MarkMarine

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by MarkMarine 16d ago
there are a lot of gas generators powering people's camps.
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by MarkMarine 21d ago
This depends on your users and doc corpus. On finance docs and with users that use jargon and acronyms heavily, BM25 can fail on trivial queries... you end up encoding a masters in economics into the query re-writing logic. Double hard if y
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by MarkMarine 1mo ago
I remember hearing the doctor who (I think) discovered these drainage channels being interviewed, it’s super interesting: https://youtu.be/yAqwXoUS7sE?si=Gs-EGJ_Xtkh9TG7R If this is correct, it’s a new discovery that these
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by MarkMarine 1mo ago
No one runs into machine gun fire to bring democracy to someone else I can assure you of that.
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by MarkMarine 1mo ago
Can’t speak for others but the most damaging part of direct combat is watching people that you consider to be family die or be maimed.
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by MarkMarine 1mo ago
I’ll never understand why LinkedIn is making these product choices. They have a legitimate moat, I and basically every other tech worker is exclusively on LinkedIn. They devalue their product by chasing engagement in service of ads, while
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by MarkMarine 1mo ago
Flex tier is just as cheap but you don't need to deal with batching or waiting. I see it completing in about ~3x-10x the latency of normal calls, so in seconds. You can always route back to regular if you're getting 429'd on
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by MarkMarine 1mo ago
Haven't worked in AWS but as a customer of AWS, GCP, and Azure there is a quite a difference between running workloads that are doing long-running computations on AWS (on demand is so rock solid that loosing a box is a rarity, I run on
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by MarkMarine 2mo ago
Great news, the fine is so small doesn’t matter, but curing the wrong does. My hope is this standard will apply to modern cars as well, repair manuals and the software tools to interact with the cars are also heavily restricted by the manuf
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by MarkMarine 3mo ago
If you haven’t talked to Anthropic support yet you’re in for a surprise. I’m an engineer at a company with an enterprise contract, Anthropic people in our slack and it took me a month to get a response on my support request, I just decided
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by MarkMarine 3mo ago
Performance. A safe Swiss Army knife function that did most of this would be slow because of the internal branching you’d need to be safe, and because there is developer intent in the selection of these functions. I’d rather have the choice
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by MarkMarine 3mo ago
I don’t see it that way. Some see the invisible hand of the market but I just don’t, the involvement in politics… the purposeful shaping of public opinion that is against the public interest, capital has an interest and it’s making its inte
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by MarkMarine 3mo ago
The whole framing you’re using is wrong. If you can do climate modeling and math at the planet scale, you don’t need to be convinced you have read the research and you knew 30 years ago. If you’re skeptical of scientific authority and lack
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by MarkMarine 3mo ago
My go to for these (was a tractor mechanic early in life) is to start with a big flat blade screwdriver and knock it completely through the side of the filter to the other side with a hammer, then use that to break the filter loose. I’ve n
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by MarkMarine 5mo ago
Definitely got attention during the prod outage at my work. I’m going to find another alternative, I’m sick of this terrible uptime.
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by MarkMarine 5mo ago
This type of pedantry doesn’t add to the discussion. You’re correcting someone’s spelling on the internet, it’s pointless except to make you feel superior, adds nothing. Make a salient point, bring something to the discussion please. Sorry
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by MarkMarine 5mo ago
4 people spent hours putting our repo back together at my company after this. GH has been unreliable and now they are breaking the core tenant of what I expect from this service.
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by MarkMarine 5mo ago
One of the main problems I have with the models coding is the feedback loop is way down the chain from generation, it's out at the commit boundary for python when your hooks are running, maybe at the point where the model wants to push
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by MarkMarine 5mo ago
Anthropic was chirping about Chinese model companies distilling Claude with the thinking traces, and then the thinking traces started to disappear. Looks like the output product and our understanding has been negatively affected but that pa
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
As an aviator, that right there counts as an emergency landing. A hard one. They limped it back home, they didn’t ditch a very sensitive airframe over enemy territory, I’d call that a win and the pilot deserves a medal for that.
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
Add Huey crew chiefs to this list
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
I don't have a good answer for you. I expected the upper and middle officer corps to conduct themselves with honor and they aren't. I'm going to bet that pilots aren't briefed to hit a school, they get a target package t
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
I know you're not. I've found that most of our population has almost no connection to the people that actually fight wars, and therefore have no idea what they think. With the exception of a few criminals, none of us desire to com
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
I didn’t downvote you, but a terse “well actually it’s prisoner of war” doesn’t really add to the conversation. Imagine doing that in person, you’d annoy everyone around you. If you explained why it’s distinct and what that might mean for
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
It’s a “well, actually” and counter to the HN guidelines
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
Every war since Korea, we’re very used to this.
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
No, we actually train to be tortured and held if caught, but everyone knows the risks before you take off. Captured marines or soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re clear eyed about it.
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
The F35 was able to make an emergency landing in a gulf country. This one actually went down in Iran.
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
Military aviators train for this, being alone behind enemy lines (look up SERE school if you’re curious, one of the craziest training courses outside of special forces) and there is a special force just for aviator recovery behind enemy lin
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by MarkMarine 6mo ago
It’s almost shocking that people in an era of unlimited resources could see this was not renewable and important to hold, and that later in the era of limited resources, we decided to privatize this. It’s so shortsighted, willfully ignorant

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