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by burch45 10mo ago
Not just inefficient, it was a large scale industrial accident. A canal wall was breached and not repaired for two years and the runoff all collected in this low lying area. It’s a very odd place to visit now though for marketing reasons th
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by burch45 11mo ago
I have never heard of “material footprint” and from the definition it seems entirely worthless. The article doesn’t start with any reason why anyone would be interested in this measure, just that comment it is starting to show up in reports
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by burch45 11mo ago
This post’s conclusions are odd. It has a bunch of extensive benchmarks showing that zstd is by far the worst performing across every metric except a slight increase in compression ratio and then says the conclusion is zstd is the best choi
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by burch45 1y ago
Its entire purpose is an optimization. You have an expensive operation. A bloom filter can tell you that you definitely don’t need to do that operation. So rather than wasting a lot of time unnecessarily doing that operation, you get the c
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by burch45 1y ago
That is the standard acronym for the course in American universities and has been for many decades.
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by burch45 1y ago
The main issue with a premix is like the article. It’s fit for a single purpose. I only make pancakes from scratch, admittedly I use baking powder and regular whole milk instead of buttermilk and baking soda. But the benefit is those stapl
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by burch45 1y ago
This is such a weird example. Doctors are a professions with artificial limits specifically to raise the income of doctors in the profession. There are no starving doctors because they don’t let enough people become doctors to lower the wag
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by burch45 1y ago
A big part of that is “I will save you X” is a non-starter. That is not making the business more money. If you have something that will actually make the business more money then they will go “Great if I pay you twice as much will it make m
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by burch45 1y ago
The first sentence of the article explains that this is about management and strategic consulting.
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by burch45 1y ago
I think the false advertising does great disservice to Clair Obscur. It turns off people who don’t like turn-based combat and ends up disappointing people who do like turn based combat. I very nearly bounced from what is a great game becaus
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by burch45 1y ago
Yes. Very funny for the author to spend a lot of time talking about null hypothesis testing, but not actually running a control experiment to test the null hypothesis that his dice are actually different from the stock dice.
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by burch45 1y ago
Theranos wasn’t a great idea or even a good idea. The “idea” was 1. Get a drop of blood 2. … 3. Cure all diseases That’s not even an idea. It’s just magical thinking.
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by burch45 1y ago
Undefined behavior to access the uninitialized memory. A sanitizer would have flagged that.
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by burch45 1y ago
This is about go not Java. Go makes different tradeoffs and does not have moving multigenerational GC.
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by burch45 2y ago
Alexander Hamilton oversaw an explicit program to steal technology from England. https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88... I believe that is what is being referenced.
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by burch45 2y ago
It’s the basic math of the funding bill. The amount required to continue operating does not equal the amount allocated for social security, Medicare or Medicaid. So no matter what anyone says about “not cutting” there will be cuts. Lawmake
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by burch45 2y ago
Brave New World.
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by burch45 2y ago
It’s not about “giving secret information to a foundry”. It’s entirely the field programmable (FP) feature. It’s also not really programmable in the sense that you would be sending in new instructions in realtime. Reconfigurable is a bette
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by burch45 2y ago
This has been covered before but saying that Mars would be a “humanity guarantee” is actually extremely illogical, not the most logical. Short of the Earth getting blasted to tiny pieces in some way there is no scenario where Mars is more h
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by burch45 2y ago
I actually much prefer go ‘s runtime tooling. Pprof has everything I need built in; heap, cpu, blocking, mutex contention. And don’t need additional tools to visualize the collected data. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http&#x2
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by burch45 2y ago
Yes. This is exactly the sort of information you’ll find in Bill Cleveland’s books.l (referenced at the start of the article then somewhat dismissed later). Bill Cleveland did all these sorts of studies with actual users about which visuali
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by burch45 2y ago
Waffle means something very different though in the U.S., to “flip-flop” on a position. Not hold it for any fundamental reasons. But I don’t think you can say that an LLM holds a position whatsoever. Also, https://en.m.wikipedia
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by burch45 2y ago
Branching is different instruction paths, so it requires reading the instructions from different memory that causes a delay jumping to those new instructions rather than plowing ahead on the current stream of instructions. So a conditional
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by burch45 2y ago
Parent is referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control As opposed to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_access_control
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by burch45 2y ago
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/judges-investigation-p... Original post