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sobchak

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  • How to manage docker compose apps?

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  • I think compose files are usually pinned to a version, or use a .env file that needs to be changed to update to a new version.

    I personally don't update very often; usually not until I'm forced to for some reason. I find that just checking the documentation for any upgrade/migration guides, and doing it manually is sufficient. I don't expose this kind of stuff publicly; if I did, I'd probably update regularly.

  • Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

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  • A lot of the companies and people responsible for having all these datacenters built are heavily invested in SMR. So they'll probably be used anyways.

  • 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds

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  • Tidal too. Slows the Earth's rotation a minuscule amount more than usual.

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    TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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  • Most of my local ones are registered on https://www.localharvest.org/ (their map seems to be messed up right now, but seems to work if you type in a zipcode, select CSA from the dropdown, and press "GO"). They are more expensive than groceries stores, but don't use heavily exploited labor, and you often get a lot of weird/cool stuff normal grocery stores don't sell.

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    TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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  • Hmm. Yeah, my local farmer's markets are expensive, but the CSA subscriptions are reasonable (i.e. the ones where you pay upfront for the season's produce, reducing the farmer's risk, then get a box of produce every week). Some, you can volunteer on the farm to get "free" food.

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    TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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  • I like CSAs. All I really need to buy from stores is stuff like protein and grains. There are local CSAs in my area that even offer meat, eggs, and milk.

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • Idk, I've worked with recent grads where their work likely did bring in > $100k in a year. Maybe only took a month to get up to speed. Commits from all devs should be reviewed, and all code should be tested before pushing to prod, so those catastrophic costs should rarely be a problem. We had a good relationship with professors at a local university, and they'd send us their top students. The students would work with us for a while before usually getting picked up by big tech.

    Pretty sure my work right out of college brought the company around $300k the first year (wrote the firmware for an electronic control board mostly by myself, which allowed the company to secure a large contract).

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • Didn't something like 150k employees and contractors get DOGE'd and the admin is targeting 300k by the end of year?

    I was doing contract work related to environmental research that relied on grant money and all that dried up.

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • If their work brings in > 100k in revenue then they should.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • Hmm, I missed the part about being maxed-out on roof space. Great article and blog by the way!

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • Guessing it would be more practical to have enough solar panels to fulfill energy needs in winter.

  • Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?

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  • Kind of disappointing Bezos is involved though.

  • Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?

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  • I don't think that's the reason. China makes tons of aftermarket replacement parts and even OEM parts.

  • Welcome to 2025

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  • Yeah, I see random https and other connections all the time blindly scanning for vulnerabilities. Not enough to cause any real problems though. One time I publicly exposed redis or rabbitmq (can't remember which) and didn't set a password, so someone set a password for me :). That's about the worst that's happened to me.

  • Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

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  • Most of the Republican base (blue collar) votes against their best interest because Republican politicians appeal to their bigotry, hate, and fear. They voted for a fascist who clearly telegraphed he was going to do fascist things. These are generally not good people. It's theoretically possible for them to be rehabilitated, but I don't know how that would happen.

  • Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

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  • IDK, farm owners are an extremely small part of the population. Even farm workers are only like 1% of the labor force. They're not really the common clay. If they get it early, it will likely be because the big players in the space bribed Trump and/or other officials.

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    TIL american public support for requiring vaccines against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

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  • Anecdotally, I know many people who are anti-vax (mostly family). When I went to college, I found out my parents didn't get me a lot of the vaccines I was supposed to have, so had to get a bunch of vaccines before starting.

  • Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

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  • I've had "success" with using them for small one-off projects where I don't care too much about correctness, efficiency, or maintainability. I've tried using various AI tools (Copilot, Cursor agents, etc) for more serious projects where I do care about those things, and it was counter-productive (as studies have shown).

    Hmm, I was curious if ChatGPT still gives inefficient code when asking it to write quicksort in Python, and it still does:

     
        
def quicksort(arr):
    if len(arr) <= 1:  # Base case
        return arr
    pivot = arr[len(arr) // 2]  # Choose middle element as pivot
    left = [x for x in arr if x < pivot]   # Elements less than pivot
    middle = [x for x in arr if x == pivot] # Elements equal to pivot
    right = [x for x in arr if x > pivot]  # Elements greater than pivot
    return quicksort(left) + middle + quicksort(right)

    That's not really quicksort. I believe that has a memory complexity of O(n log n) on the average case, and O(n^2) for the worst case. If AI does stuff like this on basic, well-known algorithms, it's likely going to do inefficient or wrong stuff in other places. If it's writing something someone is not familiar with, they may not catch the problems/errors. If it's writing something someone is familiar with, it's likely faster for them to write it themselves rather than carefully review the code it generates.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • HDR is more noticeable, but yeah, I don't care if it's 1080p or 4k.