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New comment by deepsun in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

deepsun — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:06:03 +0000

Old school HTML coder is close, yes.

New comment by deepsun in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

deepsun — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:55:01 +0000

I use tables, columns and rows.

Am I DBA, accountant, or data engineer?

New comment by deepsun in "Why are we even doing all this?"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:18:52 +0000

I've read it, the main idea is "this isn’t just about mathematics or physics — it’s about fundamentally reimagining what it means to be human", but he still talks like all problems are solved. My point is that no only those that did not require novel creative approaches like Collatz.

New comment by deepsun in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:30:44 +0000

Yep, but Edison is long gone, while Hollywood kept compounding over time. There's zero other reasons Hollywood is _currently_ better than any other place for filmmaking.

New comment by deepsun in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:26:22 +0000

Santa Clara, CA. Lots of computer systems around.

New comment by deepsun in "Why are we even doing all this?"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:57:21 +0000

> AI has solved all our problems

What about the Collatz conjecture? AFAIK, it requires some novel approaches to mathematics, which would be a real testament to AI creative skills.

I don't doubt it will be solved some day, but as of now it's too early to say that all our problems are solved.

New comment by deepsun in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:17:39 +0000

> But tomorrow, it may be the illustrators

I thought illustrators have been out-of-job for quite time, right since Midjourney released. So not tomorrow, but yesterday.

New comment by deepsun in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:00:41 +0000

Yep, exactly my point "small change in initial parameters".

New comment by deepsun in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:59:44 +0000

Also, how it stops to be. Specializations like that get disrupted if there's an easier way to make money (aka Resource curse, aka Dutch Disease [1]).

Same thing with Israel -- if they had some easier way to make moneys they would go for it. But constant demand from their defense kept if afloat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

New comment by deepsun in "C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:53:23 +0000

Interestingly, Java had exactly that in mind when introduced `assert` keyword in very early versions (2002). It's equivalent to an `if` that can throw a runtime AssertionException, but only if the program is launched with `-enableassertions` flag.

The idea is that you use `-enableassertions` only during development, and your program should never rely on it. But it helps IDEs and static analyzers to have a contract about code.

New comment by deepsun in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

deepsun — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:43:24 +0000

Don't forget the compounding effect. Say, one country (or city or community) decides to invest their efforts into area X (e.g. clock making in Switzerland). They do it and become better and better. As long as they keep doing that they can become #1 in the world. Regardless of any reasons "why them".

There's no reason Netherlands are better at chip lithography except that they're doing it (Dutch agriculture success can be attributed to good soils/climate/geolocation, but not chips). There's no reason Hollywood is better at filmmaking. Kinda chaos theory -- small changes to initial state leads to huge changes in the later outcomes.

New comment by deepsun in "AWS Lambda Web Functions"

deepsun — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:12:25 +0000

Interestingly, Google Cloud recommends using Cloud Run (any container) instead of Cloud Functions (upload code). AWS can do that with Lambda too, I wonder why AWS decided to "move backwards" here, as I always found containers are easier and faster to work with?

Both container-way and code-way have the same scalability (code-way is built into a container anyway, just on the cloud). Maybe AWS re-builds the container for security every day?

The page has only a description, no comparisons. The best way to explain a technology is to compare it with something.

New comment by deepsun in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

deepsun — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:59:48 +0000

Yup. Fridges don't "need" to be connected, i.e. in order to work. They are "more efficient" when connected, but don't have to be.

New comment by deepsun in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"

deepsun — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:06:36 +0000

You just said that animals are tortured and then killed. I pointed out that farmers usually do not want to torture their cattle, on the contrary. But the end goal for the farmer is meat/eggs anyway.

So the Bertrand Russel's question -- is the farmer kind to their turkey?

And there's small portion of animals that happy to do what they are doing (shepherd dogs, sled dogs, even pull horses become sad without work), they are bred this way. Not sure whether we can call that slavery.

New comment by deepsun in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

deepsun — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:44:26 +0000

Managers can just call the store on-site employees. Or come in person. They just want to save on labor (aka replace humans with robots).

New comment by deepsun in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"

deepsun — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:41:08 +0000

Some animals are not tortured, but loved and pestered. Then killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion

New comment by deepsun in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

deepsun — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:02:25 +0000

She said that on October 7 both sides committed war crimes. Yes, on October 7.

New comment by deepsun in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

deepsun — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:05:48 +0000

So they focus-worked only on Friday 8am to 11am? I usually barely arrive to the office by 11am.

New comment by deepsun in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

deepsun — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:25:20 +0000

But the South African judge is really out of touch with reality. I remember it was South Africa who pushed an alternative UN resolution for Russo-Ukraine war trying to remove any blame from Russia.

New comment by deepsun in "A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here"

deepsun — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:00:45 +0000

"Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL"

https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/