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by singron 29d ago
Free air is very common these days. I don't think a purchase has ever been required for free air anywhere I've been. Occasionally you need to go in and get a free token since the air machine is still coin operated, but I've n
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by singron 2mo ago
I've heard this called a "dancing bear" before. It's interesting because it's a bear dancing, not because the dancing is any good. These conversations get frustrating since one group is saying the dancing is bad, a
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by singron 2mo ago
In the first paragraph (either of chapter 1 or the prologue), not at all. It's pulling everything from pre-training, so it is likely relying just as much on all the visual mediums like the Peter Jackson films, the animated The Hobbit (
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by singron 2mo ago
I think you could use the two shafts to align and attach the mounting bracket by drilling two holes the proper distance apart. Drilling holes is pretty easy compared to cutting straight lines and I think most people are more likely to have
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by singron 2mo ago
As long as it's some automated signal, the User-Agent can use any logic it wants to send it without cooperation. The specifics of how to send the signal don't have to be legislated. E.g. Firefox's Tracking Protection has a gl
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by singron 2mo ago
Is there any evidence of division? Are all the vibe-coders going to some codeberg2? One of the main complaints is that the banned projects don't have human users proportionate to their activity, so if they all go to codeberg2, then tha
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by singron 2mo ago
TFA says the whole codebase is 600k, so that would be 1.8% dead code. IME dead code is much more common in larger codebases as figuring out that code is dead becomes more non-local and changes over time create dead code at a distance. I&#x2
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by singron 2mo ago
Currently, JsonObject.of has this signature: static JsonObject of(Map<String, ? extends JsonValue> map); java.lang.String and other types don't extend JsonValue, and java lacks any trait-like way to add this functionalit
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by singron 2mo ago
The system the fight is in experiences time-dilation, where everything slows down to 10% speed or even less. However, a few effects create a positive feedback loop that makes the problem worse. All the surrounding systems still run at full
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by singron 2mo ago
That's interesting, although "read committed" here would be different from the isolation level of the same name. It seems really tricky to implement since tuples could be removed during a query. E.g. the backend could fail to
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by singron 3mo ago
Pre-purchase, the customers are just looking at lists of features. Post-purchase, they realize the ovens burn bread and cake 10% of the time and pizza 100% of the time, and they just want a good working oven that doesn't burn food. It
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by singron 3mo ago
If you turn it off, it might attempt a 45 minute update when you start it again (yes this has happened to me with macos).
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by singron 3mo ago
Other companies were allegedly distilling the models by training on the reasoning output. By hiding the reasoning tokens, it makes it harder to do this. You can still try to distill the models, but you can't distill reasoning itself as
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by singron 3mo ago
I really wish there was an 80% kubernetes. I think you could get there with some changes: 1. No overlay networks. 1 IP per machine. pods use dynamically allocated ports, and the kubelet enforces pods listen only on their assigned ports usin
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by singron 3mo ago
If your working set is 20 TB, then it's pretty big. Each database has its own mix of hot/cold data, so it's impossible to compare without more information. A better measure might be IOPS. RDS has fairly low maximum IOPS unles
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by singron 3mo ago
I have mysteriously lost comments/descriptions I wrote on issues. I figured it was related to a failed and lost opportunistic update like this, although I suppose it could have been caused by a fixable bug.
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by singron 3mo ago
I'm not sure this is true for Google. Ignoring their equity in Anthropic, AI is generally a threat to Google, since it's the closest thing to upsetting their search monopoly. The best case for Google is if OpenAI and Anthropic are
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by singron 3mo ago
It's circular since Google owns part of SpaceX. According to [1] they own 7% of SpaceX, so a $1.75T IPO would value their stake at $120B. The target IPO price is >90x revenue, so if Google increases SpaceX's revenue by $11B, Sp
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by singron 3mo ago
I haven't worked there in several years, but assuming memegen hasn't wildly changed: Management likes having a pulse on employees, and they tolerate memegen since it's mostly fun, it builds shared culture in a massive company
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by singron 4mo ago
After 5 years, you'll have an extra $1M in savings, and you can safely pay yourself 4% or $40k each year in perpetuity without doing any work. This is also a really extreme version of the prisoners dilemma. In the standard formula, the
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by singron 4mo ago
These guard types are great and I've heavily used them in the past. But why codegen them? E.g. the jwt auth example has some major problems since the verification rules aren't fully specified in the spec. The jwt-token verified ru
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by singron 4mo ago
Specifically it decrements the TTL of routed packets, so hotspot traffic will tend to have a TTL of 63 instead of 64. You could theoretically disable this at the risk of creating infinite routing loops, although android probably makes it in
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by singron 4mo ago
Yes. The original Dapper used 64 bit trace ids and collisions were rarely a problem. If you don't drop any spans from a trace, you can completely disambiguate a collision since the trace will have two distinct root spans. If you are mi
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by singron 5mo ago
I thought it was clear and am also surprised by the reaction (en-US speaker). "Is/are expected" is generally used as a passive-voiced form of "we/they predict" (obviously without having to specify a specific pr
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by singron 5mo ago
A specific process can use mlockall to keep all its mapped memory resident and prevent swapping or page cache eviction. That's what earlyoom does so that it can stay responsive when memory gets low. It's unfortunately underutilize
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by singron 5mo ago
This has the wrong explanation of the proposed rseq (Restartable Sequences) solution. > a Linux kernel facility that lets userspace code detect whether it was preempted or migrated during a critical section and restart it if so. PostgreS
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by singron 5mo ago
If a waymo costs $200k (car+sensors+install labor) and drives 200k miles, then amortizing up-front costs alone are about $1/mile. We don't really know what the TCO of a waymo is, and it's possible it could go down with econom
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by singron 5mo ago
I'm a big believer in this workflow and generally agree with all the guidelines about when to do and not do this. Code review has value, but I don't think we are always honest about the costs. At most places I've worked, ther
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by singron 5mo ago
For Americans, 120 kph is ~75mph and 140kph is ~85mph. I think there is a single road in the US with an 85 speed limit, and only some states use 75-80.
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by singron 5mo ago
I have noticed LLMs have a propensity to create full single page web applications instead of simpler programs that just print results to the terminal. I've also struggled with getting LLMs to keep spec.md files succinct. They seem inca

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