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Isn’t it a fairly natural (and useful) capitalist outcome that as prices rise incentives to increase supply increase? What’s technocratic about responding to a demand change?

Hilarious. The code being produced previously was crap - it was just your crap. Baseline agents produce something similar, but can at least be guided, durably, towards producing le…

In absolute terms, yep. In marginal terms, not so much. See also: paradox of value

Highways are pretty safe. The road is designed from start to finish to minimise the harm from collisions. That’s not true of urban streets

I think if you regulated coal on a linear no threshold risk model, you'd find the costs to be somewhat closer.

There's also the converse argument, to governments that look to infrastructure as the secret to all prosperity - America succeeds without infrastructure, somehow.

Natural monopolies exist, for sure. Your insurance example is odd though - insurance markets are generally highly competitive. The recent cases where we’ve seen a loss of competiti…

The usual issue is the addition of control loops without much understanding of the signals (CPU utilization is a fun one), and the addition of control loops without the considerati…

What does this have to do with the topic being discussed?

There is a limit on reliable usage of the FS. Call it what you want. The user doesn't particularly care.

It does happen in prod. Usually due to virtual FSes that rely on get_next_ino: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/13/1078

I think a fair few of them were created because they knew a bit too much about FOQS

You rather explained the value prop of this product then. The benefits of isolation without the 1 business day wait.

Personally, there's no way I'd want a customer initiated operation to trigger something like terraform or mess with DB schemas. On the security side, it would significantly complic…

Doesn’t astronomy already use TAI, which has no leap seconds?

Penalties for being on your phone while driving are fairly different between different countries. In the UK it's 6 points and £200 if you're caught. It's a fair deterrent

The impact on the energy market always seems a tad misstated in these articles. Datacenters are often funded through corporate power purchase agreements, committing them to purchas…

Never used Bazel in my life, so while I can appreciate your passion, I guess I don't share your perspective. Generally the pattern I've seen has been providing a skylark interface …

In a competition with sky/starlark, I feel skylark would win here. “Safe subset of python” is what a lot of people presented with this problem want, and skylark gives them almost e…

I mean, they can and should be both. Local decisions can be cheap, and very simple to implement. But global decisions can be smarter, and more predictable. In my experience, it's i…

This still isn't what I'd call "safe". Retries are amazing at supporting clients in handling temporary issues, but horrible for helping them deal with consistently overloaded serve…

I wonder why they didn't do that in the 14 years since VPCs were introduced?

Bronze age collapse wasn't exactly great though.

It models wiggling forward. It models wiggling backwards. And occasionally it models fucking itself. That’s it.

Unbundling is a real thing, with some pronounced second order affects. The first order effect of charging for in flight food service and checked bagged is purely redistributive, bu…