prirun

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by prirun 5d ago
Or, like me, who has never been a runner, a heart rate in the 30's can mean that you have heart block, an electrical problem with your heart where beats are gradually spaced further apart and then there is a longish delay before a rese
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by prirun 8d ago
I don't mind a checkbox. I don't even mind the "proof of work" types that take 10 seconds extra. But identifying traffic-y things over and over is way too much for me. I did do one screen, thinking it would let me in,
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by prirun 9d ago
I read that Internet Archive keeps 2 copies of all their data. Storj, the decentralized storage service, is currently in Chap 11 bankruptcy, mostly IMO because of incompetent management. They pay their node operators, the guys that actual
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by prirun 12d ago
I've used vultr.com for years with no problems. Recently it wouldn't let me login without solving a Google captcha. I tried private windows, etc and ended up having to cancel my Vultr account and ask for a refund. Fortunately I
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by prirun 1mo ago
OrderedTable in Nim appears to be the same and still have O(n) performance. On a delete, an entirely new table is constructed. https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/lib/pure/collecti... I
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by prirun 1mo ago
> its culture is not very collaborative. Second this. Their BDFL's personality is not suited for the job IMHO. Example: Nim's hash table data structures (Python dict, Go map) are called tables. There are several variants of t
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by prirun 1mo ago
I just asked Google AI how LLMs translate COBOL code containing GOTOs into Java, a language that doesn't have GOTO. It gave several examples, one of them being this: COBOL code: PROCESS-DATA. ADD 1 TO COUNTER. DISPLAY
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by prirun 2mo ago
Isn't this exactly what every mobile app does when the db is on a phone, and every app where the db is kept on the local machine? I do it with HashBackup and have done 35 db migrations over 17 years without much trouble. There have b
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by prirun 2mo ago
SQLite has transactional DDL: you can start a transaction, do a bunch of create tables, copy data from old tables into the new tables. If an error occurs during this and a rollback occurs, everything will be just like it was before the tra
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by prirun 2mo ago
My sister uses Windows 10 in her one-person accounting business. The performance of everything she does is fine as is. The main thing she needs is stability, and the last thing she wants is any kind of upheaval of her computing environmen
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by prirun 2mo ago
Seems to me the purpose of all these releases, credits, pricing changes, harness changes, unpredictable token usages for the same task, etc. is to keep customers completely befuddled so that it's impossible to compare AI products. It&
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by prirun 2mo ago
I compare online marketplaces to ISPs: we don't expect ISPs to filter the traffic going over their network to make sure it complies with all laws, because that would be impossible. Having actually run a marketplace in a previous life,
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by prirun 2mo ago
To limit inequality, cap the CEO's total compensation to 100x (or whatever) the lowest-paid workers' compensation. Google says: "at the 100 publicly traded U.S. companies with the lowest median worker pay, this ratio (CEO to
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by prirun 2mo ago
> hook it up to your browser and have it yank out all advertisements live AI: "I'm sorry, a security guardrail prevents me from performing this operation."
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by prirun 2mo ago
Consistent hashing helps solve this. You don't divide into shards based on the id, but on the consistent hash of the id. Then when you have to add shards, it's easier to distribute data to the new shards. If you have 3 shards a
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by prirun 2mo ago
IMO colleges and other educational institutions should back the loans, not the government/taxpayers.
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by prirun 3mo ago
It says that raising the config setting still causes things to be inappropriately deleted.
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by prirun 3mo ago
And our illustrious leader doesn't tariff Chinese RAM and allows its sale in the US.
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by prirun 3mo ago
I dunno... if we gave an AI all of these medical records as training data, wouldn't it be trained to give the same answers as the doctors already gave, without knowing whether those diagnoses were correct or not?
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by prirun 3mo ago
'Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.”' And the government's response was to limit access to US citizens? I don't believe this for a minute. If Mythos could actually brea
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by prirun 4mo ago
Only if you're paying them
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by prirun 4mo ago
My sister has a Windows 10 laptop she used for her accounting business. One day it decided not to boot, saying there was no boot device. I took the laptop home, took the SSD out (Samsung 1TB), put it in an external USB case, plugged it in
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by prirun 4mo ago
Along with the reports that have been conclusively shown to have an extraterrestrial explanation. We'll never see those, if they exist.
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by prirun 5mo ago
Checkout the insane amount of money Goodwill makes because of people getting rid of their "junk". There are 151 independent Goodwill organizations and all of them have a CEO, usually making 6 figures a year. https://pa
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by prirun 5mo ago
I don't know much about the AI field, but it seems to me that trying to train any model to be all things to all people is a really dumb idea. It requires huge financial resources and is causing extreme shortages/market distortion
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by prirun 5mo ago
Similarly, it's better (for me) to use the right ring finger for Backspace rather than the pinky. The pinky requires moving the whole arm whereas the ring finger just needs a wrist flick to reach Backspace.
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"Show more" in Google search causes high Firefox GPU usage
2 points by prirun 5mo ago|1 comments
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by prirun 5mo ago
As a musician (piano), I've never been able to listen to music while working: it's too distracting, even without lyrics. That makes sense to me because for musicians, hearing just the music still makes your brain want to focus on
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by prirun 5mo ago
> So, back way before ChatGPT era, the folks over at AI safety/X-risk think sphere worked out a pretty compelling argument that two AGIs never need to fight, because they are transparent to each other (can read each other's goa
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by prirun 5mo ago
I pay $5/mo to Vultr for a VM that runs continuously and maintains 25GB of state.

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