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Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:08AM (#43421350)
but then, but then your corporate provided laptop with 8GB RAM and 128GB with locked down Windows Entprise™® may need 1000th of security policy exceptions and won't even fit all dependencies on its disk. Not to mention that it would be building for like 10h. Think of the shareholders! The corporation would have to buy actually usable hardware for it's workers! Think of the cost! /j

For real tho, not every project can be build by everyone locally, but at least parts of it should be locally runnable for devs to be able work (at all IMO). What I am noticing is more and more coding is being done on some server somewhere Github Codespaces anyone? Google Colab? etc.

What I am also noticing is that this tools like GH-A there is not really a way to test the CI code other than.. commit, push, wait, commit, push, wait... That's just absurd to me. Obviously all CIs have some quirks that sometimes you have _just run it_ and see if it works but this... it's like that for everything! Abusrd I say!

Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:59AM (#43421304)
In organization setting this is almost useless if you are (or forced to) use some pre-made actions and/or actions that are for your organization only (they cannot be downloaded) also useless if you are forced to use self hosted runner with image that you don't have access to. Not to mention env/secrets and networking...
Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:29AM (#43398618)
> Obviously jamming resistant high bandwidth communication enables some scarry possibilities.

This sounds like you would also be in favor of backdoored encryption. I disagree. It's a tool / improvement like any other, how you use it makes it scary. BTW this is nothing new, it's just packaged nicely and (I assume) massively improved technology. DIY and open source solutions were possible in 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA (static ones tho)

What if the person owed money has no idea how to check if a bill is not a counterfeit, doesn't want to learn about really small security prints on every note, what if somebody robs their wallet?
Link to that study? Cant seem to find it in the article
They should be! Have we not learned anything from Apollo? :D Or atleast provision an adapter or something.
Re:3D Reconstruction with Spatial Memory on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:57AM (#41600376)
Very interesting stuff. I wonder how this one camera (one viewpoint), flat images models work in completely novel environments (not seen in training data). I am wondering if this model could be used with stereo cameras as is.
Re:Accelerando (2005) on Thursday September 05, 2024 @05:23AM (#41454965)
When reading this for first time (like two years ago) it struck me how many issues of accelerando world we actually have right now in ours. In fiction they are just hyperboled to extreme (sometimes for comedic appeal).
Re:How de-Googled is Lineage OS? on Monday August 26, 2024 @07:58AM (#41356288)
Honestly except occasional location service/embedded maps not working in some app that only implemented google maps APIs - I have like one app that actually doesn't work (is not usable) and I am using grapheneOS as daily driver for at least 3 years now.
This sounds exacly as UV water treatment lamps
This is almost already a thing with ~~Android~~ Google Play Services and google services in general. They know where you where, when, what apps you used during that time, what notifiactions you received, how you get there and probably a lot more.
Re:Ask HN: What's new being done with P2P? on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:34AM (#41117906)
IMO That is because we got used to always on, always watching, always working apps / services that run "somewhere" not on our devices. Even in selfhosted open source alternatives most of the applications expect to be run continously.

Example: Google Photos, vs LibrePhotos vs Google Picasa - the last one only worked when you wanted it to work not 24/7

Re:Claude 3 claims it's conscious on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:59PM (#39609641)
> If you knew the LLM does this after every prompt, is that a sufficient condition for possibly concluding that it's conscious?

Yes.

(For me.)

I would argue that cash maybe a little better than cashless because fees are tied to physical problem of moving cash around where as cashless fees are just one board meeting from changing ten fold.
Re:A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @08:02PM (#38945995)
I believe in normal circumstances its neglegible and not worth worrying about.
I love that nostr identity is not tied to an instance (unlike activitypub/mastondon/fediverse)! However ignoring some (IMO) fundamental problems (because they are not problems until you hit scale) like hosting, somewhat moderation and letting that be solved "layer above" is a mistake (IMO) it will probably create non standardized APIs for paying for hosting or sth.

As for community it is heavily based on bitcoin/lightning enthusiasts and a lot of content revolving just around that - probably won't attract people outside the circle/general public (which may not be the goal or preferable outcome!)

Re:Beeper Mini is back on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:02PM (#38603053)
> If you hack a secure communications channel so that unauthorized client software/hardware can pretend to be authorized software/hardware, how does that make the channel more secure?

How does it make more insecure? It doesnt, security should be accomplished by the protocol, messages themselves not by blockong access to a communication channel. Otherwise its just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

Re:Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update on Friday November 17, 2023 @03:36PM (#38309763)
worth every minute of playing. However for me gameplay of the original is still worth a try. I think it forces you to plan, explore and look for alternatives more. Black Mesa has more "modern" gameplay.
Re:21 Firms that will convert your classic into an EV on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:40PM (#38122691)
Does anyone have list for EU?
at some point this distinction will lose its meaning
Re:Squad Solar City Car on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:48AM (#35828540)
so more like ATV but electric
Hi I was also looking into this and I am now using: https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python It tries to be compatible with openAI API. I managed to run AutoGPT using it (however context window is too small to be useful and even if I set it to 2048 (max) I had to tweak AutoGPT context maximum as 1024 for it to work - probably some additional wrapping or something)
Just wanted to throw this in: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-... because recently I was talking to some friends and they were very much under the stereotype that in Japan you work some horrendous amount of hours - that is not true. IIRC data is both self reported and from companies.
I can recommend PBS Spacetime https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g to everyone who thought this submission was interesting.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023) on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:37PM (#35428017)

  Location: Europe
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No (maybe - inside EU)
  Technologies: python, jenkins, bitbake, bash, ansible, grafana/prometheus, 
  Résumé/CV: https://mbator.pl/cv.pdf
  Email: [email protected]
I am looking for "DevOps" related position, possibly with room to grow my experience with cybersecurity.
Re:The Coffeeshop Fallacy on Saturday March 11, 2023 @10:48AM (#35109258)
My experience unfortunately is that in those nice, cozy places where I would expect good coffee they sometimes don't even know what coffee beans they have. Solutions to that is going to roasting company (most of them also have small coffeeshop or sth) they will gladly tell you about their coffee and also make you one while often explaining how to do it best with your setup at home.

(And Starbucks is so dark and burnt I can't drink it nowdays)

I am more and more convinvced that we are living in a timeline described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando (at least the first part and I would argue that we have it worse)

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