thyrsus

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by thyrsus 6d ago
Most file systems get cached in ram, which is unlikely to have happy consequences when scarce ram triggers use of the filesystem swap.
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by thyrsus 2mo ago
The article makes a convincing argument that Haskell compilation is too slow for the fast code generation of AI. But python? I have yet to experience a RHEL major version change that did not blow up all my tiny simplistic python scripts.
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by thyrsus 4mo ago
That claim needs explanation. My understanding is that substantially less than 20% hold the controlling ownership of U.S. productive capacity.
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by thyrsus 4mo ago
As an ancient one (graduated college 1981), my use of AI is very conservative: look things up. Generate code I can read and understand in less than 30 minutes. This is working well for me, because when the AI botches the answer, I know qu
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by thyrsus 5mo ago
I've seen copyright notices that explicitly forbid use for AI training. Would this "transformation" argument still hold in such cases? For example: No Generative AI Training Use For avoidance of doubt, Author reserves the ri
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by thyrsus 5mo ago
What is being licensed by the End User License Agreement (EULA) is the copyright on the code and its artefacts (executable bytes, etc.) - you can't have an EULA without having the copyright to license.
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by thyrsus 5mo ago
Are there currently circulating cryptocurrencies that use quantum resistant cryptography?
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by thyrsus 6mo ago
The first amendment protects from U.S. government censorship (with exceptions for national security and commission of otherwise illegal acts, such as child molestation, fraud, or yelling fire in a crowded theater). The suppression here is
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by thyrsus 6mo ago
I dealt with physical paper tape on only three or four occasions in the early 1980's, each time terrified of a jam or tear. It seems in this case it's a read-once operation, which is plausible. Read-many, not so much. Punch car
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by thyrsus 6mo ago
As a subscriber to The Guardian, I have a very different experience.
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by thyrsus 6mo ago
This year, the first $15,000,000 of an estate is exempt from federal taxes, so unless it is on top of a different $14,000,001 in estate net assets, the estate tax (a tax on the estate) on that $1,000,000 house is $0. [0] Some U.S. states ha
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by thyrsus 8mo ago
Explain to me how qualified immunity is better than any ill it is supposed to address? And how is it that if you sue the government and win, then the judgement doesn't automatically award reasonable legal fees?
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by thyrsus 8mo ago
The left hand scale is presumably dollars per ounce of silver. The right hand side is "margin requirement ($)". I can think of two interpretations of that, neither of which make sense to me. The first interpretation is that one
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SRE Is Anti-Transactional(queue.acm.org)
5 points by thyrsus 8mo ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 11mo ago
I've got Firefox 144.2 on Android; are profiles available there? If so, how does one use them?
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by thyrsus 1y ago
My 2007 Corolla odometer has been at 299999 since 2019. I've replaced the transmission once, but the rest is original, aside from expected maintenance - tires, brakes, fans, etc. - and an added stereo.
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by thyrsus 1y ago
If your colleagues just don't feel the benefit of the extra .lit file, is there a way to pull their changes to the derived files into your own .lit files and to keep the .lit files in a parallel version control repo or branch?
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by thyrsus 1y ago
Nope. The current system may be misdirecting 95% of labor, but until we have sufficiently modeled all of nature to provide perfect health and brought world peace, there is work to do.
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by thyrsus 1y ago
And not only that, but most >>changes<< to software shouldn't happen, especially if it's user facing. Half my dread in visiting support web sites is that they've completely rearranged yet again, and the same thin
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by thyrsus 1y ago
I'm a python newby, so please correct the following: The first function looks quadratic in time and linear in stack space, while the second function looks linear in time and constant in stack space. Memoizing would convert the first f
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by thyrsus 1y ago
I do a lot of ansible which needs to run on multiple versions, and their yaml typing are not consistent - whenever I have a variable in a logic statement, I nearly always need to apply the "| bool" filter.
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by thyrsus 1y ago
That style is not restricted to Asian speakers. Reading (a translation of) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" with its deep recursive layers of introducing a topic and then giving the backstory thereof
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Pam-Insult(github.com)
1 points by thyrsus 2y ago|1 comments
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I enjoy this humor.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Do these AIs know how to do test driven development? Can you tell them the code generated must pass these test? Can AIs assist in developing tests?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
My employer has stuff I'm responsible for which hit this the at least 18 months ago. The subscription cost was little problem but the headaches debugging kubernetes pod description imagepullsecrets was much more painful. We called Do
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by thyrsus 2y ago
This says that the implementation cannot cede time slicing to the OS, therefore it would seem to necessarily occupy kernel space. Am I mistaken?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Sam can be short for Samantha or Samuel. "Their" allows one to avoid mis-gendering someone when in ignorance of their gender.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Accepting that kind of gift from any entity doing business with my employer is explicitly forbidden in our business ethics policy, under penalty of termination. These billionaires frequently have business before the court.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
That's a reason for optimism, given the decline in prices for solar/wind/hydro/geothermal.

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