- teerayIf you’re ever “down the Cape” (Cape Cod, that is), visiting the Gorey house is worth your while! They have a very fun scavenger hunt based on the Gashleycrumb Tinies which was actually quite challenging.
- I wonder if this would be nice for hearing aid users for reducing the background restaurant babble that overwhelms the people you want to hear.
- > So it’s definitely AI. I felt betrayed and a little foolish. But why?
Because the prompter is basically gaslighting reviewers into doing work for them. They put their marks of authorship on the AI slop when they've barely looked at it at all which convinces the reviewer to look. When the comments come back, they pump the feedback into the LLM, more slop falls out and around we go again. The prompter isn't really doing work at all—the reviewers are.
- > In contrast, when overcommit is enabled, the kernel simply allocates a VMA object without guaranteeing that backing memory is available: the mapping succeeds immediately, even though it is not known whether the request can ultimately be satisfied.
When overcommit is enabled, the kernel is allowed to engage in fractional reserve banking.
- Because the American way is to put a big ol' parking lot where that square would go.
- > This means "the work" isn't done unless "recording the work" is also done. It also means they can be undone together.
That's just another way of saying that the step in question is idempotent.
- > This task is not easily idempotent; it involves writing a ton of intermediate state and queries to determine that a step should not be repeated
The problem with durable execution is that your entire workflow still needs to be idempotent. Consider that each workflow is divided into a sequence of steps that amount to: 1) do work 2) record the fact that work was done. If 2) never happens because the worker falls over, you must repeat 1). Therefore, for each step, "doing work" happens at least once. Given that steps compose, and each execute at least once, it follows that the entire workflow executes at least once. Because it doesn't execute exactly once, everything you write in a durable execution engine must be idempotent.
At that point, the only thing the durable execution engine is buying you is an optimization against re-running some slow tasks. That may be valuable in itself. However, this doesn't change anything about good practices writing async worker tasks.
- It really reminds me of old Internet, when things were allowed to be fun. Not this tepid corporate-approved landscape we have now.
- Can we have a land value tax for domains?
- > They are technically posting the job, but in pt 3 for on page 72 of a random newspaper
That one is theoretically easy. When you apply, the job you “couldn’t fill” gets auto-posted to a very, very public government-hosted job board (with applicant tracking).
- > "we had an agreement with Samantha, and with her death, that agreement has terminated, and no one can be given access that was not pre-designated."
It would be nice if you could use some legal apparatus to ratchet these agreements into a trust. Corps would hate it though, so it will probably be illegal to do.
- How does this compare to just running Hydra yourself?
- > Temperature is a characteristic of matter. There is vanishingly little matter in space. Due to that, one could perhaps say that space, in a way of looking at it, has no temperature.
Temperature: NaN °C
- > but then the good company predictably goes bad
Don't forget the other fun variant: Bad company sees the rise of Good company, offers the founders F-U money, then puts all of Good Co.'s products into maintenance-mode post-acquisition to prevent them from competing with Bad Co.
- Yes, they can take their dollars away from one bad company and bring them to the other bad company instead. That will show them.
- > when people get blocked by network security at work
There were also plenty of corp-ware in existence that had Flash as *absolutely mandatory*.
- I wonder if people will start using this as magic security sauce.
- It’s just depressing that the “PC in every home” era is being rapidly pulled out from under our feet by all these supply shocks.
- Especially given the arbitrage opportunity that presents.