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mnadkvlb

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Software engineer. Postgres Kernel development.
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mnadkvlb··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
I cant drag and drop any more in finder somehow. it was working fine, now it works and then i have to restart or it is not working at all. what a mess
mnadkvlb··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
what is termux ?
mnadkvlb··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
This is such a Patrick Boyle level humor. Thanks for making my day :)
mnadkvlb··on John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
he is one of the very few people who inspires me today.
mnadkvlb··on Organic Maps open source dispute
Thanks for pointing this out. I was blown away by the marketing referral links in this project.
mnadkvlb··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Exactly. Imagine them blocking captchas on iphone or windows
mnadkvlb··on Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023)
Michael Levin's labs, where this research is going on, showed organ (eg. eyes) regeneration etc. I really hope these guys are going in right direction regarding regeneration based on electric fields as a proxy for gene expressions.
mnadkvlb··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
I don't like idolization of rich people. Yea, Woz was great for the contribution to computing.

He did sell out though, launching a billion dollar crypto ico which is now at a valuation of around million dollar. Sure anyone would be happiest person ever.

/S

mnadkvlb··on Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
genuinely interested, what are the alternatives ? i know ping/forgerock and some old ibm stuff.

what is state of the art today that compares to ActiveDirectory (not talking azureAd - or whatever they call it these days) ?

mnadkvlb··on Tracker Beeper (2022)
The name reminds me of the south park episode with trapper keeper :)

was a crazy episode

mnadkvlb··on Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly
I responded above, but it could be used maybe for network libraries for eg. libvirt. I did my thesis on this topic a couple years ago.

I am very intrigued to find out how this would fit in, if at all.

mnadkvlb··on Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly
Absolutely my thought as well. During my thesis i found token buckets to be better and more fair compared to other algos[1]. This was in libvirt. my finding was that it scaled well up to around 1k buckets if memory serves right. after that the results were weird to say the least. (of course the servers i tested on were quite old with not too much memory). Would be nice to run my thesis tests again to find what happened in the last decade.

I tried writing another algorithm for network splitting but didn't get any better results. [1]: https://www.csg.uzh.ch/publications/details.php?id=1007

mnadkvlb··on ESASky
exactly. I see it as well in multiple other spots as well. eg: 1. 05 49 04.008 +01 09 47.27 FoV: 1.3° X 2.2° 2. 05 44 35.074 +01 52 52.36 FoV: 3.4° X 5.9° 3. 06 37 17.795 -47 18 20.97 FoV: 1.4° X 2.4°

many more that i didnt list.

mnadkvlb··on Tata joins hands with PSMC to build India's first 12-inch fab
where does it say in your links that these people were part of the team that designed chips in the 90s ? Are these wrong links maybe ?
mnadkvlb··on Do AI-Generated Image/Art Algorithms Plagiarise? [video]
I recently started learning about ai after seeing it everywhere including hearing it from my close relatives. I had been extremely worried to use it for plagiarism, what do people on HN think about it? This video by a youtuber, makes it quite murky for me to use any AI for my work except asking it some questions. Thanks
mnadkvlb··on Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers
This is really nice.

Would be great if you can also include some examples for Europe.

Of couse, i would be up to do some digging if you need help.

mnadkvlb··on High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
Reminds of me of my time 7 years back when i took the robotics courses from Davide. What a legendary professor alongwith Bernstein for AI, Sven for Computational-Econ and Boehlen for DBs.
mnadkvlb··on I have gained admin access to numerous GCloud Organizations by accident
I recently helped someone with google cloud web applications. They got a weird bug where the deployment with new code would just give old deployment logs. Turned out the account was somehow shadowbanned for a day or so to deploy anymore. The next day the logs pointed to a code checkin from previous day.

Eventually i got super fristrated and made a fresh azure trial account for them and boom everything works.

I cannot understand how gcp is so bad at ux and support. Most of the engineers i know at google are the absolute smartest people i know, how in the heck can it be the product experience at gcp is so lousy.

mnadkvlb··on Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page
Can someone recommend how to disable the firefox update popup on osx latest ? I have already disabled the updates checking background service.

(disclaimer: i agree to security issues and stuff due to not updating, i manage my firwalls and adblocks to prevent getting hacked, and take full responsibility in case i get hacked, thank you).

mnadkvlb··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
Blew my mind, i didn't think that far to be honest. This is getting scary very quickly
mnadkvlb··on PSKoans: A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language
Nice :). I would have loved if this existed a few years back (story below).

A few years back when i was consulting, my manager threw me in a meeting for a client wanting to use ping identity to synchronize their identity data for sso. The client wanted a cheap solution as their ping sso budget was overblown already so i tried making a call with powershell to ping sso which worked. We agreed on a day next week to write this client in powershell (which i didnt have much clue about at that time).

Took a book called powershell in a month of lunches and just started doing the lessons in my train rides from my work to home over the week (2hrs in total a day).

The next week when i met the client, we finished writing the sync client in less than a day including testing. The client later told my ex-manager, that it was the cheapest and fastest IT solution they got.

Tl;dr: amazing book to learn powershell: powershell in a month of lunches.

mnadkvlb··on AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award
the latest southpark season (S 26 currently) episode 4. was a legend of an episode for anyone interested
mnadkvlb··on UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse
This is what blows my mind, i did not expect that. Normally would have expected to get the last crumbs to stockholders. This whole spiel honestly feels super rushed and done in panic.

Of course, I can't blame anyone. Its easy for me to say anything chilling on a couch behind a screen. Cant imagine the stress the regulators and board went through to get this out before monday morning to plug the disaster waiting to happen if CS just went belly up blocking businesses and everyone involved with CS.

Lets hope this stops soon.

mnadkvlb··on UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse
I fully agree, no question about the risk. I would honestly have the investors lose it than depositors.

The thing i am unhappy about, to reiterate myself, is bundling CS to UBS. I am invested in UBS as well, and guess what, i will lose way more on that investment due to this forced merger.

If the govt. just unwound the assets slowly, it won't affect a relatively healthy bank, which was saved in 2008.

I hope i am wrong, but i feel like ubs prices are gonna fall like a knife at the opening tomorrow, unless the SNB starts buying it.

mnadkvlb··on UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse
I am a bit surprised and a bit unhappy that last week SNB said they gave a credit line to credit suisse after which i put a bit of money. And in one day after that, they did this merger without a shareholders vote. I would have honestly been happier as a swiss taxpayer and investor in both UBS and CS to lose my money in CS and let this piece of junk fail instead of bundling it to ubs now. Now i get UBS share to ratio 22.48 CS shares to 1 UBS. First thing every investor (including me) in UBS will do tomorrow is to get out of UBS, so even though currently i get say .74 chf per share, i won't be surprised if UBS is down 20% tomorrow or even 50 or who knows how much.

I would have been happier, if they just nationalized the bank and unwound it, even if i got less pennies per dollar invested or even zero. Now we will get another bank that will be holding the baggage. Amazing :|

mnadkvlb··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Its not as clear as treasuries are safe or not. The price function is clearly dependent on term.

long term treasuries are extremely risky assets, by definition and move a lot on interest rates. whereas short term treasuries like less than three momths barely move on fed rates, hence much safer.

Svb bank made the wrong choice of holding super long duration treasuries. They knew what they were getting into, and did it anyway for higher yield at that time. they could have put the money in 3 month expirations and wouldnt have been in this situation.

mnadkvlb··on Silvergate Bank to begin voluntary liquidation
again, why would i put my money in bonds when the interest rates are rock bottom ?

I invest in treasuries when interests are high or gonna stay high. If i see us hitting a recession in coming year, i keep mostly cash and start piling into treasuries over each hike cycle until at least the central banks start cutting rates and keep riding the treasuries till rates keep moving down.

Or in other words, dont fight the fed

mnadkvlb··on Silvergate Bank to begin voluntary liquidation
TLTs value went down because yields went up. This is by design, anyone who invested in TLT at zero rates should have known the yields to price function. Honestly i dont see whats to hide here in reporting ??

Can you explain what am i missing here ?

mnadkvlb··on Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
well i bought from digitec here in switzerland and they take care of warranty. other than that i don't expect any support from any ssd vendor.

I rely on the physical store i buy from where i live. that's the reason i only buy either physically or from amazon germnay (their support had been rock solid in the last 10 years i had been using them).

mnadkvlb··on Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
i recommend samsung pm9a3 versions. not as popular, but are enterprise products and also the endurance is like 3 times 980 pro i believe (please check it, not 100% sure).

Been using in my threadrupper workstation with a lot of vms which are put to sleep every day with around .25tb written and read each time the vms are started. keep in mind these are 22110 form factor

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