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by amluto 2mo ago
Yes, but can you personally allocate four people, two computers, a wristband, a HIPAA-compliant database, a HIPAA-compliant data entry system, and at least two barcode scanners to get an aspirin out of the bottle? I’m making a serious point
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by amluto 2mo ago
On the occasions that I’ve watched a hospital go through the actual process of selling a small amount of inexpensive medication for a large amount of money, there is a ridiculous amount of ceremony involved. I can easily imagine that it co
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by amluto 2mo ago
> The highest-yielding ad my publisher has tested so far is the search “Seth Godin The Knot“ I think it would be interesting to see legal action here. I’m not a lawyer, but I feel like there should be at least three ways to go after this
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by amluto 2mo ago
A lot of these embedded systems won’t use ELF.
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by amluto 2mo ago
Neat! I’m sort of amazing that nothing in that thread mentioned ClickHouse, even just as a product that has this capability and from which one might take syntactical inspiration.
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by amluto 2mo ago
I’m currently contemplating that MySQL apparently cannot do an INSTANT change of the collation of an unindexed column, even though, AFAICT, it has no effect whatsoever on the on-disk format or any data structure at all except for the metada
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by amluto 2mo ago
If I could have a pet feature added to DuckDB, it would be some form of native ordered table. In a database like Clickhouse or any of the dedicated time series DBMSes or log stores, there’s a built-in concept that a table might have an orde
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by amluto 2mo ago
Fair point. 66 E9 is not a practical compatibility problem, though: it’s not a useful encoding of a useful instruction on any CPU :)
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by amluto 2mo ago
In limited experimentation: AI will certainly make statements that are extremely intricate and hard to understand, in part because they're overcomplicated and in part because they use a bunch of unnecessary terminology. This is not to
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by amluto 2mo ago
At least with user-mode feature detection there could be an assertion that the correct feature set is present.
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by amluto 2mo ago
In x86 land, there are, as a practical matter, four ISAs: real/v8086 mode, 16-bit protected mode, 32-bit protected mode, and 64-bit “long” mode. Machine code targeting one of these will be executed correctly by the CPU as long as the C
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by amluto 2mo ago
You can’t fix the mutually incompatible overlapping encodings in post.
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by amluto 2mo ago
I want my logs readable on a completely read-only disk. Sure, I can start a daemon, but that’s mildly annoying. Also, the syslog daemon should be extremely reliable, and throwing giant table scans at it makes this more complex.
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by amluto 2mo ago
> RTX 3090 for each and every employee That’s quite inefficient. Get 2x RTX 6000 Pro and run DeepSeek v4 Flash for the whole company. This may or may not be cost effective compared to cheap third party providers, but it lets you own you
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by amluto 2mo ago
The problems are much more than just sync. A long time ago I had this over-optimistic idea: x86 hardware (and probably most other hardware) has these cool hardware-managed dirty page bits. So you would write to a mapped page, not even take
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by amluto 2mo ago
On the disk the live update part would be either a circular buffer (and readers would need to double-check the start/end marks after reading) or just literal append-only streams. In the latter case, reading would be barely more comple
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by amluto 2mo ago
I don’t think there’s any hard work here. Other than the append-only part, all files would be either immutable (the Parquet parts) or maybe mutated by wholesale atomic replacement of the inode (the catalog, although the directory itself, vi
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by amluto 2mo ago
That design doc explicitly talks about what is, essentially, compression of duplicate values in the same column. Many column-oriented databases do this. With SQLite you’re looking at third party extensions that compress the data, still in r
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by amluto 2mo ago
The journald schema is surprisingly wide and has a bunch of boilerplate, and one of the goals is to keep the on-disk size under control (and an efficient format directly reduces write amplification). And you kind of want a format that allo
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by amluto 2mo ago
Append-only -> Parquet -> bigger Parquet would do the trick. Sadly Parquet is useless for the append-only layer. Feather would work but is quite inefficient with a batch size of 1.
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by amluto 2mo ago
This model does not appear to be a language model at all. I wonder if has any ability to process text or communicate in any natural language.
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by amluto 2mo ago
Ooh, mmapped writes. I make that mistake once, years ago. :) I posted a comment in that GH issue.
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by amluto 2mo ago
But he surely had an insurable interest in that cigar!
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by amluto 2mo ago
If I have an insurable interest in Cloudflare’s uptime, I may buy insurance. If not, I may not. (IANAL. In the US this seems to largely be a state law issue. California’s law, to my quick non-expert skimming, is really quite clear on this
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by amluto 2mo ago
No. And, in fact, there is a concept called an “insurable interest” that is intended to prevent this kind of thing. If I buy an insurance contract that will pay me if your house burns down and then I burn down your house, then I’ve obviousl
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by amluto 2mo ago
Huh? Prompt caching isn’t about caching the literal text of the prompt. It’s about caching the result of running prefill on the prompt (or, equivalently, the result of generating the prompt one token at a time by autoregressive inference, o
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by amluto 2mo ago
Makes no difference. There is a policy as to whether to allow use of a reasoning trace in a given context. Whether that trace originates from authenticated ciphertext or a backend database is basically irrelevant.
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by amluto 2mo ago
You can buy them as “packaged terminal heat pumps”. They’re very common in motels.
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by amluto 2mo ago
No one in their right mind runs ductwork between the interior and exterior of the building in residential installations. There’s power, possible control wiring, and two or (in exotic installations) three refrigerant pipes. (In a more enlig
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by amluto 2mo ago
Are you in the same California that I am? We have the same problem that the entire country has with mediocre, overpriced contractors. And we also have the same problem with ever-changing refrigerant rules. But heat pump availability seems

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