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mvc··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
$LLM spinup a jenkins cluster on my qa infrastructure please
mvc··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
If they sell all the assets owned by the company, they don't need to sell the company itself. They just need to find another one to strip.
mvc··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
How long has this been the law? I lived in Boston for a while and don't remember this.
mvc··on GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
> there’s a whole generation of young engineers who don’t know how short their end of the stick actually is

I'm from a generation who had to use VSS for a few years. The sticks are pretty long these days, even the ones you get from github.

mvc··on AI scrapers request commented scripts
Future rapist right here.
mvc··on US Intel
If all advanced countries follow this reasoning, where does that leave us?
mvc··on Words about Arrays and Tables
XSLT/XPath is an example of a platform that provides multiple axis through which to access your data structure.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML/XPath/Refer...

mvc··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
What marks a state out as being religiously extreme? Or sponsoring terror? Stuff like killing politicians of the opposing side? Pardoning insurrectionists on your side? Sponsoring organisations that badger mothers in foreign nations as they attempt to get an abortion?
mvc··on US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
> Wherever it is you live that you feel is morally superior to America and Israel on commercialized CNE

It's not the tech (or lack of it) that makes me feel morally superior. It's the choice to use that tech to defend literal facists that I would find embarassing.

mvc··on Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive
You might not implement them but as a web engineer you're using them all the time. So all these tools that you use will have tree implementations in them.

- Every html document is a tree structure. And css documents have special syntax to address nodes within those trees

- If it's any good, you're routing framework probably uses some kind of tree to quickly match the request to it's handler

- The database you write to uses a tree to quickly find the location it needs to write to

mvc··on Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere
Fascinating idea. I suppose you can't build sky-scrapers with wood but surely you could build the vast majority of family houses.
mvc··on How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
How much of a fish industry will remain when the North Sea is a battleground?

Is there any fishing going on in the Black Sea at the moment? (genuine question)

mvc··on Data centers contain 90% crap data
> 90% of libraries consist of books that are never opened.

Citation required. But don't bother because it's a meaningless statistic, or at least one designed to make it look like there's a lot more wastage in libraries than there actually is.

The statistic could be true, and yet still be the case that the vast majority of library books are well utilized.

mvc··on Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
Again, how do people here think public servants will live beyond their service to the government?

Or is the idea that if they choose to work for the government, they need to work until they die.

mvc··on Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
You gonna give them all a defined benefit pension scheme too because otherwise, how will they save for retirement?
mvc··on Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
Nice work. Xpath is a beast. Obvious why paligo would be interested too. Must be a lot of commercial documentation out there where the best representation they can get looks a bit XMLish.
mvc··on The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)
Why do you care where a forum with no regulations is hosted?
mvc··on European Cloud Computing Platforms
> So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care.

There are powerful executives who thought they could influence the Russian gangsters. And they could. Until they couldn't. If they were lucky, they're still around to tell the tale but many are not.

Oppressed people do not make good consumers. Even Machiavelli realised that.

mvc··on European Cloud Computing Platforms
Do you think Russia is one?
mvc··on European Cloud Computing Platforms
> The scale and mature feature sets of US based cloud providers outweigh the benefits of keeping it within European ownership for most commercial organizations.

That's what companies thought about manufacturing in China. But that was before they found out the costs of corruption and loss of trade secrets. If you're a fantastically succesfuly European company, what's to stop Trump (or any future president) just deciding you're too big and need to be sold to "an american investor"?

It is high time for companies and banks to invest only where democracy thrives because when you invest where it doesn't, your investment simply ends up being controlled by gangsters. This might benefit you for a while. But eventually, it won't.

mvc··on The Landscape of Lisp
I'm quite excited by the prospect of jank so us Clojurists can get in on some of the ML fun with the torch C++ bindings.
mvc··on 3,200% CPU Utilization
Haha, I was recently running a backfill was quite pleased when I managed to get it humming along at 6400% CPU on a 64vcpu machine. Fortunately ssh was still receptive.
mvc··on Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks
Sorry, I suppose I meant anyone not living under the yolk of facism. Good for you though for supporting those who prop it up with your hard-earned dollars. Extra points for the Kindle.
mvc··on Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks
I can't believe anyone feels the need to buy digital copies of books anymore, especially from companies who have very obviously pirated every copyrighted work in existence as part of their AI offerings.
mvc··on Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea
> any serious Russia politician claim that the Baltics or Poland should be invaded.

The last few years have seen the talking heads on right-wing news TV become actual politicians with real power.

Dunno if that same pathway to power exists in Russia but it sure does in the US.

mvc··on Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea
> Europe has past its good times phase and is hitting the reality of the hard times. > The question is if it can overcome the next phase without another Adolf or war.

This whole thread is a joke right? The US is the one who just elevated the modern day Hitler to world leader and is now cheering him on as he collaborates with the Russia to commit genocide in Ukraine, and the Israelis to commit genocide in Gaza.

mvc··on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
> Only those who actually make and build and invent things get to write the rules

Create things? Or destroy them? Seems in reality, the most powerful nations are the ones who have acquired the greatest potential to destroy things. Creation is worthless if the dude next door is prepared to burn your house down because you look different to him.

mvc··on S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
> My 286 was replaced by a faster 386 and that by an even faster 468.

How much was your 286 chip worth when you bought your 486?

mvc··on Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
> The US companies got too greedy? How? They invented this entire space, literally

And when they thought they were the only game in town, they tried to corner the market in GPUs and lock out any users who can't pony up £200/mo. Reminds me of when the likes of Oracle and IBM had companies by the balls buying bigger and bigger servers and then Google came along and showed everyone how to do horizontal scaling of cheap hardware.

mvc··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
What defence remains against an autocratic government who will use that very freedom as an attack vector for their nefarious goals.
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