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Re:Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:47PM (#49188793)
I've been working a lot on building a system like this personally over the last few months - Cloudflare are either not stating or missing one important issue. While they are doing loop improvement on the Standards themselves, they are forgetting to do improvement on the model. So in their language, they are improving the Codex, but they are NOT improving the reviewer and they need to close that loop.

Great bit of work, I rate it up there with their thoughts on CodeMode MCP's which was also excellent work that advanced our thinking.

As a side node, we're beginning to see the outline of a self recursion scaffold, with a number of different industries all coming up with the same scaffold including myself for different reasons.

Cloudflares exmaple, my own work, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17044 this Leni paper, another being reviewed - dont have a link yet, all come about to the same conclusion in separate domains - I find this facinating

Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? on Saturday April 05, 2025 @11:50PM (#43598833)
What a nonsense idea, you'd need to nationalise news, in the USA, right now this would not go to well, imagine Trump having the only news outlet...
Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:14AM (#34499628)
I remember flying to Australia from London as a 9 year old UM (unaccompanied minor) and they plonked me next to a man who Chainsmoked the whole flight there
Re:Apple ends consulting agreement with Jony Ive on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:56PM (#32078891)
the more obvious advantage is better battery life on my phone having its own on my laptop
Re:Apple ends consulting agreement with Jony Ive on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:21PM (#32077925)
You can take the cellular modem in my X1 out of my cold dead hands and not a moment before. Open laptop, connected - no matter where you are in the world.
Re:Russia's financial meltdown and the global dollar system on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:45PM (#30503415)
I grew up in late 70's early 80's UK and remember distinctly as a child the threats the USSR (then Russia) would make in this regard as they were being hammered by Sanctions.

Its a pretty cruel threat to live under that you don't quite understand - but now I'm older and do, cant help but feel the fear inducing threat of this is infinitely more destructive than actually facing people like Putin.

There is a all girls school in Brisbane named after her called, fittingly, Somerville house.
Re:Where have all the insects gone? on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:46PM (#29006741)
crows are super clever, when I drive brisbane to sydney they'll be in the middle of the road eating kangaroos and other dead animals, they dont fly away they just hop to the right of the line so I dont squish them at 100 miles an hour, watch me go by then go back to what they are doing - they actually know which side of the road I'll go past and that they will be safe.
Re:Kairos on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:22AM (#28825355)
Kairos is a NPC in teh timeless Isle in wow too
Re:Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:52PM (#28753884)
I feel like it just confuses the issue with a bunch of unnecessary babble about DNS, theres better ways to read about how BGP works without confusing a bunch of different things. The only part of the article that was relevant was 'Routes were withdrawn' - the rest being a consequence of that.
Re:Something weird is happening on Facebook on Monday September 27, 2021 @05:22PM (#28676197)
Agreed. I've actively taken steps to combat it, only use my phone in black and white mode, and removed all apps. Stick to my PC for general browsing and my phone use as gone down to 30 minutes a day (mostly calls, messages with the wife, and email).
Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:59PM (#28558264)
So the creator of the zx81 dies at 81, my first computer, very sad.
Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:16AM (#26409737)
Most modern data centres wouldn't have had this issue, at least in in Australia they use Argonite suppression systems, these work by using a gas that is a mixture of argon and nitrogen that suppresses fire by depleting oxygen in the the data hall.
this sounds exhausting, move dude :)
Is this just an American thing? I dont get this real world spam in AU much and defs not targeted.
Re:The State of the Serverless Art (2020) on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:53PM (#26095941)
That was super interesting thanks for posting!
Re:I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:25PM (#25232271)
The new 'cyber security' ones crack me up.
Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:33PM (#24633270)
Find IP address is connecting to for the ad server, and block it at the router? Its a sad fucking world when I have to suggest this - I flat out wouldn't buy a tv with adware but yeah should work.
Re:Linus Torvalds on AVX512 on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:13AM (#23817900)
wonder if this could be used as a denial of service against a vps host node.
Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:11PM (#23674017)
BinaryLane in Australia have VPC across datacenters
I couldn't get all the way though it, it's almost as bad as the circle jerk that is the start up 'industry'.

Reading it I just think why does it matter either way? You're either looking for profit, looking for scale, or looking for someone to bankroll you to do those things. The rest is all noise, so much noise.

Question do you lease or buy your servers? It isn't quite clear which you do. Can see in evaluations that a lot of the kit is getting a little bit long in the tooth which I read as your not buying as you're growing but a lease model is the only way I personally see you running up enough costs to warrant the line of credit
Try binarylane if you're in aus
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015) on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:13AM (#21416224)
some of what you're complaining about the lack off do work, znc as a proxy allows playback, emoji's do work on some clients, figured you wouldnt be aware of this if you were on mac.
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015) on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:03AM (#21416190)
Are you a Mac user?

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