dekimir

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by dekimir 1y ago
> any serious legal situation (like a contract) is going to want a human in the loop to verify that the translation is actually correct I hope you're right, but when I think about all those lawyers caught submitting unproofread LLM
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by dekimir 3y ago
If you do that, I can update postgres-searchbox [1] to use it for better frontend experience. [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/postgres-searchbox
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by dekimir 3y ago
I still can't figure out how pg_trgm is supposed to work for multi-term searches and how to ensure the dictionary table it needs stays up-to-date. Is there a good writeup somewhere?
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by dekimir 3y ago
Me too. Probably the way of the future. Each of us could run a little personal scraper, and the Twitter servers wouldn't know the difference.
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by dekimir 3y ago
For personal consumption, one can always scrape one's feed[1]. I wonder why more of us don't do it. [1] https://twitter.com/feedliness/status/1638580147304505349?s=...
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by dekimir 4y ago
Doesn't that ensure that the most desirable employees leave and the least desirable cling on?
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by dekimir 4y ago
Because remote work was the only work in 2020 and 2021, yet a large majority of businesses continued to function mostly well. Some even exceeded their average results.
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by dekimir 4y ago
I know, right? I thought COVID proved definitively that remote work is not just possible but equal to in-office work. I really want to understand the counterarguments, but all I see is oblique assertions like "true creativity require
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CEOs at Disney and Starbucks demand that workers start returning to the office(finance.yahoo.com)
23 points by dekimir 4y ago|35 comments
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by dekimir 4y ago
"There is simply no way that true collective creativity can be consistently generated in not-so-splendid isolation.” "I think every successful CEO, including myself, is tired of all the whining"
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by dekimir 4y ago
Don't know why you're getting that, the link works for me from multiple different browsers.
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by dekimir 4y ago
> My guess is their voice, sms etc all are IP these days which was impacted by their BGP issues. Impacted, yes. But "no service"? That's dubious. I hear you on foreign SIM working. I got online at a cafe just long enough t
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by dekimir 4y ago
Yes, exactly. BGP withdrawal is likely a symptom, not the cause.
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by dekimir 4y ago
How does that relate to the Rogers cell service outage, though? Surely SMS doesn't require BGP? It feels like there's a big, fundamental problem affecting a variety of Rogers infra, where BGP and cell problems are just symptoms we
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by dekimir 5y ago
rqlite is not embeddable, making it harder to colocate data with computation. This post explains it: https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/728187331f53
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by dekimir 6y ago
> In memory provides real-time transactions you can't guarantee when using disk-based storage. This is changing as we discover better ways of coding IO operations. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019
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by dekimir 6y ago
Oh! Well, I'm embarrassed... ^_^ Makes much more sense now, thanks.
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by dekimir 6y ago
> but remote is difficult for complex projects A bit difficult, yes, but far from uncommon. Witness Linux, Scylla, RedHat, GitLab, Firefox, WordPress...
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by dekimir 6y ago
I'd find it more convincing if you've been living in, say, Lisbon and charging Seattle prices. If I were hiring devs in Seattle, I'd be delighted to pay them EU wages.
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Google Asks Workers Who Went Abroad for Covid to Return(bloombergquint.com)
27 points by dekimir 6y ago|10 comments
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by dekimir 6y ago
Another annoying breakage in Sway is Android Studio. Submenus appear in random places on the screen even with _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1.
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by dekimir 6y ago
> you should be prepared for your results to be never-consistent Isn't this a core feature of distributed systems? How can you be "consistent" if there's a network failure between some writer and the stream? How can
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West-coast shuffle: tech power moving to Seattle(economist.com)
1 points by dekimir 6y ago|0 comments
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by dekimir 7y ago
This explanation is so brilliant that I created a short URL pointing to it: https://cutit.org/AJCFS
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by dekimir 7y ago
> it's not clear to me why GLSL-to-SPIRV would be so slow. Would be great to hear back from Google. Off the top of my head: - glslang supports all previous GLSL versions and profiles, which adds many checks and corner cases througho
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by dekimir 8y ago
Can you actually train a torch::jit::script::Module? I couldn't figure out how to feed its parameter tensors to a torch::optim::OptimizerBase constructor...
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by dekimir 8y ago
Hm, the Mac version of LibTorch is suddenly unavailable!? [0] I swear it was available for download until a few days ago... [0] https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
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by dekimir 8y ago
Is there a good writeup somewhere on how the phone apps you mentioned prevent tampering? I'd be super-interested in reading it. Alternatively, are you available for consulting on the topic? I couldn't find any contact info in your
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by dekimir 9y ago
But how exactly does Dan propose to add coverage "guidance"? Here's what he says: "Since Zalewski has already done the work of figuring out, empirically, what heuristics are likely to exercise more code paths, it seems
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by dekimir 9y ago
The previous submission's title does mention C++ ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789033

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