The_Colonel

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by The_Colonel 2y ago
It's total births, not birth rate. 125 years ago, the population was smaller, but the birth rate higher.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
You're missing the point - your claim of "hypothesis has to be testable otherwise can be dismissed" is itself philosophical (philosophy of science). You're claiming that your claim can be dismissed.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I think Intel is a different kind of acquisition for Broadcom than VMWare. VMWare had/has a strong moat which can be exploited by jacking up prices. Intel doesn't have that.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Stories like this hit me harder after having children, too. But they also provoke thankfulness for all I have. For a little while after I read such tragic stories, I try to enjoy the everyday life a bit more, enjoy the presence of the loved
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
That reminds me the story of Mozart's parents. Their first 3 children died less than 1 year old. I can't imagine the despair. Out of 7 children, only 2 survived infancy.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
It's generic only if the context isn't implied. In e.g. NBA, NHL etc. "national" means "American".
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
A lot of it is simply AMD getting on newer TSMC nodes. Most of the Apple's efficiency head start is better process (they got exclusive access to 5nm at first).
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Measuring your blood pressure is an example of proactive screening. I assume we will start screening for things like cancer when the test will be as simple / cheap as measuring your blood pressure.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> enabling consumers to run big-LLM inference locally A non-technical reason is that the market of people wanting to run their personal LLMs at home is very small.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> I for one don't like it when people online, with every statement, signal their personal ethics. It gets to be very tiresome and degrades my HN experience. Ironically, buying a Tesla is nowadays a very visible political statement.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I think that even (most) conservatives don't want their car to be a political statement.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I would not be surprised at all if they broke up within a couple of months.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
China ATM seems to be a smaller threat to Europe than US. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some level of EU-China rapprochement as a result.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I guess this is a point where terminology matters. If you work with SQL database in an OOP language, you pretty much always do some object-relational mapping, no matter if you have a big framework or just raw SQL connection. But this is not
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Integrating cache into connection pools brings little added value since connection pools don't have enough context/information to manage the cache intelligently. You'd have to do all the hard work (like invalidation) yourself
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Well, usually you want to handle it at some level - e.g. a common REST exception handler returning a standard 500 response with some details about what went wrong. Or retry the process (sometimes the errors may be intermittent)
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
That (or rather checked exceptions in general) doesn't play well with lambdas / streams.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
JPA implementations have "managed entities", sometimes called session or 1st level cache which is making sure that every entity is loaded at max. one time within a transaction. Like e.g. checking user/user permissions is some
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I've made an opposite progression from the op. I was a strong believer of upfront design, but now value iterative approach as you do. For the first try, hack together something working, you'll learn things along the way, validate&
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Starting with raw SQL is fun. But at some point you find out you need some caching here, then there, then you have a bunch of custom disconnected caches having bugs with invalidation. Then you need lazy loading and fetch graphs. Step by ste
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> They just needed some syntactic sugar to help redirect certain developers into less self-destructive ways of procrastinating on proper error handling. Syntactic sugar it needs is an easy way (like ! prefix) to turn it to a runtime exce
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Everyone dislikes bikeshedding. But people disagree on which questions are bikeshedding and which aren't.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
IMF is the lender of last resort, their loans pretty much always come with strings attached which provide some assurance that the loan will be repaid.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I guess my problem is that I had no idea that he changed his visual appearance so these references just confused me. I'm not really following his personal life.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I assume this is again some kind of joke. I'd appreciate if someone explained it without making another hard to decipher joke.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war > Since 1945, developments in international law such as the United Nations Charter, which prohibits both the threat and the use of force in international conflicts, h
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Ok, so you misremembered the events and thus the whole discussion was pointless. You probably also did not remember that NS2 was shut down (non-violently) two weeks after Biden made this statement, 6 months before NS1 (and half of NS2) got
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Right, like this world's largest company called Apple, which gets most of the revenue from its hardware sales. Pixels are not cheap either and given its low specs (Tensor SOC), the per-unit margin has to be quite decent. OTOH, there ar
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> The pivot away from Russian gas was well underway by then and the pipeline had lost its value. This is the autumn 2022, the pivot is only starting. Gas prices are sky-high and there's a lot of uncertainty in the anticipation of wi

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