StressedDev (u/StressedDev)

StressedDev commented on Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer blocksandfiles.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

laidoffamazon · 8 months ago

If it doesn’t have an OS, how does it…run? Is it just connected to a host machine and used like a giant GPU?

StressedDev · 8 months ago

You can run software on bare metal without an OS. The downside is you have to write everything. That means drivers, networking code, the process abstraction (if you need it), etc.

One thing to remember is an operating system is just another computer program.

StressedDev commented on Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots lambdacreate.com/posts/68... · Posted by u/archargelod

vhcr · 8 months ago

And? If your network allows malware you should be blocked.

StressedDev · 8 months ago

You would end up blocking every network then. Almost no one wants malware on their machine or network. Unfortunately, people get hacked and network operators cannot always determine which machines are hacked (hackers are not known for letting people know that they have taken over a machine).

Security is hard and there are no easy solutions. People often do not know they have been hacked or even know if a computer on their network has been hacked. Also, it is often not easy to determine if traffic is legitimate, illegal, malicious, or abusive.

StressedDev commented on Google shared my phone number danq.me/2025/05/21/google... · Posted by u/luu

lou1306 · 9 months ago

The part where they claim their phone number is the restaurant's borders on wire fraud, plus the extortive bit pointed out by other users.

StressedDev · 9 months ago

Wire-fraud is a United States legal concept. It's probably not applicable to Germany (although Germany might have its own laws which cover this issue).

StressedDev commented on For AI Startups, a 7-Day Work Week Isn't Enough forbes.com/sites/richardn... · Posted by u/e2e4

StressedDev · 9 months ago

I wish these companies luck. That being said, I would not recommend working all of the time to almost all people. Here is why:

1. According to Rapid Development or Code Complete (I can't remember which book said this), for most people, working more than 40 hours a week does not increase productivity in the long term. Basically, you can spend more time at work but you will not get more done. There are a few people who this is not true for but those people are rare and they usually are extremely driven because there is something about the project is really really interesting to them.

2. I strongly suspect most humans are just not built to work all of the time. It's not that there is something wrong with them, they just can't deliver more than about 40 hours a week of work. This isn't because they aren't committed, don't care, are lazy, etc. They just can't do it. I think this has to be accepted.

3. I have tried for decades to make the live at work lifestyle work and I have failed. I have repeatedly burnt out. It has taken me decades to realize that it is not a question of what you want to do, it is a question of what you can actually do and what is sustainable. Basically, you or your boss may want you to work 60 hours a week for months on end but that is probably impossible and it's better to accept reality than to keep on trying to do something which does not work.

Note that when I hear employers demanding crunch time, it tells me the leaders do not understand how people work because they don't understand that 99% of their employees probably cannot given them any more than they are already giving. This means crunch time does not improve productivity, but it does make everyone on the team more miserable because they are spending too much time at work and they are wondering why they can't seem to force themselves to get more done.

StressedDev commented on Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric thecanadianpressnews.ca/p... · Posted by u/Kon-Peki

Copernicron · 9 months ago

Does that apply to Boeing too? Letting poorly run companies fail runs the risk of causing national security problems when you're suddenly dependent on a hostile power for parts of your supply chain.

StressedDev · 9 months ago

I am not sure what your point is. If Boeing went bankrupt, someone could buy them and the company would continue running. Also, Boeing is not the most important defense contractor in the US. They don’t make the F35 and they don’t make the new B21 Raider. The world is not going to end if Boeing disappears.

StressedDev commented on Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric thecanadianpressnews.ca/p... · Posted by u/Kon-Peki

perbu · 9 months ago

Yeah, but aren't these bussed mostly subject to state policy and not federal policy?

StressedDev · 9 months ago

Tariffs, imports, and exports are controlled by the Federal,Government of the United States of America. The states have no power in these areas.

StressedDev commented on New York state budget to include school cellphone ban pix11.com/news/local-news... · Posted by u/geox

WorldPeas · 9 months ago

I have a friend who is a teacher. This is some part of the way, but as they said, the real problem is "the kids see school as a waiting room in between dopamine hits", "they are constantly agitated and short-tempered". This matches other descriptions I've seen in the news and of withdrawl. For reference, I was at this school when a phone was not a given and we had a land-line for calling home after school. Some part of this transformation can take place in the classroom, but as has been said ad-nauseum, something needs to be done about algorithmic feeds.

StressedDev · 9 months ago

The easiest thing is stop installing the apps and stop looking at the feeds.

StressedDev commented on io_uring based rootkit can bypass syscall-focused Linux security tools armosec.io/blog/io_uring-... · Posted by u/hexhu

arghwhat · 10 months ago

The title is somewhat misleading, as it suggests an io_uring issue when there is none - it's just that anti-virus solutions like Microsoft Defender try to monitor syscalls but don't monitor io_uring.

They're far from guaranteed to catch things they monitor anyway, and I feel they mostly just exist to let enterprise pretend they care about security by buying ineffective band aids and duct tape. I guess a legal defense is more important than a technical one.

StressedDev · 10 months ago

You are right that this is not an io_uring issue.

  I think you under estimate the value of anti-virus.  Anti virus software is a good second line of defense.  It’s not perfect but it will stop a lot of known malware.  This has value.

StressedDev commented on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law ca.finance.yahoo.com/news... · Posted by u/Aldipower

paxys · 10 months ago

US corporations are too used to breaking laws as they see fit and getting away with a slap on the wrist, so being asked to follow the rules feels like an attack to them.

StressedDev · 10 months ago

That is not my experience. Every US company I have worked in spent a lot of time training employees to follow the relevant laws. I have even been on teams which had to do work to comply with the European GDPR. The message I have always received is follow the law and don’t break it.

StressedDev commented on A new form of verification on Bluesky bsky.social/about/blog/04... · Posted by u/ink_13

kmoser · 10 months ago

> Am I missing something?

The ability to put fake blue checks on your website isn't the point.

Bluesky (and the web at large) is slowly becoming filled with spam and AI-generated content. Even if you're OK with more spam (not sure why you would be but you do you), why would you be OK with more content generated by non-humans (the vast majority of which attempts to pass as human)? This just makes it harder to find needles of authentic human content in a haystack of slop.

Various levels of verification make it easier to distinguish what's real from not real, for whatever definition of "real" you prefer. Without any such verification, the web just becomes a bigger wasteland.

StressedDev · 10 months ago

Real life people use AI. A good example of this is the lawyers who submit court filings with AI generated legal citations. The get caught because the citations are fake (the case cited does not exist).