Roark66

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by Roark66 3y ago
No they aren't. Here in this country (Poland) I enjoy all these things in most places and there is no death penalty. Many people argue our criminal penalties are far too lenient for violent crime, but there is still relatively little o
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by Roark66 3y ago
And that is why I'll personally never go to any country that has a death penalty for something so stupid as "being in possession of X". We're not even talking kilos of the stuff with a potential to impact hundreds of peo
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by Roark66 3y ago
>What is this mythical unimportant data that people still want to back up? I have lots of stuff like this. Often it is easier to just back up an entire folder than go through sub/sub folders separating stuff into: important, not ver
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by Roark66 3y ago
"Use, more bricks that the straight wall" misses a point a bit, because a straight wall like this would easily topple. A better description is "uses less bricks than a straight wall of equivalent resistance to horizontal forc
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by Roark66 3y ago
I'd be interested in if you considered Guile first and what made you decide in favor of common lisp. Few years ago when I decided its finally time to learn lisp I looked at few variants and Guile seemed to have the benefit of: fairly v
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by Roark66 3y ago
Wow, thank you for the great software :-) And the physical robot approach is very interesting. Of course it introduces physical world limits (you can't run 1k tests in parallel to load test the site unless you have 1k robots), but stil
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by Roark66 3y ago
This is just silly, there exist frameworks like selenium that allow you to run any browser of choice and emulate actual user behavior(clicks, keystrokes). If they go further the emulation layer will have to be moved higher, above the virtua
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by Roark66 3y ago
Since when lead emits smoke? You'd have to heat it beyond it's boiling point that is 1750C,while the typical lead casting is done at around 450C.even if you managed to vaporise minute amounts of lead it's going to condense an
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by Roark66 3y ago
I realise all the negative effects if this starts becoming a thing, but could someone explain how is it they propose to technically enforce this "signed browser binary" requirement? What's stopping me from writing my browser
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by Roark66 3y ago
I wonder if this entire "AI cheating" stuff will end up as calculators did when I was growing up. When I was a young child in school calculators were forbidden. You had to learn multiplications in your head. By the time I got to t
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by Roark66 3y ago
>protobuf has a serialized file limit of 2gb I'm not sure if this is a file size limit too or just an object memory representation size limit. For me using a library designed for message passing to save/read your AI models is a
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by Roark66 3y ago
It depends what do you want to discuss. There are lots of subject forums that are still thriving. Arch Linux forum, Debian Linux forum, for Microsoft stuff you have "Microsoft community" (not that I ever used it, but I read it som
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by Roark66 3y ago
Indeed it is. One use of Unicode I do is for icons that can be used by console programs like (neo)vim. I was quite happy that xterm supports Unicode these days so I can use a fast terminal that supports OSC52 system clipboard integration(no
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by Roark66 3y ago
Onnx is cool. For one it runs (large) transformer models in the cpu twice faster than pytorch/transformers. But at the moment it lacks a number of crucial features. Specifically: It's reliance on google's protobuf with it&#x2
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by Roark66 3y ago
There is no such thing as irrevocability in IT(unless we talk about physical retail sale registers every retail business has to have - these are certified standalone hardware devices that print receipts and store the transaction details in
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by Roark66 3y ago
Can it run onnx transformer models? I found optimised onnx models are at least twice the speed of vanilla pytorch on the CPU.
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by Roark66 3y ago
I very much wish it to be true, but until it is at least published in a peer reviewed journal I'm not holding my breath.
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by Roark66 3y ago
Seriously, people should stop panicking about lead that much. You know there is this fairly common hobby people have, it's called casting bullets. With lead. I've done it, I know many people that do it regularly and they're a
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by Roark66 3y ago
Not so fast... These superconductors although revolutionary loose superconductivity in high magnetic fields (or with high currents). If this proves true I'd see their use more in electronic circuits. Novel sensors etc rather than class
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by Roark66 3y ago
Cobalt is way more toxic than lead and yet every consumer grade lithium ion battery contains it. The fact something is toxic is not that important. What is that we manage the end of life for the products it contains responsibly.
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by Roark66 3y ago
Indeed, it is a pretty cool system, but every time I look into it I'm puzzled by the variety of costs for essentially the same thing. You can buy a cheapest personal certificate that is recognised as equivalent to a physical signature
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by Roark66 3y ago
>I wonder if maybe AI could help with such an ungrateful job. It's not necessarily ungrateful. It can even be interesting, but it all depends how everyone approaches it and the most important thing ever is: realistic timeliness and
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by Roark66 3y ago
I've worked as a contractor in a large bank leading a project to migrate from a plethora of backup systems into one newly built system. 30% of my time was spent on filling "paperwork". Implementation plans, risk assessments,
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by Roark66 3y ago
I got a nice mechanical keyboard I really like a year ago. I wish I considered getting a split one at the time as buying another keyboard a year later seems wasteful. But I'm seriously considering getting one. What's stopping me i
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by Roark66 3y ago
Kudos for the author for raising this. I'd add one more thing to consider. No Touch Typing. Despite my many decades in IT I never learned to "properly" touch type. I type at the typical 40 wpm looking at the keyboard and movi
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by Roark66 3y ago
To be skeptical they first need competency to understand both sides of the argument. Unfortunately the longer I observe the work of journalists the more I become convinced,except few individuals, most people that become journalists do so
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by Roark66 3y ago
Exactly... People just don't learn. For example currently there is a huge number of companies here in Poland that are migrating all of their cloud apps to GCP (Google cloud) from AWS. Why? Because Google has opened a region in Poland.
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by Roark66 3y ago
It sound nice, but I've been building systems like that since 2012 (usually vmware vCloud director plus custom code). Using hardware like Fujitsu's cx1000, Nexus 1000 distributed vswitch, brocade network switches, and San storage.
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by Roark66 3y ago
Exactly, and it works well. Unfortunately as a customer you don't have the level of protection with these services a CC or a specialised top up "virtual" debit card has. Charge backs etc. It's one of the reasons why thes
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by Roark66 3y ago
The another element that's missing is control of output sampling. LLM models don't actually produce text. They produce a word probability map. Essentially a huge table of every single word(token) they know and the probability valu

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