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I'm right with you. My dad was a farmer and taught me: First deal with the irregular, annoying parts on the outside. Create rectangles with a long side and turning space on each sh…

> People are, in heavy LLM systems, realising that the most valuable commodity is engineers knowing WTF is going on, and that loss of understanding of your codebase is the #1 block…

In our case, "testing" as an environment has the goal to be a fully integrated setup of the entire service landscape. Each team is responsible for the uptime of their service, just…

This is one of the unintuitive parts when you get into operations: If you go to lower layers in the stack, production expands towards dev: To the product developers and operators, …

In my experience, business software has narrow and predictable use cases. Note taking: You need to add, delete and update notes and the real meat of the product is usually in the n…

Back when we were working in the office, this was honestly a preferred pair programming setup for us. Two people, and each just had their keyboard and mouse. Interestingly enough, …

Yeah I wanted to see if they special cased Wacken. One campground later, 85% done.

You jest, but companies have sent people home fully paid, because power or internet were down and would be down for an extended period of time. Technically a small number could hav…

Some of my deepest architectural work honestly happened... in a hammock on the balcony, while alternating between staring at a cloud, the sun, and two magpies building a nest in th…

I am not 100% familiar with this theory, but I'm fairly sure there is an important difference: The monopoly of violence current police forces are granted did not exist in this part…

> If a driver does get involved in a crash after a single mile, it's very likely that they are not safer than the average driver. It could of course be extraordinarily bad luck, bu…

I think the "But this is not intelligence because it is known math" is not a correct argument. It is unknown how the overall higher intelligence of humans works. What I do notice h…

But how do you conclude then that they are less safe? They are neither proven to be more, less, or equally safe. So any statement of "more injuries" is as unfounded as "less injuri…

This is why the idea of being "Vogelfrei" or "lawless" was honestly a terrifying concept in the middle ages. They are neither bound by law, nor protected by law. A lawless man can …

Agreed. The much better question is: Are we locking ourselves out of a feature, or do we just leave a gap for a rare case? At work we agreed that some use cases are very niche. The…

It reminded me of an old meme. Please don't follow the following instructions and stop reading if you cannot. It was just a popup: "Hello. This is virus from Albania. Due to poor t…

> They thought climate change was the next war-level crisis, and worked towards that. Did we though? At least in Germany a bunch of anti-climate-change projects and changes have be…

And interestingly, a few good people at work are learning faster with the LLMs at hand. To a degree, it looks like LLMs help them overcome the blank page anxiety and help them with…

Own hardware has a weird scaling curve. It does not make sense for a lot of time and scaling. You need 3+ people maintaining it, you have upfront costs in the hundreds of thousands…

That didn't prevent Anna Rudolf being accused that she hid a supercomputer in her lip balm box made of tin sheet metal in 2007 and cheated with it in the bathroom. Some parts of th…

You are correct, there is no strong indication of active suicide. However, it certainly put him into a state of mind of neglect, not caring anymore and not taking care of himself a…

But it did not take 2 threads within the same application to interact in a bad way on data the system controlled to cause this problem. This reads more like an overly broad transit…

Both certainly do. My own hypothesis on why this isn't a more widespread problem is the speed, or lack thereof, of these ecosystems. By the time a package hits debian stable, it's …

The terms I've learned to use is rather: Happiness, and Stressors. If you need your car to earn money, and you don't have the money or other resources to repair it if it breaks - t…

I watched a talk by her about this, and this post is missing half of the equation, which is really important: Having a wrong abstraction means you end up with a class/function/modu…