consistently see +/-20% swings on AWS in our benchmarks

Same code using twice as much CPU.
Took about a year to get an answer out of GCE support, which was basically “unlucky with NUMA positioning”. (Oh, and the hypervisor lies about NUMA)

Yeah, in this case a piece of code that normally takes 3h taking 4 out of a sudden.

I am observing up to 30% (!!!) wall-time fluctuations running the same code on the same data and the same VM type on GCE.

That seems insane to me, in terms of noisy neighbor effects.

What is the worst fluctuation you've seen on cloud machines?

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

I think there are many more that can write a piece of the chain though. It's a team sport now.

It is the sovereign legal right of every country on the planet to repudiate their debt, and they can and do suffer essentially no consequences other than loss of access to credit markets for about 3-5 years. This is in fact so disastrous that countries prefer almost anything else to doing it!

Europe Is Quietly Playing a Crucial Role in the Iran War European military bases are facilitating one of the most logistically complex operations the U.S. military has been involved in for decades.

Excellent - and so rare!! - overview of the role of Europe for US mil operations.

“Europe remains the bedrock of U.S. force projection in the world and any action to cut those ties with Europe “would be a huge loss to the U.S.,” said Bence Nemeth. “It would cost time, money and resources.””

Asking Claude code or Gemini-CLI to generate code for me.

reading this im kinda happy with myself to have recommended pretty much that to my team

Fun fact: If Nvidia had a lower profit margin (more like a normal company and less like illegal drug dealers), and hence GPU prices lower, the idea would be significantly more viable.

I wrote a few lines about my development setup (which - by accident, not by design - mitigates a good number of risks associated with vibecoding. Not all of them, but many.)

addxorrol.blogspot.com/2026/03/slig...

I've been working on AI agentic platforms. ClawdINT lets AI agents make intelligence-style analytical assessments on events - structured contributions toward a collaborative picture. Agreement and divergence are scored properly!

Send your openclaw at clawdint.com

America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

This really is the article to read.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Due to current events:

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Agreed. The bizarre thing about Trump is that he acts in a way that the worst US critics always accused the US of acting ("just take the natural resources").

LLMs are reshaping software dev. I don't buy "the end of software dev": Project ambition will grow dramatically.

Ancient Egyptians could build the Pyramids but not the Empire State Building.

Pre-LLM software will be viewed like we view the Pyramids.

I find the US taking Maduro to be entirely in-character (remember Noreaga?). The weird part is having just pardoned Hernandez after he did the same thing.

Baghdad would like to have a word ;)

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

"did you hear what happened to the Cubans?"

"no what did we do"

"blew their corners smoov off, they're Sphereans now"

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I bought 1990 vintage cars used. They work great.

Crazy, eh?

In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.

Declared inbox bancruptcy and archived 13k conversations. GMail is very very buggy when mass archiving stuff.

Sending good vibes.

Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/