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> Defaults are bad. Agents can be expected to read the documentation, register what good starting values are, and fill them all in, in place. That is pretty bad, when you now need …

Nevertheless, you are still talking about 15B / year - when the initial investment was So you are still covering all of that.

All financial systems don't care about time. Prety much all financial transactions are settled with a given date, not instantly. Go sell some stocks, it takes 2 days to actually se…

Committing to NVMe drive properly is really costly. I'm talking using O_DIRECT | OSYNC or fsync here. Can be in the order of whole milliseconds, easily. And it is much worse if you…

Isn't that very much intentional on the part of GCC?

That suffer from a serious issue You must have the data upfront, you cannot build this in an incremental fashion There is also bo mention on how this would handle updates, and from…

Not this is explicitly marked as Not Planned

> maintenance_work_mem That kills the indexing process, you cannot let it run with limited amount of memory. > How do you think a B+tree gets updated? In a B+Tree, you need to touc…

Probably avoid zero write optimizations. This force actual allocation of disk space for the data, instead of pretending to do so.

Amazon Glacier on the list is a pretty big surprise to me.

That isn't spying. That is called doing code review on a shared depenendcy

OpenAI, Ollama, DeepSeek all do that. And wanting to programmatically work with the result + allow tool calls is super common.

Even with very small number of requests - what happens when you have two concurrent ones?

This is wrong, because your mmap code is being stalled for page faults (including soft page faults that you have when the data is in memory, but not mapped to your process). The io…

Another way to do that is to look at the tech empower benchmarks. It tests on big machines, but you can get > 1 M req/sec across a wide variety of environments.

That is the wrong abstraction to think at. The problem is not _which_ tools you give the LLM, the problem is what action it can do. For example, in the book-a-ticket scenario - I w…

FWIW, I once got a cease and desist letter because "company-xyz" found that we were using a subdomain "company-xyz.customers.our-service.com". They discovered that because they wer…

If you are checking the cert logs, it is a very tiny bit to validate the key as well. If you aren't checking... well, that isn't a concern anyway, now is it? And the whole _point_ …

Sure you can, you know what your public key _should_ look like

One thing that is ignored here is that for crypto, there are additional concerns For example, are the instructions cost depend on the data? If so, you have a timing leak and a hole…

Human accountants also have a very important property: liability. If a certified accountant told me to do X, I'm covered (at least to the point they would assist in recovering, or …