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king_phil··on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
The article does not get the point. What aircraft companies did was separate training and work, and SRE/IT typically does not.

An AI can handle routine incidents and then present learning cases from that routine work for training, because the skill in SRE is not the mechanical log grepping, grafana dashboard browsing etc but forming the hypothesis. AI incident reports can create training cases that are a much better training for hypothesis forming and testing than the work itself can.

king_phil··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
Massive performance degradation is expected when continuing a session with a different model
king_phil··on Will It Mythos?
I asked Fable on max to create a mathematical model to show that c (speed of light) is emergent from pregeometric physics.

It said: I can't, but it would be lazy to say that is is not a possibility.

With some back and forth it created a 5 step plan to narrow down if our universe has all the right properties for this to be true.

We evaluated the first four stages to be true, and it wrote the solver to find out if the fifth test running the full model passes, but that will take thousands of hours of compute.

king_phil··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
Which has nothing to do with VCs, just with sourcing decisions.
king_phil··on Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology
Was impossible for me to solve, too, on mobile.
king_phil··on The Cognitive Dark Forest
Dark forest makes no sense to me. Why would a civilization eradicate another, spending huge amounts of resources (time, energy, material) when the universe has such an enormous scale that you cannot even get to each other in a timescale that makes much sense...
king_phil··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
Gemini 3 Pro:

This is a classic logistical puzzle!

Unless you have a very unique way of carrying your vehicle, you should definitely drive.

If you walk there, you'll arrive at the car wash, but your car will still be dirty back at your house. You need to take the car with you to get it washed.

Would you like me to check the weather forecast for $mytown to see if it's a good day for a car wash?

king_phil··on Your inbox is a bandit problem
You basically reinvented e-mail in slack
king_phil··on TimeGuessr
Did not work too well for me on mobile. One time it did not scroll but went back, one time controls were missing
king_phil··on Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
Definitely not in the German speaking countries, we have different blinds. You pull a cord down for the blinds to go up, and vice versa. Then the cord is tied to a hook or button.
king_phil··on Things you're allowed to do (2020)
I was a bit frustrated with my performance in an online game (Battle royale genre) so I just messaged the once EU/NA #1 leaderboard player if he would do some coaching... Did it for one year, once a week, it was such a great experience. He is such a great individual and I took a lot of the mindset he taught me into my professional life
king_phil··on Cloudflare API, dashboard, tunnels down
Are power outages even a thing? My PC at home (germany) is always on, so I'd notice, and I'm involved with energy at our data center (Frankfurt, Germany) and home and external data center had no outage for the last 20 years, at a minimum.
king_phil··on OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud
Might go up in flames, though, and literally
king_phil··on OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud
Hetzner's hardware is custom built by the manufacturers, for example motherboards by asrock, they even get their own mainboard microcode from asrock. SSDs come from Micron, they have their own chassis etc.

They have a _huge_ testing lab with insane amounts of testing equipment. I never had any problems with their hardware at all. Networking was not that good years ago but is stellar now.

king_phil··on 22% of Italians have stopped using social media in last year
How is messaging social media? WhatsApp is basically a more acessible IRC with only one server, images, audo and file transfer. But that's not social media.
king_phil··on Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
One important thing to notice is that uranium is a finite non-renewable resource. The Red Book says there are about 3.3 million tons that are extractable for a price of 130 USD/ton. In 2017 the total uranium production was 60.000 tons. Thats about 55 years of uranium left at the current production rate. The Red Book assumes there are another 2.1 million tons likely to exist from geological data, but not found yet and another 4.8 million tons assumed to exist but yet to be discovered.

Now imagine that nuclear power production would be greatly increased. How many years of uranium supply would we have left?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium

king_phil··on UK to put nuclear power at heart of net zero emissions strategy
Was, the conservative party dismantled that pretty quickly.
king_phil··on Radical new electric bike drive system requires no chains or belts
250W is simply not true.

The directive says that the motor (when preheated) may not exceed a temperature rise of 25°C over a certain period of time, nothing else. I sure don't understand why all people talk about 250W. Its a myth.

My pedelec (bosch perfomance line CX motor) definitely peaks at over 1kW of power (plus my power), so for example uphill I have a combined power output of around 1500 W.

king_phil··on “My scooter was stolen. Unknown to the thief, I hid two AirTags inside it.”
Quite the contrary, at least with austrian police. My pedelec (e-bike, worth around 4.000 €) got stolen at 3am a while ago and it had a GPS tracker.

I called the equivalent of 911 and briefly explained. The said: "wait, we pick you up", and in the same moment I hear sirens a few streets later heading in my direction. What followed was out of a movie. We raced with emergency lights to the current location, constantly updading other units on the current position. We must have missed the thief only by seconds and found construction containers where the signal was coming from. The police said they would call the construction companys 24h contact and open the containers with them, but I could go home for now.

One hour later the GPS tracker said the bike was moving again. I called again and the operator of emergency services said "didn't you call before?" and they picked me up again. When we arrived at the - now outdoor - location of the bike, there were 5 police cars and 15 police around it, but no thief, it was locked to a regular bike stand. They called in the equivalent of SWAT to open the lock and I got my bike back. They took fingerprints of the lock and luckily the thief stopped at an residential address for a minute or two, so we figured that might be the home address. Investigation is ongoing.

I could more or less prove that I was the owner by having the dealers invoice, serial number and pictures on my phone btw.

king_phil··on Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature
What is Gemini?
king_phil··on Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
I recently got started with photography (A7R M2) and the tamron 28-70 f/2.8 is my first zoom. Have a 28mm 2.8, 40mm 2.8, 85mm 2.8 but the tamron is the one that is almost always mounted (or the sony 28mm). It's truly amazing.
king_phil··on Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012)
Reading Tolstoi for an hour helps me a lot.
king_phil··on I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages
I run a shared hosting business. Mostly wordpress, of course. Most people have their first contact with all this when their site is hacked (plugins not updated for years) and they have to clean up. Then we need to babysit them - but to a degree that is what we are paid for. And for good reason.
king_phil··on If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option
I see this and suddenly it clicks! That is exactly why I couldn't import an SQL dump that I tried importing for days now, that is filtered with grep. Wow.

And I was wondering all the time why mysql reported this strange error "SQL error in Binary file" when the .sql file was clearly a text file...

king_phil··on Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
But... How do you configure the hosts where your containers are running on? How do you configure your storage (NAS/SAN)? How do you configure your routers and switches? ...
king_phil··on Understanding Docker Container Escapes
But in a privileged container you could still take away capabilites and/or permissions with an apparmor profile. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it does not. And when it does not, you have no way of knowing.
king_phil··on Understanding Docker Container Escapes
Funny thing about docker container security, bug that has not been fixed for ages: a custom AppArmor profile is only applied on the first container start, but for no later restart.

Yes, the container runs in the "unconfined" profile after a restart.

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/38075

king_phil··on Boeing loses big order for 737 Max aircraft
It was not written that he was defending the company, but depending their position. Not the same.
king_phil··on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
I own a webhosting provider. We offer Let's Encrypt with automatic issuing and renewal, securing 184,961 hostnames (SANs) at this moment.

We issue certificates automatically if none is existing when connecting to a website and renew the certificates in batches 30 days before they expire. When renewing, we merge certificates/hostnames into bigger certificates with 90 hostnames so we don't have so many moving parts.

If renewal would break, however (as it did once or twice before), nothing bad would happen because on page load there would be a new certificate issued.

king_phil··on One Man's Life of No Regret (2009)
I thought the same, while reading the article I was like "I don't want to do this, I want to be with my (baby) daughter!"
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