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by barrkel 4y ago
That's not how I remember it. > The Uber guy is right that InnoDB handles this better as long as you don't touch the primary key (primary key updates in InnoDB are really bad). > This is a common problem case we don'
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by barrkel 4y ago
I guess that's why you only remove the delay loop just before shipping.
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by barrkel 4y ago
Stock buybacks are the other side of the coin of RSUs (GSUs). A significant portion of employee income is in the form of stock.
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by barrkel 4y ago
NT3.5 was noticeably different to Win3.11 because dragging windows dragged the contents; on Win3.11, you got an XOR stipple outline indicating where the window was going to end up. NT4 ran very well on 64MB. I used it as a daily driver shor
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by barrkel 4y ago
Starting X early is IMO a bit of a red herring with child development, especially when they're in the low single digits. Their minds grow in power recognizably on a weekly basis (particularly noticeable when you spend a week apart) tha
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by barrkel 4y ago
Any DDL worthy of the name (table rewrite needed) in MySQL needs to be done with pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost. With DDL, you want to e.g. have it tune the I/O load of the migration so it doesn't interfere too much with produc
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by barrkel 4y ago
If you're going to scale up to 10s of millions of inserts a day and 100s of billions of rows, I recommend MySQL as a step on a journey towards Vitess. Otherwise, I recommend Postgres. For anything other than a data-oriented startup, I&
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by barrkel 4y ago
It seems like every time someone says that it's doing something novel, they present an example of interpolation between existing concepts. This is useful, but the source of novelty here is the prompt; the rest is the work of interpolat
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by barrkel 4y ago
You're presenting an example of inference of rules from given data as a counterexample for novelty. They're not even in the same category of thing. Invention is not learning. Sometimes invention is interpolation, but sometimes it
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by barrkel 4y ago
This is interpolation. And more than that, your prompt is the source of the actual novelty, little as it is.
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by barrkel 4y ago
This is all interpolation between existing concepts. It is not a counterexample.
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by barrkel 4y ago
Interesting to read. It's a technical distinction with a primarily implementation difference, which I don't yet understand (i.e. have not taken the time to read yet), but I infer from the fragment that I did read, that there is so
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by barrkel 4y ago
They Need To Know. NTK is a contextual requirement and shouldn't be solved by admitting them into an enormous pen whereby they instantly gain access to information that they don't, in fact, need to know.
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by barrkel 4y ago
It depends on what you are counting as 'n'. It's reasonably clear in the discussion that we're talking about operations on individual characters. Calculating the hash of a string of length n is O(n). Look up in the hash
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by barrkel 4y ago
This problem is not great. It is a classic of the programming puzzle kind, and does not measure metrics which are important for most engineering. For some roles, like working deep in the weeds of a compiler or database optimizer, I think i
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by barrkel 4y ago
As long as virtual threads retain an entrypoint of control flow (e.g. return point from an I/O call), they will also be GC roots. They might not be very deep but they are GC roots. When a call returns, locals and parameters back up the
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by barrkel 4y ago
Yes, it's basically true. For true novelty, you need to create a bunch of examples and teach a model (fine tuning). Depending on how novel it is, it may be hard to teach and teaching may damage a model's generality (over training)
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by barrkel 4y ago
AI art is also currently cliched in an anti-novelty way. High-level image composition and low-level style are based on the training set and while you can mix and match and tween between different points in the latent space, genuinely novel
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by barrkel 4y ago
Part of the issue is that it's usually American regulators setting these rules, but they're applied globally due to the more-or-less duopoly of credit card companies.
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by barrkel 4y ago
I don't think people want to see continuous exchanges of aces in tennis.
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by barrkel 4y ago
We thought we had no alternative because if we didn't do it, someone else would, and they'd eat our lunch.
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by barrkel 4y ago
Status is based on attention, deference and so on other people give you. You can, to a degree, buy that, in different qualities, from different audiences. It doesn't mean wealth is status.
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by barrkel 4y ago
Abortion was only legalized in Ireland in 2018. Abortion is one of the few cultural topics which doesn't tend towards borad consensus. E.g. acceptance of gay rights has a tipping point and then drifts towards the 90s+%, but abortion do
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by barrkel 4y ago
American culture is very different to local European cultures, which are all distinct from one another, and are usually as different from one another as they are from American culture.
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by barrkel 4y ago
It (through its Interbase inheritance) was the first production database to implement MVCC.
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by barrkel 4y ago
The Amstrad CPC 464 had a "copy cursor" and a "copy" key. Holding down shift and using the arrow keys let you navigate a second cursor to text you wanted to copy, then the "copy" key would insert the letter und
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by barrkel 4y ago
I would guess it's some kind of abbreviation for Aleppo and falls into Syrian sanctions detection.
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by barrkel 4y ago
Addition and multiplication are trivially implemented using lookup, if you had a machine without arithmetic and only control flow and memory operations. You don't need much more than that for matrix operations, and now you have ChatGPT
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by barrkel 4y ago
The Chinese Room thought experiment is not convincing to software engineers generally. It relies heavily on an intuition that looking things up in a book is clearly not "thinking". Software engineers know better: that "lookin
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by barrkel 4y ago
Calculators don't understand anything about arithmetic. They have no circuits for understanding, no code for understanding, nothing that could represent what humans mean by understanding. They implement a set of physical processes that

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