the-alchemist

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by the-alchemist 5mo ago
There's some really good analysis (both business and tech) from the Asianometry youtube channel (ignore the name of the channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmgkV83OhHA&list=PLKtxx9TnH7...
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by the-alchemist 1y ago
They don't pay much. $5k-$6k/mo for half time.
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by the-alchemist 1y ago
Speaking of databases, has anyone run Bloomberg's db ( https://github.com/bloomberg/comdb2 ) recently?
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
They go into detail on their technical decision making, very cool: Choosing Clojure6 and Datalog7 was a calculated risk–but one which paid off. The Datalog model offered the simplest and most ergonomic queries, had strengths in graphs and r
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
can't wait for the https://jepsen.io/ report!
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
Had a similar problem with Aetna in NJ. I thought my situation was unique
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
I believe the term for this is "partial escape analysis" (PEA). GraalVM is the SOTA in the JVM world for this. Here's an oldish blog on this: https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/seeing-escape-analysis&#x2
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
Looks like a few folks are confused. 1. One of the underlying cryptographic principles is multi-party / secure-party communication ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation ). e.g., three peop
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
agreed! great blog
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
It wasn't even 5-4, it was 6-3. The basic idea, AFAICT, is that _federal_ law should not punish _state_ crimes under this specific section of the law (§666). As noted elsewhere, there might be other laws on the books for bribes, but §
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
Also worth pointing out that the original Nissan Leaf is now at least 13 years old, a lifetime ago in lithium battery tech, and intentionally used very cheap cells to keep the cost down.
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
Very misleading statement. First, NY Post is kind of a tabloid. You gotta dig deeper. Here's the actual study: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1... I recommend reading
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
Don't quite understand the hate. This is very reasonable behavior for a compiler in 2024. I would even go so far as to say that a compiler should never execute any user code by default. Imagine if gcc could automatically, by default,
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
Lombok is not affected by this, as it is not an annotation processor. The most popular annotation processor that I've seen "in the wild" is the Hibernate Metamodel Generator ( https://hibernate.org/orm/too
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
I would give the jextract tool a try. I believe it uses LLVM to parse the header files, so the generated bindings might actually be pretty good.
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by the-alchemist 2y ago
Java's FFI is currently a very low-level. As the article points you, you don't actually have to do this: the jextract tool will generate the bindings for you from header files. I'm sure someone will come along and write anno
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
What a crappy article. One can't complain NYT is too pro-EV. This problem is a combination of growing pains, uneducated EV drivers, old EVs with crappy batteries, some bad infrastructure, and EV manufacturers that don't put enoug
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
"MY" == "Model Y"?
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
This. We would all benefit from more cause and effect analysis in our media. - Let's say we increase prices that we pay cocoa farmers, even double the price - Is this extra enough to send the girl to school an hour away, pay for her bo
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
> Knocking on a friend's door (though he knows a same-age kid two doors away) would be considered out of bounds nowadays. Yeah, the social dynamics of this kind of thing baffles me. I'm sure it's very neighborhood-depend
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
Oh, benchmarking. Great work, but maybe I'm missing something: I'm more interested in "performance per MB", i.e., per dollar USD, versus "how much memory does it use?" I feel like that's not fair to system
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
I thought I just wasn't using it correctly. This explains a lot, thank you.
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
There's a lot of Protege tutorials out there, but here's what an ontology (in the OWL sense of the word, let's you do). The "pizza ontology" is the Hello World of the ontology world. * imagine a graph of things you
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
It's usually not referring to as a plugin, but as a standalone utility, i.e., `docker-compose` not `docker compose`. If you put the binary in that magic Docker plugins directory, it'll treat the binary as a plugin and let you do `
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
Clojure does pretty well. See https://github.com/nubank/morse , https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/other-tools/REBL.html , and https://vlaaad.github.io/reveal/ . It's one
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
It's been a struggle getting Clickhouse accepted here in the U.S., despite its technical prowess, even prior to the war in Ukraine. I know, I read the blog: > ClickHouse, Inc. is a Delaware company with headquarters in the San Franc
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
No one's perfect, but I'm a fan because she'll tell you if something is her-possibly-unpopular opinion (see particle physics), well-accepted scientific fact, or her pet opinion. You know where she stands, and tells you her a
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
I'm not Swiss, but I get the impression they pride themselves on compromise, stability, and independence. Public infrastructure has positive feedback loops, so if your neighbor canton has good train stations, you also want to have good
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
I think the biggest improvement in GraalVM 21 is profile-guided optimizations (PGO) in both aarch64 and amd64. This means you can take full advantage of ARM cloud services like AWS Graviton (sp?) services for lower cost. Also, looks like th
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by the-alchemist 3y ago
i was wondering why it looked so clojure-y. thanks :)

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