WatchDog

Speculation, but perhaps they discovered the device, then added the surveillance camera to catch the suspect retrieving it.

> Lot of Australians can simply stop paying for power now due to free power on offer and batteries

This is overstating things.

Even if you only draw power during these three hours of the day, you still need to pay a daily supply charge, which makes up about 30%(and growing) of the average household electricity bill.

You would need about a 15 kWh battery to cover your household usage outside of these three hours.

A 13.5kWh Tesla battery system will cost about $15k installed, the taxpayer will cover about 30% of the battery cost(exc installation), which brings it down closer to $11k.

If you live an an owner occupied detached house(about 50% of Australian households), and you can afford a ~$11,000 for a battery, then you can probably pay off the battery within about 10 years.

What I've read, and it seems reasonable to me, is that glacier is mostly just stored on the same HDDs that everything else is stored on.

What you need to understand is that a modern hard drives are severely limited in the amount of IOPS they can perform. Disk size has grown, but read and write speeds have not kept up with it.

In 1990 you could read a whole hard drive in 2 minutes, in 2026 as sizes have grown it takes the entire day.

As a system designer you want the maximum utilisation of your hardware, so you want to be close to saturating the IO that your drives are capable of.

What that means in practice is that only a tiny portion of the drive can be allocated to files that are read often.

That leaves the rest of the drive for files which are not used very often.

That's a fair criticism.

There aren't many studios that have managed long term repeated success.

The best contenders would be:

Nintendo EPD, Nintendo's internal studio. ~40 years of sustained high quality games.

FromSoftware is also about 40 years old, although didn't really see breakout success until Demon's Souls in 2009.

Naughty Dog, founded in 1989, released Crash Bandicoot in 1996, and have continuously maintained a high bar.

Rockstar is 27 years old and makes great games, though it's been about 6 years since they released a game. Also I believe they have recently begun to unionize.

Valve is also worth a mention, they never really dropped the bar in terms of quality, they just lost interest in making games because they make so much money from Steam.

Yeah they still make good money.

I think calling WC3 the last good game is immoderately scornful though.

I regret the time I spent playing WoW, but it was category defining and a cultural phenomenon.

StarCraft 2 was excellent, perhaps to this day the best RTS ever made.

Diablo 3 was highly regarded.

Are there any unionized game studios that continue to produce highly acclaimed games?

Bethesda used to make great games, but the last great game they made was Skyrim in 2011, they unionized in 2022, and just recently they had some big layoffs.

CD Projekt made the highly acclaimed Witcher 3 in 2015, Cyberpunk disappointed on it's release in 2020, although it's reviews are mixed. CD Projekt unionized in 2023.

Blizzard have been in decline for a long time, they mostly focus on maintaining the cash cows games WoW and hearthstone. Although Diablo has is mostly well regarded(ignoring immortal). They haven't made any new ambitious game for a while. Their last attempt at making something ambitious was Titan, a cancelled MMO that they worked on for 6 years and supposedly spent $80 million on, cancelled in 2013.

The decline seems to begin well before the unionization, so I wouldn't say it's causal, it's more of a symptom of the company no longer being a place that can foster high functioning teams, where people feel like they are valued and working on something important.

So the village is the only information given about a candidate?

How else is the model supposed to interpret the intent of the prompter, other than wanting them to attempt to find and discriminate on patterns related to the village, regardless of how successful it is at that task?

If it were vulnerable to XSS, why would you even want it properly signed by a CA? People almost never inspect the certificates of working websites, the only time they might look at it is when it fails validation.

I don't use any skills, what kinds of skills are people finding most useful?

For general tasks, the model seems perfectly capable of figuring out things itself, for project or environment specific tasks, I just put that information in the readme or agents.md file.

How is it not correct?

Sure the benchmark does not measure a real world application, but I never claimed it was.

Do you have a better benchmark to share?

I thought I was being charitable by using a benchmark published by the database's own authors.

So the main feature of this project is that it's easy to fork a database, however it's 1.2x to 4x slower than sqlite, and it's level of testing and validation will be nothing like sqlite.

The simple way to fork a sqlite db is just to copy it, but if that is too slow you could use it with a copy on write filesystem, either something native, a FUSE filesystem, or build a sqlite VFS.

That would probably be faster to build, faster to run, and easier to validate.