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So short meta?

Containers is often the reason. You start a container and you are immediately pulling in a quarter to half a gig or more (often the latter).

Does the IIHS have a an Indiana Jones style warehouse where they keep 30 year old forgettable vehicles like the Blazer in storage for just this special occasion?

“Doctor killer” for a reason.

It can be monotonous and degrading, but commercial air is the safe way to travel.

There needs to be a distinction - because people are making an honest conflation - between distributed computing and cloud computing. The list in the article applies to both, but the limits and performance variability can apply quicker - and with more effect - in the cloud.

But it’s relevant whether we like it or not. This will affect the price of goods, salaries of workers, everything.

What, do people not remember Katrina? That was the sign to move, and it was 20 years ago.

Yeah it’s a sad state. But it’s also not worth putting oneself in harm’s way. Report it to the state authorities (not all of them are crooked). Or try another jurisdiction, like the local police.

This was incredibly dangerous of the victim. In another version of events, the officer could have shot him and plausibly (unfortunately) claimed the victim had a vendetta against the cop for arresting him.

IAM isn’t even really the most painful dependency. Route53 is. The control plane only runs out of use1.

Better make sure the only DNS operations you run during an outage are data plane queries and health check failovers.

Are you saying F/G AND any line serving less affluent areas? Because if not, the G (save for maybe 2-3 stops in Bed-Stuy) is all affluent neighborhoods.

Why is this getting downvoted? How is this any less ridiculous sounding than the multitude of other, ever-shifting reasons Trump gave for starting the war.

IPs are notoriously unreliable for identity pinning, particularly in this age of CGNAT.

If they can’t or don’t want cc numbers (makes sense considering how painful PCI guidelines are anyway) does that mean they need to rely on more tools from the processors or user accounts maintained by the merchant themselves?

I always wondered about this. Do companies tie the credit card to an identity to block or do they just block the cc number?

If the latter, seems like a small friction point for a consumer. Given how often cc numbers change and how many an (American) consumer has, this won’t block anything unless you are charging back more than once every few months.

Declaring someone an enemy does not automatically lead to war. America considered the USSR an enemy of democracy for 50 years. They never went directly to blows.

For production Postgres, i would assume it’s close to almost no effect?

If someone is running postgres in a serious backend environment, i doubt they are using Ubuntu or even touching 7.x for months (or years). It’ll be some flavor of Debian or Red Hat still on 6.x (maybe even 5?). Those same users won’t touch 7.x until there has been months of testing by distros.

Yes, sorry. I meant it more as a descriptor of how many tokens it consumes. You are still stuck burning money.

Tool calls (particularly fetching for context) eats the context window heavily. I explicitly send MCP calls to sub agents because they are so “wordy”.

No flag is rare because that immediately opens them to anti-piracy.

But coming back to my original point: it isn’t America’s determination that a registration is fraudulent. It is the flag state’s.

In the past it had less to do with seizing the vessels and more to do with keeping financial flows between organizations offering shipping services and oil hidden from the banking system. America could have easily seized any ship they wanted to during the sanctions over the past decade. They didnt because the sanctions are American constructs: they dont apply on the open seas where UNCLOS matters. America can still seize them, but the legality is murky and comes with a reputational cost.

Now with Hormuz closed, America needs every last oil barrel moving so the economy doesn’t grind to a halt. Remember, it’s a war of choice for the US. We don’t need Iran gone as much as we want low oil prices.

Oh this is a good article. Thanks for that.

Towards the bottom they list some satellite imagery and a statement indicating they are possibly using the taxiways as parking.

Still leaves open the question of who might have been injured and where, but at least answers how the Iranians could have possibly hit a taxiing plane — they didn’t.

I’m not an AF vet so I don’t have an idea, but what’s the over-under that the US injuries were the crew trying to get the plane ready to fly after the alert came in? I think the number of injuries lines up closely with expected crew compliment.

The Oklahoman and Jerusalem Post are also reporting it was a total write off.

Also adding: the spike in 2008 was transient and partially juiced by a weak dollar. Unfortunately, we will probably get no respite this time around.

At the current geopolitical trajectory, I also doubt $147 is anywhere near the limit of where oil is going.

I got what you were saying. I read it the same way. I’m sorry for your loss.

No one leaves this planet alive, and the best you can hope for is that the majority of your time is spent relatively healthy and independent.

I don’t disagree with any of your assessments, but I don’t know if it’s a bigger mistake than Iraq…yet. That war was a 10 year (longer if you bc point ISIS) debacle that cost trillions.

Let’s wait a few years before saying this mistake is bigger first.

However, one point that I agree with that might lead to this war being worse: the Gulf are showing some serious buyers remorse with sticking in the US orbit. Both the uselessness of America’s strategy and the almost clear prejudice Trump shows towards the Arabs vs Israel in the decision tree of this conflict is unsettling for the Gulf states.

Good write up. Not to mention the other big HR constraints on DoD engineers: they almost always have to be a “US person.”

Anyone who gets a CAC working on a personal computer deals with this all too much. The root certs DoD uses are not part of the public trusted sources that commonly come installed in browsers.

I haven’t touched a Palantir system since 2008 (and I still feel dirty) so I’m not the most read up on this: but Maven is just the harness or workflow tool. It still needs an LLM to evaluate data, and they used Anthropic for the kickoff of this war.

They made everyone more productive. But that also means everyone has to do more to keep up with said productivity.

Yes, this has been the gradual evolution of AI context and tooling. Same thing is occurring with some of the use cases of a vector DB and RAG. Once you can have the agent interact with the already existing conventional data store using existing queries, there is no point in introducing that work flow for inference.