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trueismywork··on OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
Infiniband and coherent fabric.
trueismywork··on Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
Also big notice that it is unmaintained
trueismywork··on Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers
Getting small details right is something everyone thinks is obvious. But how to achieve it without becoming mired in processes and keeping work going is a skill that is very difficult to cultivate and a very difficult problem to solve. Requiring a lot of clever people skills. Warms my heart to hear stuff like this.
trueismywork··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
720p using widevine. I play it. It works. Even if I disable DRM in my main browser. And only isolate it to my Netflix account.
trueismywork··on AI and the Ship of Theseus
The real test would be to see how much of generated code is similar to the old code. Because then it is still a copyright. Just becsuse you drew mickey mouse from memory doesnt above you if it looks close enough to original hickey mouse.
trueismywork··on Bet on German Train Delays
Huge number of people use DB for regional transport for commute. They get affected by 10 mins delay since connections are missed
trueismywork··on Bet on German Train Delays
As someone who is in a group who regularly trashes DB at will, no one blames the line employees, but definitely blame people in upper levels of management
trueismywork··on Bet on German Train Delays
Betting on local circle is okay since balance of power is generally okay
trueismywork··on Why mathematicians hate Good Will Hunting
The author of the blog post has missed the point that Robbie Williams is trying to make in the movie. Its not about math. Math part of the movie is irrelevant. Also its not about someone hiding a talent and getting found, that's a prop too.

Its actually about a person who has been abused all his life finally allowing himself to love himself and allowing others to love him.

trueismywork··on Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
Passkeys IMO will only work with dedicated U2F/FIFO keys like Yubikeys.
trueismywork··on A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives
LGBT books are not sex books. They are books with LGBT,characters doing normal things in their lives. Making it normal for people to think about LGBT people and their dynamics.
trueismywork··on Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
The need to create this is the failure of tax based revenue model of the govt
trueismywork··on Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
Tax dollars to find software
trueismywork··on Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
They do. Most big breakthrough software even today is made by university and national labs
trueismywork··on Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
Sorrt for may be a complete ignorant question but whats the use case of docker desktop as opposed docker cli
trueismywork··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
So we should ban social media is what you're saying but not what OC is saying.
trueismywork··on Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all
The idea is of general purpose computing. In past, you could restrict access without restricting most freedoms. Today's world, restricting access means restricting access to a ggeneral purpose computer. And thats the biggest deal.
trueismywork··on Microsoft throws spox under the bus in ICC email flap
Well it all worked out well. ICC is moving away from MS and so are govts. All good things
trueismywork··on Gitas – A tool for Git account switching
Have different PCs
trueismywork··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
One child policy has brought a demographic problem today but has solved an existential problem in 70s
trueismywork··on How far back in time can you understand English?
I am Indian. I read easily to 1400. But then 1300 is suddenly difficult to read
trueismywork··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
> I did not review the blog post prior to it posting

This is the liability part.

trueismywork··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
> I did not review the blog post prior to it posting

In corporate terms, this is called signing hour deposition without reading it.

trueismywork··on South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection
Yes. I am surprised too
trueismywork··on H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
If the same work can be done abroad with less money, then it's time to place sanctions on govts that allows their workers to be underpaid.
trueismywork··on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
Given how hard AI is on I/O, while restarting if hardware might go second hand. I dont see hard drives go second hand. Most hardware that we get might be used beyond redeeming even at free price.
trueismywork··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Not all humans, I can easily see myself being confused the question and assuming that the person is already at the car wash and this being some idealized physics scenario and then answering wrongly. But I did get a PhD in math, so may be that explains it?
trueismywork··on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
In modern storage tech, network is the i/o bottleneck, but HDD
trueismywork··on 11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
Yes. Thats the decision that we need. Right? Do we want to actually make this pseudo political union into a proper political union? Because it is seeming more and more than instead what we will get is break up of the union.
trueismywork··on 11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
These (and not just limited to elections here now) are exactly the same issues that come up when non-EU migrants want to do stuff in EU. And the argument the OP makes has always been my argument. Fine, you hate migrants, good for you. But what about other Europeans who are getting the short stick with your national rules? No one has a good answer for this.

FWIW: I am a non-EU migrant.

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