fishnchips

Oh man you stole my thunder. I hoped to be the first to bring up the dead salmon.

Even then.

Skinner's behaviorism for sure ("The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man").

But also Dennet's origins of consciousness.

What I mean here is that the discussion among the AI proponents and detractors about machines "thinking" or being "conscious" seems to ignore what neuropsychology and cognitive psychology found obvious for decades - that there is no uniform concept of "thinking" or "consciousness" in humans, either.

Having studied sociology and psychology in my previous life I am now surprised how relevant some of the almost forgotten ideas became to my current life as a dev!

It’s against property, and political change is a vague aim, if any. In my book it’s just vandalism.

Yes, after the recent promotional event at the White House I can easily imagine protecting Teslas becomes a top priority, and that damaging one is punishable by death.

This would merely reflect the new reality which we clearly saw last week.

He's doing alright but might not have all the data.

My point exactly.

Both Mussolini and Hitler were seen as bumbling fools by most of their contemporaries. Before they seized power, that is.

Why adversaries? Just think of all the big beautiful deals you can make with them.

At which point you're no longer able to bury your head in the sand?

I'm sure there are states - perhaps not nearby - that will offer exciting opportunities to former civil servants.

How long until this is removed from the front page?

Not a Ukrainian but I know a good few. The language is taught at schools so you if you’re not educated in the Soviet Union you will know it. Whether you choose to use it is a different matter. And data would suggest that the usage is on the rise.

As a Pole I have a similar reaction to Czech and Slovak. Except it feels less like a strange accent (because we don’t have these as much) and more like baby talk. We get the words, just how they’re used feels unusual, and often funny.

From the other side, my Czech friends told me that Polish sounded to them like something from deep antiquity. Like reading an ancient manuscript where again you get the words but no sane person these days would use them like this.

In this case you have the opposite issue, with no-one actually guaranteed to get a lock even though nothing is holding one. Fuzzed retries may work in practice but theoretically speaking this is a flawed algorithm.

I think not, actually. There would still be cases where a race is not detected. I can think of the following sequence: A checks - no lock, B checks - no lock, A writes - success, A reads - match, success, B writes - success, B reads - match, success. A and B both think they now hold the lock.

For locking to work properly you'd need to have a conditional write that would fail if some prerequisite was not met. GCP offers that operation, S3 AFAIK does not.

> since it uses lock files on S3 versus a separate DyanamoDB + S3 combo

This is disturbing because S3 does not give you guarantees required to implement real locking.

Co-founder of OpenTofu here.

Second that. One of my colleagues is working on adding proper tracing to the OpenTofu codebase, to help understand the exact cause of failures.

Only if he really cared about that extra bit of money. I don't know him personally but from the outside he didn't look like he did.

Or - IBM mends the rift with OpenTofu for their own good.

Makes sense when you put it like this. In which case HCP may even be too new for them.

Why pay for what they get for free, then?

Or possibly it’s completely unrelated and it’s just our brains looking for meaning where there’s none.

Ironically, IBM is behind the Vault fork (OpenBao). Way to negotiate!

I’m failing to identify the benefit for the buyer here. What’s your reasoning?

Perhaps more importantly, Vault.

It’s not like they’re going after the best fruit, either.

Aren’t they always fighting the last war?