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by WJW 2y ago
I can definitely see how a more advanced student can get a ton of valuable insights about the "abstraction leaks" of opamps, and I would even submit that opamps could be a particularly fertile place of such leaks (for our more sof
542.
by WJW 2y ago
How is that patent even a thing from 2009? Position feedback in robots is WAY older than that. I have textbooks at least a decade older than that patent describing that very system, so I wouldn't be surprised if it falls over at the fi
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by WJW 2y ago
I like the benefits too, but honestly these are all problems that I simply don't have and the "costs" in learning the new system in the face of the terrible docs and fragmented community are quite high. I get a new computer
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by WJW 2y ago
I think time would pass incredibly slowly for an observer that close to the black hole? Since the event horizon provides a singularity where time slows to zero, it makes sense that any non-zero speed along it would go to infinity for an out
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by WJW 2y ago
Huh, that's not what I would expect at all. If you are having custom network protocols anyway, why deal with all the overhead that even a subset of HTTP brings? You might as well make an entirely new protocol at that point.
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by WJW 2y ago
The entire field of maintenance engineering would like a word. Over longer periods of time it's vastly cheaper to regularly fix things even before they break, and software is no exception. Amongst other reasons: - Performing regular
547.
by WJW 2y ago
The answer to both is probably "because maintainer time is scarce and nobody is interested enough".
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by WJW 2y ago
Maybe they're more broth-like? Also the paper at https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-... seems to indicate that they are "active rheological materials" and therefor
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by WJW 2y ago
This might be true sometimes, but it hardly addresses the real problem: WHY are (some) devs like that? From experience I'd say that there are at least three (usually overlapping) reasons: - There are often valid technical reasons to re
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by WJW 2y ago
There's probably a causal relation too: both the compensation AND the desire to take ideas seriously come from the same source, which can generally be summarized as "respect for the way specific expertise can help along a shared c
551.
by WJW 2y ago
Oh aha thanks for pointing that out. Now that you mention it that does seem obvious. I definitely didn't catch that from the first use though. There should be a better word to capture both those meanings that doesn't confuse my po
552.
by WJW 2y ago
Yes we do, but there's a bit of nuance to it. Most Dutch people will happily oblige to speak slowly (within reason) if you preface any conversation with a quick "I'm trying to learn Dutch properly", and will appreciate t
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by WJW 2y ago
Vegans? Veg[a..z1..9A..Z]ns? Are there any vegyns out there who object to being put on the meat/no-meat spectrum? Are you afraid HN will censure you if you spell out the complete word?
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by WJW 2y ago
If it's really a problem, you can always use the pt-heartbeat tool from the percona toolkit: https://docs.percona.com/percona-toolkit/pt-heartbeat.html Conceptually it is very straightforward: It just updates the
555.
by WJW 2y ago
The main problem is that an AI training workload eventually ends, or (if inference is also included) at most generates more work proportional to the rate of user queries. If you have 10 times as many workers, you are done in 1/10th of
556.
by WJW 2y ago
Man, wait until this person learns about the existence of electricity companies. Imagine charging people for a valuable service you provide.
557.
by WJW 2y ago
Could humans get up to four reports if we learn how to efficiently kick as well as punch? :thinking_face:
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by WJW 2y ago
I don't want to be a hater but according to the UN about 61 million humans die per year, so that only comes out to ~167k per day rather than millions. Most of those will die from old age too, rather than "being killed". Your
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by WJW 2y ago
Sure, but humanity has been able to make additional human-level intellects since basically forever by having sex. The dream has always been to make superhuman intellects.
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by WJW 2y ago
There is more underneath this than was in eg blockchain or metaverse hype. But there is zero guarantee that OpenAI will be the one to eventually come out on top. If anything, the continuous drama they seem to be generating makes it less lik
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by WJW 2y ago
To stick with the metaphor, it's not super unclear if agency is within grasp or on the other side of an abyss. LLMs are definitely an improvement, but it's not at all clear if they can scale to human-level agency. If they reach th
562.
by WJW 2y ago
Not be be nitpicky, but being the first to deploy recent academic research papers to production should count as a breakthrough IMHO.
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by WJW 2y ago
Who knows what a conspiracy theorist thinks? But honestly the fact that geoglyph construction techniques seem to have evolved over at least several hundred years to become ever clearer does seem to be a(n even stronger) point against. If it
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by WJW 2y ago
For the octopus it is. Of course, they have many more arms to punch with so this might not translate well to management of humans.
565.
by WJW 2y ago
The main problem with their system is not that it doesn't work with every app out there, the main problem is that voice control is just not that desirable for most apps. It has its place in applications where you're already using
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by WJW 2y ago
Not all companies float on PE money.
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by WJW 2y ago
Anyone with the patience to read through an existing github repo can do this? If there are valuable bits to be salvaged it's easy enough to copy-paste them into a new library if you so choose.
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by WJW 2y ago
Why are the maintainers working for free in the first place if they don't like it? If they're struggling financially, spending a lot of time on charity is not likely to improve the situation.
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by WJW 2y ago
I've always seen contributing to OSS as more akin to volunteering as a treasurer at a local sports club than as a job. Just because you do many of the same activities that other people get paid for doesn't make OSS a "job&quo
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by WJW 2y ago
That's only because we haven't made a lot of batteries, historically speaking. Their price per kWh was too high with the technology of the time. With modern battery technology there is nothing stopping us from building dramaticall

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