Right, I was taught that in 4th grade by the nuns.
What I was not taught was the archontic ass-demon Thaphabaoth.
Standards have dropped.
Readit NewsYou said “legal” risk, not “security” risk. You’ll need to get more information on what risks they are trying to mitigate and talk to a “legal” expert rather than engaging on a technical or security basis.
kasey_junk commented on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins fortune.com/2026/02/03/fa... · Posted by u/shscs911
But didn't it technically not even apply at the end of the day for SVB? They sold the bank to another bank, which is what usually happens, and that other bank assumed all its deposits and liabilities. The FDIC didn't have to pay out any deposits and thus the limit didn't come into play.
No. They got the exemption. The insurance fund was hit both for insured and uninsured deposits. The fdic then issued a special assessment to cover it.
Do all of us paid for bad risk management of the svb customers and the moral hazard is real, just not the default.
kasey_junk commented on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins fortune.com/2026/02/03/fa... · Posted by u/shscs911
SVB depositors were mildly interrupted, no doubt, but there's little reason not to exercise extreme moral hazard in banking. OPM will bail you out via FDIC. Theoretically that has a limit but in practice FDIC usually will bail out the full balances even over the nominal limit.
If I had an FDIC account I would basically want a bank that invests my money in the most wildly hazardous ways with the most reckless financial controls to give the max returns and flexibility, then let everyone else bail me out if it went south.
“in practice FDIC usually will bail out the full balances even over the nominal limit”
That’s not true. It takes the systematic risk exemption and agreement between the fdic/fed reserve board and the president to make that happen. I think it’s happened like 4 times out of the thousands of bank bailouts that have happened.
There are other cases where the acquiring bank took on uninsured funds (like jpmc did for first republic) but in that case your gamble is that the other depositors on the banks balance sheet are desireable to the acquirer. Which presumably isn’t the case for your hypothetical max risk run bank.
kasey_junk commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok
The EU does fund a lot of open source software.
So does the US. In fact they did for this software.
kasey_junk commented on GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations githubstatus.com?todayis=... · Posted by u/bhouston
Plenty of happy engineers at the other cloud. :)
A bunch less today than a year ago.
kasey_junk commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
All of this speedrun hits a wall at the context window. As long as the project fits into 200k tokens, you’re flying. The moment it outgrows that, productivity doesn’t drop by 20% - it drops to zero.
You start spending hours explaining to the agent what you changed in another file that it has already forgotten. Large organizations win in the long run precisely because they rely on processes that don’t depend on the memory of a single brain - even an electronic one
Everyone I know who is using AI effectively has solved for the context window problem in their process. You use design, planning and task documents to bootstrap fresh contexts as the agents move through the task. Using these approaches you can have the agents address bigger and bigger problems. And you can get them to split the work into easily reviewable chunks, which is where the bottleneck is these days.
Plus the highest end models now don’t go so brain dead at compaction. I suspect that passing context well through compaction will be part of the next wave of model improvements.
kasey_junk commented on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt kohlschuetter.github.io/b... · Posted by u/kohlschuetter
Ha! Been running these for years on both linux and windows (on lenovo x1 laptops). Using cheap chinese thunderbolt-to-nvme adapters + nvme-to-pcie boards + mellanox cx4 cards (recently got one cx5 and a solarflare x2).
Pic of a previous cx3 (10 gig on tb3) setup: https://habrastorage.org/r/w780/getpro/habr/upload_files/d3c...
10gig can saturate full speed, 25G in my experience rarely reaches same 20G as the author observed.
If you don’t mind me asking, what are you using these for? Saturating these seems like it would have reasonably few workloads outside of like cdn or multi-tenant scenarios. Curious what my lack of imagination is hiding here.
kasey_junk commented on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/jamesblonde
Note that once you have virtual machines, those other things can be provided using that same virtual machine interface. Layering and standards are really useful. Spin up your own storage cluster? if you want...pay a managed service from a third party on the same cloud? whatever makes sense to you. I find it appalling that because money was so cheap, people got used to just throwing it at the hyperscalers 'rich offerings', and now we have multiple generations of people that think RDS is some magic box that would take billions in investment to replicate.
We didn’t do it because money was cheap we did it because there are tons of benefits to not having to inventory your own compute. Everything from elastic scaling to financial engineering was improved via the hyper scalar options and it’s ridiculous to act like those options aren’t valuable post hoc because Europe doesn’t have a native one.
I think the Heztners and their ilk are coming along nicely and probably can support a lot of Europes cloud computing needs, but they aren’t in the same league as the hyper scalars when it comes to capabilities currently. It would be great if they got there for everyone though.
(I think the movie is wildly overrated just as a piece of storytelling; the hacker fan-service in it is just fine, they clearly got some tfile kids to consult with the script.)
The point is to make you want to hang out with those people on those days and it does that tremendously well.
If you disagree your a flake.