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slyall

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I'm a professional Sysadmin who lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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jch254.com 2mo ago

How a $1k AWS Bill Made Me Redesign My ECS Architecture

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markatwood.substack.com 5mo ago

What Happened to Amazon. How Founders Become Day Two, Take Company with Them

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www.bbc.com 6mo ago

Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever

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bioone.org 1y ago

GPS Observation of a Western Gull Riding in a Long-Haul Garbage Transfer Truck

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matduggan.com 1y ago

Replace Docker Compose with Quadlet and Systemd

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup into Google Photos [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Tell HN: Chartable Sunset has broken downloads for lots of podcasts

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www.understandingai.org 1y ago

The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

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old.reddit.com 1y ago

The WordPress Foundation Trademark Policy Was Just Updated

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www.longshotspace.com 1y ago

Building a giant cannon to launch raw materials needed for the orbital economy

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fastchicken.co.nz 1y ago

Almost Every infra decision I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup

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promlabs.com 1y ago

A Look at the New Prometheus 3.0 UI

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www.nytimes.com 1y ago

A New Mini-Moon Is Being Captured by Planet Earth

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matthewsanabria.dev 1y ago

Observability Companies to Watch in 2024

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www.educatingsilicon.com 2y ago

How much LLM training data is there from all sources in Trillions of Tokens?

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www.takahe.org.nz 2y ago

Heat Death of the Internet

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me (and 24,000 Other Songs) on Spotify?

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blog.darkmere.gen.nz 2y ago

The Ten Thickest Books I Own

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www.ubu.com 2y ago

Never Again by Doug Nufer: a 163-page novel with no repeated words [pdf]

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cep.dev 2y ago

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret in 4y running infra at a startup

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cep.dev 2y ago

Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

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www.atlassian.com 2y ago

Lessons Learned: 1000 Days of Distributed Working at Atlassian

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zwischenzugs.com 2y ago

What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs [video] - Eng Mgr @ OpenAI

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

A Giant Leap for the Leap Second. Is Humankind Ready for the Leap Minute?

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newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com 2y ago

Building Meta's Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

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nitter.net 2y ago

16 years ago, we made the first commit to what would eventually be GitHub/GitHub

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creativecommons.org 2y ago

Statement from Creative Commons: Making AI Work for Creators and the Commons

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internetnz.nz 2y ago

Review of the .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 [pdf]

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github.com 2y ago

Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud

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Well just live somewhere that is so lacking in density there is no congestion.

Or a small town that is surrounded by farms.

Just avoid suburban housing as far as the eye can see with a limited number of roads everyone gets funneled on to.

Left out Charles Hamilton

It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, making him the most prolific author in history. He is known to have created over 100 schools that were the subjects of his stories as well as writing many non-school stories. More than 5,000 of his stories have been identified, of which 3,100 were reprinted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)

massive overspend until someone notices and has to painstakingly go round checking what all your instances are for.

and when you reduce your companies AWS spend by 30% (which is usually easy) you get a good review/bonus/promotion. So not really much incentive to pay too much attention to cost until you can get recognition for doing so.

Except that the timezone in British Columbia has now changed. Lets say you stored the appointment for November in UTC.

So you set the time to 10pm UTC to match 2pm British Columbia. But because the timezone for BC has changed that 10pm now matches 3pm in British Columbia

So the Dentist is expecting you at 2pm and you come along at 3pm

Definitely agree in some cases. eg where I live ( Auckland, New Zealand ) plenty of people read stories in the local paper or facebook that highlight every single incident in the Central city. So they are scared to go there.

Reality is thousands of white-collar workers (including me), normal locals and many tourists of all ages. Small number of homeless. But no more dangerous than any other city (and a lot safer during the day and early evening )

But if you did the exercise 10 years ago you'd find the lyrics were originally about the songwriter's daughter and the band tweaked it to be able the the band manager's hypochondriac ex boyfriend.

Then they hired a session singer to sing it and mixed in several takes and then adjusted the sound with various tools to produce just the right sound. Plus the Chorus was actually from some country song from 1972 that had been completely changed

and the actual "band" is actually just two guys who hire session players to do most of the music while they handle the keyboard and mixing

I'm using it too. Unfortunately their Android support is a little rough these days. Their official client stopped being developed and while there are options it isn't straightforward

They charge for a lot of things "by the hour". Things like S3, load balancers, storage.

Deleting those when a customer hits a limit will lose customer data or remove things that might be hard to add back. The "I hit my AWS limit and they deleted all my data" headlines will result.

and excluding those things makes the limit soft again..

A few do.

At the extreme end you'll get invited to conferences but further down you could have other products you are pushing. Even non-AI related that takes advantage of your "smart person" public persona.

The problem is that even if the US elects some nice centrist democrats for the 14 years every country is going to be thinking "What if they elect Trump v2?"

I mean the US already re-elected him after the first time so it wasn't a one off. US allies are already increasing defense spending and diversifying supply chains (especially for weapons) away from the US.

Would you bet the safety of your country on the US being stable going forward?

This policy has been shared a lot by the anti-AI crowd over the last week. They are celebrating it as a major site saying no to AI.

It seems a smaller "win" than most think. Just discourages wholesale rewriting and creation of new articles using AI. Assistance with editing is explicitly allowed.

I see it as a textbook approach of a show that built up the characters with "number of the week" episodes and then integrated the world-building and big arcs gradually.

Very hard to do and less common these days with shorter series.

oh and the actor will be getting royalties until he dies so you are are effectively waiting for that. Maybe get the episodes in a way that doesn't give him money.