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cowsandmilk

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About cowsandmilk

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49230651

    There were woot offs 20 years ago. Flash sales are not some new scaling issue.

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    Comment #49202368

    I had an interesting internal debate the other day about whether farm fields were more natural than fields of solar panels. (Ignore fields that have both for now). To me, a tilled …

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    Comment #49143896

    Both halves of the title are true statements.

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    Comment #49136744

    > If it was a camera, security issue What security issue? Many hotel elevators already have cameras.

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    Comment #49016051

    I always must ask, why isn’t your compiler doing this for you? I know they often aren’t because I’ve seen speed ups from writing SIMD or using the vector functions in MKL, but this…

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    Comment #48893447

    The bun team made no mention of compile times in their post. The author of this post points to other work by bun that was hardly making a big fuss. It was just a Twitter post about…

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    Comment #48799073

    How is this relevant? No one shot at the plane.

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    Comment #48707078

    If you’re already running codex as a different user to limit its file permissions, why would you add it to the docker group?

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    Comment #48707064

    100% this. The idea that Codex should enforce this is putting the security boundary at the wrong layer. If you don’t want codes to access something, make it so it doesn’t have acce…

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    Comment #48668250

    It’s been five years since they changed their license. Today’s layoffs cannot be blamed on AWS and GCP. It’s been years and they have differentiated products now.

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    Comment #48532735

    Why does jit compilation here scare you? eBPF has had a ton of research on how to limit its resource usage and how to sandbox it.

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    Comment #48526285

    I’ve had my civic coupe valeted at hotels and wasn’t doing staying anywhere special. Business trip where I drove the 100 miles to Baltimore and stayed at the hotel my company put m…

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    Comment #48485464

    Why can’t they have trained the classifier on internal red teaming?

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    Comment #48483805

    The zoning for that lot would allow a grocery store. Not being able to walk to the grocery store isn’t a zoning issue in this case.

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    Comment #48474689

    Use this because docker has very problematic licensing on MacOS.

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    Comment #48454267

    I’m sorry, but the DMA is mandating Cambridge Analytica-type access to data. That whole scandal was people on Facebook granting a third party access to all the data they had access…

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    Comment #48454170

    15 Pro Max is supported…

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    Comment #48440753

    > frequently opening boxes, but not constantly. If you are frequently opening boxes, that spring-loaded mechanism is going to cause repetitive stress injuries. No competent workpla…

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    Comment #48338906

    > I'm often impressed by the quality of the UK's open data. The ordnance survey not being open data is a bad look though.

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    Comment #48288556

    I mean, why was OpenStreetMap created?

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    Comment #48278725

    These doors are designed for being chauffeured, not for you to get in at the same time as your driver.

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    Comment #48247029

    This, if you’re high performing, the company won’t question your use of tokens. If they want to limit it, they have ways to set limits on spend and usage.

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    Comment #48083595

    The number of countries where life imprisonment is available possible sentence for counterfeiting seems to confirm it having some of the harshest punishments.

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    Comment #48070921

    > You want real time Isn’t the point that OpenAI’s use case does not require realtime? When OpenAI responds, it has most of the audio in advance of when the user needs to hear it. …

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    Comment #48013172

    Given the Bloomberg article explicitly calls out Vanguard, I don’t think using it as a counter-example is inappropriate.