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by finnh 1y ago
> Enabling allocation sampling profiling with a sampling period of 4 MB leads to a maximum time overhead of 25% in our benchmarks, over un-profiled regular execution 25% is not low overhead, but perhaps this example is the worse case and
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by finnh 1y ago
> He went to the Museum of Natural History to study sharks, and he had a model pose across a couple of stools for reference of what someone looks like swimming. That explains why the swimmer, at least, looks a bit fake.
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by finnh 1y ago
"trivial ... serious efforts" which is it? you contradict yourself in a single sentence.
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by finnh 1y ago
It's also unclear how the first graph, whose y-axis is labelled "req/s", is showing a latency spike. Latency is not visible on that graph, AFAICT, only throughput.
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by finnh 1y ago
exactly. that one clause casts doubt on all the other reasoning; randomization controls for patient selection bias but not diurnal clinic performance
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by finnh 1y ago
My family calls that game "pink mink"!
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by finnh 1y ago
What's funny is that checklists in hospitals have been shown, empirically, to be massive life-saving devices. cyber perhaps not so much...
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by finnh 1y ago
s/show/department/
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by finnh 1y ago
ah, yes, the "memory is no object" way of obtaining a weighted distribution. If you need that sweet sweet O(1) selection time, maybe check out the Alias Method :)
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by finnh 1y ago
(not a worthy comment, but) I really like the free lunch / free launch pun here, intentional or not.
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by finnh 1y ago
"fantasizing about a collab" sounds like the world of sneakers, not software. What does that even mean in the world of software?
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by finnh 1y ago
With this comment showing that search was inconsistent and gave incorrect results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335277 why the repost?
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by finnh 1y ago
That room must have smelled amazing. I want to go hang out there.
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by finnh 1y ago
Is it common to abbreviate Wittgenstein to "Witt"? Don't recall seeing/hearing that before, but it's been awhile since undergrad.
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by finnh 1y ago
Do you have any examples of defamation lawsuits? I've sold two companies, and have plenty of rich and upper-level exec friends, and I have never heard of a defamation lawsuit amongst tech execs. There is definitely a stupid game where
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by finnh 2y ago
Of course, we already live in this reality - just substitute "Corporation" for "AI".
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by finnh 2y ago
> I'm increasingly convinced this is a generational thing You are taking about gas cars, though. Nobody, of any generation, has "range anxiety" in a gas car. People might be afraid they will hit empty, or not trust their
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by finnh 2y ago
> Dismissing all LLM assistance because of some purity dance you want to enact is silly That's not what I was saying. I was expressing surprise at the lack of spell- or grammar-check in a blog post about detecting slop. I think an
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by finnh 2y ago
> To be clear, I fault no one for augmenting their writing with LLMs. I do it. A lot now. It’s a great breaker of writers block. But I really do judge those who copy/paste directly from an LLM into a human-space text arena. Sure, ta
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by finnh 2y ago
The energy densities listed are flagged as approximate, so grains of salt etc, but the numbers on the page aren't entirely consistent. The stated energy density is "> 500 watthours/liter". But higher on the page we se
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by finnh 2y ago
> Fireproofing isnt mandatory, so people dont do it 100% > and they hate spending even one dollar extra on roofing when they know a taxpayer-backed insurance policy will cover their substandard construction That just doesn't foll
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by finnh 2y ago
The sample flat program in the post is exactly RPN, no?
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by finnh 2y ago
Wow - i even saw the words "default browser app" and did not even realize it was a setting choice. That works - thank you! wrt reason : I think that the webview has cookie isolation from the actual app, so using the webview is a
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by finnh 2y ago
Doesn't this complaint assume a strict stack-ranking of contributors, where the "top" person has no reason to stay and thus leaves, and then the new top does the same, etc? Which is not at all how actual humans and relationsh
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by finnh 2y ago
where? i just went through Settings > Apps > Gmail on my iphone and found nothing about this. Likewise the in-app Settings in the GMail app lets you choose which browser is the "default app" but it's already set to Saf
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by finnh 2y ago
And yet Headband really did feel like you were wearing a headband =)
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by finnh 2y ago
Yeah, and the Chrome store is warning about removing it from the store for some best practice violation (no doubt related to the years-since-last-commit). It does, however, work great for me so :fingers-crossed: I can avoid re-shaving this
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by finnh 2y ago
The recent Shōgun series was surprisingly good, I really enjoyed it. Clavell famously has no idea how to end a book - they pretty much _all_ have a deus ex machina in the form of a natural disaster - but they are excellent & fun reads o
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by finnh 2y ago
I'm a long-time fan of the Wasavi extension for Chrome/Firefox/Opera, which looks quite similar in terms of user experience. Wasavi is a purely javascript implementation of the vim editing experience, so I believe ends up wi
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by finnh 2y ago
I don't think this was your intent, but the only interpretation here is that you think the rapid creation of racist pictures is cool.

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