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New comment by cbsmith in "Baseload Is a Myth (2024)"

cbsmith — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:57:59 +0000

The article concedes that there is a minimum power consumption. Thinking that therefore defines your generation strategy (e.g. I will have plants that constantly generate that minimum amount and the rest I'll handle with separate peak plants) is a myth.

New comment by cbsmith in "Baseload Is a Myth (2024)"

cbsmith — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:54:03 +0000

...because they have other goals beyond reduce carbon emissions.

New comment by cbsmith in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

cbsmith — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:28:23 +0000

Better a financial barrier than a physical one. If satellites and spaceships are literally smashing in to each other, I have a hard time interpreting it as anything other than a regulatory failure.

New comment by cbsmith in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

cbsmith — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:16:17 +0000

Are there other OSS LLMOps projects that have overtaken you? I couldn't think of one.

New comment by cbsmith in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

cbsmith — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:04:44 +0000

As someone who has jumped from one industry to another: I'm sorry, but domain expertise isn't much of a moat. Yes, it takes a while to learn a particular industry/business, but it doesn't take that long, and worse still: one advantage that LLMs have over us humans is they have such a broader inventory of human knowledge at their disposal. I've literally used LLMs as product managers for new domains, and while I see the rough edges that LLMs have, they always have significant domain expertise.

I don't think that's the moat.

New comment by cbsmith in "Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise"

cbsmith — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:45:29 +0000

Confirming it was fixed and it worked well.

New comment by cbsmith in "Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise"

cbsmith — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:02:34 +0000

Installing collected packages: sortedcontainers, boolean.py, urllib3, typing-extensions, tqdm, tomlkit, tomli-w, tomli, tenacity, stevedore, shellingham, ruamel-yaml, regex, PyYAML, pyparsing, pygments, pycparser, platformdirs, pip-api, packaging, packageurl-python, msgpack, mdurl, marshmallow, MarkupSafe, license-expression, joblib, idna, h11, filelock, defusedxml, click, charset_normalizer, certifi, annotated-types, annotated-doc, typing-inspection, requests, pydantic-core, py-serializable, pip-requirements-parser, nltk, markdown-it-py, jinja2, httpcore, dparse, cffi, anyio, rich, pydantic, httpx, cyclonedx-python-lib, cryptography, CacheControl, typer, safety-schemas, joserfc, bandit, pip-audit, authlib, safety, velonus Successfully installed CacheControl-0.14.4 MarkupSafe-3.0.3 PyYAML-6.0.3 annotated-doc-0.0.4 annotated-types-0.7.0 anyio-4.13.0 authlib-1.7.2 bandit-1.9.4 boolean.py-5.0 certifi-2026.4.22 cffi-2.0.0 charset_normalizer-3.4.7 click-8.3.3 cryptography-48.0.0 cyclonedx-python-lib-11.7.0 defusedxml-0.7.1 dparse-0.6.4 filelock-3.29.0 h11-0.16.0 httpcore-1.0.9 httpx-0.28.1 idna-3.15 jinja2-3.1.6 joblib-1.5.3 joserfc-1.6.5 license-expression-30.4.4 markdown-it-py-4.2.0 marshmallow-4.3.0 mdurl-0.1.2 msgpack-1.1.2 nltk-3.9.4 packageurl-python-0.17.6 packaging-26.2 pip-api-0.0.34 pip-audit-2.10.0 pip-requirements-parser-32.0.1 platformdirs-4.9.6 py-serializable-2.1.0 pycparser-3.0 pydantic-2.13.4 pydantic-core-2.46.4 pygments-2.20.0 pyparsing-3.3.2 regex-2026.5.9 requests-2.34.2 rich-15.0.0 ruamel-yaml-0.19.1 safety-3.7.0 safety-schemas-0.0.16 shellingham-1.5.4 sortedcontainers-2.4.0 stevedore-5.7.0 tenacity-9.1.4 tomli-2.4.1 tomli-w-1.2.0 tomlkit-0.15.0 tqdm-4.67.3 typer-0.25.1 typing-extensions-4.15.0 typing-inspection-0.4.2 urllib3-2.7.0 velonus-1.0.0a1

(venv) $ velonus scan data

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "~/venv/bin/velonus", line 5, in 

    from shield.main import app

  File "~/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/shield/main.py", line 15, in 

    from shield.commands import auth, config, scan

  File "~/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/shield/commands/scan.py", line 32, in 

    from scanner.pipeline import ScanPipeline

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'scanner'

New comment by cbsmith in "Computer Hobby Movement in Canada"

cbsmith — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:52:29 +0000

Wow. I remember the Toronto PET Users Group. That takes me back.

New comment by cbsmith in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

cbsmith — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:54:47 +0000

He he. If you think the costs for an education will go down because they're seeing fewer applications and they're getting less funding from other sources, I have bad news for you.

New comment by cbsmith in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"

cbsmith — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:49:50 +0000

This is a bizarre article, and it kind of reminds me of the concept that the only truly good software is the software you've never used.

New comment by cbsmith in "Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem"

cbsmith — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:21:30 +0000

Also correct. I see the problem as particularly rampant with the video sites.

New comment by cbsmith in "Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem"

cbsmith — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:33:47 +0000

I was going to say: "in what way is the problem restricted to health?"

New comment by cbsmith in "GTFOBins"

cbsmith — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:09:43 +0000

It's kind of a comprehensive guide to all the ways that restricted shells don't.

New comment by cbsmith in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

cbsmith — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:57:03 +0000

Yup. Sounds right. Interestingly though, you can use the new input cover with the older frames.

New comment by cbsmith in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

cbsmith — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:14:14 +0000

More like the reverse: if you want the new battery you need a new bottom.

New comment by cbsmith in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

cbsmith — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:50:08 +0000

Ask yourself why airlines deliberately overbook flights while venues do their best to never overbook events, why are subject to identify verification before a flight, and why you go through the TSA before you board... and you'll start to understand why airline seats are maybe not such the perfect metaphor for concert seats.

New comment by cbsmith in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

cbsmith — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:23:45 +0000

> If only the federal government were allowed to pursue this case, it would have ended when the administration changed.

This is more why DOJ cases should remain independent from the executive branch. Politically controlled prosecutions means justice is intrinsically unequal. Having states be independent is helpful, but not in this regard.

New comment by cbsmith in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

cbsmith — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:19:47 +0000

> Because artists don't always want to extract the maximum money possible from their fanbase?

I think that's both true and not. The larger truth is that trying to maximize the extraction during a single ticket sale is incredibly short-sighted of an artist. Having fans attend shows is a very effective way to grow your fan base and your brand, and that brings so much more lifetime value for an artist than you'd ever get from a single ticket sale (except for maybe on your retirement tour --and even then).

New comment by cbsmith in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

cbsmith — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:15:04 +0000

> They don't seem to mention the most obvious reason: the same companies profit from both the primary and secondary market.

That's not true. Ticketmaster has a monopoly (or near-monopoly) on the primary market. On the secondary market they have a fraction of the market; the dominant players are StubHub, SeatGeek, and Vivid. Furthermore, most of the revenue from primary ticket sales goes to the venue and the artist/promoter, and they are usually completely disintermediated from the resale market.

New comment by cbsmith in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

cbsmith — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:10:15 +0000

> Why not just ban the transfer of tickets and allow refunds?

There are laws against transfer bans. Also, people don't like being required to provide identity information just to buy a ticket to a live event, and venues HATE enforcing identity checks.

...and you'd be surprised how often you can get a refund on tickets just by asking your venue for a refund.

> First choice in seats goes to the most passionate and attentive fans.

Now you've opened the debate about how to determine which fans are the most passionate and attentive... ;-) Ticketmaster has a service for this that attempts to address this called Verified Fan.