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by 10000truths 3d ago
It would have to find an open Wi-Fi network that isn't gated behind a captive portal, which is very rare. Rare enough that most telemetry would be too stale to be useful.
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by 10000truths 4d ago
> What would <! as Iterator>::Item be? Another ! makes sense to me here. Are there any cases where it doesn't work to auto-assign ! to all associated types of a ! trait impl? Associated constants might require some mechanism s
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by 10000truths 7d ago
Because safety and welfare have literally nothing to do with LLMs. They generate text. If someone is stupid enough to hook the text generator up to nuclear missile launchers and try to "align" it against nuclear annihilation with
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by 10000truths 10d ago
It's not just dating platforms that have changed, it's also the users. Online dating used to be a niche you had to actively seek out, which meant that the users were naturally self-selected, had more interesting (for better or wor
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by 10000truths 21d ago
Intellectual property is nothing more than a means of government-backed protectionism, alongside tariffs and embargoes. Any two countries that respect one anothers' claims of intellectual property do so by mutual agreement. No sovereig
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by 10000truths 21d ago
This would be interesting data to collect - given some field F, for each immigrant that enters the workforce, what is the delta between: * The expected marginal increase in supply, from immigrants looking for jobs in F * The expected margin
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by 10000truths 21d ago
Being paid the same as the other guy doesn't necessarily mean the wages themselves stayed the same. Adding H1B candidates to the talent pool exerts downward pressure on salary due to the law of supply and demand. I can't say for s
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by 10000truths 23d ago
Well yes, if the thing you're working on is subject to changes in requirements, then you fundamentally can't one-shot it, AI or no AI. That's why the waterfall process fell out of fashion long ago. But there are cases where t
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by 10000truths 23d ago
Headless agentic coding only works when: * The scope is constrained and clearly defined * You articulate an exhaustive and objective set of success criteria * You provide a deterministic tool for the AI to evaluate its output against those
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by 10000truths 23d ago
> Also answer this, if Americans wouldn't have bought the African slaves, all those African-Americans that are now enjoying life in the land of the free, where would they have been born today? Think if they could push a button today
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by 10000truths 25d ago
> Tomorrow you need to pass a 128 bit int into two registers and your fancy syntax then also becomes a messy bunch of hacks. There are no 128-bit integer registers in x64 or arm64 or riscv64. There are operations that represent 128-bit
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by 10000truths 27d ago
If you're looking specifically for self hosted S3-compatible object stores, then yes, the selection of available options is smaller. But an object store's ability to self-host is orthogonal to its compatibility with S3's inte
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by 10000truths 27d ago
The product is proprietary, but the interface and semantics are documented and freely available. "S3-compatible object store" is a commodity at this point, so it makes sense to treat it as a primitive building block for a distribu
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by 10000truths 29d ago
There will always be people that need to install software that isn't available via package manager (or whatever other blessed source your platform of choice uses). Any solution you come up with will have the same caveat emptor as &quot
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by 10000truths 1mo ago
CarPlay and Android Auto aren't popular because they're good, per se. They're popular because they're good enough compared to the status quo ante, which was a sea of craptastic infotainment systems.
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by 10000truths 1mo ago
> If my diet is the cause of a medical issue, then I'm the one at fault. This makes sense for drugs with strong correlations to specific medical issues. Alcohol usage -> liver failure. Smoking cigarettes -> lung cancer. Trying
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by 10000truths 1mo ago
> Pipelines and deploys gets much easier and faster than the very common TypeScript monorepo Can you elaborate more on the slowness you've seen with deploying TypeScript codebases? My experience is that it's improved significan
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by 10000truths 1mo ago
> TCO makes a lot of sense for interpreters and state machines. The reason that performant implementations prefer TCO is because the only reliable knob that clang and gcc provide to control which locals are spilled to stack vs. kept in r
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by 10000truths 1mo ago
> I would highlight that there are many cases where you CAN move an object safely until a certain operation requires the object to "stay put" in place. You could model this with a state machine enum where the "stay put&quo
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
If you control both the client and server, then yeah, you can use whatever protocol you want. Doesn't even need to be TLS, you could roll your own thing. But if you only control one of the endpoints, then your ability to connect to a p
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
> I have lost entire enclosures to lightning strikes on more than one occasion. Everyone thinks their IT skills are hot shit until they wake up to a closet full of burned hardware in the morning. It is quite a humbling experience if you&
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
It's not cheap to them. You have to adjust for purchasing power - the US dollar goes a lot farther in most African countries than it does in the US. That Land Rover, if sold on the open market, could yield enough for a Nigerian live th
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
The troubles of handling call stack recursion is downstream of the lack of strong tooling for static analysis of stack usage. Of the few tools available for generating a build-time call graph for an application, almost none of them can do s
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
Could be base 2. ~1.3M RPS is a lot higher than most will ever require, but still within the realm of possibility.
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
Pooling means you're sending multiple queries (from different HTTP requests) over the same DB connection. A well-designed DB wire protocol will allow for pipelining those queries: [send Query 1] -> [send Query 2] -> [send Query 3
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
Every RDBMS out there has an option to configure a DB-enforced transaction timeout. But that configuration is tied to a connection, not to a transaction. So using that configuration means giving up connection pooling. Which a lot of people
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
Shouldn't the training data be preprocessed to transform time values to a relative coordinate system? I would expect a time-series training pipeline to contain something like: 1. Define {N = context duration, M = forecast duration} upf
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
> A few years ago, I began to see the "labor supply" issues of slavery, and how the South was basically an economic powerhouse fueled chiefly by the labor of its enslaved people--so how do you reconcile that after the fact? How
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
> I know it's not the same but if you give a sculpture a piece of clay they do not need 10000 options to mold it. Even a carpenter or wood smith don't need that many options. The digital equivalent of those disciplines are only
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by 10000truths 2mo ago
A lot of those options are necessary complexity, not incidental. 3D modeling and animation are just very complex series of tasks, you can't condense the options much without sacrificing functionality for some critical workflow. The onl

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