barrkel

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by barrkel 2y ago
B-trees are cache friendly, spending more time doing linear scans at each level to keep the tree shallow, and thus indirection less frequent. They're designed for high latency indirection - loading pages from spinning rust.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Draw a trend line through Windows releases and it doesn't look good. I can't see myself upgrading to 11 any time soon and I'm seriously considering just switching to Linux. It's all I've used on work laptops since 2
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by barrkel 2y ago
The writing is not good; I gave up part way through. It's weirdly elliptic and almost autistic in its focus on details and an almost complete absence of a big picture. It could do with some kind of proper context-setting introduction,
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by barrkel 2y ago
Compartments usually seat 6 (though DB ICE trains often have a family compartment that seats 5, with a little toy cubby that you can use to store a buggy). Six seats, three on each side. That means someone needs to sit in the middle, and un
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by barrkel 2y ago
This indeed. Custom UI widgets for Windows apps are really not necessary most of the time, and fitting in with the system theme is all you ought to aim for, most of the time. There are exceptions, for very rich dense UI, for UIs that need t
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by barrkel 2y ago
Determinism for any given input isn't an interesting metric though. Inputs are always different, or else you could just replace it with a lookup function. What's important is reliability of the output given a distribution of input
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by barrkel 2y ago
Allies were so put out by Bush II that they gave Obama the Nobel peace prize before he did anything.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Oh I told her what it was, she said she'd put her reality glasses on. We'll see how it goes :)
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by barrkel 2y ago
I get it. I play with image generation myself, with the odd bit of training and fine-tuning. But you have to recognize that the low marginal cost of this kind of generation is self-cheapening, and a world filled with gaudy saccharine conten
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by barrkel 2y ago
I was forwarded a message just moments ago by my mother, a 5 second Facebook video, clearly AI generated - and I suspect Open Sora. More AI slop for everyone.
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by barrkel 2y ago
This seems like perversion of the legal process. It's the kind of thing that gets custodial sentences when normal people do it. Looking at https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/it... it se
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by barrkel 2y ago
Credit cards generally use multi-factor auth in Europe for unusual transactions, typically an app, sometimes SMS.
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by barrkel 2y ago
The US system is a tax on people paying with cash.
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by barrkel 2y ago
It gave me the feeling I was being observed, and I didn't like that, so I just skimmed the article and closed it as soon as possible.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Barcelona city proper is in a kind of geographical bowl. Look at it on a terrain map, you can see why the city is dense. It's one of the reasons I really like Barcelona, the forced density of the geography increases the amount and qual
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by barrkel 2y ago
The question being raised in this thread is if Spain has dense housing. And it does. It's clearly very dense.
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by barrkel 2y ago
It's plain as day once you actually visit Spainish towns and cities (try a motorcycle tour, you can hit a dozen or more a day, I've toured Spain several times) and compare it with the UK (I lived in the UK for 15 years). German to
498.
by barrkel 2y ago
That's the wrong metric. Spain seems to have planning laws that force density. Small agricultural towns in the middle of nowhere have people living cheek by jowl in apartments and townhouses, with an abrupt cutoff once you hit the town
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by barrkel 2y ago
The code completion is quite smart and one of the bigger advantages Google has now is the monorepo and the knowhow to put together a pipeline of continuous tuning of models to keep them up to date. The pressure, such that it is, is killing
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by barrkel 2y ago
I can't run with full authority on Android, however. My own apps can't access my own data from other apps that I run. This is not something I can forego on my main computing device. I'm willing to tolerate it in a phone becau
501.
by barrkel 2y ago
I don't want to run an operating system where I need to get the vendor's permission to run my own applications under my authority.
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by barrkel 2y ago
To be fair, he spoke English from a very young age, he was raised trilingual and read and wrote English before Russian. I think there's a case to be made that being able to read 3 distinct languages with native fluency contributed to h
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by barrkel 2y ago
To be clear, the main thing that's abstracted away are server round-trips and client-side joins. REST APIs can fetch data from different systems too.
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by barrkel 2y ago
If you have separation between front and back end, then the back end team can elect to serve REST APIs which only permit selecting, filtering, grouping and pagination that they know they can support within defined latency bounds for a given
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by barrkel 2y ago
The problem is the similarity of the words, not understanding the concepts.
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by barrkel 2y ago
They're so unclear that HTTP error codes got them confused. 401 Unauthorized usually actually means Unauthenticated, while 403 Forbidden means Unauthorized. I'm a native speaker and I need to pause for a few hundred milliseconds j
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by barrkel 2y ago
I've seen people with like 10 jobs in 8 years.
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by barrkel 2y ago
You're hiring because you've got a bit more work than you have people for. You're probably under a bit of stress, timelines are a bit tight. Do you want someone who has strong evidence of job-hopping, and believe they will co
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by barrkel 2y ago
I read this comment and I thought you were upset that it was sexualized, but when I looked, it wasn't at all. It might have well been a cute kitten or puppy doing the pointing, hard to get wound up about.
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by barrkel 2y ago
The code is much more similar, in principle, to a virtual machine. The actual code, the bit that contains the logic which has the semantics we intend, is in the trained weights, where the level of complexity is much higher and more subtle.

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