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For similar reasons I have used ET for the US Eastern Time Zone for years when scheduling meetings. If you care about the time relative to GMT or other people’s time zone, calendar software takes care of that nicely.

I'm curious why the ontology-driven approach is better than just loading records like log and trace data into some variation of SQL tables with full text indexes ad/or Bloom filter indexes. That's how most log management systems work. It's pretty effective, especially for very large datasets.

> As far as I know, they never sent thanks in any form.

It concerned me more that Mark Zuckerberg regarded the Metaverse as something even desireable at all. In Snowcrash it's an escape from a dystopian real life--popular only to the extent that the alternative was so awful.

Not everyone agrees. As Satan said in Paradise Lost, “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

The Linux Kernel is not necessarily the most interesting target for LLMs, since it gets a huge amount of attention. I would be interested to hear what people find in less prominent projects. For completeness that includes proprietary code stored in GitHub.

In our company we found real security issues in proprietary code using Opus 4.6/4.7. Obviously typical attackers might have difficulty finding these without code access but Claude was finding real CVEs, which we fixed.

p.s., This is an argument for not trying to deal with security problems by neutering the LLMs. To the extent LLMs are effective it weakens security.

Edit: added p.s.

> I'm currently reading The Count of Monte Cresto and, boy, it's turning out to be quite the epic tale of revenge(no spoilers please!).

Once you get done, try The Three Musketeers. It's both romantic (like Monte Christo) and also really funny, not dark at all. Dumas was an amazing writer, backed by August Maquet, who wrote the first drafts on both novels.

> The language of the night, essays by Ursula Le Guin

That sounds really cool! I love Ursula Le Guin but had never heard of this book.

> Most people never learned BASIC, let alone at 8.

I learned it at age 12. It was pretty much as the author described, except in my case the "computer" was a Texas Instruments teletype, a phone, and a 300 baud modem. Plus a booklet with reddish cover introducing the BASIC language and how to connect to our school account at Washtenaw Computing Services. That was the beginning of a life-long journey with computers.

Why the hostility? The author has stated that he believes AI will alter how we think about operating systems. I don't think that's actually true, but I can see how this line of inquiry could lead to discoveries about how AI will change the line between installed software created by others and software that is "created" by users themselves. It's reasonable to suppose those discoveries in turn will result in new products. I wish him well and hope to hear more.

Using BYOC management reduces the costs significantly. The big cost in analytic SaaS offerings is generally compute, which vendors mark up significantly. (They keep margins low on storage.)

Disclosure: My company Altinity offers BYOC management of ClickHouse.

The relationship depends on the use case and is not linear. For web analytics and log management ClickHouse is a great replacement for ElasticSearch, for example.

I didn't appreciate Pippi Longstocking fully until I read Stieg Larsson's "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Occasionally covers are better than the original song.

It's perhaps no coincidence that the opening theme song of the Fincher (Mara/Craig) version of the movie is an outstanding cover of "The Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.