Classic: "Do those jeans fit me?"
You can either choose truthfulness or empathy.
Being empathic and truthful could be: “I know you really want to like these jeans, but I think they fit such and so.” There is no need empathy to require lying.
Readit Newsspockz commented on GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical gpuhammer.com/... · Posted by u/jonbaer
Not an issue- thats a single Tennant.
Which is my point.
Until the GPU is accessible by the browser and any website can execute code on it. Or the attack can come from a different piece of software on your machine.
spockz commented on Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/mustache_kimono
I think it's fine to not have functionality in the standard library if it can be implemented by including some code in my project. It's not fine to have a standard library that stuff disappears from over time.
Whenever code is removed from the Java standard library it is announced ages ahead of time and then typically it becomes available in a separate artefact so you can still use it if you depended on it.
spockz commented on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/thm
spockz commented on Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far luu.io/posts/2025-databas... · Posted by u/luuio
> The company is still standing and seems to be doing well financially, so I guess things turned out well enough, or maybe some of the technical decisions started trending more reasonable.
Perhaps I've been lucky or I haven't been observant enough, but I've never seen a company suffer financially because of inefficient code. Don't get me wrong, I still value good code for its own sake, but in my experience there is no correlation between that and profits.
IME, the suffering of bad performing code is mostly secondary. It increases compute costs. Mostly because requiring more beefy VMs than strictly required which is still benign and possibly more cost-efficient than spending more engineering effort. Sometimes because of the lack of performance now more scaling and orchestration is required which comes additional complexity and therefore compute and staffing cost. This is rare to get noticed and fixed due to organisational momentum.
The worst is when the performance is so bad it starts to prevent onboarding new features or customers.
spockz commented on Endometriosis is an interesting disease owlposting.com/p/endometr... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
My favourites are
- How much alcohol can a pregnant person drink? (Not too much, obviously, but is a glass of wine a couple of different days in the third trimester okay? Probably, but it varies a lot deoending on which country you're in.)
- When can children start eating green leaves? (I don't know, but even different counties in Sweden have different guidelines on that one.)
- Should infants sleep on their tummy or back? (Definitely on their back. There is no argument there. But when I was an infant -- which is not that long ago, parents were advised otherwise.)
For sleeping on their back. Our youngest daughter would not sleep on her back. She still sleeps on her tummy with arms folded under her. The only way she sleeps otherwise is in the car seat when properly exhausted. Put her to bed and she will turn around and fall asleep. So what does medicine say then?
spockz commented on Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime github.com/apple/containe... · Posted by u/jzelinskie
Cross posting in the right place instead of the other thread:
At first I thought this sounded like a blend of the virtualisation framework with a firecracker style lightweight kernel.
This project had its own kernel, but it also seems to be able to use the firecracker one. I wonder what the advantages are. Even smaller? Making use of some apple silicon properties?
Has anyone tried it already and is it fast? Compared to podman on Linux or Docker Desktop for Mac?
spockz commented on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS github.com/apple/containe... · Posted by u/gok
At first I thought this sounded like a blend of the virtualisation framework with a firecracker style lightweight kernel.
This project had its own kernel, but it also seems to be able to use the firecracker one. I wonder what the advantages are. Even smaller? Making use of some apple silicon properties?
Has anyone tried it already and is it fast? Compared to podman on Linux or Docker Desktop for Mac?
spockz commented on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS github.com/apple/containe... · Posted by u/gok
I for one have been using docker on Linux for years and have to use a Mac at work, and I'm totally baffled by the fact i need to install docker desktop to use the CLI and don't get why you'd need or want the GUI.
And like I'm not all anti-GUI, it's just that docker is one of those things I've never even imagined using a GUI for
You don’t have to install docker desktop. The cli can be installed via homebrew. (Co)Lima, podman, or others, can be used to create a VM running the docker engine.
It’s just that Docker Desktop makes it easy and also provides other integrations like file system sharing etc.
I have often wondered if it would be worth designing an EV battery that can permanently short out a bad cell in a string, perhaps by deliberately disabling balancing, letting the bad cells voltage fall to zero, and then perhaps having a single use 'bypass' that latches on.
It wouldn't be a seamless user experience, because if you discharge the cell to say 0.5 volts but then the user tries to charge their car, you can't let them, since you cannot safely charge a lithium cell which has fallen below the minimum voltage, but you also cannot bypass it till the voltage falls to zero. Could be done automatically at 3am though like system updates.
Either way you need some form of overbooking / compensating capacity.