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richardwhiuk

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About richardwhiuk

My opinions are my own, and don't represent any employers, past, present or future.

Website: https://www.richardwhiuk.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48558877

    There's no economic reason why running a model locally should be better than using a cloud hosted version.

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    Comment #48442294

    Small businesses are equally vulnerable, and it's possibly to perform cyber attacks at scale - Gen AI makes this easier

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    Comment #48372609

    I have a high revenue business opportunity. If you give me $100, I will give you back $101, funded by equity raises. Very high growth, very high revenue, huge customer satisfaction…

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    Comment #47938985

    Steadily increasing for five years

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    Comment #46647127

    https://www.tumblr.com/ourincrediblejourney This is probably just an acquihire.

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    Comment #46454000

    It’s not clear that’s true. States which don’t fear being attacked are more likely to attack other states

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    Comment #46453763

    It’s easy to be better when you only implement the mainline of the API

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    Comment #46435826

    I wonder how it compares to https://mirage.io/

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    Comment #46403804

    In private companies, it's much more caveat emptor, than in the public markets.

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    Comment #46400848

    It's not actually a VM - it's a container, and they are fundamentally different. This feels like false advertising.

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    Comment #46235057

    Is the uptime any better?

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    Comment #46078233

    You can’t sign the CLA if you are contributing code which you don’t have the right to relicense and isn’t appear under the CLA

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    Comment #46010363

    You can’t buy an M3 chip on its own

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    Comment #45992128

    It’s not realistically plausible to build bridges that won’t be brought down by that size of ship

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    Comment #45986013

    Get a key from a map and forget to check the error.

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    Comment #45986005

    CLA allows them to relicense your contributions under their own license - e.g. proprietary A DCO would be the more friendly option.

  17. comment
    Comment #45976780

    Because Go silently gives you zero/null instead

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    Comment #45967113

    They are aware. They don't want to pay the cost benefit tradeoff. Education won't help - this is a very heavily argued tradeoff in every large software company.

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    Comment #45931281

    What hypervisior environments don't have this?

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    Comment #45743976

    Move to the UK

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    Comment #45644814

    Almost all cloud providers help here by having inter-region failures as well. There are multiple AWS services which are "global" in the sense that they are entirely hosted out of A…

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    Comment #45536320

    If trains are frequent enough, passengers do ignore schedules and just turn up. This is common on metro/subway/underground services.

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    Comment #45405930

    They did. 10 years ago.

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    Comment #45405929

    Apple has had that for 10 years.

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    Comment #45132871

    They can, it’s just this administration isn’t interested in doing so.