neerajsi

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by neerajsi 6d ago
This is surprisingly apt to me. Fertilizer is apparently one of the fundamental geopolitical dependencies on capital and access to petrochemicals. Solving fertilizer would unlock a huge amount of human potential in the Global South.
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by neerajsi 10d ago
Disallowing smc is a significant perf/power win. For cpus that run a large variety of large code (e.g. a web browser or ux stack), being able to cache a large instruction footprint and fetch/decode it quickly is important. Having
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by neerajsi 11d ago
I agree with what you're saying. It's called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_slicing . Clearly a footgun in c++. You have to return a pointer to something that is not locally allocated.
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by neerajsi 12d ago
Yes, I think it's a problem for society. Death in old age frees up social, economic, physical, and political resources for the next generation of the living. If the rich and powerful escape death, because after all they will the people
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by neerajsi 13d ago
I think macro economics has provided significant value to society even if the model isn't precise with perfect predictions. We do have worthwhile models that the government can use to avoid making serious monetary mistakes in the face
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by neerajsi 1mo ago
I don't get why the sleep deprivation continues. Seems like eliminating that would make a big difference. I have a six year old son, and since he was four it was perfectly fine for him to do his own thing for a little while if I neede
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by neerajsi 1mo ago
I initially agreed with your idea, but realized the problem. At the bus/inter agent communication level, the CPU has sent a read request and is expecting a response. These protocols are usually synchronous with no clear cancellation se
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by neerajsi 1mo ago
I was curious about what Tiger Beetle does. It has two phase transfers, which appears tailor built to handle this case. But maybe Tiger Beetle isn't the right database to track all your product stocks.
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by neerajsi 1mo ago
It's probably a "bottom half", which is tightly bound to the CPU where the interrupt landed. And probably the memcg iteration uses a spin lock, which disables bottom half execution. On NT, this style of problem would be slig
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by neerajsi 1mo ago
I think your comment is describing something slightly different from incentives: the criteria for granting power and control to some individuals rather than others. There may be incentives to do what's necessary to fulfill those criter
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by neerajsi 1mo ago
Clearly this is for high concurrency cases where there are many people racing to get all the available items. It's not clear that it's in shopifys or the sellers interest to let items get sequestered in people's shopping cart
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by neerajsi 1mo ago
In my recent experience it seems to be a contextual issue. Llms are constantly being dropped into new situations where they have to rediscover high level and cross cutting information about the system they're working on from contextual
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by neerajsi 2mo ago
I feel like I learned something from this about the high level need and attributes of the schmitt trigger design. But I'm sure I'd need to read the actual my sources to realize the physical design. However the general idea of usi
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by neerajsi 2mo ago
I've been a systems dev for a long time and have debugged many such tricky issues before. Even on teams of experts, this type of issue would take someone really capable weeks to track down, especially because the repro environment is
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by neerajsi 2mo ago
The other part is that almost no one would have the energy to spend hours instrumenting and rebuilding musl, reading the kernel mm code, and thinking hard about how they might interact. Claude is probably not right about the root cause here
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by neerajsi 2mo ago
I was arguing with a friend about this point today. I'd posit that our economy has been growing in a way where goods that require more human time and natural resources to produce are giving way to goods that are intangible. Once we&#x2
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by neerajsi 2mo ago
I work on systems code that is tricky to write, but with a good test harness. Being able to leave the agent unattended to try several paths when I'm generating the first draft of some code is very helpful. Of course beating the code in
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by neerajsi 2mo ago
I wonder if it's the same behavior as copilot cli. I dug into it when I got annoyed and found that there's a fundamental tension between rendering the cell based UI and supporting the terminal's native copy paste. At least o
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by neerajsi 3mo ago
I disagree. For example, the Wright brothers did air foil engineering empirically without full knowledge of the underlying fluid mechanics. Early and innovative engineering will often be less based on existing scientific or mathematical kno
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by neerajsi 3mo ago
I wonder how they ensure durability. Is it possible that a cell going down would roll back a payment after it has occurred. Or do they depend on a non cell database?
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by neerajsi 4mo ago
Another way around this is that things that aren't coherent enough to be described by a finite set of inertial propositions simply aren't perceivable.
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by neerajsi 4mo ago
I just joined a new team and have been using copilot with opus models. We have our core code in a weird dialect of C and rust. C I know well, but not rust. Our tests are in Python. The pipeline descriptions are in Yaml. Outside of the core
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by neerajsi 4mo ago
How does release management work? Are there stable branches for deployed properties with a cheery pick approach for bug fixes? Are all products in google3 on a coordinated set of release trains?
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by neerajsi 6mo ago
I think intuition is what is developed through calibration, so I personally like the word calibration. Intuition and other forms of knowledge are stock quantities while calibration and instructions are types of flows which change the stock.
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by neerajsi 6mo ago
Aren't pipelines even easier to target and destroy than boats?
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by neerajsi 8mo ago
Speculating: local ssds aren't as valuable in the cloud since they're effectively ephemeral. If the instance restarts, it would lose its storage. Trying to keep a workload affinitized to an SSD or to migrate data to a different SS
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by neerajsi 9mo ago
If you want recognize all the common patterns, the code can get very verbose. But it's all still just one analysis or transformation, so it would be artificial to split into multiple files. I haven't worked much in llvm, but I&#x
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by neerajsi 11mo ago
https://www.anthropic.com/news/analysis-tool Seems like they already built this capability.
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by neerajsi 11mo ago
From the previous article in the series, it looks like the biggest impediment to just using full llvm to compile the query is that they didn't find a good way to cache the results across invocations. Sql server hekaton punted this prob
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by neerajsi 1y ago
Looks like the ampersands appear in menu items to indicate the keyboard shortcut key to navigate to that item. https://willus.com/mingw/colinp/win32/resources/menu.html

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