mikaraento

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by mikaraento 1mo ago
Though to be more charitable closure was a direct reaction to the difficulty of maintaining a huge JavaScript codebase for Gmail and static typing like Java really helped. Typescript is better but closure was miles better than raw js.
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by mikaraento 1mo ago
Today’s version would be to grade shell script homework randomly on either Linux or macOS :)
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by mikaraento 6mo ago
Do you know of a good ready-made implementation of such a proxy? I’ve been looking for one. GitHub is also a worry in terms of exfiltration. You can’t block pushes to public repos unless you are using GitHub Enterprise Managed Users afaict.
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by mikaraento 8mo ago
Favelas
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by mikaraento 8mo ago
That might be somewhat ungenerous unless you have more detail to provide. I know that at least some LLM products explicitly check output for similarity to training data to prevent direct reproduction.
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by mikaraento 9mo ago
You do know that something similar is true for JPEG, right? :) JPEG is a compression method. Files with JPEG-compressed data are most likely to be in either JFIF or EXIF container formats. Both will almost always use the .jpg/.jpeg fil
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by mikaraento 10mo ago
Nit: RDP’s roots are more in multi-user windows like Citrix Metaframe than in remote administration. I’ve found it to perform better than the alternatives (remote X11, VNC, Chrome Remote Desktop) for remote GUIs. Nomachine is the only alter
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by mikaraento 10mo ago
I’m sorry you went through that
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by mikaraento 10mo ago
Not quite. You take Finnish pancake batter (unleavened, a bit thicker than French crepes) and add blanched, finely chopped spinach or nettles. https://scandicuisine.com/stinging-nettle-pancakes/ looks quite reasonable
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by mikaraento 10mo ago
Relatively common in Finland to use young nettles like you’d use spinach in hot dishes (soup, blanched, pancakes).
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by mikaraento 10mo ago
I can be that someone this time. The ”repair and protect” version has helped my low-level toothache.
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Heads-up to people trying this: Gmail will often put forwarded email into spam. Be careful especially in the beginning to check your spam folder. They may also reject the mail as spam, esp if your volume is large. IIUC it’s hard to make for
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Thanks for the links. AFAICT these have not resulted in any shipping products.
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Sorry, I meant to emphasize _different_ mechanical connections. That a sensor that detects pressure has a different mechanical linkage than the one detecting vibration. So you need multiple different manufacturing techniques to replicate th
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by mikaraento 1y ago
The article points out that the human hand has over 10000 sensors with specific spatial layout and various specialised purposes (pressure / vibration / stretching / temperature) that require different mechanical connections b
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Depends heavily on the use case. Indeed many tasks humans carry out are done without touch feedback - but many also require it. An example of feed-forward manipulation is lifting a medium-sized object. Classic example is lifting a coffee cu
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Do you know of success stories here? Success of transferring models learned in physics simulation to the real world. When we (ZenRobotics) tried this 15 years ago a big problem was the creation of sufficiently high-fidelity simulated worlds
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Around 2008 a core step in search was basically a grep over all documents. The grep was distributed over roughly 1000 machines so that the documents could be held in memory rather than on disk. Inverted indices were not used as they worked
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by mikaraento 1y ago
IIRC it was never used for any voice/call switching. I think it was used in one (line of) ATM switch(es).
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Definitely lowered alcohol consumption for me. I no longer get that dopamine rush of the first drink. Some people go as far as describing it as anhedonia. I kinda get it.
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by mikaraento 1y ago
Could you provide a pointer to docs for this? It wasn't obvious from an initial read of their docs.
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by mikaraento 1y ago
I remember that years ago (mobile) Safari would aggressively use GPU layers and crash if you ran out of GPU memory. Maybe that's still happening? Preview on a mac handles the file fine.
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by mikaraento 1y ago
I remember being able to file support cases just by buying one for a couple of hundred dollars. They'd also promise that if it turned out to be a bug in the product the fee would be refunded. (My case wasn't solved. It was somethi
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by mikaraento 2y ago
So maybe not luxury, but premium. Like MB or Audi in cars. Pricing still plays out differently.
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by mikaraento 2y ago
I guess text in images would be similar, and is indeed where image generation models struggle to get the details right. E.g., making a greeting card with somebody's name spelled correctly.
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by mikaraento 2y ago
SUBST was commonly used for source code directories. It served at least two purposes: making source appear at the same location on all machines and working around path length limits. I've also used SUBST when reorganizing network drive
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by mikaraento 2y ago
They didn't study patients using semaglutide for weight loss only. I guess a Bayesian would increase their estimated probability of such a problem also for the weight loss case, but not by as much (as diabetes predisposes people to oth
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by mikaraento 2y ago
For compute offload, Google has indeed done that - the Tensor chips have Google's TPUs instead of Qualcomm DSPs. Both on these TPUs as well as on pre-Tensor hardware that had Qualcomm DSPs, Pixels would not allow apps access to the ker
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by mikaraento 2y ago
To be charitable, I think tptacek was referring to a variant of "accounts aren't closed because of credit risk" as not being true. The credit risk talked about in the article was ACH reversals with a bankrupt account owner fa
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by mikaraento 2y ago
RFC 9413 referenced in a parent mentions HTML. It points out that formats meant to be human-authored may benefit more from being liberally accepted. I also read that XHTML made template authoring hard, as the template itself might not be va

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