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Re:Fable and the End of the Free Lunch on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:22PM (#49423062)
But how would that be different if she wrecked it following some other online recipe?
Re:I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:24PM (#49405846)
Most of the people live in the world they invented, where they are the protagonist, naturally young girls want to talk to the protagonist, even when he's 70. You'd have to dismantle their whole worldview to disabuse them of the protagonist idea, but by 70 it's often too far gone and requires facing a million mistakes they have conveniently swept under the rug with the fairytale they've told themselves.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @04:43PM (#49051367)
And common sense.
We can't generate power out of thin air and the coal/natural gas powerplants got shut down what do you propose?
The idea is great, the timeline is super unrealistic. We'll see those reactors in 2070 the earliest, more likely in 2080.
What is even a point of having a self hosted gpt5 equivalent that's not into petabytes of knowledge?
Re:Uber Just Reinvented the Bus Again on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:10AM (#44209412)
My city is several years into on-demand bus routes. It's a clusterfck to say the least.
And there I was wondering why R&D was getting moved to Canada.
Re:Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf] on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:37PM (#43328931)
Are you piping to influx db through ignition?
Jailbreak your Tesla
Pre Microsoft Skype was malware-grade good. I still remember sysadmins imploding in impotent rage as it near effortlessly evaded their firewalling attempts.
In your car you have an expectation of privacy. Public transport is by definition a public space and thus has no expectation of privacy. Whole different ruleset applies. Anyone can monitor you on a bus. Without your consent too.
Re:Kafka at the Low End on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:15AM (#43125263)
Coincidentally another SCADA module we made was handling bi-directional RabbitMQ comms. Not everyone is a one-trick pony :)
Nah, power forces you to operate in a different paradigm as does absolute power to an absolute degree. It's a known psychological factor, called "professional deformation" or even "occupational psychosis".
Re:Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:48PM (#43119267)
I remember everything. Eidetic memory. Things before vision developed are obviously blurry or fully dark from before birth. What do you want to know?
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Now we're back to Chinese room debacle
Re:Kafka at the Low End on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:27PM (#43119008)
Yep
Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:24PM (#43118976)
You can absolutely give read only access in COBOL systems. That's just lazy administration and IT security on a shoestring budget.
Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:17PM (#43118872)
Doesn't feel like it's growing to be honest.
Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:04PM (#43118705)
"We can't build a bigger coop - Joey's going into soup."
> You’re still anthropomorphizing what these models are doing.

Didn't we build them to imitate humans? They're anthropomorphic by definition.

Re:Kafka at the Low End on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @08:50PM (#43097611)
You haven't seen the worst of it. We had to implement a whole kafka module for a SCADA system because Target already had unrelated kafka infrastructure. Instead of REST API or anything else sane (which was available), ultra low volume messaging is now done by JSON objects wrapped in kafka. Peak incompetence.
Re:Aluminum Batteries Outlive Lithium-Ion with a Pinch of Salt on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:59PM (#42969596)
Came here to ask about energy density, but it seems the article answered it without answering it.
The same could be said about many people.
Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:00PM (#41383605)
Hungry people tend to not care at all who smiles for show and who actually cares, as long as the food is served. Just my 2 cents, but I get where you're coming from.
Re:Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do? on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:14PM (#40981777)
Lookup "Steal my ideas". There are people all over the place sharing interesting to implement ideas. Most of us don't have enough time in the day to implement them all. Enjoy!
Re:Show HN: I made a TUI for kafka (kaskade) on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:07PM (#40981748)
Kafka is a stream processor. If you want a messaging queue, use something like RabbitMQ.
Re:Show HN: I made a TUI for kafka (kaskade) on Sunday July 14, 2024 @10:26PM (#40964821)
If you have to manually delete data from topics, you are doing Kafka wrong. The whole point of it is high speed data throughput, so that something automated does it for you downstream.
Re:Show HN: I made a TUI for kafka (kaskade) on Sunday July 14, 2024 @10:24PM (#40964811)
I'm not even going to ask why. Just start following the repo...

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