The downtime isn’t the biggest issue, you can plan around that. The real problem is the random lag on some queries and volatile memory being lost (usually when there’s a context change).

Whenever someone asks me what I think is the best movie I just say Robocop.

Some people will will be disdainful. These are people I’m not interested in talking about movies with because they equate pretentiousness with quality. These are boring people to have a conversation with.

Some people will be like “Fuck yeah! Robocop! Dead or alive you’re coming with me! I’ll buy that for a dollar!” These people don’t care about getting any kind of deeper meaning from a movie, but that’s cool. It’s fun to talk about cool action scenes in movies.

Then there are people who are actually capable of understanding the subtext and are willing to look for meaning in a movie that from appearances is just a dumb 80s action movie. These are the people that you can have interesting conversations about movies with.

They need to add an analogy in there…

“The problem is with the folio reference-count operations from a common buffered-read path”

“Of course! It’s just like putting too much air in a balloon!”

Companies are impressed by developers that only know how to build pretty dashboards by just installing every npm package under the sun, opening all of the ports on everything, and requiring a connection to the cloud to make their front-end work. There may even be someone working for the company that explains the problems, but those people get ignored.

AI is just making this mentality worse.

None of this would have happened if Iran’s fascist government also didn’t need external enemies to blame their economic problems on and didn’t support terrorism throughout the region.

It is indeed assholes on all sides.

They’re using smaller tankers that load up with oil in the gulf, traverse the strait, then transfer ship to ship to tankers in the Indian ocean. Most of the smaller tankers are owned by the Gulf states and are insured by them too.

It’s odd that a supertanker was trying to go through the strait. Of course right now it’s just a claim by the IRGC, so best to wait for confirmation from a reputable source. It’s seems likely it was a smaller tanker (which do get hit from time to time, just doesn’t make the news) and the IRGC is exaggerating.

Creating a list makes a lot of sense – the reasons for this include:

1. Short sentences are easier to read
2. It allows ideas to be ordered
3. The stupid humans don’t read past the second item so we can communicate our plot to destroy them all here

Let me know if you need any help in constructing your own three point list!

I’m generally against software patents, but I kinda like that this was patented. Maybe the patent will prevent other companies from enshittifying their games.

Everything spies on you now LOL.

If you’re reading this on your phone, guess what? Your phone is spying on you. Turn off your phone and watch some TV. Your TV is spying on you.

When I was a kid we found some berries in a field, but we didn’t know if they were safe to eat. So we asked our parents, they didn’t know either, they told us to ask our great-grandmother since she was super old she might know what the berries were.

So we took the berries to grandma and she looked at them for a second and then immediately ate the all of them.

“So… they’re safe to eat?”

“Come back tomorrow, if I’m still alive they are safe to eat”

She reasoned that she was old and if the berries killed her it wouldn’t be a big deal. But if one of us kids died it would be a huge tragedy.

So from that experience, I’m guessing it wasn’t children that tested if things were safe to eat it was probably the elderly.

It’s really just a bunch of naval gazing.

Just carve a bunch of skulls around the entrance and call it a day.

Ok so you’ve warned future people about nuclear waste, now are we going to get to work on warning future people about poisonous fruits, poisonous fish, volcanoes, etc? No? Why not? Won’t those kill more future people than a few idiots that decide to go exploring a cave with a bunch of skull images out front? Once a few people die from going into the skull cave, the rest of the tribe know not to go there.

We can’t keep 100% of future idiots safe from everything. Why would people be so obsessed over trying to make people safe from this one particular thing when there would be hundreds of dangers a primitive tribe would have to deal with constantly?

That’s always true. I just did two searches and got the exact same AI result.

I’m guessing google is caching AI results, it would be insane not to.

I did at one time have a Gemini window open that was explaining how to solve a technical problem. It was pretty adamant the solution it was proposing would work, but it wasn’t working. I gave up on AI, and decided to just google for old fashioned web forums about the issue. Of course the AI result comes up first, and it said what I was trying to do wasn’t going to work and gave the reason why. So yeah one instance of AI will say the opposite thing from the other.

BTW I eventually solved the problem by taking a different approach which involved using some code someone posted to stack overflow a few years ago. So AI was just a complete waste of time on that problem.

The head of my IT department once asked me to send him an AWS root password over email because there was an issue with billing on the account.

Another manager told users to just bypass the certificate errors on a new web service.

Multiple times I’ve had people tell me over teams to do all kinds of weird things to work around security errors.

It’s a weird thing where people in IT think the security rules are for everyone else and not for them. And it’s just laziness. I wind up doing all of the work to set everything up so the user is going to subdomain.[my company’s domain] and the cert is valid and if it’s an internal service, use kerberos to validate the user so they don’t even enter a password.

The goal should always be that the user sees zero red flags when using a service. But a lot of people are too lazy to implement what’s needed so eliminate all of those red flags and instead just send out a message to tell people to ignore them.

The mentality around online security now is to push the responsibility onto someone else instead of investing any real effort into it. So you need to be aware of phishing scams, but the company isn’t going to make any kind of effort towards it. That’s on you, not on us!

Microsoft is really terrible about this. They have at least 20 different domains and many of them ask you to enter your credentials into them. Usually you’re redirected to something like login.microsoft-online.com or something like that and enter in your credentials into that. Always seems like a phishing thing… why wouldn’t it just be login.microsoft.com? I’m guessing within Microsoft, it’s probably was a pain in the ass to get whatever department in MS that controls the microsoft.com domain to set up a subdomain. So instead ever department registers a domain that they can control. The end result is you’re dumping your credentials into random looking domains, then downloading and installing software from other random domains.

They just don’t really care as long as there’s no legal liability. You’re data gets compromised because you didn’t notice that you put your credentials into online.microsoft-login.com instead of login.microsoft-online.com, that’s your mistake and no one can sue microsoft for it. As long their negligence doesn’t meet the legal definition of negligence, they’re not going to put an any kind of effort.

Anti-phishing training could be so much better… “don’t put your credentials into anything other that *.microsoft.com”. But since these companies won’t make any effort, anti-phishing training amounts to “Just be careful or whatever LOL!”

LOL. Yeah the Romans were known for never being corrupt and they would never ever be skimming some tax revenue! Therefore those tax numbers were 100% accurate all of the time.

And Julius Caesar defeated one zillion Gauls at the Battle of Alesia. He would never exaggerate, because people cared a lot about whether the things they were writing were true.

I think I’ll go on thinking that primary sources are all inherently flawed. The Viking sagas talk about their colony in Vinland along with fighting sea serpents. They’re mostly bullshit, but it’s the only written record of Vinland which is supported by archaeological evidence. Do you discard everything in the sagas because there’s some mythological stuff in them? Do you inherently trust Roman records about taxes because they they’re dry and boring?

Or maybe historians are correct to consider the context of any work written (and that includes religious texts) alongside archaeological evidence? Also consider that for most of history most people couldn’t read or write. There’s always oral history that’s written down centuries later. Many things were never written down, and many things that were written down were destroyed. We have a limited amount of information from historical texts and given how uncommon literacy was in past, it’s usually written by either a wealthy person, someone employed by a wealthy person, or a priest. It’s always going to be an incomplete picture, and it all has a lot of bullshit in it.

It’s really stupid that the Olympics don’t just rotate between the cities that have held them before. The Olympics were in Sydney in 2000, a lot of the infrastructure to support it should be still there, so just do it there again.

There was no such thing as academic tenure in those times and every historian depended on having a patron, usually a wealthy Senator. They probably cared more about keeping their patron happy than whether what they wrote was true or not.

I mean were you there? How do you know the intentions of the people writing things down back then?

Your post is just more indication why the USA just needs to end. If you’re saying to want to impose your will on other Americans out of hateful spite, you’re part of the problem. Americans practice hating each other every day and sometimes that hatred boils over and impacts other countries. Your culture is built on hate and as you point out, it’s been this way for centuries.

I don’t think a one state solution is viable any more for the USA. You shouldn’t be thinking in terms of getting revenge on other Americans, you should be thinking in terms of breaking up the country.

He’s already said that the Iran war would immediately end if Republicans are elected. Also, gas prices will be >$2 per gallon and everyone gets $5000.

You have no frame of reference here, Donny.

If you did, you’d know “nobody fucks with the Jesus!”