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bvm··on 1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
If anyone from 1Password is reading this:

Can we use it on WSL?

bvm··on Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021
Am i the only tidal user left?
bvm··on Ben Stiller’s New Series Is a Sci-Fi Take on Office Space
clicks. lots of people know Office Space, no one knows Severance. so you draw a connection between something people are familiar with.
bvm··on Starting with microservices
I've done this before, it felt like a bit of a hack tbh, but I'm glad to hear someone else is doing it!
bvm··on Discovering Paxlovid
Interesting claim (and subsequent debate) in the comments that Pfizer is rewriting history in order to cover up "stealing" the basis for the compound from Merck's Victrelis (boceprevir), a Hep C antiviral.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/discovering-paxlov...

bvm··on Quit Your Job
Nobody knows you when you're down and out.
bvm··on Why might you run your own DNS server?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVukpkWAp4Y

here is a link to the key signing ceremony if, like I was, you are interested.

Maybe it's the englisher in me, but I was hoping for more grandeur, perhaps some kind of ceremonial mace or at least a benediction.

bvm··on We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
> This website blog.polyhaven.com/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400/ is currently offline. Cloudflare's Always Online™ shows a snapshot of this web page from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. To check for the live version, click Refresh.

hm

bvm··on Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up
what a beautiful piece of engineering, its flight seems so...biological.
bvm··on Don’t do interviews, do discussions
This is how I interview.

Show me something you've done that you're proud of. Take me through it in depth. Answer some questions on it.

Doesn't have to be a free-time project. If you don't have a free-time project and you're too NDA'd to discuss previous work, then present some language feature or something.

bvm··on Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
It's a combo regimen that includes ritonavir and PF-07321332 which does not have a generic name yet.

Both are protease inhibitors.

bvm··on I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012)
> To children computers are basically magic anyway.

to adults too!

bvm··on I wish Microsoft had been brave enough not to release Windows 11
They painted themselves into a marketing corner, the article makes the salient point that it's fairly unattractive to sell a new laptop with "Windows 10 21H2". What they should have done is ditch the version numbering altogether.

"Windows is the last version of Windows".

bvm··on After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)
> third of its content are entertaining passages on tribal societies

he was an anthropologist

bvm··on Show HN: OtterTune – Automated Database Tuning Service for RDS MySQL/Postgres
any plans for MSSQL?
bvm··on The Microsoft MFA system almost brought me to a nervous breakdown
I've run into the payment issues before, for some reason it said we were domiciled in the US (we're not) and then I wasn't able to add a new card to our account when the previous one expired. So somehow it doesn't alert me to the fact payments are failing, and just cuts off all access to our entire org. Then after several frantic support calls, the support rep somehow hacks together a configuration that doesn't immediately fail. Only to discover a year later that we're being pursued by a debt collection agency for the previous unpaid bills, which were not viewable on my account. It is truly amazing how held together with string the whole thing is.
bvm··on Sorted 3: Tasks and calendar events in a unified timeline
this looks useful...does anything like it exist for Android?
bvm··on Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
without the subs the streamers wouldn't stream
bvm··on What a crossword AI reveals about humans' way with words
well yes, but the beautiful thing about UK cryptics at least is that they regularly intentionally misdirect the user, so you spend some time going down a rabbit hole and realise that you're on a hiding to nothing. I think that kind of game play is what makes a rules-based approach more challenging. I'll have to check out Crossword Genius though.
bvm··on What a crossword AI reveals about humans' way with words
> The crossword solver is a closed system—it can’t just Google the answers.

yet from the wiki:

> Probabilities for individual words or phrases in the puzzle are computed using relatively simple statistical techniques based on features such as previous appearances of the clue, number of Google hits for the fill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.Fill

I don't think it's fair to describe it as a closed-system if it's Googling stuff, even for pruning.

bvm··on What a crossword AI reveals about humans' way with words
I would be interested to see how they perform on UK-style cryptic crosswords (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword) where there's much more play/subversion/meta-approach to the "rules".
bvm··on AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
so...my use case for GPU lambdas is for inference. Say 500 inferences/day ~1 sec/inference, has to be real time as the output is user facing.

Can they really spin up quick enough to actually respond in real time? I don't really want to have to keep them warm as I'll end up paying through the nose for it.

bvm··on Thank HN: A customer found us on Hacker News and wrote our first angel check
i enjoyed all of this writeup except this sentence:

> He then opened Evernote to look up his AWS database credentials.

which somewhat scared me.

bvm··on There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives
did it work well for you?
bvm··on There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives
I have tried Speedify (not with such an impressive setup) on multiple 4g connections (different towers, different providers) and didn't see much, or indeed any, throughput bump. So I sort of gave up, because ~20mbps is surprisingly livable-with. I would definitely be interested in trying again, especially with a starlink + 4g + crap-uk-rural-adsl.

I did also once have to manage one of those Mushroom bonding things and....never again, please.

bvm··on Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships
> Craft in painting is very different from how supposedly well a painter reproduces reality.

I completely agree! Apologies if my original comment suggested otherwise. If a reproduction is the exact same as the original, then it's still two completely different types of craft. One is a genius, the other a copier.

bvm··on Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships
There's a fairly sensationalist TV show in the UK where art owners submit pieces they believe to have been misattributed works of note to a panel of experts who adjudicate (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mxxz6 - Fake or Fortune).

By far my favourite bit is the restoration where they painstakingly remove the varnish that's been left to fester over the years. Obviously not easily done on the Mona Lisa but the difference is absolutely remarkable. That's actually another point that makes me disagree with the "value is in the craft" argument. Art is not static, it changes over time.

If you're interested, this episode has a great restoration, starting somewhere in the middle and revealed at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6m8aHAtTM

bvm··on Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships
The genius of the Mona Lisa is not the craft. It's not a photorealistic interpretation of the sitter. Everything about it is to be viewed through the lens of da Vinci. It's a window into the world at that time; even though it's completely different period it's almost achingly _human_. The value of the Mona Lisa is not in its materials or craft, it's in its influence over hundreds of years and the millions it has inspired.

edit: this is obviously my Western interpretation, informed by culture/upbringing/milieux etc. So it's interesting to hear a divergent view. Obviously I don't think my POV is objectively true but I do think it holds value.

bvm··on Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
I am somewhat impressed that he's managing to open the fridge 44 times a day. Is he using it as a filing cabinet?
bvm··on Alibaba to invest $15.5B for “common prosperity”
3rd para fta:

> The government-backed Zhejiang News website said Alibaba's funds will go towards areas such as subsidies for small and medium-sized enterprises and improving insurance protection for gig economy workers such as couriers and ride-hailing drivers.

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