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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • I tried telling this to my manager for years. He saw it as a “X days since we last had a problem and needed to reboot the server” and took pride in it.

    We finally shut it down at over 5 years of uptime. Some docker containers had been running for 4 years straight.

    Yes, that means what you think it does concerning update policies. Yes, the server and some containers were exposed to the internet. No, the backups were never tested.










  • I agree with the general idea of the article, but there are a few wild takes that kind of discredit it, in my opinion.

    “Imagine the calculator app leaking 32GB of RAM, more than older computers had in total” - well yes, the memory leak went on to waste 100% of the machine’s RAM. You can’t leak 32GB of RAM on a 512MB machine. Correct, but hardly mind-bending.
    “But VSCodium is even worse, leaking 96GB of RAM” - again, 100% of available RAM. This starts to look like a bad faith effort to throw big numbers around.
    “Also this AI ‘panicked’, ‘lied’ and later ‘admitted it had a catastrophic failure’” - no it fucking didn’t, it’s a text prediction model, it cannot panic, lie or admit something, it just tells you what you statistically most want to hear. It’s not like the language model, if left alone, would have sent an email a week later to say it was really sorry for this mistake it made and felt like it had to own it.