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v5v3··on Microsoft enables opt-out telemetry in Go 1.25
Will it be used in Visual Studio?

Will it be used in any build tools on Azure?

v5v3··on Microsoft enables opt-out telemetry in Go 1.25
Not just Microsoft,avoid all big corporates.
v5v3··on XAI seeks up to $200B valuation in next fundraising
Think it only has that one (plus the x/twitter ones).

They bought a cargo ship worth of GPUs though

v5v3··on XAI seeks up to $200B valuation in next fundraising
>xAI does not currently have any product that is sticky for the average user.

Err... What about twitter? Where it is firmly embedded. And Telegram recently has been paid to do the same.

v5v3··on XAI seeks up to $200B valuation in next fundraising
>No one is using Grok. They have no path to profitability. They have very low traction among consumers, and even lower traction among enterprises. Their CEO seems to think that copy-pasting code into a web browser is a good strategy for attracting programmers.

Leaving aside the controversies, Elon is one of the best players at capitalism there has ever been. As per his wealth. And to think you and I know more than someone with a deep network of Investors and fellow CEO's would be a bold claim.

v5v3··on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows
There is something going on.

Just checked and Threads in Android play store is 15th in the top downloaded charts (free apps, all categories, UK location).

X is 123rd in the charts

So guessing Meta is putting their existing userbase under strong pressure to install Threads?

v5v3··on Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries? (NBER)
In most western countries, parents with kids will always be housed with no risk of being on the streets.
v5v3··on Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries? (NBER)
Yes, I read that some scientists believe that the reason women go through menopause and can longer have kids, and also lose their ability to attract male attention (relative to younger) is so they can focus on grand kids

The problem is that human being used to live in family clans, and the western state institutions deliberately pushed the nuclear family as family clans were powerful.

And then as cities became popular for jobs, kids moved away from family.

And presently the parents buy a house and raise kids, but with ever increasing house prices and gentrification many can't afford to then live down the street from their parents.

v5v3··on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
A lot of SQL consultants had/have a great job going into companies having issues and producing a report of the obvious!!
v5v3··on Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries? (NBER)
Generally speaking, the more life experience you have, the better a parent you would be.

At 18 most people will have just come out of a regimented education system, never had to pay bills etc

v5v3··on Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries? (NBER)
Many people don't understand kids.

Kids don't care about a comfortable life, as long as they are loved and supported.

I've worked with Devs in the west who came from tiny rural villages in India, and with love and support got into the leading universities in India and did well.

Lots of middle class western kids get screwed up, despite 'having everything'.

Money, a bedroom not shared with a sibling and so on do not matter to a child.

v5v3··on Why Internet Browsers Are Born Again in AI Land
Got Ram?

I have 64gb ram on a Mac M1. Hovers at 40gb ish used.

v5v3··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
At school you will have been taught to consider the bias of a source as you read along.

I read all sorts, including using the chrome browser translation tool to read native language websites converted to English.

My x account has both far left and far right activists accounts followed.

v5v3··on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
>... and frankly anyone accessing an RDBMS as a regular part of their job should know it.

With entity framework code first, Microsoft made it possible for generations of developers to barely touch a database.

A lot of Devs have poor database skills nowadays.

Which suits the cloud sellers who want to push managed platforms

v5v3··on At least 13 may have killed themselves over UK Post Office wrongful convictions
>How can this happen over a thousand times without raising eyebrows?

No one ever holds the legal community to account.

All the finger pointing is at Royal Mail and Fujitsu. None at the lawyers and judges involved.

The judicicial system is a mess and incompetence and bias is systemic, but the mainstream UK press know better than to challenge it.

v5v3··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
His party didn't implode, and he didn't have one every few years.

He succeeded with UKIP as the goal was Brexit. He then left that single issue party, as it had served it's purpose and now recently started a second one seeing an opportunity.

v5v3··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
A lot of people like AlJazeera. It's good to have non western controlled options.
v5v3··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
Can you introduce a feature so anyone flagging or downvoting has to state their reason?

As currently there is no transparency.

v5v3··on Why Internet Browsers Are Born Again in AI Land
What performance issues are you having?
v5v3··on At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI
Large numbers of the 8 billion people in the world are still not digitally literate.

The demand from all the poorer countries with large populations is only going to go up as their kids grow up with tech.

v5v3··on At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI
>A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium.

Can't they find brownfield sites instead of fields

v5v3··on Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging
>However, researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. are working on a different approach. They've developed small robots called "Pipebots" that can travel inside water pipes to find and potentially repair leaks, all without any excavation.

Note the word 'potentially'.So the headlines is wholly wrong and click bait.

v5v3··on An almost catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it
To the person who downvoted this...

accept the world has changed my friend!!

And more so, as the NSA, China, Russia etc will be using llms to comb repo's to find zero day vulnerabilities.

v5v3··on An almost catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it
How much would it cost/how long to give an LLM the entire OpenZfs repo and ask it to find every bug?
v5v3··on An almost catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it
Gpt4o-mini response:

>The provided code snippet is a function that converts an allocation size (asize) into the largest physical size (psize) that can be safely written to an allocation for a given virtual device (vdev). Here are some observations and potential issues in the code:

Return Value: The function currently returns asize instead of psize. This seems to be a mistake, as the purpose of the function is to compute and return the psize. The correct return statement should be:

    return psize;
Comment Clarity: The comments mention that the function does not take into account the effect of gang headers. It might be helpful to clarify what "gang headers" are and how they affect the allocation sizes, especially for someone unfamiliar with the context.

Variable Initialization: The variable psize is calculated based on asize, ashift, cols, and nparity. Ensure that these values are correctly initialized and that vdev_raidz_get_logical_width returns a valid value for cols. If cols is zero, it could lead to division by zero in the DIV_ROUND_UP macro.

Assertions: The assertion ASSERT0(asize % (1 << ashift)); checks that asize is a multiple of 2^ashift. If this assertion fails, it will cause the program to terminate. Ensure that this condition is always met before calling this function, or consider handling this case more gracefully.

Macro Usage: The DIV_ROUND_UP macro should be checked to ensure it handles edge cases correctly, such as when psize is zero. If psize is zero, the division could lead to unexpected behavior.

Code Readability: Consider adding more comments to explain the logic behind the calculations, especially for someone who may not be familiar with the RAID-Z implementation.

Error Handling: There is no error handling in the function. Depending on the context in which this function is used, it might be beneficial to add checks for invalid input values and return an error code or handle exceptions accordingly.

Here is a revised version of the function with the return value corrected:

.....(Snipped for formatting issues)

Make sure to test the function thoroughly to ensure it behaves as expected under various conditions.

v5v3··on Slack's 57MB 404 page
Slack is a public company so you can read the financials.
v5v3··on Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones
Do the community tools in Ollama work in Cactus? (Just python scripts I think).
v5v3··on Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones
Didn't know that. Thanks
v5v3··on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
What about the Kafka V2, Pulsar?
v5v3··on Slack's 57MB 404 page
Saw this Slack 404 page years ago so not a new release.
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