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totallywrong··on Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Like we haven't had rights and freedom taken away consistently over the past two decades in the name of safety, whatever that is. What you mention will be irrelevant after some new law that says open source AI code should be regulated too and everyone is forced to comply.
totallywrong··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
What I really miss in my work issued M1 Pro isn't more power, it's the keyboard in those 2010s models.
totallywrong··on The costs of microservices (2020)
As a contractor, having worked with a lot of teams, I get the feeling that the kubernetes and microservices hype a few years ago resulted in a lot of unnecessary refactors. It can make sense, of course, but often doesn't, and running a monolith on k8s is perfectly fine.
totallywrong··on It's Time to Tax Billionaires
I suppose that not allowing Russia to massively increase their power is an important benefit well worth billions to the US.
totallywrong··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
I used it a whole lot when I was doing the nomad thing but avoid it now if I can help it at all. I can recommend the trip.com app if you want actual support when you have any issues. With booking you're on your own, it's terrible. Unfortunately they usually have the most options though.
totallywrong··on Singapore: Right to own a car costs $76,000. And that doesn't include the car
If you factor in the high salaries and super low taxes, it's not that bad. Also taxis and ubers are high-end cars readily available at very reasonable prices.
totallywrong··on Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
This looks amazing, thank you!
totallywrong··on Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade
Smartphones peaked a long time ago. At this point I actually want less features, not more. The trend is going to continue, as shown by the fact that years of support is now a competitive advantage.
totallywrong··on That's a Lot of YAML
Nah, I'd still pick YAML any day.
totallywrong··on That's a Lot of YAML
Funny that a site trashing YAML is actually a great resource for it. I, for one, am more than happy to use YAML, there isn't a better alternative today to write human-friendly, complex configuration.
totallywrong··on Live near your friends
In my early 20s I experienced communal living. We must have been around 120 young people, from everywhere, immigrants in a foreign country. The deal was that we took over 2 small empty buildings and made them ours. You'd spend the entire day with other people, everyone did what they could. Some cooked, some did repairs, some played music, whatever. I was a student at the time, was there for about a year before going back to real life. I've never been happier, that's truly what humans are designed for.
totallywrong··on Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices
> The cost of a conversion typically isn't much less than the cost of a complete demolition and rebuild.

What?? Not saying the conversion is cheap but come on, the building is already there.

totallywrong··on The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
Read: The most common answer to that question from LLMs is flawed.
totallywrong··on I'm convinced now that “personal LLMs” are going to be a huge thing
That's both very true and very sad.
totallywrong··on I'm convinced now that “personal LLMs” are going to be a huge thing
I don't know why I can't seem to get on the LLM hype train everyone is so ready to jump on. I either lack vision or see it for what it is, a next-gen search engine. And don't get me wrong that's amazing, but not world-shattering as people want to believe.
totallywrong··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
Well Linux powers just about all the most important systems in the world and SELinux was originally developed by the NSA, but I'd love to get your insights.
totallywrong··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
> I don't think OS becomes any less vulnerable than usual Linux/Windows installation.

A modern Linux with SELinux enabled (the default in e.g. Fedora) running apps inside rootless containers (Podman doesn’t even need a daemon) is likely much more secure than your default MacOS or Windows.

totallywrong··on The myth of the myth of learning styles
It's crazy that the prevalent teaching method is sitting for long periods while listening to someone else's, constant-pitch voice. That's literally the best way to fall asleep, as shown in sleep meditation videos and the like. I was a terrible student, could not keep my eyes open in any class, lost interest, never made it to colleague. Then a few years later I did self-paced distant learning and got my degree in no time while working.
totallywrong··on Embracing dumbness
There's another option, where you don't need to look dumb or trick people into doing things for you. Pay for it. It works surprisingly well.
totallywrong··on Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot
1. Sign up to AWS with your credit card.

2. Easily spin up as many instances as you need!

totallywrong··on Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot
I'd much rather go with CoreOS. Is there anything they've open sourced widely used outside of AWS?
totallywrong··on My solopreneur story
> For the record, I am not jealous

You sure don't sound like it..

totallywrong··on I'm all-in on server-side SQLite (2022)
I've never done it so I won't comment, but Postgres supports Perl, Tcl, and Python besides SQL.
totallywrong··on How Equifax Was Breached in 2017
I only half agree. Of course the company needs to have processes in place. But having shared storage can serve a multitude of legit purposes, and I feel like some alarm should go off in a developer's mind when he thinks of just dumping secrets there. Or the next one who comes and use them.

Or you might not have shared storage, and then they'll just put the creds in a Google spreadsheet like I've seen very recently.

totallywrong··on How Equifax Was Breached in 2017
I work mostly on Infra / DevOps. I'm constantly amazed by the absurdly low standards most devs have when it comes to security. The path of least resistance is chosen 99% of time. You're definitely the exception.
totallywrong··on XML is better than YAML – Hear me out
Brought to you by the creators of Snap. Yeah that's probably the real issue. Don't touch anything by Canonical.
totallywrong··on XML is better than YAML – Hear me out
That should parse fine without quotes, most likely netplan's YAML handling is the actual issue here.
totallywrong··on XML is better than YAML – Hear me out
And yet it's the only one out of all those mentioned that can be written with ease by humans. After a short while you can do several levels of nesting without thinking about it. For all its issues, it's by far the most practical which is why it won.
totallywrong··on What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?
My guess is that LLMs will become an absolutely incredible tool, to the point of being indispensable, for software developers. This demographic is highly biased and often magnify their usefulness based on that. For everyone else, they will continue to be an advanced search engine / copywriting assistant.
totallywrong··on OpenTF is now OpenTofu
Great initiative, and I'm sure that with the community's stewardship this will become a better tool than TF ever was. Me personally, I'm happy about the licence change because it pushed me to Pulumi and I'm absolutely loving it, which I could never say about TF, quite the opposite.
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