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I just looked at it. It’s kind of interesting. It’s the type of thing that I have thought about. But wouldn’t have done before AI.

And if you skip records that you are depending on for your poor man’s queue, aren’t you just hiding bugs?

While you joke… https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite... No the author is not some homicidal maniac. In interviews he emphasizes that no policy should be mad…

Why this is even controversial is a mystery to me. Anyone who has had young kids in daycare knows this. If the study had been about the common cold instead of Covid, I doubt so man…

I’ve run into all sorts of database locking issues and concurrency issues when using a database as a queue. I saw that mistake made a long time ago and I would never do it myself.

It’s not about the chip. It’s an ecosystem play with the chip + CUDA. I’m not saying that makes Nvidia worth 1T with it’s expected profit.

And governments in Australia and the EU are trying to pass laws that make e2e encryption without a back door illegal…

All AWS RDS databases run on a dedicated VM.

Video games have had digital rights management since the first Nintendo game system in the mid 80a

I’m not saying their work is bad. But every abstraction is leaky and it’s a lot easier to find someone who knows how to use the native SDKs for AWS/Azure/GCP than someone who knows…

My first job out of college was a hybrid computer operator /programmer for a company that ran a state lottery. This was the mid 90s. They had a complete backup site with redundant …

And guess how long it takes me to set up an entire data center with Terraform on any of the three major cloud providers? (disclaimer: I work for one of them)? It’s much less mainte…

And why would I base my entire application on a framework by a tiny developer? And honestly, ChatGPT is so well trained on AWS CLIs, Terraform, CloudFormation, the SDKs for Python …

> No, only if they cannot comply with the law. So exactly how is an EU citizen suppose to use a service like Shopify - that has to store PII - and that’s not based in the EU? > Tha…

As opposed to the War on Drugs that just focused on minorities and the fact that cocaine has a lot lower penalties than the same amount of crack because of who uses it? Or do you m…

How so? Why do you need the government to tell you which products you can use? If you don’t like the policies of a particular company, don’t use their products.

Despite the use of the term by out of touch politicians, knowing what is really going on was the original definition of woke as in “stay woke”.

https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/ And the HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561222