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> LLMs aren't mapping applications, they're reasoners. No they aren't. They're statistical token generators. They do not understand concepts such as "distance from a given location…

What I've seen more than anything else is that Kubernetes built an ecosystem (of contributors and users, but also of companies invested in its success) that none of its competitors…

Tom Segura has a standup bit in one of his specials about cop reality shows, and how people think talking to the cops is going to work out great for them. " Lawyer up . You can't h…

> When you read plenty of papers you aren't going to read them again to cite them. But in fact I do exactly that, exactly because experience has taught me that my memory of what is…

What people currently refer to as "generative AI" is statistical output generation. It cannot do anything but statistically generate output. You can, should you so choose, feed its…

> I wish I could hammer one thing through the skull of every "AI SAFETY ISNT REAL" moron: if you only start thinking about AI safety after AI becomes capable of causing an extincti…

Why did the Pacific tectonic plate suddenly change direction 50 million years ago?

It’s also already becoming an issue for open-source projects that are being flooded with low-quality (= anything from “correct but pointless” to “actually introduces functional iss…

Ludicity wrote about exactly this a little while back: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-b... "...There are fencers that seriously train that can barely sc…

Given that part of those "safeguards" were enshrining weird AI doomer logic in a federal agency's mission and trying to put a doomer in charge of enforcing it, some of them could u…

My vague recollection is that that concern was that the etcd store (specifically the keys pertaining to the Vault pod spec) could be modified in some way that would compromise the …

Not necessarily (although that doesn't necessarily mean I think this is OK). Payment-card-based verification is a longstanding method of doing prima-facie verification like this. W…

IBM didn't just fork Vault to make a statement -- IBM Cloud Secrets Manager was (openly) built directly on Vault OSS.

Analyst consensus I've seen on long-term price has been floating around $32-34 per share. Take that with as much salt as you think it needs but it's at least interesting that it's …

Almost all the talk I saw internally, from well before to well after the license change, about competitors "taking advantage" of our open-source versions was about TFC competitors …

> was always told early on that although they supported vault on kubernetes via a helm chart, they did not recommend using it on anything but EC2 instances (because of "security" w…

Vault's client-based pricing was (is) the worst thing about selling it. When I was there, nobody in sales liked it except the SEs and account reps dealing with the largest customer…

One of the reasons I left when I did was that it was starting to get really obvious that an acquisition was likely and I desperately did not want my work e-mail address to end in o…

* Red Hat wasn't ever "in financial trouble" -- their revenue line was up-and-to-the-right for a ridiculous number of consecutive quarters. Even when they missed overall earnings e…

What are you talking about? The December 2021 IPO price was $80.

It's a little more complicated than that. First of all your percentage of ownership is unrealistic. I joined in November 2019 and got a grant of a few thousand RSUs that fully vest…

For me the smelliest part of this is the timestamps. The C&D is dated April 3. The InfoWorld article is timestamped 8:49 AM PDT, the same day, and the files called out in both plac…

Who is your direct manager? If it's not one of these PMs, get them involved in this conversation with both. If it is, that's whose tasks get priority. If it's "both" but one is a d…

Small consultancies also tend to fall into the trap of having one client (often their first client) that they utterly depend on the money from... but who doesn't depend on them to …