cmiles74 (u/cmiles74)

cmiles74 commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra

cyprien_g · 6 days ago

I have never used Podman, but I hear about it very often. I currently use Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima) and I'm very satisfied with it.

I have tried to find a good comparison between the two, but I find it hard to have a clear opinion on which one is best for me.

cmiles74 · 6 days ago

I use Podman, I wanted a Docker-like experience on MacOS or Windows. I use it to provide services during development (PostgreSQL, etc.) and working on image builds. It works pretty well. :-)

cmiles74 commented on AI is different antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it

xwowsersx · 10 days ago

It's not a No True Scotsman. That fallacy redefines the group to dismiss counterexamples. The point here is different: when the thing itself keeps changing, evidence from older versions naturally goes stale. Criticisms of GPT-3.5 don't necessarily hold against GPT-4, just like reviews of Windows XP don't apply to Windows 11.

cmiles74 · 10 days ago

IMHO, by placing people with a negative attitude toward AI products under the guise "their priors are outdated" you effectively negate any arguments from those people. That is, because their priors are outdated their counterexamples may be dismissed. That is, indeed, the no true Scotsman!

cmiles74 commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac

phkahler · 12 days ago

At some point I'm willing to just pay a few dollars for a movie. But even then you cant get them all in one place! And they like to charge a premium for some. Im not paying a premium for anything I've already seen a while back.

cmiles74 · 12 days ago

The particular service that has the movie may not last or they may lose access to the movie. With a streaming service you aren't "buying" much.

cmiles74 commented on Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/thm

BallsInIt · 12 days ago

Software patents are a scourge.

cmiles74 · 12 days ago

IMHO, the problem is that if you are wealthy enough then you don't need to worry about patents. I also think these patents are, on the whole, not great. But here the one company legally got the patent and the another, richer company hired away their talent and paid them to find a workaround to avoid licensing. Smaller companies will continue to license the patent.

Few tears will be shed for Massimo (or Qualcomm) but the next victim could be a much smaller company, maybe one that would be more of a competitor. I don't like the current patent regime but I do believe enforcement should apply to everyone, not just players who lack the money to rig the game.

cmiles74 commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

timr · 19 days ago

It's "completely incorrect" only if you're being pedantic. It's "partially correct" if you're talking casually to a group of regular people. It's "good enough" if you're talking to a classroom of children. Audience matters.

The hilarious thing about this subthread is that it's already getting filled with hyper-technical but wrong alternative explanations by people eager to show that they know more than the robot.

cmiles74 · 19 days ago

This is an LLM advertised as functioning at a "doctorate" level in everything. I think it's reasonable to expect more than the high school classroom "good enough" explanation.

cmiles74 commented on Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban cbsnews.com/news/hawley-d... · Posted by u/hhs

zdragnar · a month ago

What they're doing is having someone else manage their stocks, but by some strange coincidence their manager makes amazingly successful trades.

Sensor Scott opposes the blanket ban because insider trading is already illegal, and thus the ban makes punishable otherwise entirely legal behavior. And he's right- it isn't, and shouldn't be, illegal or considered wrong to be successful, if done the right way.

There's a middle ground somewhere in there I'm sure, but given how suspiciously well some members of Congress have done, and how there's been seemingly not enough accountability of it, I'm not terribly empathetic.

cmiles74 · a month ago

It's very difficult to get caught, and then to prove wrongdoing, under the current rules. There has already been reporting of filing irregularities.

https://www.newsweek.com/stock-act-congress-violations-tradi...

Making the rules simpler will make it easier to comply. Removing the incentive for insider trades strikes me as a good thing.

cmiles74 commented on Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack techcrunch.com/2025/07/26... · Posted by u/thm

bongodongobob · a month ago

No. You cannot come to my home or business while I'm away and try to break in to protect me unless I ask, full stop. Same goes for my servers and network. It's my responsibility, not anyone else's. We have laws in place already for burgers and hackers. Just because they continue to do it doesn't give anyone else the right to do it for the children or whatever reasoning you come up with.

cmiles74 · a month ago

It seems like passing legislation that imposes harsher penalties for data breaches is the way to go.

cmiles74 commented on Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her newsweek.com/iceblock-app... · Posted by u/arunabha

cmiles74 · a month ago

If this was a Hatch Act violation, I cannot imagine why the DOJ would not be shouting it from the rooftops.

cmiles74 commented on AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API developer.accuweather.com... · Posted by u/TerribleTurnout

otterley · a month ago

NWS's APIs are still free of charge: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

cmiles74 · a month ago

AccuWeather has been trying to privatize NWS since it's inception. I believe the current head of the NOAA was actually the AccuWeather CEO. IMHO, it's only a matter of time before he shuts off public access to NSW forecase data, no matter the impact on real people and businesses (except maybe AccuWeather).

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea...

cmiles74 commented on Building better AI tools hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/eternalreturn

tptacek · a month ago

Nobody disputes this. Weakly posits a bright line between agents suggesting active steps and agents actually performing active steps. The problem is that during incident investigations, some active steps make a lot of sense for agents to perform, and others don't; the line isn't where she seems to claim it is.

cmiles74 · a month ago

Understood. To your example about the logs, my concern would be be that the AI chooses the wrong thing to focus on and people decide there’s nothing of interest in the logs, thus overlooking a vital clue.