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Could be, I don't have much experience with it, but so far it has worked every time without me doing anything special - I can check the status of the last sync attempt, which it does nightly on its own (or I can trigger it). The UX isn't great - all manipulation of the seconds hand, but other than that it has been flawless. This is in Germany - your mileage may clearly vary.

I recently bought my first not-super-cheap watch, and found out that all around the world there radio stations which broadcast the atomic clock time that a lot of clocks/watches listen to.

After setting the time zone (I guess this also changes the frequency that it listens on) it starts to sync itself using that signal. It is also solar-charging - so this basically means that I never have to touch it. Although it's an analog watch, because of this sync, it correctly handles DST, the date window (including leap year) - basically I never have to touch it again until it breaks . All without bluetooth or internet connection - pretty cool I think.

Casio Oceanus t200 for anyone that cares.

A JS image pixelator: https://kremerman.me/pixelate/

Can be used to resize images, but the main purpose was pixelation for a game I was making.

How is this comment in any way relevant to the article or this discussion? Does Codeberg provide static analysis for CVE verification?

I don’t let Claude touch git at all, unless I need it to specifically review the log - which is rare. I commit manually often (and fix up the history later) - this allows me to go reasonably fast without worrying too much about destructive tool use.

Agree! It is also deeply concerning that at the last KubeCon, not a single pod was represented. Billions OOMKilled, with no end in sight.

Well, pharmaceutical manufacturing for one:

> India is the world's largest provider of generic medicines by volume, with a 20% share of total global pharmaceutical exports. It is also the largest vaccine supplier in the world by volume, accounting for more than 60% of all vaccines manufactured in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry_in_I...

This I am less certain on, but I believe there is a fairly robust space program (not many countries have that). I’m sure there is more.

They clearly had enough access to capture and spot-check some of this data against previous leaks. The fact that this is not mentioned doesn’t inspire much faith in this being something new and newsworthy.

We have, and I won’t lie, it’s kinda a pain. The reality we discovered is that async flows are second-class citizens in otel tracing.

We essentially propagate the context manually between APIs and lambdas, through HTTP headers, SNS/SQS and even storage. We also ended up pulling Tempo’s Parquet files (we’re self-hosting the grafana stack) into Redash to be able to do real analysis. We got a lot of great insights and were able to do a lot of tuning that would have been impossible otherwise, but it was quite an investment. Would love to know if there is anything out there that would have made this less painful.

Agree - playing Path of Exile 2 at the moment. I think they are co-located with the Geforce Now servers for my region (Frankfurt) as I have 1ms ping from Nvidia->PoE. 20ms from my house to Nvidia, so I’m not sure my experience is much different from what one would get with a gaming rig.

And if you do the math on what one would cost - by the time the subscription cost catches up, it’s time to upgrade the rig.

To be fair, the sub-prime lending crisis had its roots firmly in Clinton-era repeal of Glass-Steagal, so it’s not all so easy.

No particular love for the Republican Party, but it’s a problem created by the Democrats, which they then patched with the inferior Frank-Dodd. Plenty of stupidity to go around, I would say.

Give them time, it’s only been 11 hours. Now I just want to hear about the trip back to the desk

Yes you are right that this is nonsense. They have clearly already been doing this for years on the backend at a minimum to power the Google Photos search functionality, and who knows what else.

Is it just me, or is this outrage super amusing given the fact that for a long time you could search through you Google Photos (on Android, iOS or web) for e.g. “baby” and get a bunch of hits?

Not sure that’s always a good thing - see the occasionally erratic behavior of Tesla’s autopilot. It directly speaks the language of the systems it connects with, and also occasionally steers into dividers, killing people - and nobody knows why. We need to be able to verify correctness of what the models generate.

Linters help in terms of detection. We’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of regularly running gitleaks, trivy and trufflehog over our repos

Not sure about Bedrock, but I used Q to write some Python code, and I have to say - it was pretty good. Even ended up covering an edge case I didn't think of. In the end it was all pretty basic (walking a directory tree and compiling some analytics on content) - but it saved me time and I never felt frustrated with it. My anecdotal $0.02

That's a bold assertion - do you have any evidence to support this? I find that they do plenty of great journalism, often bringing stories that don't make it into the english-language media via other outlets. For example, just from today an article on the fight for Iraqi waterway restoration: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/4/dont-be...

In general, the Features page (https://www.aljazeera.com/features/) doesn't exactly smack of Islamic propaganda - so curious to see how you came to this conclusion.

It’s dangerous because not being able to track widespread ownership of major in-country assets by a geopolitical adversary puts one at a disadvantage; it’s dangerous because it makes it much more difficult to ascertain that the proceeds of criminality are not being used in purchase of those assets - just to name a couple of the reasons.

I also don't see anything supporting this interpretation in the actual regulation - quite to the contrary. It repeatedly refers to all batteries, and says nothing of any class of devices that are exempt.

> new regulatory framework for batteries will consider rules on recycled content and measures to improve the collection and recycling rates of all batteries

> It is necessary to create a harmonised regulatory framework for dealing with the entire life cycle of batteries that are placed on the market in the Union.

> It is also necessary to update Union law on the management of waste batteries and to take measures to protect the environment and human health by preventing or reducing the adverse impacts of the generation and management of waste,

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-2-2023-INIT...

Now just spinning a bit of yarn here, but this seems like a shrewd piece of political opportunism by Prigozhin.

The reality is that since he was denied additional access to Russian prisoners to use as cannon fodder, Wagner has had to commit its more experienced troops into the Bakhmut meat grinder. My money is that in his calculations, the cost of victory there would be a dramatically diminished war-fighting ability of the PMC. Not only that but it might make Russian military leadership look less terrible - definitely not something he wants. However, with a retreat, he can preserve Wagner’s fighting capacity, while skewering the Russian military leadership, with whom he has been very publicly feuding. My $0.02

That's pretty funny, but not actually true.

I work at a company where we process vast amounts of retailer advertising data, and one of the things we need to do is tag images and extract data from deals. Although humans are still involved in this, at this point they are mostly checking the work of our ML models. This dramatically increases the speed with which we are able to do this - and this speed is one of the things that makes us attractive to our clients.

Maybe I am a confused luddite, but it seems telling that this argument immediately launches into the solution space of a problem that is itself created by the presence of a blockchain.

Double-spend has been solved by the financial sector quite some time ago. The distributed system part - I guess this is the problem that I think the article is claiming is yet to be found.

I wonder how they plan to impose compliance on entities that have no legal presence in India, accept cryptocurrency payments, and take no PII as part of the signup process - all of which I believe apply to Mullvad.

True - this is why it's important to structure your questions in a way that makes it harder to BS - same as when interviewing someone, ask about specific instances of things.

It's been a while since I've been a candidate, so I kinda winged it in the above comment, but if you want to be balsy (and why not!) you can ask something like "Can you tell me about the last time you had to give negative performance feedback?" You might want to preface such a question a bit to qualify your reasons for asking it, but that sort of thing is not easy to BS.

There is a lot to unpack in this comment, but in general the situation described here is specific to certain kinds of organizations, with lamentably poor leadership and management cultures. If management views the employer-employee relationship as some sort of zero-sum game - they have already lost that game.

In companies with mature (which doesn't mean old - a relatively young company can also be well-run!) structures, the criteria for promotion are not nebulous. I struggle to see the wisdom in setting goals for an employee's promotion without the intention of rewarding them for working hard to meet those goals.

In general, I would encourage anyone who is in a working situation described above to look for another job - and ask about the management and leadership philosophy when you interview! As interviewers, we are comfortable asking hard questions, I don't see why being a candidate should be any different. Is there a structured feedback system in your company? What is it, and how closely does your team follow it? When was the last person in your team promoted, and how long were they in their previous role? etc.

When they tried a much smaller version of that in Australia, it went very poorly for them - I doubt they will attempt a similar maneuver anytime soon.

https://www.ft.com/content/cac1ff54-b976-4ae4-b810-46c29ab26...

The reason he paid low taxes is precisely BECAUSE of the huge losses - they were greater than the income - one follows there other, there is no contradiction.

Of course, we will see how inflated those losses were in the course for the NY AG investigation.