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BobbyTables2
·23 saat önce·discuss
Even for reliability, distributed gets hairy.

I run a few VMs in a “homelab”. Was interested in redundancy so could work on system without taking down home networking… Familiar with GlusterFS, corosync/pacemaker, etc…

So to go from one system to 2, need a third system to at least ensure quorum.

Of course, storage has the same problem.

Active-active has its complexities. Maybe active-standby good enough with DRND. Still a lot to configure…

Filesystem replication now means my NVMe drives will be limited to 1Gbit/s networking link. 10GB somewhat difficult on SFF PC and expensive.

Physical location also matters. Standby probably should be somewhere else… But what about 3rd node? Wired networking not everywhere…

This ends up being a lot of moving parts, expense, and headache…

Guess what is fast? Single node. Move the storage drive to similar spare SFF PC. Two screws, takes about 3 minutes max. Local RAID-1 to guard against sudden failure… Backup a couple times a year for peace of mind.

It’s way too easy to overthink stuff…
BobbyTables2
·dün·discuss
Too expensive in this economy ?
BobbyTables2
·dün·discuss
Even before AI, LinkedIn was already a cesspool of people posting trite crap frequently just to advertise that they have “followers” and collect new ones. Worse than the recruiters.

In what bizarro world would I want to follow a rando, who has absolutely nothing to do with my career, on a platform purportedly designed for like minded people to advance their career/business?

Might as well consider the dog with the most fleas as the “Alpha”!
BobbyTables2
·dün·discuss
You hit the nail on the head! Today’s fast paced world demands clear, concise communication. Fear not! Artificial Intelligence (AI) can allow people to communicate more effectively, allowing them to get a few extra minutes at the gym without guilt. Would you like some tips for improving work-life balance?

(Not AI, I couldn’t resist!)
BobbyTables2
·evvelsi gün·discuss
So microplastics are indeed harmless!

(/s)

Too bad common discourse is too distracted to consider nanoplastics…

By the time the public tires of microplastics debates, they’ll be in no mood to relitigate nanoplastics
BobbyTables2
·evvelsi gün·discuss
Or do a bucket sort on 32bit integers for worst case O(n) time, not O(n^2)

Only half kidding…

Using just 16GB RAM for a task is practically resource-constrained programming these days…
BobbyTables2
·evvelsi gün·discuss
How can you be dead certain that all references are known in Ghidra?

Just non-disassembled function or unidentified struct would ruin your plans…
BobbyTables2
·evvelsi gün·discuss
Nor the CI test that fails each day
BobbyTables2
·evvelsi gün·discuss
Considering Rust doesn’t have such nonsense, I’m inclined C/C++ have utterly broken generations of programmers.

In what world is using a signed value to index a normal array a good idea?

Makes for horrible footguns like:

history[counter % SIZE] = …

(One cursed day counter rolls over, becomes negative, and an out-of-bounds write occurs)

Everything went South as soon as we broke the abstraction of arrays and treated them as pointers.

Commenters here are pretty much arguing which way to hold scissors while running instead of realizing that one shouldn’t do that in the first place…
BobbyTables2
·3 gün önce·discuss
I really wonder, what is “normal”?

One class of doctors thinks roughly 250 is enough for a middle aged guy - anything over shouldn’t be medically treated. Of course, the “men’s clinics” don’t rest until it’s over 1000...

With the standard range so wide (even after age adjustment), why isn’t it measured annually, like the CBC and others?

Sure, it’s easy to point at obesity, but statistical ranges completely fail the individual.
BobbyTables2
·3 gün önce·discuss
What other country looks appealing?

I get the whole “speak the native language” but seems like the appealing countries speak a language most of the world doesn’t care about.

The number of countries with English as the main/official language that are desirable and open to immigrants seems really small.
BobbyTables2
·4 gün önce·discuss
Just today Google’s AI told me that 3**4 was 181 because I asked it for bases such that when raised to the 4th power had a 1’s digit in the leftmost place.

Yeah, LLMs aren’t designed for this kind of thing but it was really confident in its assertion… it picked the example too!
BobbyTables2
·5 gün önce·discuss
I’m convinced there is a sizable chunk of the population such that if they knew an AI was conscious, then they would mistreat it as fully as possible.
BobbyTables2
·5 gün önce·discuss
Considering elementary school kids have no trouble bypassing school firewalls, I’d be genuinely disappointed if teens couldn’t do better…
BobbyTables2
·5 gün önce·discuss
A webserver could alter the payload based on the client.

An evil person could present a normal install script for other browsers and randomly present a malicious one for curl clients.

At least with the downloaded file, that is the thing you get.
BobbyTables2
·5 gün önce·discuss
Even for research, a lot of CS papers seem like cosplay.

In the place of hard math, models, proofs, quantitative analysis of past approaches, etc. there is simply an “Architecture” section with much navel gazing. The paper topic is not a formal analysis but merely a description of a thing that was made.

Ironically, the least important part of an engineering research paper is the part describing the thing actually built/simulated. That is merely validation of the theory.
BobbyTables2
·5 gün önce·discuss
Feel the same way myself when working in messy codebases… At some point, the horrible patterns start to rub off…
BobbyTables2
·5 gün önce·discuss
They’ll also wonder why humanity has so many references to a video of a young orange haired guy singing a song.

Only reasonable conclusion is that he is worshiped as a deity …

After all, He is never gonna give up…
BobbyTables2
·7 gün önce·discuss
If there were a way an AI could generate output only based on the student’s own knowledge, it could be somewhat beneficial...

Unfortunately that’s not how it works…

Long ago, WordPerfect’s grammar checker showed me my writing flaws and helped me improve.

Pasting a poorly written report and getting a dramatically restructured report wouldn’t be as instructive, even if the final result looked “better”.
BobbyTables2
·7 gün önce·discuss
Despite the appeal of such an approach, I find this extremely unsettling.

Imagine if we had declared that Math for FIR filter design in Signal Processing was too difficult, so we’d just test random FIR coefficients until something good came out.

That sounds pretty horrible but at least the frequency response of the resulting filter would be known. We’d at least understand the behavior of the final product.

With LLMs, we don’t even know what we’re getting out of it.

(And no, I don’t see anything wrong with adaptive filters and such. Their behavior can still be quantified)