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by lifepillar 28d ago
According to this guy [0], medium is the level that tends to produce way less tokens in agentic workflows ("low" may output less per response, but then the model makes more mistakes, so it needs to iterate more). [0] https:/
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by lifepillar 2y ago
>I'd like to move the cursor backwards and forwards in long commands easier, maybe even with the mouse In Terminal.app you may alt-click to make the cursor jump to where you’ve clicked. Besides, I use alt-arrows to jump between word
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by lifepillar 2y ago
>Our technology […] collects opt-in customer behavior data from hundreds of popular websites that offer top display, video platforms, social applications, and mobile marketplaces that allow laser-focused media buying. To me this seems: 1
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by lifepillar 3y ago
I see that MVCC is still your preferred way of doing CC, and what academic research is mostly focused. I am wondering whether that’s an advantage for in-memory databases specifically. I was once discussing MVCC vs 2PL with an experienced Sy
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by lifepillar 4y ago
Yeah, it’s better to use a “high-level” language designed for the architecture, such as this: https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA
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by lifepillar 4y ago
Thanks for this tool! I found it when Apple started enforcing stricter requirements for certificates, and the commands I was using to create certificates at the time had become inadequate. I have since used mkcert to generate dozen of certi
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by lifepillar 4y ago
You may create a local account and sync via iCloud. But NNW also supports six online services, and self-hosted FreshRSS. The latter is probably what best answers your question. Sent from my NNW :-)
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by lifepillar 4y ago
I wonder whether people monitor resources consumed by processes… A couple of years ago I had installed Gitea, but it was constantly using between 5-10% CPU. I switched to Gogs, and it doesn’t waste CPU cycles. So, I have stayed with Gogs. M
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by lifepillar 5y ago
You may be interested in this analysis: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
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by lifepillar 5y ago
I have configured local Unbound to use four different open DNS provideds, round-robin, the rationale being each one gets 1/4th of requests. On the other hand, I am sending requests to four providers instead of one, so I have to trust f
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by lifepillar 5y ago
It’s not that conflicts magically disappear if you use MVCC. In some cases, PostgreSQL has to rollback transactions whereas a 2PL-based system would schedule the same transactions just fine. Often, those failures are reported ad “serializat
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by lifepillar 5y ago
One thing PostgreSQL would likely not be able to adapt to, at least without significant effort, is dropping MVCC in favor of more traditional locking protocols. While MVCC is fashionable nowadays, and more or less every platform offers it
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by lifepillar 5y ago
> Our mission was to ensure that the assets we were working with were usable by someone ~100 years from now. Is there any published technical document about the choices made by LoC to achieve that goal?
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by lifepillar 5y ago
So, when someone comes to you and identifies herself by providing her SSN, name, date of birth, how do you know whether she corresponds to the record with id M or to the record with id N? Or, more likely, to one of the N records, with N>
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by lifepillar 6y ago
Thank you for making HexFiend, that’s the top hex editor! One thing that I really really like about HexFiend is that scrolling is very fast, yet precise and smooth, no matter the size of the file. Is it based on custom classes? Scrolling in
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by lifepillar 6y ago
Ok, I've read everything more carefully: those are clearly hypothetical, entertaining reviews. Hints: (1) the link at the beginning; (2) no references to the sources :-)
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by lifepillar 6y ago
I retract my assessment. I have found what appears to be the original paper ([0], from Computer 2005), and there is no indication that the reviews are fake. On the contrary, it appears that they are brought up as striking examples of a revi
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by lifepillar 6y ago
Codd (rightly) recognized two “fatal flaws” [0] in SQL: (1) permitting duplicate rows, and (2) the treatment of missing information (he also criticized the “inadequately defined kind of nesting of a query within a query”, but that addressed
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by lifepillar 6y ago
I’d say that the reviews you have cited are satirical.
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by lifepillar 6y ago
Seemingly little known fact, at least in this forum, is that Steve Jobs authored a fairly technical, albeit short, article in the '70s, entitled "Interfacing the Apple Computer" [0]. [0] https://archive.org/de
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by lifepillar 6y ago
There is MetaType1 [0], which is MetaPost-based. [0] https://wiki.contextgarden.net/MetaType1
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by lifepillar 6y ago
I have developed SQLiteDecimal: http://chiselapp.com/user/lifepillar/repository/sqlite3decim... Still very rough, but usable.
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by lifepillar 6y ago
WireGuard’s protocol was also formally verified by a third party [0]. That makes me more confident in using it than any social proof whatsoever :) [0] https://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/cryptover...
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by lifepillar 7y ago
Take a look at http://www.softwaregems.com/Documents/Student%20Resolutions/ . I will refrain to comment on the quality of Drupal’s schema, but that diagram just shows a bunch of tables and how those tables are conn
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by lifepillar 7y ago
I love the Hex Fiend hex editor [0]! Among the rest, it shows how scrolling should work in all macOS apps (fast, smooth, and precise). [0] https://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
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Forensics Analysis of OpenVPN on iOS(farleyforensics.com)
1 points by lifepillar 7y ago|0 comments
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by lifepillar 7y ago
>But I find all hell breaks loose when you want to get a slightly different formatting than what's offered. Then suddenly the entire system becomes something you need to fight against. LaTeX was developed with the goal of freeing th
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Thunderbird is spying you(groups.google.com)
3 points by lifepillar 8y ago|1 comments
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by lifepillar 8y ago
It’s a shame that no one in academia has bothered so far to curate a critical, annotated, edition of Codd’s collected works. His impact was immense (for good and for bad, e.g., nulls in SQL) and he foresaw many of the important issues of da
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by lifepillar 8y ago
If you have time to invest, go for a TeX variant (LaTeX or ConTeXt). That gives full control over any typesetting detail. I’d recommend ConTeXt [0] over LaTeX. A minimal document is as simple as \starttext Start writing here…

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