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New comment by tempay in "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"

tempay — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:10:10 +0000

If you play the game correctly it can be a good deal. The ~1 USD per TB per month of glacier deep archive is hard to compete with if you (probably) don’t need to read the data back.

New comment by tempay in "DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)"

tempay — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:02:45 +0000

Even without that particularly special case, high-energy physics collaborations have long since broken the idea of authors. There are now many collaborations with hundreds of authors publishing regularly and quite a few that are into the thousands.

New comment by tempay in "Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake"

tempay — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:47:14 +0000

That needs a citation. I’m not aware of anyone doing anything more than containers. For older experiments VMs have been used but that’s a legacy thing that predates containerisation and isn’t driven by reproducibility.

New comment by tempay in "Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake"

tempay — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:12 +0000

I think the premise of this article is wrong. Scientific Linux was important once upon a time but these days with userspace containers there is no need for the same level of homogeneity. In practice everyone is using Apptainer on machines that don’t have a singular purpose.

New comment by tempay in "Grok 4.7"

tempay — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:04:16 +0000

We don’t have access to the real reasoning text for most closed models these days, mostly due to distillation threats

New comment by tempay in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

tempay — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:03:36 +0000

You still need to be able to realise something is fraudulent and pursuing prosecution has a significant cost to the insurer that is likely to be a net-loss financially. Not to mention the reputational risk of the public believing you prosecuted someone wrongly.

New comment by tempay in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

tempay — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:58:10 +0000

At least in the UK this seems to be a growing problem and jail isn't a scalable solution. See for example: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2rr9pg4jzo

New comment by tempay in "Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes"

tempay — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:05:02 +0000

Are they still? I thought this project was no longer really active.

New comment by tempay in "Beware Management Consultants"

tempay — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:56:47 +0000

You also want them to be the person with the most ideal weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxswain_(rowing)

New comment by tempay in "Beware Management Consultants"

tempay — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:54:20 +0000

The "our story" menu bar item has it in the drop down.

New comment by tempay in "Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts"

tempay — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:44:53 +0000

I assume OP interpreted it as encryption that hides the prompts from OpenAI rather than OpenAI hiding information from users.

New comment by tempay in "CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3"

tempay — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:53:10 +0000

Maybe not that bad, stopping the accelerator means the storage requirements drop now that data is no longer being taken. Storage is instead just used for simulation and reprocessing which is small in comparision.

So long as the market recovers before HL-LHC starts and the data volume increases it'll be okay. If it doesn't...

New comment by tempay in "CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3"

tempay — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:50:10 +0000

No they're not. At CERN physics data is on:

* CTA for tape storage: https://cta.docs.cern.ch/v5/

* EOS for disk storage: https://eos-web.web.cern.ch/eos-web/

There is a large CEPH cluster as well but that isn't really used for physics data.

New comment by tempay in "Vulnerability reports are not special anymore"

tempay — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:00:29 +0000

This is very real, but such CVEs are such a tiny fraction in relation to denial-of-service-due-to-regex that it’s hard to take the system seriously.

So far as I’m concerned the solution is to isolate everything as much as possible. I’d love to see something on the CVE classification side to also address the signal to noise problem but I don’t see it happening.

New comment by tempay in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

tempay — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:17:53 +0000

The key point here is the “pay less” part. I know people that have turned down offers from meta that would 5x their salary and their personal situation would notably improve from at least some of that extra cash.

The OP is a bit preachy and maybe some employees really don’t have any other options even with accepting lower salaries, but the majority should at least realise the golden handcuffs their bound by even if they choose not to act on them.

New comment by tempay in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

tempay — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:11:17 +0000

For anyone who thinks this might matter for security:

* curl is mature enough that the chance of an impactful bug is basically zero * if there is such a bug, I'm sure someone will figure out how to get in touch with Daniel and co * if there is such a bug, it's more important that it gets patched in package managers and rolled out. Upstream releases can wait.

New comment by tempay in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

tempay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:12:14 +0000

To be fair, the entire problem space sucks and I’m not sure it’s possible not to.

New comment by tempay in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

tempay — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:33:58 +0000

> consuner spending is increasingly debt

Geneva has the highest minimum wage in the world precisely to try and avoid the "working poor".

Also the "consuner spending is increasingly debt" is very US centric view. The situation in Europe is less extreme and totally absent in many countries.

New comment by tempay in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

tempay — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:17:52 +0000

> in very center, almost every small park or green spot is now 6 story concrete building

I struggle to see this. Central Geneva is full of beautiful, well-maintained green spaces and children's play areas with plenty of larger parks scattered around.

New comment by tempay in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

tempay — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:05:44 +0000

I can't comment outside of Geneva but it's hardly "slave wages":

* https://www.mission-geneve.dfae.admin.ch/en/manual-labour-mi...

* (scroll to the cost breakdown) https://batmaid.ch/en/about-us