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Now that’s a wall I can get behind.

Very easy to give it another name

So sad to hear about your health issues Jeremy. Wishing you the best during this time.

I _do_ hope you reconsider on barring your speaking engagements however. Bad gigs will happen. But you are stronger than that. =)

You had to scroll all the way down the article, but:

>Therefore, if a customer ever enabled Private IP access to their instance, they could be targeted by an attacker-controlled Cloud SQL instance. This could go wrong very quickly if the customer solely relied on the instance being isolated from the external world, and didn’t protect it with a proper password.

Anyone care to expand on that? Would that be common practice?

Love this :) Let’s not put aside the fact that F1 drivers spend days testing courses on simulators, so they know exactly what speed they can handle corners at.

Unless you're referring to something else, the official [Alpine PostGIS docker image is 151MB](https://hub.docker.com/layers/postgis/postgis/9.5-2.5-alpine...), and you can find minimal images around 35MB.

These images contain geometry engine binaries like GEOS, which you will likely need if you want to perform operations other than `distance` at decent speeds.

I own two iPads, and I really don't think it is there yet in terms of writing any serious code.

My brother prototyped this LED panel ages ago does that. Made for a good project, and it's still hanging in his office.

https://lbnc.ca/luz-lightbulb-meet-sunlight

I don't know enough about this to come up with search terms that give results. Would OP / someone be able to provide example search terms? Cheers! :)

The rest of this man's blog is also worth a visit. Great work, Marton!

P.S. Can I suggest you put your name somewhere in your header?

P.P.S. I see you, too, use 'self' when taking notes. Would you also be a Pythonista? :)

> Fun fact - there is a sentence in this post written entirely by the GPT version of Me. I wonder how easy it is to spot.

...I couldn't spot it. Anyone? Eerie...

> I'd love to hear what mac-based GPU cloud computing system you are using

Is a strawman, and snarky at that. You could presume original commenter is just interested in a *nix-based GPU VM.

FWIW, the process of spinning up an Ubuntu Data Science Virtual Machine on a GPU resource type has gone without a hitch over here. Last I checked it's only available in some areas, though, so YMMV.

s/Spotify/Shopify/g

Great work, very creative vector!

On the other hand, looks like a big missed opportunity from snyk.io! Feels like they could have taken the extra step and time to come up with a counter to this in their product, and use that post as both a way to showcase their product and the discovery.

>They studied a single bank in Asia with "thousands of employees." [...] They make no attempt to address cultural differences. They disclaim that the study is representative of the world, but then offer some mental gymnastics which imply without actually suggesting that it represents the US because of the country's similarity to the US in gender employment numbers and attitudes.

>Your comment suggests you don't really understand the immense challenge of doing sociological work in a way that's both ethical and useful.

The fact that it is immensely challenging does not make the assumptions any less liable to be false. Please re-read GP's comment and refrain from attacking him/her on a personal level.

Thanks! Good to put things in perspective.

I had little problem recruiting the willpower to fast, but willing myself to a good mood was something I wasn't really able to act on. Something to keep in mind for next time!

Tried IMF for two weeks recently, and my mood was so bad in the mornings I had to stop it; my wife thanked me afterwards. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get "over the hump" which reportedly lasts 3-4 weeks, and then mood is supposed to stabilize.

Anything relatable in this sentence, and any tips to help "get over the hump" you might have?

Humanity is periodically faced with the fact that it is not special [0] and that it lives on an insignificant little blue planet [1]. I don't see that trend changing anytime soon.

What comes to mind of course is Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. Although I only believe in eventual AGI many years from now, I think it's very interesting to foresee the potential impacts of a machine sitting on the step above in that ladder. See Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence [2], a great read.

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[0]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreSpecial

[1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsignificantLit...

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20527133-superintelligen...

That's starting to sound awfully close to what a social network would do, mister. ʘ‿ʘ

For the record: Thank you, TimBL. I'm only snarky because I love what you're doing.

Is it just me, or is Sir Tim Berners-Lee unveiling a new plan to save the Internet every 4 months or so?

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptio...

When you see a footnote next to a 'Yes' in the online version, read it as a 'No for 90% of use cases'.

That article is so evocative and well-written, I feel I'll be coming back to it just to steal some expressions.

I've been looking quite a bit into this recently, and even though they might not be screaming it from the rooftops, Gitlab offers quite a few security-related features. There are code scanning, dependency tracking, etc. features at various levels of readiness.

https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/ https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/secure/

I get the overall idea why they make sense. But the fact that the author does not address GPU acceleration either means that she's not thought about that, or that she thinks its implementation is trivial.

Either way, I would need a deeper dive along those lines to be convinced of that the argument has real-world merit, and can actually be implemented in practice.

FWIW my estimate is that 90% of production training loads in the wild are done on GPU. Please correct me if my assumption is wrong.

My wife and I’s schedules are staggered. She takes mornings, I take the afternoons.

I don’t think the actual hours at which you start your day matter much, though. I find the value is in being constant at it.

You are the sum of your habits. I've always had "sort-of passable" ones, but they were never chosen by design, only by what had accreted with time. I had played with some systems and apps, but nothing had really worked until I took the time to write out in excrutiating detail what I would be doing for every minute of my morning and evening. At first I had to follow my schedule, but that didn't last long.

With the birth of my son, daycare, and a new job, I was finally forced to actually plan out a morning and evening routine. I wish I had done this in university.

Every day for the last 6 months, I have now a routine I don't have to think twice about:

* Woke up at 5 AM,

* Exercise hard, take a shower and have breakfast,

* Get to work before 7:30 AM with my day's tasks already in mind.

Similar for the evening preparing my breakfast, lunch and clothes. It's liberating to do these now without thinking. It took about a month, and my brain is now free to plan out the day or listen to an audiobook.

The whole thread has interesting discussions. Keep in mind it's 8 years old: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/thread...

I didn’t know that either! For anyone else wants to try it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a5evhr/configure_d...