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redserk
·5 dni temu·discuss
Perhaps I am misreading Op's post, but it sounds like that's what they did? If they signed to purchase it, is that not buying it?
redserk
·10 dni temu·discuss
A government structure that changes isn’t inherently bad. The US has gone through multiple iterations just by reinterpreting a document. Other countries tend to be a bit more explicit in this.

The US in 2026 operates fundamentally differently than in 1910, and both are unrecognizable to 1801.

The document was written when there were 13 states, and at best, appetite for a mere handful of others to join. For example, the degree of the weaponization of state-carving in the mid-19th century wasn’t in the cards. A 26 member upper legislature operates substantially different than one comprised of 100 members.
redserk
·10 dni temu·discuss
This nuclear argument is getting quite stale. Germany seems to be investing quite a bit in other energies just fine.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/live/fifteen_min...

120GW of nameplate solar capacity is nothing to sneeze at even with the latitude challenge. That's more solar than almost all of California's energy generation combined, or most of the eastern United States.
redserk
·12 dni temu·discuss
Not sure why you are deliberately misrepresenting the proposal here. You're free to continue working the extra hours. Maybe spend a few fewer hours working and repalce it with practicing basic reading comprehension.
redserk
·19 dni temu·discuss
Anyone doing product integrations should recognize it’s a perpetual risk but why stick to the platform that will require US citizenship demands for future models especially when there are other labs with reasonably comparable performance that don’t require this?

Anthropic didn’t have to beg for the government to deem their models a security crisis.
redserk
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Repeating trite platitudes only makes your argument sound weak and tired.
redserk
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Blaming her is not the right call on this.

The technology is absolutely amazing for the quality of life it’s given us, especially those with medical conditions, but the failure of technology in these scenarios can lead to hospitalization or death.

The customer care line requesting information about a plan means the patient’s care in a will-be life-threatening scenario was not prioritized.

Deprioritizing patient care when death is a possibility is a grim outcome regardless of where you live.
redserk
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
If you have enough money to hire lawyers or can figure out how to get in contact with a law firm willing to work with you for the exposure, sure.

If you aren’t lucky enough, you’re just screwed.
redserk
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
With plaid they get access to all of your account numbers.

HR just sees a single savings account that I strictly use for direct deposit. They don’t see my actual savings account or my other purpose-specific checking accounts.
redserk
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I should have been more clear that I feel bad for the users.

I don’t have much empathy for Google.
redserk
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free.

I’ll stop you here. Google offered it for free and, at the time, offered such an high amount of mail storage for free it sounded insane. At the time, my ISP gave me a 25MB or 50MB inbox and that was considered pretty decent, when Google was trying to get people in with 1-2GB.

They absolutely have a right to take ant steps they deem necessary to prevent malicious use of their product, and certainly aren’t obligated to provide it for free, but Google wasn’t forced to provide a free email service, much less one that went so far above and beyond their competition.
redserk
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
1) Apple has had a lot of functionality gated for many years. I’d buy the “they need to refine it” if they had a track record of actually opening things up without the hammer of regulation forcing them to.

2) This is a solved problem. You throw a “this is an experimental API, it’s interface may change”
redserk
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I’d happily wager any amount of money I have access to that the people actually doing the implementation of these things are among the userbase.

Someone has to write the code and I doubt many people would quit their jobs over it.
redserk
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
It’s exhausting enough to deal with services that change around on an annual/semi-annual basis with pricing and expectations.

Now the expectation is that we should tolerate goalposts being shuffled around on a weekly/daily basis with the added requirement of digging into bug tickets because there’s no attempt at transparency? The tech is cool but this is absolutely insane.

If you’re an individual developer paying $100-200/mo for a service that keeps changing, there is a LOT of reason to keep an eye on other products.
redserk
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
If someone is still using the “remembering IP addresses” argument in 2026 (or at any point in the 21st century), I question their technical competence in configuring a network correctly.
redserk
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Fiduciary duty is fun to define because I’d bet it could be argued both ways here. If you want to consider Costco’s low margins as a core factor as to why consumers choose them, opting for a decision that makes their customer base run off wouldn’t be very responsible to shareholders.

Consider the Target backlash last year. They’re since down 14% vs Walmart (up 30-ish%). Regardless of anyone’s political beliefs, I don’t think a 14% loss seemingly caused by behavior that a segment of customers considered hostile is thinking of the shareholders.
redserk
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
It absolutely is silly. I’ve been responsible for managing low-thousands of Linux servers with systemd and it’s standardized a lot of things that otherwise would’ve been a lot of bespoke scripts.
redserk
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Whether an appliance OS uses SystemD or not is as silly of a concern as “does the lead developer prefer cheddar or brie”

What about performance characteristics? Recoverability of workloads?

I’m interested in a FreeBSD base OS because it seems ZFS is better integrated and ZFS has a lot of incredibly useful tools that come with it. If Bhyve is at least nearly as performant as KVM, I’d be hard pressed not to give it a whirl.
redserk
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I agree that this is what everyone should strive to do but this quickly hits a limit.

For example, IAM/S3/SQS policy evaluations can have profound impact on an application running but an abstraction wouldn’t help much here (assuming the developer is putting any thought into securing things). There just isn’t an alternative to these. If you’re rolling out an application using AWS-proprietary services, you have to get into vendor-specific functionality.
redserk
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
No, the opinion section was absolutely not pushed towards libertarianism.

Have you read it recently?