timewizard

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by timewizard 1y ago
> Zip code 94107 is located in San Francisco, California, specifically in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. It is part of San Francisco County. There are approximately 163 homes for sale in this zip code, with prices ranging from $338.6K to
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by timewizard 1y ago
No. It goes back to the 1990s when we used Data Entry Operators to key mail details that could not be read by OCR. This is all so the mail goes into the truck sorted. That is the most important part of the mail delivery operation. The fa
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by timewizard 1y ago
Why didn't they just rewrite it in Rust?
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by timewizard 1y ago
People who pay Anthropic you mean. There is no benefit. And only the owner can make more books. Fake altruistic mindset. Super sociopathic.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> then everyone benefits from cheaper widgets and you get paid for it. Ah, but the original widget manufacturer bought a Senator, and so now there are onerous widget regulations that specifically target me while leaving them unscathed.
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by timewizard 1y ago
More directly if the game engine only updates player state every 60 seconds (tick rate) then is this 4ms advantage actually present for the 240Hz case? Further if your network has more than 4ms of jitter then I don't think you can make
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by timewizard 1y ago
There's billions upon billions of dollars on the table. I'm a simple man. I'd suggest overt manipulation.
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by timewizard 1y ago
really missed a chance to write this up into "three acts."
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by timewizard 1y ago
You also want to set a marker so that when you come back later you can set your theodolite up in the exact same position as you did 20 years ago. There's a lot of surveyors marks hammered into things out in the world.
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by timewizard 1y ago
In two months they've doubled MAUs? Without an explanation of that specific outcome I don't believe it. Also: > As per SimilarWeb data 61.05% of ChatGPT's traffic comes from YouTube, which means from all the social media
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by timewizard 1y ago
You have "social anxiety." You are not in a "moat of low status." The status is purely in your own mind and not something calculated and assigned to you by the world. Another CEO flying at 30,000' missing the fore
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by timewizard 1y ago
> I don't think so? The disk is going to report an uncorrected error for one of them.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> it can find a correct copy elsewhere. Which implies you can already correct errors through a simple majority mechanism. > or it could be rebuilt through ECC. So just by having the appropriate level of RAID you automatically solve th
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by timewizard 1y ago
How would they know to volunteer? Are you saying I can perform a hostile volunteering to take over for a maintainer who does not want to give up the project? I don't think you understood what was meant.
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by timewizard 1y ago
Is that raw error rate or uncorrected error rate?
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by timewizard 1y ago
> a lot of our technology is sheer accident , serendipity, the way the cards happened to fall What an absurd ahistorical fallacy. > but thanks to mindwarping science fictional yellow-covered literature Thanks to this you seem to have
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by timewizard 1y ago
> some sort of data error detection (and ideally correction). That's pretty much built into most mass storage devices already. > If a disk bitflips one of my files The likelihood and consequence of this occurring is in many situa
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by timewizard 1y ago
Presumably there would be an open call where people would nominate themselves for consideration. These are problems that have come up and been solved in human organizations for hundreds of years before the kernel even existed.
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by timewizard 1y ago
Corruption has been compounding. Malicious business interests don't actually care which party has power. Just that they have access. It's telling that you have to reach back 30 years to find an example where the budget was bala
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by timewizard 1y ago
> the dollar has been insanely overvalued post-COVID. That's an odd way of saying the US doubled it's federal budget from $3T to $6T in response to COVID and has now ensconced this pork further into law. Under a "republic
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by timewizard 1y ago
So when someone is actively losing their rights you feel the need to go out of your way to say you're unsympathetic. What did you /intend/ to convey with this? You support them, but at this dark moment, you felt the need
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by timewizard 1y ago
If our rights are contingent on taste then we have no rights at all.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> are these passive cables acting like antenna With both ends connected to a device? No. Aside from that you've got a linear scrambler into balanced drivers into twisted pair. It's about as noise immune as you can get. Unles
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by timewizard 1y ago
> I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. Who told you that? > you don't have to go all the way back to some backend database or API server or SSD [...] Caching is thus a tool to improve perform
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by timewizard 1y ago
I've only ever seen linear increases. When did Moore's law even _start_?
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by timewizard 1y ago
> immediately transforms into Minor quibble, "can only be resolved as". The runtime absolutely holds Promise<Promise<T>>'s.
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by timewizard 1y ago
No. I mean Quakers. Their global humanitarian work and connections to communists and socialists the world over made them particularly interesting to the CIA. The CIA has directly used and manipulated Quakers for these purposes. This was
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by timewizard 1y ago
I mean.. it's literally sending an audio stream of the meeting and it's contents to an external server? It's not even malware. This is a virus.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> is that it teaches a very hearty disrespect of un-earned authority without teaching disrespect for the concept of authority itself Which is probably why the CIA loves recruiting them so much.
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by timewizard 1y ago
That depends on the regulatory environment and the degree of market monopolization.

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