trying to manage a 'controlled glide' in growth while building a new economy based on technology rather than property,"

Sounds like a good idea

klooney··on The Iran War's Most Precious Commodity Isn't Oil, It's Desalinated Water
It's an article about the Gulf states, and how their desalination plants are vulnerable to Iran.
klooney··on The beauty and terror of modding Windows
Is Litestep still around? You used to be able to sub out the windows shell...
klooney··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
Are there non-Mac laptops that still support real sleep? I'm worried about replacing my beater XPS.
klooney··on Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
Man, how do you get box seats out of AWS, I'm missing out
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