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by staticassertion 7mo ago
> A model is incomplete if it doesn't explain something. I've just explained that this is not strictly true. I don't know what else to say. Brute contingencies, by definition, do not require explanation. I then gave you a
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
It is not incomplete to say that something does not require explanation, nor is it saying it's "magic". It is a cost that your model might incur, that's it. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15776 In this
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
There's disagreement on this. You seem to just be saying that brute facts or brute contingencies don't exist, but I suspect most scientists would disagree with that.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I basically think that's all much ado about nothing.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
> This is a silly and self refuting statement. No it isn't and it's a pretty standard argument. Other than insulting you, my response was pretty damn charitable tbh. I tried to state your argument for you as best I could.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Staring in keratoconus
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Wow, that's just so many assertions and none of them follow from the statement that the government can break the law in order to protect its citizens. In all of those cases I can just say "they can if it is to protect its citizens
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I wonder what you can't justify this way.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I doubt most people at Meta feel responsible for that. Surely people at Palantir understand that it's effectively the stated mission of their job.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I really don't get that. I look at pictures I've taken in a digital world and I'm moved, just as I am when I see pre-digital pictures. Perhaps older images are sometimes "more special" but that's an artifact of
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
That is presumably a very expensive endeavor. We already have hardware that attempts to mitigate this and while I think it's possible for the government it's certainly not trivial.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
These somethings are doing so much work I can't tell if you're agreeing with them or not tbh.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
This is very stupid. No one wants this. People don't like false sincerity. Even when we know that it's someones job to be nice, we appreciate when it feels genuine. If you want people to genuinely be nice, give them reasons. Make
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Makes sense and tbh there's a very good chance that I'd consider it if I were trying to stay more "standard" but I'd have to learn more.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I haven't. I'm sort of aware of it but I guess I prefer to just have tight control over the protocol/ data layout. It's not that hard and it gives me a ton of room to make niche optimizations. I doubt I'd get the sa
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I didn't scroll that far, and I shouldn't have to.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. This is one of my biggest complaints about the rust language page, it feels crazy to me that there's no code and I think t
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Currently there's nothing in my headers, but the footer is straightforward. There's the schema, row group metadata, some statistics, byte offsets for each column in a group, page index, etc. It's everything you'd want if
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Yeah I basically already know all of this tbh, I'm already very familiar with how GCs work, the JVM, C#, etc.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I didn't know about atomic object rename... it's going to take me a long time to think through the options here. > RenameObject is only supported for objects stored in the S3 Express One Zone storage class. Ah interesting, I do
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
It's just trade-offs. If you have a lot of data, s3 is just the only option for storing it. You don't want to pay for petabytes of storage in Dynamo or Postgres. I also don't want to manage postgres, even RDS - dealing with
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
> refusing to accept writes where content has changed between the read and write? Right. You can issue a write that will only be accepted if a condition is matched, like the etag of the object matching your expectation. If it doesn'
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
I'm not building a queue, but a lot of things on s3 end up being queue-shaped (more like 'log shaped') because it's very easy to compose many powerful systems out of CAS + "buffer, then push". Basically, you st
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Doesn't using TrustedTypes basically do that? I'm not really web-y, someone please correct me if I'm off.
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Oof, I probably misspoke there just slightly. I attempted to solve this with token fencing, I honestly don't know if it worked under failure conditions. This was also a while ago. But the idea was basically that there were two tiers
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
This is the hardest part because you can easily end up in a situation like you're describing, or having large portions of clients talking to a server just to have their writes rejected. Further, this system (as described) scales best w
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
S3 Select is, very sadly, deprecated. It also supported HTTP RANGE headers! But they've killed it and I'll never forgive them :) Still, it's nbd. You can cache a billion Parquet header/footers on disk/ memory and ge
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
You can, and it's actually great if you store little "headers" etc to tell you those offsets. Their design doesn't seem super amenable to it because it appears to be one file, but this is why a system that actually inten
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
Yeah, I mean, I think we're all basically doing this now, right? I wouldn't choose this design, but I think something similar to DeltaLake can be simplified down for tons of use cases. Manifest with CAS + buffered objects to S3, m
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by staticassertion 7mo ago
The frontend to a language is critical to how that language performs. I don't see how you can consider this irrelevant.

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