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by a-priori 29d ago
As measured by power consumption, the scale of data centres is a lot bigger now than they used to be. A typical large data centre is on the order of several hundred megawatts sustained consumption, up to a gigawatt on the high end for plann
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by a-priori 2mo ago
It kind of confirms a hypothesis I have that the next phase of AI development will be about getting smaller (in terms of model size and compute), because smaller is more capital efficient for training (allowing faster iteration and more i
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by a-priori 2mo ago
A SOC2's quality entirely depends on how much you trust the auditing firm. Delve used an audit mill they paid to rubber-stamp the cookie-cutter and AI slop reports it authored. I hope it ends up in fraud charges. But I wouldn't as
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by a-priori 6mo ago
It would develop into "regions" of space that are entirely matter and others that are entirely antimatter. The boundaries between them would glow as stray particles drift between the regions and are annihilated by contact with the
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by a-priori 9mo ago
Yes, as far as indices go, GIN indices are very expensive especially on modification. They're worthwhile in cases where you want to do arbitrary querying on JSON data, but you definitely don't want to overuse them. If you can get
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by a-priori 10mo ago
Yes but they also don't seem to claim it does. The use cases they talk about are orbital station-keeping and de-orbiting of satellites. So that implies near-Earth use.
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by a-priori 10mo ago
They say it works "by directly converting electrical energy into thrust through controlled electromagnetic impulses", so I assume it's reacting against the Earth's magnetic field using the Lorentz force?
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by a-priori 1y ago
This is generally true not just for Steam. By issuing a chargeback, you're burning that bridge and shouldn't be expect to do business with that vendor again.
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by a-priori 1y ago
You'll need to flatten the promise periodically if you use this approach, otherwise your performance will degrade a bit each time you enqueue something.
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by a-priori 1y ago
My point is that legally the First Nations have the right to not consent to the separation of provinces from the country. Of course, it's always possible for parties to act illegally... If Alberta did unilaterally declare independence
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by a-priori 1y ago
Alberta would need the consent of the councils for Treaty 4, 6, 7 and 8 in order to take their land with them. The treaties are between various First Nations and the Crown of Canada and are not transferable to an independent Alberta without
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by a-priori 1y ago
It's basically a code generator for adding standard Phlex components to your project, so once you've added a component to your application you can modify it any way you want.
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by a-priori 1y ago
Ugh, yes you're right, I typed too fast and mixed things up. Thanks for the corrections.
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by a-priori 1y ago
Of course, NATO was founded on the assumption that the US is a reliable trading and security partner, and the defense supply chains reflect that assumption. It will take time to untangle those chains, but you're watching all of NATO sp
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by a-priori 1y ago
We had free trade. The US has, in a very short period of time, squandered what was a highly profitable and mutually beneficial trading relationship. There was already a sentiment of distrust in Canada about being so dependent on American go
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by a-priori 1y ago
Absolutely. Canada is almost certainly going to cancel or severely limit a pending F35 order, and is actively sourcing aircraft and negotiating mutual arms deals with European partners.
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by a-priori 1y ago
It's incorrect to think of Canada as being "cornered" here nor having "nothing to lose". It's the US that's isolating itself. Canada isn't 'cornered'. It has the entire rest of the world to
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by a-priori 2y ago
Honestly as someone who has been building Rails applications for over 15 years now, I find far too many people think they are special and need to stray from the defaults.
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by a-priori 2y ago
You could dismiss almost any company as "if all you're doing is building an X app...". It's a no-true-Scotsman argument. Even setting that aside, not everything is or should be a land grab. It's notable that all the
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by a-priori 2y ago
When trees die, they’re consumed by fungi, and the carbon is sequestered in humus (soil). That’s totally fine, and in fact is an important reason to ensure that planted forests have a fungal culture so this decomposition process occurs prop
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by a-priori 2y ago
The way it was explained to me when I was at Amazon is that the intent of that principle is that good leaders should “make themselves correct” by gathering the data they need to have well informed judgement. So in retrospect they’re “right
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by a-priori 2y ago
It’s not. It’s a recognition that you have to act within the world as it exists today. That doesn’t mean you can’t work to change the world, and in fact in order to do so you first need to see how it actually is. But it does also means you
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by a-priori 2y ago
You can’t worry about it. It’s the world we live in now. The alternative is to not write anything of significance on the internet, which would be of no benefit to anyone.
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by a-priori 2y ago
The good news is that I can just say: go ahead and Google “DHH blog”, read his most recent few blog posts and form your own opinions. I’ve had a negative opinion of him for a good five years or so, but at least right now it’s easy to go rea
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by a-priori 2y ago
I’ve built my career on Rails. I first got paid to write Rails code in 2008, then came back to it in 2015 and have worked in it almost nonstop since then. It’s a wonderful technology, and it’s still as fresh and relevant as it was when I st
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by a-priori 2y ago
The worst part about Rails is the 37signals people, in particular DHH. But the good news is that you can just ignore them and enjoy the framework, like I do.
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by a-priori 2y ago
I mean, we could be getting closer to that point. According to a recent survey, 26% of Canadians now consider the US to be a “threat” to Canada and 6% consider the US to be an “enemy”. Those numbers is up from 6% and 1% two years ago. http
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by a-priori 2y ago
Thanks for the list! I can say that three of the stories I was referring to above are the ones listed as "Attacking a shop employee for masking up on their way to work", "Smashing windows of a business with a Pride flag"
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by a-priori 2y ago
I was a resident of downtown Ottawa during this period. It was bad. We had a young kid and didn't feel even safe walking her to a park, because the route crossed over convoy lines and there were all sorts of stories of harassment and a
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by a-priori 2y ago
In this day and age, an organization on the scale of the US Army should have software development as in-house competency, rather than something they outsource and procure. It should be like combat engineering where it’s a set of technical s

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