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maushu commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
spapas82 · a month ago
Cloudflare seems to have degrated performance. Half the requests for my site throw cloudflare 500x errors, the other half work fine.

However the https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ does not really mention anything relevant. What's the point of having a status page if it lies ?

Update Ah I just checked the status and now I get a big red warning (however the problem existed for like 15 minutes before 11:48 UTC):

> Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

maushu · a month ago
> What's the point of having a status page if it lies ?

Status pages are basically marketing crap right now. The same thing happened with Azure where it took at least 45 minutes to show any change. They can't be trusted.

maushu commented on Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy   cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry... · Posted by u/2-3-7-43-1807
dylan604 · a year ago
The accuracy issue is the thing. I’d venture a guess that our prediction of the path of a hurricane 7 days out is more accurate than predicting where an impact will be.
maushu · a year ago
It's actually the opposite. Calculating an asteroid impact is much easier because it primarily involves basic Newtonian physics. In contrast, the climate is a chaotic system, making long-term predictions far more complex.
maushu commented on BrainFlood: Runtime code generation via reflection in .NET   sbox.game/churchofmiku/br... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Timwi · a year ago
Sounds like an awesome article, but it's unreadable on mobile (cut off on both sides) so I'll have to wait to read it until I get to a PC. Might be worth fixing
maushu · a year ago
Desktop mode in mobile seems to work fine.
maushu commented on Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)   amasci.com/weird/unusual/... · Posted by u/Simon_O_Rourke
1propionyl · a year ago
I tend to agree with you. But on the other hand, if true, this is the kind of crazy situation that could also lead to new mathematics where regimes considered unstable are revealed to have surprising stable nodes.

The big problem here is that it's described as a wall and not a progressively (quadratically) increasing field.

But what if there actually are network effects propagated by charge carrying particles in a suitably humid environment that turn the power of 2 into something else? Even a power of 3 could be perceived reasonably as a wall at human scale.

It's not "I want to believe" so much as "it feels like the maths might allow this under odd but reproducible circumstances" (my relevant background here is in math-physics and specifically analytic solutions to the relevant PDEs, which do have some very odd solutions). Would be nice to see people try.

There are differences between effects we can observe between ideal point charges and ones that only emerge as network effects when propagated across a network of less than ideal point charges that at least merit some investigation.

maushu · a year ago
I believe the description as a "wall" is not completely correct. Yes, it's a wall as a unpassable obstacle, but the description they gave when walking into it seems more like a field "can't turn around just walk backwards". The field was just dense enough to stop people from continuing moving forward similar to molasses.
maushu commented on Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated   mcgill.ca/oss/article/med... · Posted by u/Gadiguibou
xvector · a year ago
Wow, the FDA is worse than useless. So much regulatory red tape. These guys had every single reasonable safeguard in place and the FDA kept putting requirement on top of requirement until literally no one would qualify for the study.

20-30 years later and humanity has had precisely zero benefit because of the FDA's simply absurd, technically impossible level of overcaution in this scenario.

It is incredible how much medical innovation is being held back because of these sort of politics. I hope the people that constantly cheer on more regulation or the FDA itself take a look at cases like this and hundreds of other similar cases where companies have simply given up on safe, promising approaches due to the regulatory red tape.

maushu · a year ago
Sometimes red tape is good in situations that might affect a large part of the population. Remember the whole Thalidomide situation.
maushu commented on Sisk – Lightweight .NET Web Framework   sisk-framework.org/... · Posted by u/mrcsharp
CyanLite2 · a year ago
I’d like to support this, truly I do—I’m a .net fan.

But I read the docs. Sisk is supposed to be simple. But the code samples are nearly the same as ASP.NET minimal APIs. Can you clarify why Sisk is better than out of the box .NET?

maushu · a year ago
This project might have helped me when I needed to implement a console app that might or not start a web server.

Asp.net is very overbearing (even using minimal APIs) when you want to use other Microsoft utilities like DI, logging or config since it wants to be the main entry of the application.

Never found an easy way to use the host feature with a optional web application where they both shared the DI. Note that this is more a problem with the generic host than asp.net itself.

maushu commented on All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)   usgs.gov/media/images/all... · Posted by u/tigerlily
myself248 · a year ago
Turn Randall Munroe loose on this idea and be prepared for unspeakable devastation as a tsunami of Lovecraftian proportions wreaks havoc on the planet...
maushu · a year ago
He already did it with a 1km diameter ball (https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/) and the destruction was terrifying. Please keep him away from these other bigger water balls.
maushu commented on Up to 90% of my code is now generated by AI   techsistence.com/p/up-to-... · Posted by u/gregrog
giraffe_lady · a year ago
I have not had good results and stopped trying. I have had some usable results, but on careful inspection there were subtle problems or needless convolutions that implied a different solution was being used than was actually the case. The sort of thing that works but is prone to misinterpretation by the next one working in the code.

Based on this I'm very against using it for things the user doesn't have significant knowledge of. Some coworkers seem to be having better success but I definitely get the sense they are reading and editing the results carefully. I don't find it that much if any of a productivity gain so I stopped trying for now.

maushu · a year ago
> Some coworkers seem to be having better success but I definitely get the sense they are reading and editing the results carefully.

Yes, you need to consider the AI as if it were a junior programmer that sometimes makes mistakes. I use it for boring work that can be quickly checked. For example, the other day I asked for a 'give me next workday' algorithm based on the code structure I had, and it worked fine.

It's just one more tool in the toolbox.

maushu commented on Up to 90% of my code is now generated by AI   techsistence.com/p/up-to-... · Posted by u/gregrog
yumraj · a year ago
I have lot of software engineering experience and I’m working on something for which I decided to use Rails where I had zero prior experience in either Ruby or Rails. I’ve been using Claude for help.

Here’s what my personal experience: it’s been great at helping me understand things and converting stuff, which is both helping with learning about Rails as well as making progress would have been hard otherwise. It did much better at explaining than Rails documentation which I found lacking.

For example, I gave it large Go structs and it generated Rails generate commands to generate schema and XML serialization code. There was a little back and forth regarding foreign key relationships but “we” were able to figure it out.

I was even able to ask it for opinion on some table design, asked it to play the role of an experienced DBA, and it did great.

In short, it’s great if you know what you want to do at granular level, especially for new stuff. But, if I didn’t know what I know, I don’t think it would have worked.

Think of it like a calculator, can calculate what I tell it to calculate faster than me, but that’s it. But that in itself is huge.

maushu · a year ago
That's what I've been saying: AI is just a tool that can't yet replace programmers—maybe one day.

I use it for the boring work like generating comments, basic algorithms, API endpoints, and naming stuff. Even with the need to double-check the output, it still takes a load off my brain.

maushu commented on Anti-crime humps in medieval Venice   visitvenezia.eu/en/veneti... · Posted by u/phront
maushu · 2 years ago
I always thought this was only to avoid public urination. I wonder if they added the anti-crime as PR excuse.

u/maushu

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