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by thamer 3mo ago
Redis is the kind of process where this matters a lot, and while fork() doesn't copy the memory, it still needs to copy the page table. For a process holding tens of GBs of RAM, fork() can take a long time, and there's one every
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by thamer 4mo ago
Searching for David Attenborough on Google also shows a tribute, with drawings of animals and a "Thank You Sir David". https://www.google.com/search?q=david+attenborough
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by thamer 5mo ago
> it invalidates so much work that comes after it. No, not necessarily. I work on a large repo and new features often involve changes to 3 different services: 2 from the backend, and the frontend UI. Sending a single PR with changes to a
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by thamer 5mo ago
You don't need to full screen anything to use macOS spaces for O(1) app-switching, instead of O(N) by pressing Cmd+Tab repeatedly to linearly scan your list of applications. The rule is simple: one app per space, and Ctrl+{1,2,3…} swit
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by thamer 6mo ago
This was followed the next day by a partial retraction: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/04/2026-04-0... The original applied to "8.1K" repositories, and now the partia
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by thamer 6mo ago
There is not a lot to learn to understand the basics, but maybe one step that's not necessarily documented is the overall workflow and why it's arranged this way. You mentioned the LLM "using web search" and it's a
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by thamer 7mo ago
I had tried `delta` a few years ago but eventually went with `diff-so-fancy`[1] The two are kind of similar if I remember correctly, and both offer a lot of config options to change the style and more. I mostly use it for diffs involving lo
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by thamer 8mo ago
Yes, the blue and orange dots are from the water and parks Nodes and Ways in the OSM data. It doesn't look like the orange and blue colors are part of the theme definitions, so the rendering library may be using some default values. Th
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by thamer 11mo ago
The March 2025 blog post by Anthropic titled "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model"[1] is a great introduction to this research, showing how their language model activates features representing concepts that will eventua
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by thamer 1y ago
> Is there a specific reason, you prefer stio servers over http servers? Yes: the main reason is that I control which applications are configured with the command/args/environment to run the MCP server, instead of exposing a se
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by thamer 1y ago
Is this only about remote MCP servers? The instructions all seem to contain a URL, but personally almost all the MCP servers I'm running locally are stdio based and not networked. Are you planning to support those in some way? There&#x
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by thamer 1y ago
This is what it looks like, the switch is for "Offers & Promotions": https://i.imgur.com/wodOoBo.jpeg From the Wallet app, tap on "…" at the top right, then "notifications".
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by thamer 1y ago
They're not just from AI-generated text. Some of us humans use en dashes and em dashes in the right context, since they're easy to type on macOS: alt+hyphen and alt+shift+hyphen respectively. On both iOS and modern Android I belie
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by thamer 1y ago
Does Dia support configuring voices now? I looked at it when it was first released, and you could only specify [S1] [S2] for the speakers, but not how they would sound. There was also a very prominent issue where the voices would be sped up
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by thamer 1y ago
The following CSS equivalent worked for me, using the "Custom CSS by Denis" Chrome extension[1]: ytd-rich-grid-renderer div#contents { /* number of video thumbnails per row */ --ytd-rich-grid-items-per-
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by thamer 1y ago
The main alternative to LVGL seems to be TouchGFX[1], at least that's the one I've seen mentioned the most in conversations around UI libraries for microcontrollers. As you wrote these aren't made for desktop apps, but you ca
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by thamer 1y ago
This is for screens usually controlled by microcontrollers, nothing running close to an operating system like Linux and rarely coming with a GPU. See for examples ILI9341 or SSD1306 displays[1] or integrated boards with (often) an ESP32 mic
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by thamer 2y ago
It's probably not slower than words, the rate for English pronunciation is something like 150-200 words per minute only. That said, the "gibberlink" demo is definitely much slower than even a 28.8k modem (that's kilobit)
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Auditing AI Bias: The DeepSeek Case(dsthoughts.baulab.info)
4 points by thamer 2y ago|1 comments
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by thamer 2y ago
The kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit Time is in seconds, length in meters, temperature in kelvin, etc. A unit of energy like a joul
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by thamer 2y ago
> We change the product constantly — we’re talking over 1,700 updates per year! Good job, the new red is a huge improvement. Meanwhile the YouTube comment sections are still getting pummeled by bots, trying to scam viewers with fake cryp
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by thamer 2y ago
It took a few tries, but I got Wolfram Alpha to compute its velocity compared to the speed of light[1]. I started with: sqrt(1-((1/(1+120 PeV / (neutrino mass * c^2)))^2)) but it simply said "data not available"
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by thamer 2y ago
It's not just by region, but at the city level too. There are often significant differences between salaries in capital cities vs others, as one would expect. The cost of living is different, larger companies in major population center
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by thamer 2y ago
For what it's worth, I've used Botan in a personal project where I needed a few hashing algorithms to verify file integrity (SHA-1, SHA-256, even MD5), and also used Botan's base 64 decoder in the same project. I found its mo
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by thamer 2y ago
Where did you get 5 hours and a half? It seems to be closer to 31 hours: >>> round((4406400000 - 2**32)/(1000 * 3600), 3) 30.954
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by thamer 2y ago
> I think < 10 cm accuracy is achievable If you don't know how precise GPS receivers can get with dead reckoning techniques, this demo of someone "drawing" onto a map of their driveway using a GPS receiver is very impre
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by thamer 2y ago
There are a number of blog posts online and StackOverflow questions explaining IOCCC entries, and they generally seem to be built/obfuscated by hand. It's an art and it's far from trivial, which is one of the reasons why the
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by thamer 2y ago
This doesn't feel like a serious question, but in case this is still a mystery to you… the name bit is a portmanteau of binary digit , and as indicated by the word "binary", there are only two possible digits that can be u
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I made $1M in 67 days during Covid(marshallhaas.com)
32 points by thamer 2y ago|31 comments
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by thamer 2y ago
From the article, that's a massive pile of charges they're dumping onto him, all apparently because people use Telegram in ways the French state disapproves of? > Why was he under threat of a search warrant? > The justice de

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