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by pdevr 12d ago
I read through it. Not bad. In fact, pretty good. It is about something that they actually did. tl;dr: In JDk 25, filling a large array of references with objects living in a different heap region is extremely slow when using G1 GC as oppos
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by pdevr 2mo ago
It is a feature in Rust, not a bug :-) (I know you didn't say it is a bug.) The error-tagged union is PgResult<bool> - which means it contains bool as the result if things go well. (The other part in the union is of course the er
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by pdevr 3mo ago
I had the 2012 print edition. One of the best books available - the best book that I knew - about GC at that time. Anti-pattern: Regarding the 2023 e-book edition, I do not see a way to buy it from the site, or even a link to buy.
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by pdevr 3mo ago
I am writing this for you as well as those who are likely to read this later as well. From the quoted snippet from the original article, purportedly AI-generated: > Not a tutorial. Not an ORM. Actual SQL From my comment: > Not stock o
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by pdevr 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25985705
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by pdevr 3mo ago
Darn. I write exactly like this. You need to consider that people write in different ways, and the LLM is choosing from among the different styles.
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by pdevr 8mo ago
I watched this last week. The part about veering constantly to navigate the maze of internal politics is fascinating. The compromises he had to make, like not being able to put in on Github initially. The easy victories, like making TypeScr
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by pdevr 9mo ago
Just in case anyone does not know, that is a Base64URL-encoded string. Used by JWT.
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by pdevr 9mo ago
Merry Christmas to everyone. Being a non-Christian and it being Christmas time, I am sharing one verse from the New Testament that is, in my opinion, useful - or at the very least, insightful - to anyone, regardless of religion. Luke 16:10:
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by pdevr 9mo ago
What confused me was this: "Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image.". The word "them" implied plural. I was looking for the dog and something el
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by pdevr 9mo ago
It need not be a dichotomy. I also laughed at the title. At the same time, I found the original article useful.
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by pdevr 9mo ago
>Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image. Where is the image given along with the prompt? If I didn't miss it: Would have been nice to show the attached imag
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by pdevr 9mo ago
>which are known to produce predictable fMRI signal changes in distributed brain regions. Wondering how they created that baseline. Was it with fMRI data (which has deviance from actual data, as pointed out)? Or was it through other mean
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by pdevr 10mo ago
I use version managers for Python, Node, Ruby, and others. But for Java, none. I have all the recent versions of Java on my Linux and Windows devices. I download the zip and extract it to a common directory "Java". Setting the pat
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by pdevr 1y ago
Observations and personal opinions, after glancing through the slides: * The entertainment industry will be transformed drastically. Music and movies will be transformed by AI to such an extent that the next generation will find it hard to
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by pdevr 2y ago
So, to summarize: >Used "dictionary learning" >Found abstract features >Found similar/close features using distance >Tried amplifying and suppressing features Not trying to be snary, but sounds mundane in the ML&#
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by pdevr 2y ago
Other than visualizing, creating custom nodes seems to be the most interesting available operation (at the time of writing this). API Guide: https://github.com/google-ai-edge/model-explorer/wiki/4.-API... Cus
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by pdevr 2y ago
It is very low indeed, and a large percentage of the cases are involving strains from other countries, but hopefully the number is not real zero[1], even after discounting the strains from other countries. [1] https://bmjopen.bmj
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by pdevr 2y ago
As far as I understand it, they used 25 human and 12 squirrel samples. Comparison was done among medieval red squirrel strains, medieval human strains, and modern red squirrel strains. Finding: medieval red squirrel strains were closer to
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by pdevr 2y ago
About the female whale whose dorsal fin was punctured: "Ólafur appears to have developed a personal kinship with the whale" A macabre kinship that involved spearing her calf. And eventually, killing the female whale herself while
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by pdevr 2y ago
Just want to point out that this is a free book. Direct link: [1]. Also, the real content is only a little over 200 pages. The rest is notes, references, and other resources. With the recent advancements in AI and space technology, space mi
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by pdevr 2y ago
I cannot edit this anymore. Yes, meant that the control Aptiv had over Motional will now be with Hyundai, practically. The point I was trying to make was that this was titled in Aptiv's Q1 presentation [1] as "APTIV EQUITY INTERES
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by pdevr 2y ago
As part of the deal, Hyundai is also getting control of Aptiv, with 85% of the shares. It will be interesting to see what Hyundai will do with it.
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by pdevr 2y ago
The story starts with Genghis Khan's plunder of Merv and the mass murder that was ordered by him. It mentions the artisans who were kept alive. Then it swerves to the plunder of Merv by the Oghuz, continues in the next paragraph, and t
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by pdevr 2y ago
Anything which has clear paths to decision making, does not need AI. Anything which requires only massive data processing, does not need AI. Regarding the adoption: The crux is mentioned in the article well. You are building on top of fault
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by pdevr 2y ago
The way releases are done and security is handled, one can argue that it makes sense to stay one major version behind - as long as it is a version to which security patches are applied regularly.
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by pdevr 2y ago
Excellent course. The only caveat I want to add is, the estimated hours to complete (23 hours) can vary extremely, depending on your 'pre-mastery' of the subject (or lack of it). Prepare and pace yourself considering that.
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by pdevr 2y ago
You have to look at old languages for this. In the order of preference: Qt (C++), Swing (Java), and Visual Component Library (Delphi) are three tried and tested options for you.
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by pdevr 3y ago
Go to Kuwait, partner with one of the ruling family members, and set up a BTC mining company to mine bitcoins - since it still seems to be legal, as of now. Kuwait is one of the cheapest places to do this. Once you have made enough, sell th
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by pdevr 3y ago
For issues unknown to the user until they are locked out.

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