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by entrope 3d ago
Then I don't understand at all what point you were trying to make about being miserable in our jobs. Cleaning up after bad code has always been part of the job for decades; so has balancing the creation of new technical debt against r
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by entrope 3d ago
The whole point of the MS Access reference is that similar situations have been tropes since at least the 1990s. Bad code generated by someone who doesn't know how to program well -- whether that person is supposed to be a professiona
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by entrope 5d ago
That's not very close to the argument they make; the claim (right or wrong) is that large corporations often use monorepos, and those are bigger than single-project repositories like used for open source projects. Their claim is consis
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by entrope 6d ago
Why "sadly"? The person writing a link should provide enough detail for readers to figure out whether they should follow the link. I rolled my eyes the first time I saw this entry on HN because it just said "Neki" and
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by entrope 6d ago
The same thing as the last word of "That is the difference between 22 and 226 seconds, measured." Techies I know would mostly omit "measured"; the rest would show, not tell.
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by entrope 6d ago
Drawing a strong conclusion from one shaky data point - classic human tell? I've been reading John D. Cook for years (maybe decades? "The Endeavour" is one of my oldest bookmarks), and this post was no more written by AI than
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by entrope 7d ago
The usual metaphor for keeping customers is a walled garden, right? I think it's useful to distinguish them by default.
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by entrope 9d ago
2048-bit RSA gives something like 28 more bits of security than 1024-bit RSA has, so it would take about 250 million times as long to factor one 2048-bit key.
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by entrope 12d ago
> This time the glitch was 33 feet, who's to say next time it couldn't be 3300 feet? People who study this. This glitch was caused by unusual, structured, widespread distortions in the ionosphere. There's no known mechan
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by entrope 13d ago
M-Code is a new encrypted signal that is not fully operational yet. OCX was supposed to enable it. GPS has always had the P(Y) code, which is an encrypted signal, at a higher chip rate than the C/A code that has been broadcast on L1 f
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by entrope 13d ago
To meet its integrity budget, a GBAS needs at least triple redundancy, not just a single station. If one has a lot of patience, one can read the details of how it works at https://elibrary.icao.int/product/299828 (alon
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by entrope 13d ago
Yes. WAAS should also help a lot, or at least tell you that you can't get a good position.
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by entrope 15d ago
No (current) mention of weights being released, so apparently not.
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by entrope 15d ago
This article describes what is usually called a Pareto frontier: the best known achievable trade-offs between two (or more) optimization goals. "Efficient frontier" in common usage seems to be specifically a Pareto frontier for fi
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by entrope 19d ago
A decade ago, I worked on a simulation program that involved a C++ core with a Python wrapper and DB interface. End users cared a lot about throughout with a rather limited size, weight and power budget. We spent a lot of time optimizing t
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by entrope 21d ago
My guess is that it's not complete or stable or qualified enough for them to publish it as a supported feature. Maybe the power draw is too high and it triggers thermal throttling too quickly, similar to early Intel AVX-512? Maybe th
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by entrope 22d ago
No, they use the same definition of memory bandwidth as others, but Apple Silicon has a lot of memory channels. In previous generations, prefill has been compute-limited and decode is fast. https://blog.exolabs.net/nvidia-d
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by entrope 22d ago
It takes almost 8 years for $3.25/mo of electricity savings to break even with a $300 difference in up front cost. Assuming the time value of money is zero, that is.
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by entrope 23d ago
Usually, the exposure limit is based on an active phone next to an ear. RF field strength falls off with the square of distance, so a phone on each side of your head is most dangerous to the respective ear and bits of your brain close to yo
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by entrope 24d ago
I can't speak to your specific setup, but if the two SIMs use different carriers then they will often need to use different frequencies. A phone could in theory use twice as many radios, but the emitted power limits would be the same,
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by entrope 28d ago
Is it that impressive? It is a model generating short strings from scratch, so I do not think there is significant token parsing or memory allocation going on. In compute performance, 10M tok/s * 4096 parameter/tok * 4 byte/
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by entrope 29d ago
Yes, but their "run rate" assumes the current level continues unchanged, right? If revenue per month goes down then the projected run rate is optimistic. However, revenue has been increasing, so the reported run rates have under
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by entrope 1mo ago
"Latent" means it (the space) is there all the time but usually not exposed or apparent. Latent space is a high-dimensional space that is not legible to humans, so normally reasoning gets constrained to progress in tokens instead
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by entrope 1mo ago
Yes, it's notable that they mean "production" in the sense of 40 vehicles rather than 40 models or model variants. It's close to prototype quantities rather than production; US law allows the military to build up to 10%
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by entrope 1mo ago
Yes, this. At work, I have side-by-side 32" 4K monitors. At home, I have a 59" curved 7680x2160 monitor that is the same size as the two work monitors combined. My home setup is much more ergonomic than work. Beyond your point
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by entrope 1mo ago
Depends on the source and what you're trying to exercise. M-Code and spot beams are supposed to provide something like 20 dB of jamming resistance, and if your jammer is not right next to the target then the jamming could be a factor
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by entrope 1mo ago
I don't think attitudes have changed on that. The last PM on my current project (in aircraft navigation) was a pilot, and he always stressed that a pilot in charge should have alternatives planned for destination and means of navigati
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by entrope 2mo ago
100 ms might be a good threshold for a lot of purposes, but for when refresh, 30 fps is painful to use compared to 60 fps: it is extremely noticeable when moving windows, but I'm old and can tell the difference even just moving the cur
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by entrope 2mo ago
I think ripgrep does avoid allocations in that innermost loop. That's why this report says all the crashes are associated with opendir() and its memory allocation: the opendir() call is outside of ripgrep's innermost loop but sti
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by entrope 2mo ago
It got arm-waved to a race condition in munmap(). Claude (or a distill of Claude) didn't identify a race, it just convinced itself that was the cause.

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