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smallnix··on Amazon Nova
Do these work with the bedrock converse API?
smallnix··on Engineering Sleep
Afaiu exmadscientist said their sleep quality improved in the context of their condition, but still worse than a healthy person's sleep:

> Sleep quality was not perfect (maybe 80% of "normal"? I don't know)

smallnix··on The 'Return to Office' Lies
Here is mine: I like the commute, it marks the beginning and end of my workday and I get fresh air. I loathe being in the office, it is mentally taxing and I have to put in more for the same output.
smallnix··on A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet
So no acceleration of the climate warming rate since 1970 according to this paper, this is surprising to me.

Perhaps currently accelerating (e.g. methane release) and decelerating effects (e.g. oceans) cancel out so far?

smallnix··on Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
Depends on where you fight it.

Got it removed from most Google page 1's? -> probably worth it

Trying to take down all torrents? -> probably not worth it

smallnix··on How to manage oncall as an engineering manager?
> 2. There is always a primary and secondary. Secondary gets called up in cases when primary cannot be reached.

Now you have two people on-call. Except if the expectation is that the secondary doesn't need to carry a laptop/can be unreachable. Important consideration to meet "only on all every x weeks".

smallnix··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Gotta stop gambling *before* you lose.
smallnix··on Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)
I understand the categorization but what applications do you propose?
smallnix··on Deactivating an API, one step at a time
Not if the API reflects a fundamental change in flows. E.g. not fun to proxy a sync API into the new async one which splits a single operation into three.
smallnix··on Wild horses reintroduced to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries
From "PROBLEMS OF PRZEWALSKI HORSE REINTRODUCTION INTO THE WILD":

> A sample of 20–30 founders will normally contain well over 90% of the average genetic diversity in the source population

https://www.fao.org/4/AC148E/AC148E03.htm

smallnix··on Claude's Character
So you agree with the article or not?
smallnix··on GPT-4o
So in that world you envision someone could hack into openai, then publish the weights and code. The hacker could be prosecuted for breaking into their system, but everyone else could now use the weights and code legally.

Is that understanding correct?

smallnix··on Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
I vote with my wallet but I also vote at the ballot.

I want my delegates to regulate the market to make it more fun to me.

smallnix··on Two hunters from the same lodge afflicted with sporadic CJD: is CWD to blame?
Perhaps what they meant was that CWD makes the infected animals more likely to be eaten. Then the apex would, over time, kill the affected subpopulation.

Not sure that this was meant and if that even makes sense.

smallnix··on Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform
I think it's an a less daunting 'journey' if you don't know anything. You start with something friendly and then carve the edge cases into the nice scaffolding. E.g. for AWS IaC using escape hatches and L1 constructs in CDK over cloudformation.
smallnix··on Vice website is shutting down
That is true and it can also be said about a lot of long form written content.
smallnix··on A small Rust binary indeed (2022)
Is upx still ringing all the AV's alarm bells? (It's been a while since I used it)
smallnix··on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
I think engineers in the 20s who were putting out quality enigmas would be stunned by all the marketing lingo.
smallnix··on Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right
But that party is planning to remigrate people with the wrong blood. The plan is to take away their German passports, move them into northern African country and create laws to make their life's as hard as possible in a decade long project to remove the unassimilated with German passports.

Source: https://correctiv.org/en/top-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-...

smallnix··on Where Have All the Websites Gone?
I always disliked forums. With the groups very tight nit, elitist, and only referring to some garbage search function.
smallnix··on EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?
What about non-monetized open source end products?
smallnix··on Electric light transmits data faster than Wi-Fi
How can visible light pass from a core of a star or planet to the outside, but some routers light not? I guess it's just super duper faint?
smallnix··on Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers
That makes sense, would you agree to the revised statement:

"We already know Apple cooperated with the spy agencies behind the publics back"?

smallnix··on Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers
That does not explain the weird hashing.
smallnix··on High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
Please read the article. Its about that.

I'll try to explain what I understood from the article: the natural sunlight makes your body release dopamine, dopamine causes the eye not to elongate, not elongation equals not having near-sightedness.

Probably I got that only half right.

Anyhow the article claims it's not looking at close things and the real cause is being inside.

smallnix··on CSS Is Fun Again
Doesn't chrome also put tabs into "standby" (i.e. kill them) by default? Then this would update most tabs for most users.
smallnix··on Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
Does anyone use that in production for large B2C applications?
smallnix··on Lazarus IDE 3.0
Yes, it was the programming language I was taught in school. So there is some nostalgia at play, for me at least.
smallnix··on AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case
> Being first in line to ask isn't virtue.

But it incentives to ask and also to share the good answers with everyone.

smallnix··on To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
What about raising children?
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