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"Meetups" are glorified pickup activities, hookup culture is too prevalent, and people are kind of gross when they're getting drunk. I don't drink, I don't smoke. Why would I want to do any of that when I could talk online to my friends about actual nerdy stuff, instead of having to listen to someone using nerdy stuff as a "common ground" but whose interests are far more singular than that? The article says internet usage is up 90%, much of that is probably socially motivated, especially if your interests are any degree above extremely ordinary.

All of that sounds awful.

Having missed this era of computing growing up, I have a completely different view of Sun. I see Sun as this legendary old power that invented cool things like ZFS, zones, and lament that they sold themselves to Oracle. It shocks me to read about them making IBM-style mistakes.

I'm swimming against the current with this, but I think the role is really cool. Blessed by your own company to wear the vestments of an expert, and expected by the customer to deliver the sort of advice that will get a team "unstuck", a forward deployed engineer is in the perfect spot to prove just how much of a hotshot he or she is. Especially in fields like defense where the customer is staffed with teams that are highly risk averse. It's one of the few careers I get a bit jealous of, even though the burnout rate is probably pretty high.

To be fair the curl author is excellent at what he does.

Hopefully this improves workflow for installing plugins offline. It's not bad already but it's not as good as the connected experience.

I am guessing the author is either criticizing people who are anti-social (in the pop culture definition) or believes he was before and after some thinking arrived at the conclusion that antisociety was not the way. But I don't feel it describes my internal motivations, so I've translated them to my behaviors:

- if someone is confusing or upsetting you, assume it is your fault

- interpret others' actions in the context of your fears (this one is spot on)

- assume your assumptions are wrong and that you shouldn't even bother

- pivot conversations when someone asks you about something you actually know or are good at, it might be a trick, tell them you're dumb instead

- if you must ask questions, convince yourself you must not, just figure it out instead

- dig in your heels at no point in time whatsoever and just tell people the minimum they need to hear so they leave

- do not develop narratives or it means you will have an immediate network

- do not research the acumen or credentials of anyone

- do not grant grace to those who make mistakes, they might actually be wrong and you're not a judge

- when all hope is lost in conversation, pretend to take their side to end the conversation

- do not seek to understand anyone at all

It's as if you know me, I can feel myself panic whenever anyone asks me anything, and I end up saying completely the wrong thing as if I wasn't fully in control of my thoughts.

Really you're down for over an hour a year? Unscheduled?

I wish they would just add ChaCha20-Poly1305 and Blake2 to FIPS, instead of ushering in the era of WireGuard forks.

gpt-image-1.5 works decently for generating images compared to old Sora, but you pay per generation. It's possible that monthly flat rates were too much of a loss leader for OpenAI. I imagine the server side cost for generating video for Sora 2 is much higher as well.

This is cute but it's missing programmable documents (Microsoft) or hooks to use AI (Google) to really challenge either competitor.

"Anymore" is right though. This should be a call to change the global mindset regarding dependencies. We have to realize that the "good ol days" are behind us in order to take action.

Otherwise people will naysay and detract from the cause. "It worked before" they will say. "Why don't we do it like before?"

DISA STIG already forbids use of the EPEL for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Enterprise software install instructions are littered with commands to turn off gpgcheck and install rpm's from sourceforge. The times are changing and we need cryptographically verifiable guarantees of safety!

9 retries on easy prompts, all morning and afternoon

I hope Apple is paying attention, since their first gen AirTags are vulnerable to voltage glitching to disable the speaker and the tracking warning.

Why the name Shadowbroker? It sounds a lot like the Shadow Brokers which is the hacker group that stole and published some NSA hacking tools.

Then again they were named after a video game character so it's probably fair.

This might be well-intended to restrict bot posting, but it also silences dissent. HN is one of the few places left on the internet where dissenting voices can post. A dissenting voice already has to work against the hivemind, adding more restrictions will increase the echo chamber effect.

We were verifying code before? And wouldn't AI help with verification at least for the trivial flaws?

> They intended to type “not significant” but omitted the word “not.”

This one is pretty egregious.

To add on to this, in some organizations it's easier to assess risk according to RMF and similar frameworks if the application ships with stunnel and is configured from within than it is for the application to require a system-level VPN like Wireguard.

That said, I think Wireguard is easier to analyze on the wire since it has a known binary signature from the first 4 bytes, while stunnel tunnel is indifferentiable from web browsing traffic. For a bad actor looking into exfil or C2, this means an stunnel is probably the sneakier and thus more reliable method of encryption on the wire compared to wireguard.

Counterpoint: if they had reached for sharding early, they would have avoided the technical debt of having to refactor their existing database. I don't think sharding is necessarily that complex either, especially for a SaaS style app like ChatGPT where users are mostly siloed in.

I think economies of scale, while only mentioned in the penultimate paragraph in TFA, is an underrated factor. Whenever something looks like alien technology but is available for $200-300, I assume an economy of scale helped.

TFA goes into the industrial engineering efforts associated with LCD manufacturing, but I don't think those wins would have shown up without a huge market for TVs.

The messaging on the website pretty much agrees with you, then.

Can it do Oracle? That would be a gamechanger.

Maybe we should stop viewing DNA as source code or I guess more importantly as the sole source of heritability. It's clear that parts of DNA are somehow variably expressed. Different sections of DNA are "unrolled" depending on how you live your life, and unrolled DNA is part of an entire complex. Now it seems parts of that complex are heritable.

Just a guess. I'm not a biologist.

Sorry for slow response. Snitch sounds like a tool that will do intercepting or alerting. Little Snitch is perfectly named in this regard. When it pops up prompting you for action, it feels like it just snitched on an app.

What you have here isn't a snitch, it's more like a full map of traffic. I don't have any other suggestions unfortunately.

Just my 2c

I don't like the name but I like the TUI, connection monitoring is perfectly handled by a TUI!

They probably are, but the Ukraine war has not shown that. The only large ship lost by either side was a Russian ship, the Moskva, which was sunk by a Neptune anti-ship missile. Other smaller craft were sunk by naval drones, not necessarily cheap.

Fear is the mind killer

How do you know the coworker didn't bully the LLM for 20 minutes to get the desired output? It isn't often trivial to one-shot a task unless it's very basic and you don't care about details.

Asking for the prompt is also far more hostile than your coworker providing LLM-assisted word docs.