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721.
by barrkel 3y ago
If your data is intrinsically shaped like 1:100, what are you supposed to do - issue 10x batches of fetches with 10 elements? Give up on a relational database? Start designing custom sharding schemes to avoid doing the "wrong" thi
722.
by barrkel 3y ago
Thing is, now the UK doesn't get to participate in the free trade area, but is a rule taker anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/01/uk-eu-safet... - UK to retain EU safety mark in l
723.
by barrkel 3y ago
And the UK follows EU regulations anyway, by not controlling imports (latest climbdown, delayed food checks until 2024, 5th time of delaying) and indefinitely accepting CE certification mark (meant to be superseded in the UK by UKCA).
724.
by barrkel 3y ago
I don't buy this at all. I think it's path dependent. The language differences aren't big enough to dominate over ecosystems and libraries. Ease of integration with C can make a bigger difference than significant whitespace.
725.
by barrkel 3y ago
I read the headline as logical premise, or assumption.
726.
by barrkel 3y ago
Google was running MySQL in different flavours and configurations before Spanner. I suspect strategy tax (knowing Spanner was coming along eventually) might have been a reason for not offering that as a managed option though.
727.
by barrkel 3y ago
This is how the Internet was before 2000. I miss the eclecticism, its authenticity.
728.
by barrkel 3y ago
Even a quiet helmet, at speed it's like a radio tuned to static turned up to a noise level just below painful. Windshields can actually make it worse, depending on airflow - turbulent air coming over the top and around the sides of the
729.
by barrkel 3y ago
You're noticing the ones which aren't stock.
730.
by barrkel 3y ago
Indeed, zinc air batteries (used in hearing aids) are more energy dense than lithium ion, and are cheap. Lithium air would be much better again (close to gasoline) but a harder material to work with, and more expensive.
731.
by barrkel 3y ago
That's a contractor.
732.
by barrkel 3y ago
That is less Hiberno-English and more Gaelic. Niamh and Siobhán are Irish names following Irish orthography.
733.
by barrkel 3y ago
Our cat came back unable to meow after being put under. It was a couple of years before he was able to make a high pitched squeak, and he can't do it quietly - it's just a hoarse whisper if he isn't going for it full throat.
734.
by barrkel 3y ago
Then if you get a tooth issue later, insurance will deny coverage. It's a scam.
735.
by barrkel 3y ago
Because you want to paginate. Update the page piecemeal based on an event from another user. Because you want to use the same data on multiple pages, and want to write the authorization and filtering logic once.
736.
by barrkel 3y ago
No I'm not saying Paris is better. I'm not saying it's bigger either. I'm saying they're different qualitatively, that size isn't everything, that density is also important.
737.
by barrkel 3y ago
Sure, but it still doesn't capture the nature of the respective cities. Open up Paris and London in two side by side windows in Google Maps, at an approximately similar scale, and look at the pale yellow areas (the bits Google consider
738.
by barrkel 3y ago
Yes, this is a monad tutorial. It's concrete and specific and doesn't attempt to generalize, but it's explaining an application of monads. And yes, the approach described, if followed naively and robotically, reinvents a clum
739.
by barrkel 3y ago
Yeah, city limits is a terrible way to measure city size because it varies so much depending on how different countries like to partition and label things. On paper, Paris is much smaller than London (2 million vs 9 million), but Île-de-Fra
740.
by barrkel 3y ago
The way I prefer to solve this problem these days is to use a fairly generic tree node structure (fairly close to sexprs) and implement tree grammars which check for correctness of different phases (e.g. verify that nodes are annotated with
741.
by barrkel 3y ago
The implied theory in the paraphrased quotes is that Black people are not successful in part because they have learned a framing where success requires acting like a slave owner, or acting white. That is, behaviors that correlate with succe
742.
by barrkel 3y ago
Classic availability bias. This can be replaced by electric: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fn...
743.
by barrkel 3y ago
It's not a fallacy. Previous words are very important part of its scratch space. Few-shot learning is based on previous words. Prompt modifiers like "let's think step by step" encourage encoding of reasoning verbosely in
744.
by barrkel 3y ago
I've had a computer in my home which can remember a million random integers in order, and I've had one for decades. No human can do this. Exceeding what humans can do is in no way the bar for reasoning.
745.
by barrkel 3y ago
A significant fraction of ML-adjacent people think it can do more. I'll say that it's more than just words. LLMs can learn patterns, and patterns of patterns, recursively to a degree. They can represent real knowledge about the re
746.
by barrkel 3y ago
I don't think the exception point is accurate; I think it didn't take off because C didn't make exception recovery idiomatic (signal handlers are not idiomatic) and C++ followed C's approach, so the major C++ runtime lib
747.
by barrkel 3y ago
Open Source often takes the shortest available route from A to B, to an MVP which solves a problem for a technical user who doesn't mind duct tape and configuration. The fit and finish required for a non-technical user is frequently ne
748.
by barrkel 3y ago
Internet connectivity is surprisingly poor on German trains. In 1st class, between Basel and Hanover, most of the time my phone (with Swisscom SIM) got better connectivity than the onboard wifi. Considering that this route connects Zurich a
749.
by barrkel 3y ago
Sure, for fuel economy, presumably without regenerative braking. When you're not in smooth traffic, a whole bunch of energy is lost in braking, and that energy is directly proportional to mass.
750.
by barrkel 3y ago
It reminded me of the days of antenna pass-through VCR players, where you had to tune into your VCR's broadcast signal when you couldn't use SCART.

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