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    what did you learn today? (part 2)

    I am so glad we are on memory safe languages like Java and Python. Yes especially Java has weak spots, like whenever you allow deserialization that turns into remote code execution pretty much by default, but use JSON over HTTP as transport and you need to fuck up severely to get an RCE level...
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    Ukraine is game to you? Part deux.

    Nice mushroom cloud View: https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3mlqfytjul22n
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    what did you learn today? (part 2)

    https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html But scrolling through the diff, damn, I am surprised they haven't been found earlier. These aren't Mythos-level bugs but often simple bounds overflow. Typical underfunded open source C project :(
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    The mild annoyances thread!

    Well it must be coming from somewhere. Are these native mice or house mice?
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    Pandemic Gardening Thread. 2020–Onward

    Watermelons (Tigrimini F1) popped up like a week ago and it's still a 🌱 with no true leaves, not even a tiny hint of it, and I was getting worried. But seems like it just takes forever, I now see a speck of it. Sheez, I was about to start over but that sets me back weeks. Also, 2/7 sprouted...
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    Can renewables replace fossil and nuclear fuels?

    [Citation required] Where do you get that "they" are running some crap from 2015? Nvidia has been optimizing the hell out of their stack and how Hopper gained performance over its lifetime is impressive. Pretty sure 2015 wasn't running 1. an 1.8T weights model, 2. has like 4 different tunables...
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    Can renewables replace fossil and nuclear fuels?

    Datacenters running single large loads* are very different load than a factory - you can't just randomly shed load there when the grid hits a snag, but computers are pretty good at that. Set a 50% power limit and you still get ~70% of the normal performance. Worst case, drop clock to 1/10th...
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    The Generative AI Bubble Is really Going to Pop - Part Deux

    It's also a problem of bad internal IT. The bigger you are the more likely you are stuck with Salesforce, SAP or one of the Oracle products. Any change or upgrade always runs late and at a multiple of the budget. Trying to duct tape AI onto that is pretty doomed, or the AI layer has to be so...
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    Can renewables replace fossil and nuclear fuels?

    Let's see where this line ends up. But they both shot past Adobe, the face of annoying software subscription, with an annual revenue of $23B Tell that to the kernel and Firefox developers then. Firefox: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/ They opened up a...
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    Self Driving Car thread

    Plus officially it's ADAS so anything that goes wrong, the human takes the blame. The moment they go full robowhatever though, popcorn time. Just like Waymo, anything that could happen will happen, flooded road, whoopsie taxi drove into it and got washed away. But then a terrible version of it...
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    For mislabeling. Everyone knows 304/316 series is best for pitting and corrosion resistance so you look for the 304/316 stamp on the pot. But that can be fake too. Oh, and ~70% nitric acid too to delete the passivation layer. This test liquid is extremely corrosive in order to free enough...
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    Tragedy of the common is extreme in China. Kids poop randomly in the bushes and sidewalks. Manners as a concept is deleted during the cultural revolution. Ethics too, apparently everything can be fake, even food grade stainless steel cookware and utensils, that's the latest scandal after people...
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    Ukraine is game to you? Part deux.

    When Russia was getting properly rekt in Kursk they cut off intelligence, after a farce of a meeting where Zelensky dared not to wear a suit. Premediated bullshit. US still plays a role of hosting weapons manufacturers but as far as I know, it is all paid for now by Europe.
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    Can renewables replace fossil and nuclear fuels?

    But they do run multiple things in parallel. It's "just" 15 MW of variation or maybe 5%, networking isn't good enough to use hundreds of MW for the same task, yet. Even TPU 7 only has a "world size" of 9216 TPUs in a single cluster, so maybe 10MW? You can duct tape multiple together but you...
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    Surge protection for external LTE antenna?

    Ah, okay, I misread that. Anyway, STP is recommended by pretty much any manual I pick up, like the Unifi Protect G6 Turret, which links to...
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    Market, trading, investing & business during 47th administration

    Ah so it goes off patent in 2026 in China and various countries and 2032 for USA, yeah, just a few years and surely there will be alternative vendors that are willing to run an abbreviated trial to enter the market. If too many does that the price will crater. That reminds me of an FT article...
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    what did you learn today? (part 2)

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    The Generative AI Bubble Is really Going to Pop - Part Deux

    But most of OpenAI's plans are nothing more than paperwork, not firm commitments. But yes, of all the firms, they are the most yolo. Oracle though seems stretched, same with CoreWeave, these two can be the start of the deflation of the bubble. Microsoft will be fine, they also own a slice of...
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    Self Driving Car thread

    Lol "insane drives better than most drivers" but it just randomly sees the wrong traffic light when there is > 1 at an intersection. Ah, Tesla FSD hypers, never change. The question is what the police and courts do when accidents happen, because it's not driving better than someone taking...
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    Renting in the UK when you're self employed

    Not all private landlords use management company here across the channel, those may be more flexible and willing to bend the rules. The corporate built and managed ones are the worst, like €1k rent (barely above social subsidized housing) €4k income requirement. Piss off, if I earned that much...