blueplanet200

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by blueplanet200 5mo ago
And a lot of GPU cycles happen before next token prediction, what's your point?
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by blueplanet200 6mo ago
Reminds me of this article from way back, "A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds" Of significance here because the resolution strategy from merges was deeply at the disagreement between Bram and Linus. https://web.a
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by blueplanet200 9mo ago
I just bought a QNAP. I'm a happy customer.
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
Thanks for showing up and owning the mistake. While I'm encouraged by this response, I still feel a sense of fear that this fix is a one off, if you could speak to how this could even happen and how mistakes like these would be prevent
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
> For example, the idea that there are the same number of integers as even integers is a stupid one that in the end does not lead anywhere useful. Well, there are the same number. So, uh, sorry?
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
The axiom of choice is debated as a matter of if its inclusion into our mathematics produces useful math. I don't think it's debated on the ground of if it's true or not. And I was imprecise with language, but by saying &quot
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
All that BT tells me is that when I break up a set (sphere) into multiple sets with no defined measure (how the construction works) I shouldn't expect reassemlbing those sets should have the same original measure as the starting set.
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
> pi definitely exists in physical reality, What does it mean to "exist in physical reality"? If you mean there are objects that have physical characteristics that involve pi to infinite precision I think the truth is we have n
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
Please say more, I don't see how you can be _skeptical_ of those ideas. Math is math, if you start with ZFC axioms you get uncountable infinites. Maybe you don't start with those axioms. But that has nothing to do with truth, it&#
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
>I'm an enthusiastic Cantor skeptic A skeptic in what way? He said a lot.
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
Were the current loan (and grant) guarantees perfectly adequate? Citation needed. In some investors view they were not. > "The deal certainly has the appearance of the government clawing back the remaining portion of the previous gr
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
Original riddle the answer is Jane.
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
From sqlmap > Usage of sqlmap for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. It is the end user's responsibility to obey all applicable local, state and federal laws. Developers assume no liability and are not respon
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by blueplanet200 1y ago
This issue is the word "instead". Instead means "this isn't our bug, it's the underlying library." The libraries you rely on are part of your product. You own the issues that bubble up from them. A much much be
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by blueplanet200 2y ago
Doubt it. Increasing the supply of anything rarely results in the price going up.
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by blueplanet200 2y ago
Not much on Hacker News has made me cry...
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by blueplanet200 3y ago
It does not apply to classical bits in the same way. Quantum computers derive their computational power from the qubits being in a single quantum state across the qubits (an entangled one, to use physics jargon.) This is distinct from class
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by blueplanet200 3y ago
"How Electricity Actually Works" ( https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0?si=L3rc2KgDoxbMpzp6 ) from Veritasium is related and also a fantastic video.
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by blueplanet200 3y ago
We need it all. Even if we're carbon neutral the CO2 is still in the air. We need a way to remove it. This is especially obvious given how long it's going to take to even get to carbon neutral. Can we stop with "we don't
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by blueplanet200 3y ago
nit: gluons aren't electrically charged. They carry strong charge.
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by blueplanet200 3y ago
It's not necessarily a questions of "need". Physicists are just measuring what protons ARE. Whether or not gluons and the strong force are necessary to form an object that looks like a proton is a separate point from what pro
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by blueplanet200 4y ago
You should watch the video. There is no experiment that has been done that shows the speed of light does not have a preference because every measurement sneaks in the assumption it's symmetric. This is a convention. It's called th
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by blueplanet200 4y ago
Ex-physicist here. This is not true. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k for an explanation. You can have a spatially asymmetric speed of light and be perfectly in line with every experiment to date. The speed o
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by blueplanet200 4y ago
The new data is what we're after ... to make discoveries! It's not just new data for new data's sake. The LHC in that regard has fell short.
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by blueplanet200 4y ago
This is not the usual notion of zero-knowledge.
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by blueplanet200 4y ago
It sounds like "they don't know why it's going down." I've worked with plenty super competent people that have taken time to root cause incidents. Guide to incidents: Step 1: Stop the bleeding Step 2: Prevent it in
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by blueplanet200 4y ago
I hope they figure out what’s going on every morning. Heard from inside they don’t know why the db dies everyday but restarting it fixes it.
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by blueplanet200 5y ago
I agree with you that people often overlook the complexity of tying changes to their database, with enqueuing jobs in a completely separate system. https://www.betterment.com/engineering/delayed-resilient-bac... does a
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by blueplanet200 5y ago
You kinda did though. Your models in states they shouldn’t be are jobs. These kind of headaches are avoided using a job queue that provides strong consistency. Everything is a trade off.
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by blueplanet200 5y ago
> but ultimately there should be a periodic job that attempts to transition states of any outstanding transactions and the job that does that work should be able ensure uniqueness (in the runtime sense) and idempotency. You've re-im

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