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by pushrax 1y ago
just send sighup to nginx and it will reload all the config—there's very few settings that require a restart
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by pushrax 2y ago
It's true that turbopuffer does vector search, though it also does BM25. The biggest difference at a low level is that turbopuffer records have unique primary keys, and can be updated, like in a normal database. Old records that were o
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by pushrax 2y ago
LSM tree storage engine vs time series storage engine, similar philosophy but different use cases
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by pushrax 4y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612475/ is a review of Britton's research discussed in the article. It presents several points of evidence with a coherent argument for why meditation brings
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by pushrax 4y ago
Proper brokerages will pay you to lend your securities, transparently disclose their programs, and require consent. For example: - https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/pricing/stock-yield-en... - https:/&#x
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by pushrax 4y ago
JPEG XL implements lossless image compression, but that's definitely not the most interesting feature. It also implements lossless JPEG recompression. So your existing JPEGs can be served with ~20% less bandwidth, without quality loss.
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by pushrax 4y ago
Production audio and video recorders generate or intake an SMPTE timecode signal, and stamp recordings with this timecode. This timecode format is a timestamp with seconds resolution plus a frame count within each second. To properly sync,
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by pushrax 4y ago
I wrote 100ns, and meant an analog repeater. Full digital regeneration is probably in the 1-10μs range.
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by pushrax 4y ago
In theory having fewer repeaters improves latency, probably in the range of 100ns per repeater. I don't know how much of a practical effect that has, likely very minimal with modern implementations. Either way it's more sensible t
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by pushrax 4y ago
Shortwave radio can be transmitted around the curve of Earth by ionospheric reflection and refraction so fewer repeaters are needed. This allows crossing vast oceans where microwave infrastructure might not be possible. As you say the downs
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by pushrax 4y ago
Video description: “Chosen by fair dice roll. Guaranteed to be random.”
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by pushrax 4y ago
Worst case you just add more layers, like we do with sound absorbers now. If some kind of moth wing inspired metamaterial can shrink the width of broadband sound absorbing panels by 10x that would be quite useful still.
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by pushrax 4y ago
Reaper and FabFilter getting on board would definitely help make this standard gain some momentum. The list of “Following companies and projects are already evaluating CLAP for their host and plug-in software” is pretty impressive and perso
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by pushrax 4y ago
> I'd be bothered with my own stupidity if i did not cheat. What? I'd be bothered with my own stupidity if I felt I couldn't get a good grade without cheating. I put in a minimal amount of time/effort in university wh
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by pushrax 4y ago
According to the sources I've read, it uses a tiled rasterizing architecture but it's not deferred in the same way as typical mobile TBDR that bins all vertexes before starting rasterization, deferring all rasterization after all
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by pushrax 4y ago
> football player style contracts for engineers, where you are tied in to a team for N years, and with a requirement that another team has to pay big money for your contract if they want you to transfer? i.e. golden handcuff equity grant
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by pushrax 4y ago
In casual English “or” means “xor” most of the time.
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by pushrax 4y ago
I’m not sure I understand this argument. Why can’t users simply use the mouse wirelessly even if it’s possible to use in a wired way. Are you claiming that people would end up leaving the mouse plugged in, like they do with the trackpad? If
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by pushrax 4y ago
Apple’s own wireless trackpad and wireless keyboards work while being plugged in. I think the sleek visual and ergonomic design specifically resulted in the charge port being put on the bottom, which resulted in their decision to disable th
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by pushrax 4y ago
All else equal, having child related expenses later in life rather than earlier will only leave you richer due to time value of money. Assuming you plan ahead and save.
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by pushrax 5y ago
It’s more common in CS than engineering in my experience, when CS is part of the math department.
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by pushrax 5y ago
Agreed, I self hosted for many years and eventually gave it up. Maintaining high IP trust is tricky. A fun hack is to run a captcha-free fake forum and allow random bot signups to generate outbound mail volume and trust.
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by pushrax 5y ago
Their recent laptops use Apple silicon and are anything but an overheating mess. There are plenty of things to complain about but heat has been solved.
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by pushrax 5y ago
I’ve destroyed two MacBook Air screens, also because the lid isn’t particularly rigid. The MacBook Pro is definitely more durable, no issues after 12 years of owning them. I’m now much more careful with my MBA.
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by pushrax 5y ago
I will seek when the option is presented. It’s either tiny or nonexistent though (e.g. for gifs, or if the author didn’t enable the video controls, which default to disabled in many browsers). I’m happiest when a video loads paused, and has
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by pushrax 5y ago
I agree completely. When there's a looping video below the fold, I'd rather start it with a click, instead of having to watch it up to twice just to see the clip from beginning to end.
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by pushrax 5y ago
Are you sure it was actually using the index you expected? There are subtleties in index field order that can prevent the query optimizer from using an index that you might think it should be using. One common misstep is having a table with
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by pushrax 5y ago
This entirely depends on what kind of index is used. A sorted index, such as a B or B+ tree (used in many SQL databases), will allow for fast point/range lookups in a continuous value space. A typical inverted index or hash based index
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by pushrax 5y ago
That has happened before, but very rarely, and I highly doubt will ever happen to SponsorBlock.
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by pushrax 5y ago
The reality at scale is that all cloud VMs are preemptible and unreliable. You can pay more to increase the probability of uptime but inevitably have to recover from failure sometimes.

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