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oasisaimlessly commented on AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs   coderabbit.ai/blog/state-... · Posted by u/birdculture
naasking · a day ago
It's totally plausible that AI codegen produces more bugs. It still seems important to familiarize yourself with these tools now though, because that bug count is only ever going to go down. These tools are here to stay.
oasisaimlessly · 21 hours ago
Are you trying to assure others or reassure yourself?
oasisaimlessly commented on Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach   techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri... · Posted by u/donohoe
nisegami · a day ago
>Btw. The https communication comparison does not hold, there is always a third party that can read what you say. E2E chats are effectively communication where evidence is instantly destroyed.

If I use a third party CA this is correct. But what third party can read communications over HTTPS between a client and a server I control with a self signed SSL cert?

oasisaimlessly · a day ago
Not even correct for a third party CA (unless they MITM you).
oasisaimlessly commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture
onionisafruit · 13 days ago
In the NixOS scenario you described, what keeps you from finding an unrelated thing stopped working three days later and having to find what changed?

I’m asking because you spoke to me when you said “because I'm simply not good at documenting my changes in parallel with making them”, and I want to understand if NixOS is something I should look into. There are all kinds of things like immich that I don’t use because I don’t want the personal tech debt of maintaining them.

oasisaimlessly · 13 days ago
Not OP, and not a very experienced with NixOS (I just use Nix for building containers), but roughly speaking:

* With NixOS, you define the configuration for the entire system in one or a couple .nix files that import each other.

* You can very easily put these .nix files under version control and follow a convention of never leaving the system in a state where you have uncommitted changes.

* See the NixOS/infra repo for an example of managing multiple machines' configurations in a single repo: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/blob/6fecd0f4442ca78ac2e4102c...

oasisaimlessly commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode   old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
bmacho · 13 days ago
Why can't I read it too? Replies act like it was something over-the-top great, yet HN isn't showing it to me?

Which brings us back to the topic: why would anyone use HN when it is not good for its single purpose: sharing text between users? It's not even like a fridge with ads, where an ad is an additional annoyance, but fridge functions still work. HN sucks at its very purpose.

oasisaimlessly · 13 days ago
Enable 'showdead' in HN preferences. Clicking a direct link to the comment should work too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171635
oasisaimlessly commented on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z   ryanliptak.com/blog/windo... · Posted by u/LorenDB
hulitu · 19 days ago
Linux is broken from this point of view. Inserting an USB drive before boot breaks booting .
oasisaimlessly · 19 days ago
Only if you have a broken kernel cmdline or fstab that references /dev/sd* instead of using the UUID=xyz or /dev/disk/by-id/xyz syntax.
oasisaimlessly commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming   bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener
rounce · 19 days ago
Yep, I run NixOS on everything but no way in hell am I recommending it to complete newbies to Linux who also have no programming experience.

I help run a small Linux gaming community and at least once a day on the Discord (yes it’s a problematic service but that’s another rant) there is someone trying to install a mod or set up some piece of sim hardware, having recently switched from Windows, and being confused by FlatPak or by system immmutability.

It feels like these things are a double edged sword, on the one hand they are less prone to break they system and not under and why, on the other they now have a bunch of new roadblocks they don’t understand nor fully comprehend the purpose of. I can’t think of a better alternative but I sort of feel that the technology isn’t the issue, more like lack of a good FTUE which provides low friction education about how the system works and why that is beneficial. To use a bit of a tired analogy, it seems to me that a certain proportion of users are being thrown a nice big fish but aren’t being helped to understand what a fishing rod is, let alone able to fish for themselves.

I think I’m really just echoing other users’ comments about how a lot of the experience doesn’t really deliberately speak to people who are barely technical and just want things to work. The sort of people who run an iPhone because it’s simple, and whose response to windows acting weird is to just reinstall it.

oasisaimlessly · 19 days ago
FTUE = First Time User Experience
oasisaimlessly commented on G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what "Apple corners" are   printables.com/model/1490... · Posted by u/dgroshev
d--b · 22 days ago
This is also what's happening in an elevator. You not only want the speed to increase slowly, you also want the acceleration to increase slowly, cause that's what actually makes your guts go down. And the best way to do this is to have the acceleration of the acceleration continuous.

In the end the position of the elevator is 3-continuous (why is it called G3? in France we call this C3). And the apple corner is just a graph of the position of an elevator wrt time. Mind blowing

oasisaimlessly · 22 days ago
G^n curvature solely depends on the geometry of the curve, while C^n continuity also depends on how you parameterize the curve. So, G^n is what you want if you're talking about a purely geometric shape rather than an (x(t), y(t)) trajectory.

* reference: section 2.1 of https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348a-21-winter/Reade...

oasisaimlessly commented on General principles for the use of AI at CERN   home.web.cern.ch/news/off... · Posted by u/singiamtel
pu_pe · 25 days ago
Sure, but not every application has dramatic consequences such as plane or car crashes. I mean, we are talking about theoretical physics here.
oasisaimlessly · 24 days ago
Half-Life showed a plausible story of how high energy physics could have unforeseen consequences.
oasisaimlessly commented on Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster   cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
__turbobrew__ · 25 days ago
When I was involved about a year ago, cilium falls apart at around a few thousand nodes.

One of the main issues of cilium is that the bpf maps scale with the number of nodes/pods in the cluster, so you get exponential memory growth as you add more nodes with the cilium agent on them. https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/operations/performance/scal...

oasisaimlessly · 25 days ago
Wouldn't that be quadratic rather than exponential?
oasisaimlessly commented on "Good engineering management" is a fad   lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt... · Posted by u/jkbyc
sokoloff · a month ago
What valuable stuff was delivered if the market isn’t there?
oasisaimlessly · 25 days ago
Whatever the sales department failed to create a market for.

u/oasisaimlessly

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