bigiain

Yeah. There's a huge difference between how a 5-10 person start up or a 50-100 person business can handle this, compared to a tech giant or hyperscaler who's already got 1000 engineers in a dozen or more timezones.

It's easy, if you already have teams in the US, UK, India, and Australia - it's always normal office hours in one of those location.

"We have fully automated multi-cloud follow-the-sun platform migrations. All your code runs in datacenters where it's currently office hours."

I'd like to hope that at least for the majority of children who age out of the Imagination Library, both the child and the parents have "become people who read" and most likely the child gets a membership to their local library.

I remember my family getting taken to our local library every couple of weeks to return and then borrow books while I was in infants school. That made me 9 or 10 years old at the very oldest, and my youngest sister would have been at most 5 or 6 years old. So I'm pretty sure aging out of the Imagination Library is a pretty reasonable time to start that child using a "real" library, and start having several books a month available for free that way.

(I fully acknowledge the immense privilege I had having parents who understood and supported the importance of reading and education. I remember being extremely bored in kindergarten - 4 or 5 years old - and getting told to sit in the back with a few other kids who could read already and we'd read books while most of the other kids were being taught to read.)

i wouldn't be so sure. I know I move in privacy and "anti big tech" circles, but I (and a lot of people I know) am moving a lot of my personal/recreational internet time to rss feeds of personal websites, mailing lists, and Mastodon. And there's a fair bit of discussion and small but growing use of private and very small group federated Mastodon hosts.

Having said that, very little of that is being done by the sort of people who'd host it on a service like Dreamhost.

"They recently had a baby and now they suddenly don't" is probably a datapoint they sell to ambulance-chasing medical malpractice lawyers and PE-owned grief counseling clinics...

I have a Watchy, a kit "smartwatch" built around an ESP32, that now runs firmware that listens for Axon/Taser and Flock bluetooth and wifi prefixes, and vibrates on my wrist when it detects them.

Also, 10 or 15 years back, I wrote an Android app to do ALPR on the live camera view with the phone in a holder that let it see out he windscreen. I collected licence plates by spending an hour or so every few days over a few weeks sitting at cafes that had a good view of the marked and unmarked cars arriving and leaving the three major police stations nearby. It did work, but the camera in the Galaxy S3 and S4s I had to try it on couldn't get images good enough for OCR until the cop car was so close it wasn't useful... I contemplated experimenting with a drone camera gimbal when I was building and flying camera drones around 2014/2015, possibly using one of those clip on telephoto lens's that were common back then - but by then I'd ditched the car and I didn't figure I;d be able to build that to work on any of my motorcycles.

Mastodon and Lemmy might be close to what you're looking for?

Interestingly, I see Daniel from curl has recently been saying the problem of clearly slop vulnerability reports has largely dried up, and the majority of A I assisted bug reports are now reasonably high quality.

I wonder if that's a natural progression when AI users and tools first start to get involved in something, or if it's more that the curl codebase and maintainers/contributors are special and unusually high quality, so there's little left to find by people with little understanding prompting tools trhey are incapable of judging the results generated?

> One of the nerds is now saying "I don't find it fun anymore".

To be fair, it isn't just "one of the nerds", it is the nerd that was hosting the party that all the AI bros were gatecrashing. He's not saying the competitive AI-powered and reputation-seeking performative math problem solving shouldn't happen, he's just saying you don't get to do it in the little corner of the internet that he runs any more, showing off to all his friends. Go find some other website where the owner enjoys that, or build your own and create your own community and friends.

Wasn't there a suspicious death there last year (or maybe '24) that could easily have been a "violent death"?

it did go on to talk about the uncertainty, especially given the low numbers:

There is a 27% chance that we would observe 3 deaths or less, given an average rate of 4.9 deaths. This is also known as a p-value.5 6Why isn’t our p-value greater? Seems like 27% is quite low. By scientific standards, this isn’t abnormal at all. Observing 3 deaths is completely within reason.

However, the relative uncertainty of our point data is quite large at about 58% (1/sqrt(3)). This is the size of the error. If we were talking about death rates in the thousands, we might have an error of 3% or less. But the reality is that at such low counts, our data is considered quite “fuzzy”.

(I haven't been on over 10 years, but back in the early 2000s there were always rumours about deaths that the organisers managed to ensure ended up categorised as not happening at the event. People who died in ambulances on the way to hospital, or in hospital after injury at the event, or on the road in or out of the event...)

Also, when people operate equipment know to cause harm when accidents happen, such as cars, they're required to undergo training and testing before being granted a license to operate them, and to have insurance to ensure other people can be made whole in case of damage or injury. And there is an organization and profession that monitors people's use of that equipment, handing out fines or license suspensions based on actual or even just potentially dangerous operation.

Sadly, software "engineers" are not held accountable for their profession like everybody else with a real engineer title. And AI companies are all building Ford Pintos as fast as they can, and competing with each other about who's product makes the biggest explosion.

And, you've boasted about it in media releases, blog posts, and financial filings.

Is S3 priced in actual power-of-two GB? Or the shrinkflation power of ten GiB?