nagaiaida

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by nagaiaida 4d ago
would you care to share your interpretation of the function of the word "just" upthread? because that would appear to be the operative part doing the reducing that you've conveniently left out here.
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by nagaiaida 10d ago
potentially overly-aggressive spam filtering? the first comment by that account happens to start off with "The new $39.99 USD Anker Nano 45W(A121D) charger" verbatim.
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by nagaiaida 14d ago
mainly i just mean dataset configuration and arrangement within the filesystem in general as it pertains to whatever you're actually doing. if you can reliably send writes with different storage characteristics (deduplicability, compre
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by nagaiaida 15d ago
> ZFS needs around 1-5GB of ram per TB of storage ...per unique TB written to datasets with deduplication enabled, of course, not the pool as a whole (even though that ram cost is indeed at the pool level). there are plenty of useful thi
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by nagaiaida 15d ago
if you don't trust something to survive an atomic filesystem snapshot, why would you trust it to survive sudden power loss?
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by nagaiaida 22d ago
well the good news is you can indeed already just have unified cpu/gpu memory on linux with an igpu on good old replaceable ram. i've done it on 8th gen intel stuff i picked up dirt cheap used. for the most part, running on the gp
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by nagaiaida 28d ago
you can just hash the metadata masking out the hash as all zeroes or anything similar to get around that, like header checksums that ostensibly include themselves
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by nagaiaida 2mo ago
(to be clear, i have been on mastodon/fedi for coming up on a decade now and have no qualms about the way leaving or sunsetting an instance works. part of the magic imo is that old posts from long-dead instances regularly go around aga
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by nagaiaida 2mo ago
i've always thought one of git's strengths is offering robust aliasing and subcommand flexibility. why not spend three seconds making git have split too?
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by nagaiaida 2mo ago
e in interactive mode lets you directly edit the patch line by line, so it depends how you count popping open an editor
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by nagaiaida 2mo ago
somewhat relatedly, shell pipelining is very amenable to being massaged into (non stack-based) concatenative programming
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by nagaiaida 2mo ago
dang, and here some us were doing it for free like suckers
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by nagaiaida 2mo ago
with a numpad but without moving my hand
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by nagaiaida 3mo ago
dell opts you in without telling you. one day you'll just reboot to an unexpected bitlocker screen and have to figure out whether you're getting ransomwared before eventually digging a key out of your microsoft account you weren&#
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by nagaiaida 3mo ago
do we mathematicians do particularly much work with cows that is made simpler by assuming they're spherical?
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by nagaiaida 3mo ago
clicking through to the repo linked at the end it appears to be rolling-hash-style ast structural pattern matching that ignores things like what names identifiers concretely have
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by nagaiaida 3mo ago
what selective pressures against oldstyle numerals with ascenders/descenders existed that wouldn't have equally applied to letterforms with those same features? (aha i have found the answer to my own question: miniaturization for
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by nagaiaida 3mo ago
> like github repos that don't seem relevant i wouldn't necessarily trust a repo that does seem relevant either. it's trivial to put any data you want at a url which, at a glance, appears to legitimately belong to any repo
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by nagaiaida 4mo ago
minor correction, moar stands for metamodel on a runtime, not meta-object aware runtime
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by nagaiaida 4mo ago
no, first one goes down some wrong avenues before backtracking
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by nagaiaida 4mo ago
that's an excellent reason why one shouldn't validate emails by parsing, not an excuse for barring valid emails through poorly implemented validation
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
anyone with skin that makes laser/ipl inapplicable, for one
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
> They literally put his bio up. ...crediting him as the author of the original, not the mac port. without commenting on anything to do with trademarks, in what way is that even slightly pretending to be him? why would they put another,
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
the general asceticism, frign (on the board of suckless.org e.v.) setting his mailserver hostname to a nazi bunker, them picking a torch march through the german countryside as a bonding activity instead of literally anything else... yeah.
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
von neumann's minimax theorem dates back to 1928
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
the fragment of a word you are thinking of means "two"
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
yep, same with guitar. go to sleep fumbling through a riff even though you "know" it, wake up playing it smooth as hell
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
this sort of grammatical error in the defense of ai copyediting does not exactly instill confidence in your supervision of said ai copyediting: "of course an LLM ... were used". perhaps you could still pay an editor to look things
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
decidedly off topic but since i've stumbled across you again, i'm still over here wondering what the hell you meant a couple months ago by arguing that doing bare syscalls on linux from a forth is an emulator. it was quite perplex
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by nagaiaida 5mo ago
saying "10x smaller" is like saying "1000% cheaper"

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