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I've found that the River Crossing puzzle is a great way to show how LLMs break down. For example, I tested Gemini with several versions of the puzzle that are easy to solve becaus…

> A podcast is what I can listen to in the gym or on my bike without missing anything important on the video. If I were listening to a talk show on a pocket FM radio while in the g…

I agree 100%. The defining characteristic of a podcast is how it is distributed. Otherwise it's just an audio program. However, we are losing the word already. The least technical …

In my experience, the vast majority of companies that use OKRs do it incorrectly, misunderstand the point, and cause more harm than good. As a member of the management team, I was …

As I recall, all the jobs are checked into a repo that is deployed to all the runners, which each start gearman workers for their assigned role.

I started going to def con before the AP and I feel now that the AP were def con's golden years. At least for what I like best about it. It's nice that it has continued to grow and…

This works great in my experience. A lifetime ago I scaled up cron jobs for a client with Gearman. Using cron to trigger jobs on the Gearman server and the pool of runners to do al…

I'm sure it's indeed something like that. I think it also comes down to, at least partly, having a culture that is more about building components than systems. I suspect it could a…

That there are numerous mature battle tested open source solutions to distributed and/or centrally managed job queues that it really makes me wonder how they justified building som…

I don't know who this tool is for but it is certainly not designed for me. Unrelated but I recently learned the magic of vim scp://1.2.3.4/file_to_edit

This makes intuitive sense to me (not that that means anything). Adherents to a traditional God Hypothesis would be predisposed to believe that humans need advice and guidance from…

I think I learned the most about using vi when I worked with an old timer who still used ed. I thought she was crazy at first but watching her edit source code was like watching a …

To me it really seems like it is too late. I have the strong impression that the vast majority of people simply do not care and mostly don't even want to know. Most of the people I…

Yes, very. I previously worked for RH and there really wasn't a top end of support options. I knew of companies with a contract that had RH maintaining custom kernel patched for th…

For me, a technology itself isn't a red flag. Not being able to explain the reason for choosing one approach over another is a big red flag. Or if the reason is "I want to try this…

As an engineering leader I always insist that everyone follows the "ice cream" rule in any debate or discussion about how something should be done. Only technical merit counts. Nev…

I'm afraid you are making a mistake in assuming that Incognito mode == no tracking. The only thing that Incognito mode does is not save any local history or cookies. This is mainly…

In the middle of winter 2000, I was sent to Sun's "Super Training" campus in Broomfield, CO. It was a nice little campus and upon registration I was handed an access card that I co…

Maybe I'm better off... until I try to put it in my pocket. Unlike a portable CD player, my 00's portable MD player is tiny! The footprint is not much larger than the discs themsel…

HiMD gear is rare and expensive compared to the regular MD and MDLP stuff. Yes, you can use the HiMD format on a regular MD disc via a HiMD recorder, but then you can only use that…

I got back into minidiscs a couple of years ago and I'm really enjoying the revival. Modern software exists to use the NetMD players with current computers and the software is acti…

As a foreigner 10 years into living in the Netherlands, I find this article a bit shallow. Yes gezellig is a word and concept I frequently encounter but to say it encompasses the h…

After being drafted into Engineering Management from 3 IC roles in a row, I decided to jump in with enthusiasm. My primary motivation is that I've had bad engineering managers and …

I don't really understand what you mean by 'challenging twitter' in this context. Why does the number of DAU matter? In what way are Mastodon and Twitter competing? Twitter is a bu…

I do not use powerline bridges. I've had my setup for years and I only get 1gbps because my gear is MoCA 2.0. It has been a truly "set it and forget it" setup for me.