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by amluto 4mo ago
One nice thing about some modern formats is that there are tools that read them at extraordinarily high effective speed. For example, DuckDB can do all manner of nifty optimizations while reading its own native format or Parquet. And I’m no
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by amluto 4mo ago
The heuristic I found when researching this a few years ago was slightly more nuanced than your quote: back surgery is very likely the wrong solution for back pain . But if you have nerve problems caused by an issue with your spine, you pr
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by amluto 4mo ago
Are you, for some reason, assuming that every time n people play games together, those n people are drawn independently from the population? This is a completely nonsensical assumption. If you find three firefighters and one unknown person
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by amluto 4mo ago
I bet that tweaking the positional embedding to add an explicit token role indication plus some careful training to help the model learn to use it would make a big difference.
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by amluto 4mo ago
In the US, until very recently, there were four variants in the vaccine: two Influenza A and two Influenza B. But one of the B variants seems to have gone extinct during the COVID pandemic, and now the vaccine is just two A and one B.
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by amluto 4mo ago
I found this article to be a very poor explanation of what (I think) it’s trying to say. I think the point the article ought to be making is much better handled entirely separately for request time and for outages. For outages, it goes som
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by amluto 4mo ago
One issue with flash-and-batt is that it’s absolutely not a DIY project: the equipment is specialized and expensive, and you need to take real precautions to protect yourself from the unreacted chemicals. But you might be able to get a loca
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by amluto 4mo ago
Any self-respecting microphone will be sensitive to tens of micropascals (the conversion between SPL and Pa is straightforward). The Sensirion device is proud of its ability to operate at 10 Pa. That being said, most microphones are intend
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by amluto 4mo ago
Huh, impressive. A long time ago I used a hot wire anemometer to measure flow up to several hundred Hz, but that was an expensive instrument being read by an expensive National Instruments acquisition platform. This is a cheap, self-contain
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by amluto 4mo ago
To detect something, you at least need response that isn’t effectively zero at the relevant frequency. And bonus points for not having ludicrous amounts of jitter due to polling a sensor over a bus like I2C that is really not intended to co
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by amluto 4mo ago
What’s the frequency response of that sensor? The datasheet says nothing.
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by amluto 4mo ago
On the other hand, if you launch these GPUs into a very low orbit, they indeed have a limited lifespan.
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by amluto 4mo ago
Here’s an extremely snarky take, from an author who is very much an expert in the field: https://buildingscience.com/documents/building-science-insig...
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by amluto 4mo ago
Or it could just hide the mold behind the insulation if done poorly. In cold weather, when cavity insulation, the inner surface of the metal will be cold. If warm, humid interior air that can sneak behind the insulation and get to that sur
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by amluto 4mo ago
I skimmed that. It seems to me: (a) A major problem where one agent can give dangerous instructions to another. (b) A desire for an “agent” to cleanly delegate permissions to another “agent”. I am extremely unclear as to what an “agent” is
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by amluto 4mo ago
I don't think so. The article is all about reducing friction. Suppose I start a conversation and enter some highly third-party-prompt-injectable request, perhaps "Fork github.com/some_third_party/coolproject and submit
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by amluto 4mo ago
This is bonkers. Sure, if I’m a business, I will make a business decision to share, or not share, some resource with ChatGPT. But, if I do decide to share something with ChatGPT, I absolutely do NOT want it shared with every single ChatGPT
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by amluto 4mo ago
Fun. For people like me who made an incorrect assumption, the adhesive in question is a two-component epoxy: https://www.henkel-adhesives.com/ae/en/product/structural-ad... It is not the single-component anae
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by amluto 4mo ago
The Cloud Key Gen 2 is underpowered depending what you do with it, and it runs hot. UniFi seriously needs to refresh it. (At least it’s better than the Gen 1. The Gen 1 was disastrously bad.) The ENAS looks like fairly nice hardware. It
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by amluto 4mo ago
As far as I know, STIR/SHAKEN doesn’t do this at all. See, among other things, the very first entry in the Wikipedia page’s limitations section.
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by amluto 4mo ago
> You want outbound calls from your Philippines based staff to show as if they were calling from a local number. This is a valid use case, but I’m a bit surprised that the mechanism isn’t better controlled. Surely a better design would b
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by amluto 4mo ago
These numbers seem insufficiently detailed to really evaluate anything. They’re had $13bn in gross revenue in 2025, and they cost of that revenue was $7.5bn. Both are growing fast (we assume) and the ratio ought to stay roughly constant.
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by amluto 4mo ago
You still get the nastiness that the Sec-Fetch-* state gets mostly trashed when you hit refresh. And someone would need to figure out how CORS preflight interacts with refresh, which is not currently an issue with POST. (The current &quot
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by amluto 4mo ago
One oddity of forms: the result of a form POST is a page that has a location (the URL) but that cannot loaded via that location. As far as I know, the fact that the page is a POST and not a GET is not stored anywhere visible to the user or
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by amluto 4mo ago
I don’t think it’s bike shedding if I literally cannot load the content. This is a recurring problem on these qwen.ai announcements.
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by amluto 4mo ago
The qwen.ai webpage should learn to deliver plain HTML with its content instead of overcomplicated JavaScript and CSS to display obnoxious pulsating rectangles where the content ought to be but hasn’t managed to load.
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by amluto 4mo ago
I wonder whether those cards ran the model that wrote the nonsense about the forces involved. Hint: when you have a piece of metal stuck with thermal goop to a lot of components, the force doesn’t “concentrate” on one of them. You need to d
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by amluto 4mo ago
The papers suggest a plausible mechanism by which lithium orotate could have an effect that would be not present with inorganic lithium salts. IIRC the hypothesis is that lithium orotate does not fully dissociate in water and thus can cross
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by amluto 4mo ago
Therapies targeting amyloid deposits has been tested extensively in actual humans, and it indeed removes amyloid deposits. The main problem is that none of the therapies in question usefully treat Alzheimer’s disease. Sure, maybe an eventua
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by amluto 4mo ago
I can imagine it working with a needle shaped nozzle that inserts into a hole and extrudes filament as it withdraws back out. This is probably much more than a software change, though.

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