I have many services running on my server and about half of them use postgres. As long as I installed them manually I would always create a new database and reuse the same postgres instance for each service, which seems to me quite logical. The least amount of overhead, fast boot, etc....
Cybersecurity communities too, there was one guy on [The Other Site] I saw awhile back who, whenever somebody asked a question about what they should do to secure X or Y or if Z security product was better than V because they just did general IT, would always default to something along the lines of “If you don’t know, don’t bother its above you and you should shell out $$$ to an actual firm otherwise you’ll be shelling out $$$$ to another firm to clean up your mess”
Surprise surprise, when I googled his username (The fact I was even able to do this isnt a great sign for a “security professional” IMO lmao) he actually owned one of those “Databreach Triage” firms…yea…I’m sure there was no conflict of interest whatsoever lmaoo
This is basically the crux why capitalism is inherently unfair, anti-democratic, and does not distribute wealth based on value in any way shape or form.
This tool is only paid such a figure because he was a member of the founding group, and continued to hold on for 15+ years. He may have been pivotal to their success, or he may have been an idiot that held them back for 15 years. Either way, after the initial x number of years, and y number of employees get involved, whatever value he provided is gradually diluted by the pool of employees. In the case of Reddit this effect is multiplied, as the mods and users have generated 99% of the sites value for the majority of its existence. They could have added zero features for the last decade; just focused on engineering problems to do with scaling, and the site would’ve prospered.
None of this matters to capitalism, as it distributes wealth (value) based on a range of convoluted claims to contracts and ownership, designed to overwhelmingly bias pre-existing capital; people who were born first, the luckiest, whose ancestors were the most cutthroat and ruthless (e.g. monarchs, lords, landowners, the church). It doesn’t have anything to do with actual value to society, or even within a specific business.
I see it happen a lot online with people “looking for help with”, but really just looking to vent about, open source software.
And I encounter it a lot at work with policies, reference docs, and little PowerShell scripts I’ve written.
“Hello I am tech support. Sysadmin, please help with strange situation A”
Sure thing, you’ll need to do X.
“But that doesn’t match our documentation, it says to do Y and that’s not working”
My man, look at the changelog on the first page. I wrote it and made most of the updates for the first year we had it. This is an exception, and adding it to the doc would have bloated it outrageously for how infrequently this comes up. Especially to explain the why. I’d also need to try to cover all the other rare exceptions, which would turn the doc into an absolutely useless shitshow. Anyway, I should have a PowerShell script to handle it, give me a bit to find it.
“Ahckstually, Numpty #3 says our team has a PowerShell script to handle it already, no worries! Thanks!”
Motherfu- My brother in christ who do you think wrote that? You know I used to be on your team, and I just said- My name is in the first line of the scri- I mean cool, glad I could help you get it sorted.
Similar story, talking with a vendor. Again, I’m the one not in quotes.
I need you to connect me with a technical resource on your side for assistance with attempting an alternate solution Y for the issue we are facing, which Important Muckety Muck #7 in my company said you were able to do for them. I understand that I previously suggested that we could do X on our side as a solution for our problem. As we’ve moved forward in other places on this project, we have found that X will not work for us as a solution for reasons A, B, and C.
(He’s breathing loudly through his mouth, hanging agape between words like some great panting missing-link-between-man-and-ape who has somehow found his way into a sales position. Somewhere in the dark recesses of his mind, the sounds of the wind through jungle trees, the calls of ancient and exotic birds and animals, the quiet noises of strange insects alien to this modern time and place, all combine into a beautiful primal music lost to the modern world. It flits through his subconcious, never quite fully able to be grasped.)
“I am the technical resource. According to my notes, X was identified as a solution to your problem.”
(This was not some poor third world guy stuck in a call center having to follow a basic help desk script. Same first language, a few states away, he’d been involved with this project the whole way)
Why is ‘race’ relevant here? What the fuck is wrong with Americans and how did they become so astonishingly self flagellating.
That said… this sounds like one of those fantasy scenarios where “then everyone clapped”.
Just on the insecure posture of this tweet, I’m prepared to bet cold hard cash that he asked her for clarity or something with a informational challenge “but does x not come from y?” Or whatever and she manufactured his reasoning and the rest to feel good. She doesn’t seem to know what et al means either.
It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.
Imagine buying into such an ecosystem that’s embedded in you just to get the email “we’ve changed! Here’s what you should know! Pricing will change from x to y” etc along with all other stupid shit
Gonna be some eternal sunshine type shit with weirdos masturbating to your stream of consciousness (against TOS of course)
The country’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of a private Calgary school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students who were denied prayer space on campus....
No, the title is subjective. It would be something like “court upholds fine”, nof “not hear out a party” since there’s often no room for a defence.
Highest courts are usually acting upon a “this judgement is faulty, because they didn’t allow x” or “… didn’t consider y”. Not “… they disagreed with my opinion”.
Well, there’s also a lot of factors when it comes to things feeling sluggish.
For short periods of time, due to necessity, I’ve run very simple setups of just the service provider modem, and that could get me to around 10-15ms ping on a DSL line. After all my tweaking, I was running a modem line card (hwic) in my Cisco router, with a firewall and premium wifi. Which dropped response times by upwards of 10ms to ~5ms or so. I’ve further increased the responsiveness of my connection running a pair of raspberry pi systems which were set up as DNS caching relays using the bind DNS server.
The bandwidth never changed. But it felt a lot faster.
The next point was the firewall that I had in place was set up with QoS to limit the bandwidth of any one system, and manage the fair distribution of the available bandwidth among the devices on the network. This did less for making it feel fast, and was more for making it feel consistent. No matter what was happening on the network, there was always some bandwidth available for whatever else I wanted to do.
Most all in one wifi routers can’t do a decent job of QoS, so if someone decides to fire up a download at the full internet bandwidth, everything else slows to a crawl.
I’m kind of an odd case though. I’m a professional Network administrator, and my home network is often better run than my client’s networks.
It’s downright unusual if I need to restart any of my network equipment to fix a problem. I get frustrated when I have to call my ISP to fix a problem. Usually by the time I call, I already know what the problem is, where it is, and what needs to be done to fix it. So their usual script of restarting the modem and blah blah blah, does exactly nothing, because I’ve already run through more diagnostics than they even know about. It’s a pretty rare case when I can tell them that I have x problem and need y solution, and they’ll actually listen. When they do, it saves a lot of time for both them and me. When they refuse to listen, I usually just humor them for about 15 minutes, at which point either they’re doing what I want them to, or I’m yelling at them for making my life difficult and asking to speak to a manager. I don’t easily suffer fools that think I don’t know what I’m doing. I always try to keep my cool because they’re just doing their job, and I don’t want to make trouble; by the time I’m yelling, it’s because they’ve made trouble for me, or spoken to be like I’m an idiot who can’t tell the difference between an ethernet cable and a telephone jack.
I’m way off topic at this point. There’s plenty of factors that weigh into whether a connection feels sluggish or not, of which, only one is bandwidth… When you dogpile all your network services into one device, like they do for a wifi router (which is a router, firewall, switch, access point, DHCP server, and frequently DNS relay), it tends to negatively affect its ability to do any of those things well.
Somewhat true, but there were a lot of genuinely good “new development will do X” or “Millionaire sets up foundation for Y”. Those invariably were filled with top comments about “sure this will make food more affordable in X, but what about (mostly or totally unrelated bad thing)??” or “this is a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t immediately solve all problems!!”, which were exhausting and useless. For a whole bunch of people, Nothing Can Ever Be Good.
You know, like a bunch of comments in this thread.
If I ask an LLM something like “is there a git project that does <something I’d describe in natural language but not keywords>” or is there a Windows program that does X, it may make up the answers
Obviously it depends on the LLM, but ChatGPT Plus doesn’t hallucinate with your example. What it does is provide a list of git projects / windows programs, each with a short summary and a link to the official website.
And the summary doesn’t come from the website — the summary is a short description of how it matches your requirements list.
I’ve also noticed Bing has started showing LLM summaries for search results. For example I’ve typed a question into Duck Duck Go (which uses Bing internally) and seen links to reddit where the answer is “a user answered your question stating X, and another user disagreed saying Y”.
I’m encountering hallucinations far less often now than I used to - at least with OpenAI based products.
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Thank you to the lovely german who read my book! What did you think? (Amazon tells me these things like "country x read y pages of your book.")
Have a cute cat (Simon's Cat specifically) as thanks.
As long as the AI has access and can accurately interpret your medical history
This is the crux of the issue imo. Interpreting real peoples’ medical situations is HARD. So the patient has a history of COPD in the chart. Who entered it? Did they have the right testing done to confirm it? Have they been taking their inhalers and prophylactic antibiotics? The patient says yes but their outpatient pharmacy fill history says otherwise (or even the opposite lol) Who do we believe, how do we find out what most likely happened? Also their home bipap machine is missing a part so better find somebody to fix that, or get a new machine.
Everyone wants to believe that medicine is as simple as “patient has x y z symptom, so statistics say they’ve got x y z condition,” when in reality everything is intense shades of grey and difficult to parse, overlapping problems.
It’s the lowest qualified bidder. What qualified means varies a lot. Qualified can mean that it is literally has to have the trademark of a certain company on the machine/system (yes I have seen this spec). Qualified could mean a set of criteria so specific that no one could reasonably come close to it except one or two companies. Qualified could mean a rigid set of business criteria (must be based with x distance away, must have been doing y for a set amount of years) that only one company fits it. Plus there is always blacklisting. Mess up enough and you aren’t getting work there for a decade. The governments are not powerless in who they hire.
Added to this there is usually a general contractor who outsources most of the work. They have a lot of power in who they want. Plus there are competitive specs which are fun to write. Did you company secretly invest 6 months into making a new feature? Get the new feature added to the spec and make sure they lose business for a while playing catch-up.
I completely understand, but remember that for some people this is just a matter of ideology. Any response will be filled with so many bullshit claims that you’ll have to spend an hour digging through random articles, YouTube videos, and googling drive-by statements in order to refute them.
They argue by shooting dozens of points at you hoping that you’ll just say “ah shit, this person is quoting X, Y, and Z so they must be correct”, knowing that no reasonable person would spend the time required to refute each and every BS statement they’ve made. (gish galloping, for the uninitiated)
I did this once before, and it took much longer than expected to refute each bullshit source. When dealing with these people you either don’t engage, or enjoy them feasting on your free time.
I find it amazing that if a child is brought up in a community/country different from the origin of the child, the child is still able to pick up and speak their language fluently. Our ability, as humans, to imitate and communicate is incredibly complex regardless of where we are from....
No. If there is any truth in your “a child with X ancestry raised in Y land, can learn X easily” it’s only because their parents probably still use their native language.
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022....
In your hypothetical, the market just jumping in cost like that creates opportunity for competition in the market. Because everyone who could not establish a biz charging X can get into the game charging between X amd X+Y, undercutting the gougers and driving prices lower over time. Theoretically.
Yes. I’d just say “you know how the Courts have the power to do X, and decide Y? Well the government decided to devolve those powers to an independent office, so that people didn’t have to pay for lawyers and deal with complicated legal processes. I work in that office making the Y decisions.”
Honestly, the longer I work in tech, the less confidence I have in anyone’s title. Even searching for a job, different companies have different ideas of what, pretty much everything is…
I’m more on the side of IT support (sysadmin/netadmim/systems engineer/network engineer/second/third level support/engineer/whatever tf)… And even looking for a job for myself, it’s a nightmare… Even mundane details about the job are messed up. I saw a posting for a “remote support technician”, by their definition, this was “remote” as in, not from an office. The job was on-site support for remote sites. I don’t even think it was an IT position, more like mechanical maintenance IIRC. So you were “remote” aka, not at their office, doing support (for something not electronic), as a “technician”.
It’s bullshit all the way down.
When I was last looking for a job someone commented that I had “only” applied to x positions in y weeks, when their search for (some vague title related to my usual employment) had z search results, where z was more than 10 times x. I didn’t bother replying but I couldn’t help but think, did you look at any of those postings? I literally had a search filter for jobs that was “CCNA” (Cisco certified) and I literally had administrative assistant positions coming up… Those are little better than secretarial jobs. I know because I clicked on it because maybe, just maybe they meant an assistant to the systems administrator, but no, it was exactly what it said on the tin.
This is my frustration with IT. There are zero standards for what a job is. Developer? Is it software or something related to construction? Engineer? Are you examining the structure of something or building out IT solutions? Admin? Office admin? Systems admin? Department admin? There’s too many “admin” related jobs… “Support”? Supporting what exactly? Am I programming switchports, or is this some other kind of bullshit support.
That’s not even getting into all the actual IT jobs that are clearly out in left field. Sysadmin jobs that require years of experience with an application that’s extremely specific to one industry; an application you could learn likely in a matter of days, which isn’t very complicated, but your resume goes in a bin if you don’t have some very specific certification and a number of years of experience with the related app… I know that because I’ve applied to such positions and didn’t even get a courtesy email telling me to pound sand.
Which takes me to another point, you don’t get rejected. You get ghosted. They don’t want you? Fine, tell me that. You don’t even have to give me a reason, just some copy pasta about pursuing other candidates. That way I will know to not expect anything further, and keep trying. I mean, I’m going to keep trying no matter what, but still…
The whole job market is a hellscape.
Then, I can turn my attention to the pointless titles people have, which often don’t mean shit outside of your specific workplace. “Lead customer success technician” … Ok, wtf is that? What does any of that mean? Are you technical in the sense of working with information technology? Or is it one of the DOZENS of other “technical” things? Everyone is a technician and everyone is an engineer now. Those terms used to mean something. Now they’re just keywords to blast your resume with to try to match some AI filter so you can get a call. If you don’t play the game, your left behind.
I feel bad for all the professional engineers out there who hold degrees in real engineering. Now anyone, everyone and their mother is calling themselves some kind of engineer. It’s all word salad and I hate it.
“In mathematics, the distributive property of binary operations is a generalization of the distributive law, which asserts that the equality x*(y+z) = x*y + x*z is always true in elementary algebra.”
This is the first sentence of the article, which clearly states that the distributive property is a generalization of the distributive law, which is then stated.
Make sure you can comprehend that before reading on.
To make your misunderstanding clear: You seem to be under the impression that the distributive law and distributive property are completely different statements, where the only difference in reality is that the distributive property is a property that some fields (or other structures with a pair of operations) may have, and the distributive law is the statement that common algebraic structures like the integers and the reals adhere to the distributive property.
I don’t know which school you went to or teach at, but this certainly is not 7th year material.
Are you reusing one postgres instance for all services?
I have many services running on my server and about half of them use postgres. As long as I installed them manually I would always create a new database and reuse the same postgres instance for each service, which seems to me quite logical. The least amount of overhead, fast boot, etc....
GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu (www.theverge.com)
Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods (futurism.com)
degree in bamf (mander.xyz)
That was a close one (lemmy.world)
Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies (jacobin.com)
It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.
Supreme Court won't hear appeal of private school that wouldn't let Muslim students pray (www.cbc.ca)
The country’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of a private Calgary school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students who were denied prayer space on campus....
Podcini: a modern and more minimalist fork of AntennaPod (github.com)
Podcini is really great! It modernizes the Antennapod codebase (we wouldnt believe but that is pretty outdated!) and makes it more efficient....
When a cave has better wifi than I do (lemmy.ca)
FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service (arstechnica.com)
How People Are Really Using GenAI (hbr.org)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
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Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour (gizmodo.com)
Cyberattacks are hitting water systems throughout US, Biden officials warn governors (www.cnn.com)
Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled (www.theverge.com)
In this Ukrainian village, almost no men are left (www.washingtonpost.com)
Are the languages that can be fluently spoken only if you are descendent of a particular community/country ?
I find it amazing that if a child is brought up in a community/country different from the origin of the child, the child is still able to pick up and speak their language fluently. Our ability, as humans, to imitate and communicate is incredibly complex regardless of where we are from....
College swimmers, volleyball players sue NCAA over transgender policies (apnews.com)
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022....
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Tool for easily creating custom Xorg resolutions?
Creating custom resolutions is quite tedious. Surely I can’t be the first person to desire a tool which just does it for me....
If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?
As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs (lemmy.world)
Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)