drpixie

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by drpixie 1y ago
We're all sadly gullible. We're all in IT. We know what an LLM is. But still we're fooled!?
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by drpixie 1y ago
100% agree. Google recently (unrequested) provided me with very detailed AI generated instructions for server config - instructions that would have completely blown away the server. There will be someone out there who just follows the bounc
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by drpixie 1y ago
For python apps (whether we should use python for apps is another question completely) my preferred config language is python. A little config.py file gets imported by everything in the project. It contains nothing but assignments to config
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by drpixie 1y ago
There is a nice sshd option (-T) that tells you what it's really doing. Just run sudo sshd -T | grep password
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by drpixie 1y ago
> Do you find the resulting natural language description is easier to reason about? An example from an different field - aviation weather forecasts and notices are published in a strongly abbreviated and codified form. For example, the w
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by drpixie 1y ago
On a similar theme, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unlikely_Voyage_of_Jack_de...
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by drpixie 2y ago
I used to buy Brother for exactly this reason,but recently had an older (but upgraded) Brother not recognise 3rd-party toner :( So ... not HP, not Brother ... anyone left that sells reasonable printers with honest firmware?
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by drpixie 2y ago
> Initially I thought to use , for float but ended use using . for floats. Better - check the computer's region setting and use the local language convention, so decimal point is "." is English speaking regions, and "
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by drpixie 2y ago
Paris is a special case - you've got a great metro and everywhere is close to a station :) Perhaps distance to a non-metro station (eg a TER "mainline" station like Gare du Nord) would give more representative results? I wait
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by drpixie 2y ago
If you're going to make a big claim about sort speed, tell me how speed is better/worse for various data. How do the algorithms compare when the data is already ordered, when it's almost (but not quite) already ordered, when
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by drpixie 2y ago
Concorde development was a (UK & France) national project. They would have had easy access to military aircraft. Aircraft like the Lightning might only just have been able to intercept but would easily have observed pre-arranged tests.
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by drpixie 2y ago
Yup. There must have been any number of photos taken by chase planes during development.
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by drpixie 2y ago
Bit of an aside, but the "Infinite Noise TRNG" seems to generate not very random "raw" data, which it hashes to make it appear as random bits. Am I missing something, or wouldn't it be better to start with highly ra
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by drpixie 2y ago
Seems like a fashion thing, but the Linux distribs I've recently checked out all defaulted to a dark mode. Fine for night but a pain to read normally :(
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by drpixie 2y ago
> and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire Ah yes, or a collection of R2D2 portable air conditioners, with the tails draped out through the window. Or a coolant leak that no one noticed until the sub-floor w
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by drpixie 2y ago
> Everywhere a C constant-expression appears in the C grammar the compiler should be able to execute functions at compile time, too, as long as the functions do not do things like I/O, access mutable global variables, make system ca
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by drpixie 2y ago
Ada has had something similar and very flexible since from the 80s ... like: loop Get(Current_Character); exit when Current_Character = '*'; Echo(Current_Character); end loop; There's not that much new unde
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by drpixie 2y ago
>>I don't force you to use SSL/TLS to connect here. Use it if you want, but if you can't, hey, that's fine, too. She accepts http AND https requests. So it's your choice, you want to know who you're talki
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by drpixie 2y ago
Absolutely - current windows is truly horrible, ads, ads, ads, crash :( If I were designing something to be deliberately distracting, annoying, and confusing, it would look a lot like windows!
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by drpixie 2y ago
Re the need for anonymous papers, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Controversial_Ideas and https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/ (the JCI tends to the arts and philosophy).
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by drpixie 2y ago
What's with giving error rates as a count of bits, when it's not clear how much DRAM was tested? There's a comment that the error was around 50% but the graphs should be error percentage, not some (meaningless) absolute numbe
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by drpixie 2y ago
Title should probably be "Hynix launches 321-layer NAND RAM".
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by drpixie 2y ago
Yup - as they say, "the cloud" is just some else's computer. It's not so hard to genuinely self-host. You just need a reasonable ISP who is willing to open your connection, and to be sensible about securing your systems.
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by drpixie 2y ago
I suspect not. Pi is known to be irrational, and repeating sequences are known to be rational. So pi cannot be truely repeating.
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by drpixie 2y ago
Could be interesting, but I'm not going to bother signing-up just to see more than a very slim homepage. That's a fail from me :(
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by drpixie 2y ago
>> The existing ones are all deficient in rather serious ways But most of the new ones look and behave just like the old ones - but with slightly more awkward syntax to allow for some special "feature" dear to the authors ;)
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by drpixie 2y ago
You're right of course. I was thinking that human languages change naturally while in use.
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by drpixie 2y ago
Aarrggghhh. Why do we insist that projects/systems/languages must be continually changing and evolving? Shouldn't there be room for a system that just does the thing(s) is does well? Why do we need to be continually tweaking?
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by drpixie 2y ago
Australia "up-to-date commercial data like stores and their opening hours" is about all that appears on Google Maps :(
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by drpixie 2y ago
Love the distinction between "Conventional Wisdom and Conventional Ignorance" :)

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