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It kind of confirms a hypothesis I have that the next phase of AI development will be about getting smaller (in terms of model size and compute), because smaller is more capital ef…

A SOC2's quality entirely depends on how much you trust the auditing firm. Delve used an audit mill they paid to rubber-stamp the cookie-cutter and AI slop reports it authored. I h…

It would develop into "regions" of space that are entirely matter and others that are entirely antimatter. The boundaries between them would glow as stray particles drift between t…

Yes, as far as indices go, GIN indices are very expensive especially on modification. They're worthwhile in cases where you want to do arbitrary querying on JSON data, but you defi…

Yes but they also don't seem to claim it does. The use cases they talk about are orbital station-keeping and de-orbiting of satellites. So that implies near-Earth use.

They say it works "by directly converting electrical energy into thrust through controlled electromagnetic impulses", so I assume it's reacting against the Earth's magnetic field u…

This is generally true not just for Steam. By issuing a chargeback, you're burning that bridge and shouldn't be expect to do business with that vendor again.

You'll need to flatten the promise periodically if you use this approach, otherwise your performance will degrade a bit each time you enqueue something.

My point is that legally the First Nations have the right to not consent to the separation of provinces from the country. Of course, it's always possible for parties to act illegal…

Alberta would need the consent of the councils for Treaty 4, 6, 7 and 8 in order to take their land with them. The treaties are between various First Nations and the Crown of Canad…

It's basically a code generator for adding standard Phlex components to your project, so once you've added a component to your application you can modify it any way you want.

Ugh, yes you're right, I typed too fast and mixed things up. Thanks for the corrections.

Of course, NATO was founded on the assumption that the US is a reliable trading and security partner, and the defense supply chains reflect that assumption. It will take time to un…

We had free trade. The US has, in a very short period of time, squandered what was a highly profitable and mutually beneficial trading relationship. There was already a sentiment o…

Absolutely. Canada is almost certainly going to cancel or severely limit a pending F35 order, and is actively sourcing aircraft and negotiating mutual arms deals with European part…

It's incorrect to think of Canada as being "cornered" here nor having "nothing to lose". It's the US that's isolating itself. Canada isn't 'cornered'. It has the entire rest of the…

Honestly as someone who has been building Rails applications for over 15 years now, I find far too many people think they are special and need to stray from the defaults.

You could dismiss almost any company as "if all you're doing is building an X app...". It's a no-true-Scotsman argument. Even setting that aside, not everything is or should be a l…

When trees die, they’re consumed by fungi, and the carbon is sequestered in humus (soil). That’s totally fine, and in fact is an important reason to ensure that planted forests hav…

The way it was explained to me when I was at Amazon is that the intent of that principle is that good leaders should “make themselves correct” by gathering the data they need to ha…

It’s not. It’s a recognition that you have to act within the world as it exists today. That doesn’t mean you can’t work to change the world, and in fact in order to do so you first…

You can’t worry about it. It’s the world we live in now. The alternative is to not write anything of significance on the internet, which would be of no benefit to anyone.

The good news is that I can just say: go ahead and Google “DHH blog”, read his most recent few blog posts and form your own opinions. I’ve had a negative opinion of him for a good …