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raverbashing··on EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data
> Any IT engineer with two years of experience can run a small on-prem data cluster.

Only for comedic effect.

Because no, they cannot. But feel free to try

raverbashing··on EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data
Yes, I'm not against this

But cloud offers flexibility and economies of scale (regardless of who's running it)

raverbashing··on EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data
You might ask the US gov why they use cloud if they could do it "on prem"

And the answer is, only a very select gov clients have the $ and the skills to do it

raverbashing··on C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
They probably left the committee because it keeps going in circles rather than solving the issues of the language
raverbashing··on C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
Yes but not all of them

It would be easy to push complexity up at the level of Numpy/Pytorch/Tensorflow but it mostly gets hidden

(also a lot of it relies on LAPACK which is Fortran - which kinda works with SIMD better than C/C++)

raverbashing··on C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
sigh

C++ sits on that weird abstraction level where it wants to be a higher level language but it keeps grinding their gears on stuff like pointer sizes, pointer arithmetic or vector sizes and at the same time wants to keep being C compatible and needs that interface with the lower level world

Now compare with how numpy does things: you care about the data size but not the implementation.

Still, I didn't expect less (of a crap fest) from the C++ committee as presented here

raverbashing··on δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
Interesting that the headline is showing Δ-Mem while the paper uses δ-mem

Is it a lowercase to uppercase conversion going on here?

raverbashing··on Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
"public insecure" JFC

Security is always a balance. Always

AI is showing that everything has a weak spot (wondering where are the "I don't make mistakes with C" now people are - but that's for another discussion)

There's another commenter mentioning this makes sense because exactly it avoids them keeping information on which customer is matched to which server. You know, one of the things you don't want to log

Could it be done better? Probably.

Here's a better idea, logging off is 100% safe

Meanwhile 99% of the normies will go for NordVPN

raverbashing··on The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
Close to style, naturally styles are different

Lack of depth? Wrong. Just go beyond the usual pop-sci stuff on YT.

You can go as deep as you want. Surely it won't be "as fun" or "tiktok sized" but if you want depth it's there

raverbashing··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
> IAM - the hideously complex auth and access rules system - this was invented by Lucifer sitting on his burning throne in the ninth level of Hell as the worst possible torment for those who have been sent below for using AWS.

Perfect explanation - no notes

I don't think I remember anything so over-engineered and confusing in recent times (probably SELinux now that I think of it).

And I understand - we kinda need the complexity for what they intend to do but they do need a Come To Jesus moment here to make the Insane Asylum Machine make a bit more sense for mortals

2nd most annoying thing? Boto3 lib, where conventions don't matter and Pythonic is just a suggestion and the thing works more like a REST wrapper than anything else over a not-great API (please why tell me there's an S3 API and an S3Obj API)

raverbashing··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Are they a better solution? Yes

Do they work currently? Not really

Are they too complex for the avg joe to work out. Unfortunately yes. (Something about the smartest bears and the dumbest humans)

raverbashing··on You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
I wonder where are the Rust naysayers hiding now

C code is broken - period

raverbashing··on All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
"Bad consultants" you mean, that's the average consultant
raverbashing··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
No, just any combination of electric regenerative braking combined with electrically controlled brakes.

It is an electric car after all

raverbashing··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
> Audi Q4 e-tron, Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4, ID.5 and ID.7:

> "Dangerous error in popular electric cars: brakes can cease functioning" [2]

> It says that the ABS pump could drop off

Using a mechanical ABS in an electric car might be part of the problem

raverbashing··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
Easier mnemonic:

Lots of wines advertise their latitude of origin

Longitudes are meaningless for wines

raverbashing··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
> “brake rotor stud holes may crack and allow the stud to separate from the wheel hub.”

Possible

While mechanical failures can happen in all companies, that do sounds like an inexperienced design (maybe from Tesla, maybe from a partner?)

raverbashing··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
> best of luck if you're a car factory worker in France or Germany

You mean the ones who fought tooth and nail for comfy jobs within unions with barely no way to fire anyone? And now are wondering where the jobs and the money went?

Tesla workers rejected IG Metall as the union of choice for their factory because all they want to know is send faxes and keep companies wrapped around in red tape like a mummy

raverbashing··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
I don't think a 17 yrs old company has that many long tenured people!
raverbashing··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
Yup

Americans will be "pro free market" until it's somebody else doing the competition, then they will be very butthurt about it (at best)

raverbashing··on Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)
Curious what's the issue with the left fender
raverbashing··on The Vatican's Website in Latin
(Probably not written by HHH himself, unless someone wants to compare it with the previous occupants - apparently Benedict XVI had the best Latin of the recent Pontificis)
raverbashing··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
BYD ships

USA boomer car companies run a competition on who can build the biggest crappy SUVs around sold to other boomers who now look aghast at pump prices

Europe boomer car companies can't overrun their nit-pickiness and analysis paralysis and wonder why consumers are picking the car with screens that actually work like a modern device and don't have subscription horns or some other BS like that

raverbashing··on OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
- Write it in a contrived and confusing way
raverbashing··on EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
"Trivial" But then you realize you forgot to account for a 32 bit counter wrapping up. Or potential failures in the power supply or other capacitors
raverbashing··on EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
Makes me wonder if we could have a 555 circuit with a trigger time of 55 yrs
raverbashing··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
To me that sounds like the way MacOS avoids Home/End with alternative solutions that kinda work but are not great

(And yes I do miss those - with an external keyboard these get less painful but still don't work 100% like on a PC)

raverbashing··on It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
Kansas, but Google says the flattest is Florida (surprisingly - or maybe not)
raverbashing··on It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
Which in Utah might be a problem (or is it another state, I don't remember)
raverbashing··on Heat pump sales rise across Europe
Drilling only works if you have access to a garden where to drill. Any kind of apartment has to use the outdoor unit
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