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TruthWillHurt

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TruthWillHurt··on Tech, Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way
For a moment I thought it was about HN.. for some reason.
TruthWillHurt··on Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
Or just being able to save/load creations would be nice :)
TruthWillHurt··on Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says
Apparently by taking prior art (DNS, server,user interface), and packaging it into a single "product" (DNS software optimized for specific hardware) - You've created a new thing.

INNOVATION!

TruthWillHurt··on Ukraine Is the First "Hackers' War"
Disagree. The fight with ISIS had a strong cyber dimension, with blockchain being a major funding source for them.

Cellphone tracking/hacking was also key, and multiplayer games were recruiting arenas.

Before that cyber played a key role in other conflicts, especially "cold" ones (re: Stuxnet).

TruthWillHurt··on BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel
It sometimes feels like London is a theme-park designed to separate people from their money and entertain the Plebs workforce.

This (and the giant Ferris wheel) certainly don't help.

TruthWillHurt··on The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
I was reminded of Futurama actually :)

"Thus solving the problem once and for all." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW66EX75jIY

TruthWillHurt··on The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
You'll get in trouble with Big Solar for disrupting their production!
TruthWillHurt··on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
I think RAG approach with Vector DB is more likely. Just like when you add a file to your prompt / custom GPTs.

Adding the entire file (or memory in this case) would take up too much of the context. So just query the DB and if there's a match add it to the prompt after the conversation started.

TruthWillHurt··on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
The thing already ignores my custom instructions and prompt, why would this make any difference?
TruthWillHurt··on Loungy: An Application Launcher Written with GPUI, the Zed GPU UI Framework
Mac is a sickness. Even M$ play nicer and do less damage to the tech ecosystem than this walled garden of incompatible code and build process.

Managing to break Rust's cross-platform compatibility is no small feat! "congrats".

TruthWillHurt··on Ask HN: When to Start a Business?
When people are paying you.

People often have it backwards, thinking they'll start a business, THEN get customers. That is often wrong.

TruthWillHurt··on Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale
o rly? what happens if they fails? can you control the backoff period? can you schedule another job in the event it fails? what if it fails before starting the function, so your in-code error handling isn't triggered? is there a "dead-letter" queue? will the next scheduled job run if the previous run failed? should it? can you define if it should or not? can you view history of executed jobs? what if your logging function that saves that history fails? can anyone add jobs or just you/superadmin? should they? and more and more.

And these are just ones I personally ran into using GCP schedulers, pub/sub and functions.

See, what you're doing is re-inventing the wheel. No matter how cool your tool is - there's always work in the edge cases beyond just running the job.

TruthWillHurt··on Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
Hell, if I was eating steaks every day my mood would improve too...
TruthWillHurt··on Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
So like sand-casting, only worse.
TruthWillHurt··on Trunk-Based Development
It's the same fucking thing. You just painted each track different color and thickness.

So people don't merge branches to main branch, but tag releases from it. ok. But they still need to merge their changes to main first, right?

Same fucking thing, wrapped in execucrap.

TruthWillHurt··on EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
That's a US-led project. When you add "Euro" to these things they behave differently.
TruthWillHurt··on EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
aha, sure. and other times it gave us Eurocloud. You ARE using Eurocloud, aren't you???

But your win is legislation, apples and oranges, right? so here's a better comparison - "this site contains cookies".

TruthWillHurt··on EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
"..funded as pilot under the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative within the European Commission.."

pilot + next gen + initiative + european commission .

This combination of terms == no action.

TruthWillHurt··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
True meaning of Trustless Environment.
TruthWillHurt··on The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator
Systemd can store files / descriptors.. just give it a desktop environment and release it as SystemdOS and be done with it!

build all the functionality into systemd!

TruthWillHurt··on Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file
Very cool, but this is a security anti-pattern.

Having the auth, db and file server in the same service.. an attacker doesn't even need lateral traversal or privilege escalation once inside..

TruthWillHurt··on Canonical to Work on Improving Snap Support Across Linux DIstributions
Gentoo started doing binary packages ;)

But all the cool kids are running Arch, Pop or Void.

TruthWillHurt··on Sit.
I guess if you can't make something complicated or push the limits, you just call it "art" or "thought provoker" and spend lots of words talking about an egg timer.
TruthWillHurt··on My SBC Collection
No one remembers the GuruPlug, or better yet - the GuruPlug Server Plus, When RPi 1 just came out this little gadget ran x86 Linux (!) and had hdmi out that could handle 1080p video, a feat that only RPi 4 can repeat.
TruthWillHurt··on Multiplayer Online Science
If you can turn the problem into a game you've already solved it.. don't see the value here (except saving compute time by using humans for pattern recognition instead of computers).
TruthWillHurt··on The worst kind of programmer
Sounds like these devs did more work than the rest of ya'll combined. When they left you couldn't match their skills and progress (perhaps if you tried to contribute instead of slacking off?)

In my opinion and experience, development is done by individuals, who are slowed down by the rest.

Honestly they could do without you. Perhaps if they gave those two your salary theid stay.

TruthWillHurt··on The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s
When the walls fell in my opinion.
TruthWillHurt··on I made a link-sharing website
A title so cryptic I dare not look into it
TruthWillHurt··on Unity Software with a 'company reset' walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal
This actually a good move. Focus on games rather than attempt to compete in VFX sector.

The Billion dollar acquisition was probably driven by megalomaniac ex-CEO, wanting a piece of every pie and world domination.

TruthWillHurt··on Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease
If I climb 10 stairs, 5 times a day - does that count? How about 2 stairs, 25 times a day? 100 stairs, on odd days?
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