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Re:Postgres Superpowers in Practice on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:33AM (#35598510)
Postgres is a great open source project but it's also just a run of the mill rdbms with support for concurrent versioning, oracleish compatibility and data type extensions.

And it works pretty well and saves somewhere around a million dollars per 20 cores in licensing.

Love the community. Tired of the uneeded hype. It's just a sign of ignorance. Keep on keeping on.

Re:Booting Modern Intel CPUs on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:41AM (#35597811)
That's a description, not an instruction, I could have written that with zero knowledge of uefi internals from memory of what uefi is.

When we will these people stop pretending they know things by describing g obvious meta concepts?

Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:35AM (#35597772)
Note to you. Software design has been dead for almost 20 years in favor of cargo cult architectural patterns.

The job of software designer has also not existed since then. With the minor exception of UI designer with is nowadays just a UI technologist who can draw pictures for offshore.

Re:Booting Modern Intel CPUs on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:15AM (#35597652)
It does not you could not use this article to boot any Intel CPU.
Re:How I set-up my iPhone to work For Me, Not Against on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:30AM (#35597413)
The reason you are worried about screen time is that the iPhone sucks. I never will look at that dated, nagging, attention seeking, ugly, slow, cell network flaking, reboot needed,overpriced, mediocre pretentionware again.

By all means reduce your screen time. People that actually enjoy their phones want more.

More like unregulated capture. There is simply no way it legal for a utility to means test people. Regardless of where the data originated.
Re:Peak LLM on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:14PM (#35592693)
Will we ever break free of the 10,000 monkeys typing Shakespeare problem?

10,000 LLMs doesn't fix that

Yes,

Unfortunately I disagree as LLMs are not traditional software and not input /output systems. Additionally, like other types of high value, power imbued software like say credit scoring engines and b2 bomber flight controls, the maintainers of AI systems will be the equivalent of high priests.

The controllability of output of AI by merely writing code is not something that exists today and what we call bugs in traditional software is not the same concept as a slightly incorrect or completely fabricated LLM response.

Software engineers need to start having serious conversations about whether non contract employment is even a good idea.

Yes there are pitfalls to permanent contracting, and some folks dont have the stomach for it. As a contractor, I see employees doing less and less dedicated work, and also when it comes to devops training and cloud adoption employees usually seem behind the curve.

The AI arms race is going to destroy software engineering forever

The last few months have seen a massive shift in attention to LLMs obviously, and the AI arms race seems to have officially broken out of its research labs into the "real" world.There has been tons of ink spilled on how this will affect and change the world in general, but before AI can do any of that it's going to cause a massive, relentless distraction for every software engineer currently...

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Just because something has a cost doesn't mean it's irreplacable or rare.

There's other things that cost alot on a vehicle, wheels and tires on an SUV cost more or about equal to the catalytic converter, so by design wheels and tires are from a supply and demand perspective more precious and rare than catalytic converters.

What thieves choose to steal has nothing to do with scarcity and everything to do with convenience. While these small amounts of precious metals may sound important rare earth metals are literally everywhere.

Were just too rich to care about mining them in the first world.

Why do HN users post retro articles?

I'm really not sure why HN users post retro articles like just for example, what Bill Gates thought about iTunes licensing.This history is so well known, just like the antitrust case where there is video recorded testimony from both parties.Do HN readers have short memories or are they just finding detritus on the web that they think is clever?It's a little baffling and sort of self aggrandizing.

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An easy very easy way to fool this would be to introduce a random non zero distribution aka salt to every datum.
Hoarding terabytes is sort of a thing you can never get your head around unless you are stealing mp3s.

But hoarding gigabytes is pretty easy, also I think the term hoarding is pretty loaded language in this context? Saving things so they don't get lost is the way to go.

Just as an example, after Steve Jobs died apple went into everyone's email at .me and deleted their emails between them and SJ.

You probably didnt see that coming.

Re:PostgreSQL Row Level Security on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:47AM (#35587845)
RlS is an antipattern, do not use this feature.
Re: on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:26PM (#35561603)
Not now because they leveled up
Re: on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:24PM (#35558931)
The old boys club which has been outsourcing programmer for 20 years to India figured out that they can just fake it since nobody has complained yet.

And before software engineers unionize they came up with some snake oil to put us in our place, maybe try to force us back into offices, or just eliminate us.

Nobody can deny that Sam Altman and Bill Gates have been trying to "reduce costs" for a long time. The startups with devs in portugal, costa rica, Mexico, Spain, the Ukraine, India, China, anyplace where they can pay 5 dollars for a day's work.

When Bill gates said he would pay programmers 7 dollars an hour, we were all offended, we didn't realize that he was already doing it and that would be a significant raise in pay.

Re:What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015) on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:37AM (#35541536)
No the slight crackling. Also even though I live in a detached house, I hear my neighbors morning alarms going off. One time I had to walk into the warehouse of a local newspaper because they bought new forklifts that made a high pitch sound when they were in reverse, and the guys riding the forklifts had ear protection and it was vibrating the windows of my apt a half mile away. They turned the sound off only after weeks of calling the police.

I used to play in a symphony orchestra as a professional and I suspect that studying my whole life to listen to a pin drop has led me into this place.

I require copyright control of my code at work

While it is industry standard to ask for developers to turn over their work to their employer, I dont.Im not you. Im a high dollar consultant capable of building systems of systems, Im not a designer, Im an occasional architect who helps out dev teams.However, my code will never belong to the client even in their git repo, because the client(s) is(are) heavily outsourced and will share my code...

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Re:ChatGPT Owes Me Money on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:14AM (#35535286)
The idea that training a machine on fiction owned by others and facts published with distribution rights can be surfaced in a LLM is not only absurd, it's illegal, locally and internationally.

Bring your horse and your carriage, you will lose to the human race before your horse clears the first turn.

ChatGPT is Sam Altman's "last scam"

Re:ChatGPT Owes Me Money on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:59AM (#35535199)
And Wikipedia is not a US company, and has no bearing on US copyright law.
Re:ChatGPT Owes Me Money on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:57AM (#35535192)
Common law copyright will always exist for provably original content, regardless of distriibution.
Re:ChatGPT Owes Me Money on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:56AM (#35535181)
And since Wikipedia has disclaimed it I now am the sole owner.
Re:ChatGPT Owes Me Money on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:55AM (#35535175)
But a new company is not sourcing the information and claiming it as fact.
Re:ChatGPT Owes Me Money on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:54AM (#35535165)
It was removed from Wikipedia many years ago and replaced with more fiction.

ChatGPT Owes Me Money

If asked a certain question, chatgpt quotes me and only me from a made up Wikipedia entry that I wrote in a hot minute over a bet with girlfriend circa 2007.Wikipedia never deleted it for a couple years and even added to it because well, people.It was written as a complete falsehood so I could win a 25 dollar bet with my current girlfriend.As such it is an original work of fiction.Since chatgpt...

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Re:What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015) on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:12PM (#35534585)
Unfortunately, rather than tinnitus I have misophonia, and I can hear ice melting. No treatment or cure. But I would bet at least some cases of subjective tinnitus are actually people who have super hearing abilities.
RabbitMQ may have been overkill for the need, but it's also clear that there was an implementation bug which was missed.

Db queues are simple to implement and so given the volume it's one way to approach working around an mq client issue.

Personally, and I mean personally, I have found messaging platforms to be full of complexity, fluff, and non-standard "standards", it's just alot of baggage and in the case of messaging alot of bugs.

I have seen Kafka deployed and ripped out a year later, and countless bugs in client implementations due to developer misunderstanding, poor documentation, and unnecessary complexity.

For this reason, I refer to event driven systems as "expert systems" to be avoided. But in your life "there will be queues"

Re:The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:56AM (#35521012)
Now do it with shared nothing architecture. When you share all this stuff you are twisting the meaning of "distributed transaction"
I think this is not the best representation. Although I appreciate the commentary of the blog. Is github a valid platform for this kind of sampling? I dont know I have hundreds of java repos elsewhere and would never host my code on a Microsoft platform. But somehow Kotlin is not represented when it's the default language for android....because mobile projects don't host on github publicly. And what about PRs makes them special anyway? As one commenter mentioned this could be more about volatility/stability.

As a side note, I'm pretty shocked that the OSS community is "just fine" with leaving their projects on github after MS took over and scanned all their code for machine learning.

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