tkluck

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by tkluck 1y ago
I clicked the link expecting a discussion of what would cause a Python interpreter to crash, but found only a generic list of low level problems for any piece of software, and the statement that the headline was an interview question at You
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by tkluck 1y ago
You're not contradicting the post you're replying to; you're describing common workarounds to approximate exactly-once semantics using at-least-once semantics on the message queue combined with external storage on the reader
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by tkluck 1y ago
Even under the AI-maximalist assumption that human workers and LLMs are going to be interchangeable, I'm having a hard time seeing the logic. LLMs are not going to go on parental leave; have various protected statuses; have worker prot
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by tkluck 1y ago
It's clear from the quoted paragraph that by "error rate" they actually meant "false denial rate". That's also the words I used in the comment you are replying to. Did you comment because you take issue with mi
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by tkluck 1y ago
Your scientific take is useful in the case where selection bias is unavoidable and needs to be corrected for. This case is not like that; if the insurance agency wants to dispute the 90% false denial rate, it would be trivial for them to ta
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by tkluck 2y ago
Gotcha, I see. You're not wrong that a combination of scientific illiteracy and political orthodoxy can give terrible outcomes. So some default skepticism is quite wise. If you want to understand the effect of the trace gases from firs
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by tkluck 2y ago
Are you making the claim that small numbers are always irrelevant? In that case it's worth reading up on the greenhouse effect. It's unfortunately very true that water vapour and CO2 have an outsize effect on the planet's hea
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by tkluck 2y ago
Yes. It's the canonical (and, I think, original) example of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly .
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by tkluck 2y ago
It's the opposite in democratic countries such as France: while every other person or entity is free to do everything except what's explicitly regulated, the government only has those powers that are explicitly granted to them by
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by tkluck 3y ago
I disagree, because one does not get to the bottleneck being _the efficiency of extracting memory from one process and transferring it to another_ without major fizzbuzz-specific optimizations first. For example, there's a clever bit r
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by tkluck 5y ago
Thank you for the link, that was incredibly interesting. For other people following the link: don't miss out on going into the comment section and finding the original designer of the mechanism complimenting the video and then sharing
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by tkluck 5y ago
> some of the filings will fly up against gravity to the bar, against the force of gravity. It takes energy to lift these filings. Where does that energy come from? In this example the energy comes from whatever is holding the bar magnet
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by tkluck 5y ago
It seems that the press interprets suspending business in Russia as a show of solidarity with Ukraine. But isn't it also just a normal business response to the Ruble's freefall? The cynic in me takes the solidarity angle with a gr
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by tkluck 5y ago
> Ads aren’t worth very much. Google ads generate [...] maybe fractions of a penny. Suppose someone types "hotel Paris" into a search engine. Then the ads auction is the search engine turning around and saying "here's
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by tkluck 5y ago
> because let’s be honest, when was the last time you used the right shift key? Worth a try if you don't have the habit yet: use the pinky of your right hand when typing capitals with the left hand and the pinky of your left when ty
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by tkluck 5y ago
Fair enough, I was shooting from the hip a bit. I made the remark based on "Its natural audience would be control theorists, but they may find the level of abstraction very challenging" which sounds a bit condescending even if tru
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by tkluck 5y ago
The abstract has strong https://xkcd.com/793 vibes.