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New comment by jppittma in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"

jppittma — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:45:37 +0000

that was accidental? this would be straight up fraud.

New comment by jppittma in "ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

jppittma — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:14:13 +0000

EndeavorOS. I think it's actually the userspace though, which this aims to emulate. The problem is that if you're using a macbook for final cut pro, then endeavorOS doesn't solve your problem.

New comment by jppittma in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

jppittma — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:07:24 +0000

I think the better example is actually GNU, which endured several challenges as a clean room implementation of unix. I think this is legally sound, but IANAL.

New comment by jppittma in "Why OOP Exists"

jppittma — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:05:07 +0000

> none of the components had sovereignty over the state they needed to do their job independently. It's just components micro-managing components all the way down.

Isn't one of the tenants of FP that nothing is mutable anywhere?

New comment by jppittma in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

jppittma — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:14:32 +0000

That's because megadonors don't give to candidates directly? In order to trigger the unlimited campaign finance guaranteed by citizens united, you create a super pac. They can't openly coordinate with the candidate.

New comment by jppittma in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

jppittma — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:06:31 +0000

Yeah, but that's a suicide pact. In order to sell us debt at a loss, they have to take a loss.

New comment by jppittma in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

jppittma — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:41:20 +0000

I think that argument should stop with advocacy for law. I have no problem with this when it's means playing optimally within the current laws, things like hiring world class tax attorneys. But if using your immense wealth to ensure the rules that everyone plays by favor you specifically, instead of the country/world, It feels like this is closer to bribing a judge than hiring a tax attorney.

New comment by jppittma in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

jppittma — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:59:07 +0000

Each marginal person produces more than they consume. As a whole, everyone is better off for having more people.

New comment by jppittma in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

jppittma — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:16:08 +0000

Claude will migrate your whole repo in an hour.

New comment by jppittma in "Claude Design"

jppittma — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:42:02 +0000

I think that the beauty of the human experience is that all you need to learn is to practice. You automatically improve at what you're doing. The kinds of skills that atrophy when you use AI are skills that AI can already automate. And nobody is going to pay you to do slowly what a machine can do quickly/cheaply.

When you deploy AI to build something, you wind up doing the work that the AI itself can't do. Holding large amounts of context, maintaining a vision, writing apis and defining interfaces. Alongside like, project management. How much time is spent on features vs refactoring vs testing.

New comment by jppittma in "Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011)"

jppittma — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:16:30 +0000

It depends on if or not you're trying to correct for typos, or do something semantic. Also, embedding distance is much much more expensive.

New comment by jppittma in "Code has always been the easy part"

jppittma — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:54:06 +0000

coding is getting your foot in the door to software engineering, which is really like, computer systems engineering. We do so much more than code...

New comment by jppittma in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

jppittma — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:09:19 +0000

The bikeshedding is coming from in the room. The point is that the feature didn't cause any regression in capability. And who tf wants a plugin system with only support for first party plugins?

New comment by jppittma in "Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret"

jppittma — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:20:42 +0000

That's a fair point. If you want to calculate the real total water usage of any person, you must first invent the universe. You have to cut it off somewhere.

New comment by jppittma in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

jppittma — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:50:03 +0000

Isn't this part of what containers/flatpaks solve?

New comment by jppittma in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

jppittma — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:32:53 +0000

See, I have no problem with searches that involve warrants and probably cause. They could already violate the shit out of your privacy with a warrant. That's kind of the point of a warrant.

New comment by jppittma in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

jppittma — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:25:08 +0000

The k8s api server is the thing that's configured to talk to your Thales or whatever. On managed kubernetes, these are usually preconfigured to talk to the vendor -- that's the difference between a secret and a config map. The secret is encrypted when it's stored in etcd.

You'd be forgiven for being mistaken however, because this encryption is handled in a way that's transparent to the application.

If you're talking about your application making a call to the k8s api server, then you shouldn't do that unless you're developing a plugin. The kubelet knows how to retrieve and mount secrets from the k8s api server and display them as environment variables to the application. You just declare it as a part of your deployment in the podspec.

New comment by jppittma in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

jppittma — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:57:26 +0000

If you're not developing k8s operators, you're calling the api server directly, then complaining about lock in, then that's a skill issue. If you're developing k8s operators, then you should use a tool like kind for integration tests and dependency injection for other stuff and the concept of lock in doesn't make sense. You can also deploy your helm chart directly to kind.

New comment by jppittma in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

jppittma — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:39:59 +0000

Yes you can? The container should be completely agnostic to the fact that it's running in kubernetes. You can do config the same way. Configmaps are mounted as regular files and environment variables. The application doesn't care if the configmap came from the cluster resource or a file your created on your dev machine with dev credentials. You can mount local files into the container yourself. It's docker run -v "source:destination" I think.

New comment by jppittma in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

jppittma — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:04:54 +0000

How is the kubernetes secret API lock in? Genuinely wondering - were you trying to use that deployment yaml for something other than a kubernetes deployment? For most applications, you should be mounting the secret on your application, then you can inject it as either an environment variable or a json file that your application reads in an environment agnostic way.

Then, on the backend, you can configure etcd to use whatever KMS provider you like for encryption.