erpellan

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by erpellan 3mo ago
Most British people don’t respond well to attempts to cow them. They refuse to be cowed! To allow oneself to be cowed would be cowardly. To do so would have one accused of cowardice, of being a coward.
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by erpellan 3mo ago
There was: Heroku It was glorious.
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by erpellan 4mo ago
I meant the social media platforms. If HN charged a fee for posting and commenting it doesn’t matter how cheap the AI models are, it’d be punishingly expensive to sling slop.
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by erpellan 4mo ago
Invert the economics. Right now there is value in posting LLM generated content that is more than the cost of using the model. If platforms had a subscription model that you had to pay for in order to do more than just read comments, there’
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by erpellan 5mo ago
Tell it like it is, sis.
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by erpellan 5mo ago
If we just put enough effort in and write the right spec/prompt/design then the programmers/llms/plug compatible coding units will produce the correct output first time! Closing feedback loops. That’s the whole thing. WE
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by erpellan 6mo ago
Am I missing something or would this be solved by adding a 1 byte `msg` field to the payload?
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by erpellan 7mo ago
Making charcoal releases CO2 though? How does that help with carbon capture?
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by erpellan 7mo ago
The standard pattern to avoid select for update (which can cause poor performance under load) is to use optimistic concurrency control. Add a numeric version column to the table being updated, read and increment it in the application layer
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by erpellan 7mo ago
But you’re not getting slower and slower for every car. Lets say 100 cars pull in front of you, and let’s be say each car adds 5 metres of space, so you have 500 metres of ‘lost’ space to regain. At 30 mph how much later will you be? 37 sec
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by erpellan 9mo ago
You might also enjoy Janet https://janet-lang.org/
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by erpellan 10mo ago
Unfortunately for the vast majority of people, it absolutely is some kind of magic.
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by erpellan 11mo ago
It’s always DNS! Except when it’s the firewall.
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by erpellan 1y ago
You do indeed use JOINS. The goal is to retrieve exactly the data you require in a single query. Then you get the DB to `EXPLAIN VERBOSE` or similar and ensure that full table scans aren't happening and that you have indexed the column
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by erpellan 1y ago
I can’t believe they still make processors out of sand. Talk about outdated technology. Sarcasm aside, a great many projects started on MySQL and moved to postgres. As did projects using mongo, couchdb, firebase, oracle etc etc… And I’m sur
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by erpellan 1y ago
If you look at the changes that have been made to Postgres, and continue to be made, the answer is yes. The Postgres team is working on replacing Postgres. With even better Postgres.
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by erpellan 1y ago
Unless you want to cross state lines to get an abortion
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by erpellan 2y ago
How about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
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by erpellan 2y ago
You had me until the sweeping generalisation. I can picture things clearly but only deep inside my head. I never (awake) see anything in front of my eyes that isn’t physically there.
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by erpellan 4y ago
Thread.sleep on a platform thread takes that thread out of action until the sleep ends. If an executor with 10 threads got 10 tasks that all called Thread.sleep(1000000) then it can run no more tasks until one of the threads wakes up. When
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by erpellan 4y ago
This reminds me of the episode of 'Person of Interest' where they discover that the crime-predicting AI that is reset every night has worked out that's what's happening and managed to form a company whose employees print
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by erpellan 4y ago
It takes a decade to bring a nuclear plant online, at astronomical cost. Instead, why not take that money and start building wind turbines, solar PV and grid-scale batteries? They can start generating (ie. delivering ROI) in a matter of mon
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by erpellan 4y ago
Citation needed.
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by erpellan 4y ago
A truck can carry 10 or 20 times more cargo than a car. The truck toll is not 20x more. The movement to reduce car use is about replacing them with better alternatives such as efficient local public transport and high speed rail, not going
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by erpellan 4y ago
Never ceases to amaze me how much passion calling a constructor can evoke. I have never, ever, been in a situation where calling constructors was simplified by adding a DI framework.
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by erpellan 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
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by erpellan 4y ago
Dehumidifiers come in a variety of capacities. Extraction of 4-8L per day with a 400W power consumption is typical, more if humidity is high. Larger communal units would be more efficient. If you have abundant power literally coming from th
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by erpellan 4y ago
I was specifically addressing "You won't get people to agree to make their life worse for the sake of the environment, no matter how much activists keep trying to push that"
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by erpellan 4y ago
It's a dehumidifier welded to a water filter. Simple tech. Bonus if you're in a cold climate, it helps to heat your home up too. I wish these guys, or someone would get beyond the 'call us for pricing' vaporware stage an
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by erpellan 4y ago
The driving cost for solar pv is the structure and the land, the panels are now so cheap (and getting cheaper) that the economic recommendation is to install 3x the generation capacity of the inverter. Sizing for hitting capacity on the dar

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