belZaah

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by belZaah 12d ago
Quadlock makes a special dampening mount for this reason.
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by belZaah 26d ago
What makes large things slow is not the individual pieces of code but the way the architecture dynamically reacts to changes in the load. Sync vs async calls, buffers, parallel vs sequential processing. This includes optimizations made: do
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by belZaah 1mo ago
Harassment is not permissible. But if he had been a black researcher in, say, microbiology, it wouldn’t have materialized to that extent. His research tried to shame a very large chunk of the society for being racist. And it turns out peopl
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by belZaah 1mo ago
Everyone deserves compassion. I feel sorry for him. But the fact remains, that he deliberately used lies and deception to gain a high social position in a very politically derisive context. It couldn’t have come as a surprise, that every si
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by belZaah 1mo ago
Maybe it’s niche, but if you do endurance sports like triathlon, you can easily become a power user. I think I did. You constantly look at your watch during workouts. It does navigation on trails, it measures your heart rate, tracks workout
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by belZaah 1mo ago
It’s not at all immediately obvious as to why the bicycle stands upright or turns. The physics is non-trivial and, based on the drawings, offsetting the center of the wheel from the axis of thw wheel being turned was not a thing. But it is
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by belZaah 2mo ago
The process itself is necessary, not the notes. I used to take notes in classes and meetings. At some point I realized I never read them because they were illegible. No structure, bad handwriting, just key words, no sentences. What I do now
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by belZaah 2mo ago
What’s weird is how emotional people get on this. I told publicly (because I was asked, not out of an obligation to have an opinion), that the prices we pay for LLMs are likely to go up because that’s what happens when the ratio of operatio
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by belZaah 2mo ago
It’s a simplified example of a broader principle. This structure shows how oscillation can emerge from a very simple system and how it can be remedied by adjustments of the delays. Oscillating systems are very much a thing and this explains
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by belZaah 2mo ago
Mac user for 20+ years now. Helped my mother with two Windows laptops. One would not allow her to reset her pin. Nothing allowed me to do a safe boot, the option to enter the password was just not there. The other wouldn’t connect to her wi
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by belZaah 2mo ago
We had a lady down here in Estonia working for police. She used their extensive databases for non-work related reasons and got, very publicly, fired. She decided to appeal and lost. Through all levels of court up to the EU one. So for years
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by belZaah 3mo ago
It’s a sign of a badly designed system. In a well-designed one (have seen one, have helped to improve several) the drivers license database only has a personal identifier and the class of license identifier. Which is private information for
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by belZaah 3mo ago
There’s one more aspect to this. Look at Claude self-reported availability figures. It’s two nines at best, not enough to build something serious on top of. Historically, adding another 9 is an order of magnitude cost shift. Even in best ca
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by belZaah 3mo ago
Radars do this better. They can warn you from much further away and do not require for you to keep an eye out - there’s audible cues.
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by belZaah 3mo ago
You just need to go north. Most of Finland requires massive amounts of heating for most of the year for industrial and residential purposes. If the math doesn’t add up there, I really can’t see how math for orbital data centers would add up
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by belZaah 3mo ago
Why would you want to earn a billion dollars? You must have the maturity to handle the money. Hopefully you’ll mature sufficiently through the process of making that money but if the money’s fast, that might not happen. I’ve seen people get
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by belZaah 3mo ago
Thus is the crime of the communist Russia: forcing millions into hard labor to die for progress yet squandering innovation for ideological reasons. But the same mechanism is there in, say, Microsoft. To get the attention of leadership, your
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by belZaah 4mo ago
True. But in the physical world, ideas (or memes, if you will) are bound to people and can only survive, if the carrier survives. The idea of curing headaches with striking your head with a hammer does not spread, because the carrier dies.
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by belZaah 4mo ago
Exactly. So is that level of obvious hygiene where the bar is or is it somewhere else. What ticks me off is the audacity of blanket claims without an attempt to even remotely state why it’s said this is a list of successful patterns and wha
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by belZaah 4mo ago
How very interesting. In an industry, where things shift around in months if not weeks, there’s been not only enough time for clear patterns to emerge but also these patterns have proven successful on large codebases. What’s the success cri
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by belZaah 4mo ago
There used to be such a thing as profit. A return on investment. If your exit strategy is to get sold to Google, focusing on revenue is a perfectly fine strategy. If you _are_ the Google, however, the money poured in should eventually be ma
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by belZaah 5mo ago
It’s a general principle. Complexity breeds complexity via a multitude of mechanisms thus growing exponentially. As complexity is also related to cost, this means, that there are two limits approached exponentially: financial (we can no lon
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by belZaah 5mo ago
Unlikely. There’s no change in operating profit per employee trends for major software companies like Alphabet since GenAI became a thing. But MS employees are now making 3 times more profit, than they were before Nadella took over. Clearly
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by belZaah 5mo ago
My kids walk/bike to school, take public transport and are pretty free-range. But that’s absolutely nothing compared to my childhood. I was born in 1975. We dug up literal explosives from WWII and made our own small bombs (some matches
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by belZaah 6mo ago
Soviets did not have two things the West did. Concern for quality and market forces to direct development focus. This means Soviet stuff varies amazingly between specimen and can sometimes be over-engineered in particular ways. Soviet optic
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by belZaah 6mo ago
Terrible in which way? Did not use counterpoint sufficiently elegantly? It’s punk, mate. Try to do a set downpicking like Johnny.
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by belZaah 6mo ago
An excellent analogy. Everyone is an expert in taking the photo. But this does not make them a photographer. Even that expert claim is actually not fully true, the phone camera is woefully inadequate in many ways. But the main difference be
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by belZaah 6mo ago
So it’s like code for execution via a llm or an interpreter? Have we invented source control yet?
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by belZaah 6mo ago
I used to manage NT-based infra back in the day, have been on a mac for 15 years now because of stuff like this. A few years ago I bought a Windows box for my daughter. Out of the box the clock was wrong and it would just hang on auto-updat
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by belZaah 6mo ago
The weird thing is the way it’s trash. It breaks weird things no dev should ever have to touch. At one point Excel left horizontal lines on screen, when scrolling. Bullets and numbering just straight up refuses to restart numbering. It _wor

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