aldonius

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by aldonius 20d ago
Turns out Adelaide too, and Canberra. Meanwhile Hobart and Darwin are free PT right now.
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by aldonius 20d ago
Yep, and it's increasingly common around the world. In Australia, it's also fully rolled out in Brisbane and I believe it's just about finished being rolled out in Melbourne too.
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by aldonius 28d ago
Binary fractions of a turn are also a nice intuition pump for two's complement in general. Let's keep it simple and use just 8 bits. 0° is 0x00, 180° is 0x80, and 255/256ths of 360° is 0xFF. And if we wanted to use signed int
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by aldonius 29d ago
Yeah, but there's certainly a part of the curve where price drops by X OOMs and demand increases by much more than X OOMs. (Presumably some of that is substitution and some of that is new use cases.)
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by aldonius 1mo ago
You've touched on a key point: in a city, space is at a premium, so taking up a lot of it for yourself _really is_ luxury consumption.
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by aldonius 2mo ago
Mmm, yes, some real parallels between Blindsight's conception of consciousness and LLM chain-of-thought reasoning.
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by aldonius 2mo ago
> When emails overwhelmed me, I asked a thoughtful user who emailed frequently and seemed to know as much about the product as I did if he’d help answer the emails, so I paid him to do that. And he did a great job, especially in terms of
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by aldonius 3mo ago
Oracle's not a good comparison though, because it's getting valued as an AI compute provider as well as for its traditional business. At the end of 2021 Oracle's stock was about $100 (all-time-high in nominal terms at the tim
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by aldonius 5mo ago
I guess we can imagine a pure reasoning model (if that's even the right word any more) with almost zero world-knowledge. How does it know what to look for? How does it do any meaningful communication at all? So I think it's useful
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by aldonius 6mo ago
Either way, it's bizarre that blame-assignation is anything other than defaults-to-owner.
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by aldonius 7mo ago
Interesting idea and I do agree that contiguous is OK but total is not. I think I'd suggest a more generous Senate term limit. Three terms (18 years) would allow for someone to see out a complete Presidential super-cycle, for example.
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by aldonius 7mo ago
I thought Anthropic's take on #2 was they don't think the model's good enough yet?
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by aldonius 7mo ago
I mean, that's pretty normal right. The product starts out as a bit niche and expensive, and then as it scales in manufactured volume, variants & competitors become available at lower price points.
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by aldonius 8mo ago
Given RAM shortages, I really have to wonder how long that 24GB RAM offer is sticking around...
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by aldonius 8mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. Just for reference, usually folks in this situation use postfix initials rather than prefix (like how blockquotes are cited). - J.S.
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by aldonius 8mo ago
I drive a 20-year-old Civic. On a trip about 18 months ago I had some Kia soft-roader hire car. I bloody hated the lane keeping (unfamiliar narrow twisty roads are bad enough without the car tugging on the steering wheel). Conversely the au
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by aldonius 9mo ago
It's a somewhat different kind of ring buffer, because there's just one index, but I used it in my signal processing class for a finite-impulse-response filter. Choose N to be a power of two >= the length of your filter. Increm
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by aldonius 10mo ago
In Brisbane I think our ticketing system cost overhead is maybe 10%? The cost of the programme rolling out new ticketing infra (the first major ticketing system upgrade in ~15 years since we first got integrated ticketing, going from a stor
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by aldonius 11mo ago
It's coming to Steam in a few months, apparently.
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by aldonius 1y ago
Yes, and if they want to net-zero all their energy, not just their electricity, they will need to do some mix of: 1. electrify those applications currently served by gas 2. import or manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic gas 3. buy a heck o
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by aldonius 1y ago
You'll find that when the number of columns is a multiple of 6 you'll get obvious columns in the dots, and if it's +1 or -1 modulo 6 the columns become diagonal stripes (the process sort of continues for ±2 and at ±3 it'
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by aldonius 1y ago
I'll put in a good word for a chatbot hooked up to the documentation (e.g. at $dayjob we use Intercom Fin) acting as level 0.5 support. At $dayjob our customers are nontechnical so they don't always know what to search for, so the
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by aldonius 1y ago
Surely that's plugin-modifiable in Obsidian.
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by aldonius 1y ago
I'd suggest high local wealth and economic productivity tend to correlate strongly with increased housing costs. People move there for the jobs, and the ones who do have jobs tend to have relatively well paying ones, so can pay more fo
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by aldonius 1y ago
I suppose with SQLite files, you could at least in theory diff their SQL-dump representations, though you'd presumably want a way to canonicalise said representation. In a way I suppose each (VCS) commit is a bit like a database migrat
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by aldonius 1y ago
There's just enough there to be able to do "+1 month" calculations and similar, which is really helpful for generating dates in a range.
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by aldonius 1y ago
> will get full access to all the new features Plenty of newer image processing and AI features are M-series only.
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by aldonius 1y ago
With frequent trains and close stop spacing you've plausibly got a situation where each train is entering and leaving each station at about the same time? So skip-stop might not save much acceleration/braking.
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by aldonius 1y ago
DuckDB can read and write both SQLite and Parquet.
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by aldonius 1y ago
Presently, just Anthropic and DeepSeek. https://aider.chat/docs/usage/caching.html

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