AlbertoGP

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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
I did not understand how the second head could be stationary as it would only reach one track, but looking at Tandon’s patent I see now that you meant fixed only in the axis normal to the disk: > Recently, however, the floppy disc indus
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> Recently, I've been trying to improve the sorry state of PHP's heap implementation, [...]. Anyway, one of the low-hanging fruits is to makes parts of the _zend_mm_heap read-only, since it contains function pointers that are
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
I would add a link to the overview of the language you have at https://memelang.net
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
It is mentioned in passing though, with a link to its website: > It is widely adopted by various typesetting engines like TeX, SILE[1] and Typst, etc. > [1] https://sile-typesetter.org/
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> This post was inspired by recent discussion here: > RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004219 Worth noting that Rust will not prevent that kind of security hole: > To
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
Yes, it would be more interesting with some details. From the file names in the screensot it seems to be AVX512 versus plain C. AVX2 is already 67x, SSSE3 is 40x.
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> Tidal tails are thin, elongated regions of stars and interstellar gas extending into space. They are formed as a result of gravitational interactions between galaxies and star clusters. The observations show that some interacting obje
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
I'm impressed. Many years ago I worked on something like this but this one is a much better result. It even works well on mobile. The documentation, linked at the top of the page, is excellent.
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
Big problem with the video: the audio volume is very low, then I raise the volume of the computer to compensate for it and BAM! an advertisement comes up screaming at me! I’m very interested in this so I’ve downloaded and extracted your
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> Instead, either the client or the “reputation management company” decided to try a new tactic. Following a familiar playbook, they copied my Web3 is Going Great post to a free BlogSpot website, then backdated it by one day. > The
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
Alternative link without jwz's Special HN Surprise: https://archive.is/FGWOD > Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today > 13 days ago > According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnigh
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> Another reason for the sharp increase early on may be due to the removal of the so-called logic games from the LSAT in August, as people rushed to take the new version of the test, said law school admissions consultant Mike Spivey. Lo
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> “Before the impact, there was some, but not much, life in the oceans due to the lack of nutrients and electron donors such as iron in the shallow water,” she said. “The impact released essential nutrients, such as phosphorus, on a glo
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> There was no way I would have downloaded the Intuit Dome app if I hadn’t received a bunch of scary emails with subject lines that started with a red exclamation point and said that no one would be allowed into the arena without it. An
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> The experienced engineers will be so busy training the AI that they won’t be helping the juniors level up. Another tap for the Big Guys to keep extracting more and more wealth from everyone else.
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> Impossible problem #1: Interoperability is the premise, but doesn’t exist Same as in so many other areas, those that gain traction try to build a moat by breaking interoperability.
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
This is specific to Amazon Web Services: if I understand correctly, this essentially consists on passing the bulk of the data not directly form a server in one Availability Zone (data center?) to another, but to store it in S3 and pass only
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> Some have theorized that after battling it out with millions of other sperm to penetrate an egg, sperm mitochondria are exhausted and genetically damaged in ways that would be evolutionarily disastrous if passed on to future generatio
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> What's more, it could potentially help solve one of mountaineering's biggest mysteries: whether or not the pair succeeded in becoming the first people to summit Everest, 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reac
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> [...] self-hostable solution that leverages state-of-the-art (SOTA) vision models for segment extraction and OCR, unifying the output through a Rust Actix server. This setup allows you to process PDFs and extract segments at an impres
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> But nothing is perfect and this technique has a major achilles heel: It requires a special type of hardware, so the current hardware isn't optimized to take full advantage of it. > Plans for specialized hardware that nativel
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
This excerpt from Torvald's email summarizes the issue: > I was hoping and expecting that bcachefs being mainlined would actually help development. It has not. You're still basically the only developer, there's no real si
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
I’m interested in that, do you happen to have a link or reference to that discussion?
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
From the URL I thought it was one of those posts about graphs of activity (“quantified self”) that I’ve seen before from him, but I’m glad I took a look. Seeing him taking a walk along the coast with shorts, goofy hat, tablet on hand, made
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
> The ChatGPT explainer that he mentioned[1] This should be [3]. Thanks for your detailed post, I stopped paying attention to Wolfram years ago but there are still gems to be found in his work under the piles of boasting. >
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
As I write this there are two comments both saying that nobody seems to use it any more, but just today I used it to discuss a job with one of my customers. This might be a rare occurrence, I do not know.
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
I think the screenshot shows an MS Windows desktop, that's how disgusted he was with the requirement for a "20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy". He seems to have concluded that Canonical has lost the plot so
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
The subject is initially Covid 19 medical interventions but later branches out a bit. The video description has a timestampted list of segments: “Why hackers on Discord had to save thousands of lives”, “How politics crippled common sense v
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
One way is to use the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240623012818/https://www.jwz.o... > Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and th
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by AlbertoGP 2y ago
(2019) No wonder it sounded familiar.

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