biogene

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by biogene 3y ago
Welcome to humanity - we use our feelings and emotions, often. We're not data ingesting algorithms looking to score a piece of text with an objective metric, and that's the way we like it :) You might see it manifesting as extra a
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by biogene 3y ago
They didn't add a profit margin because its a government project. The point was about we could be doing so much more with the resources we have. That is what I got out of it - and I agree.
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by biogene 3y ago
Wow! I can't imagine how I would ever do justice to a 1.5TB collection. My own collection is only 100GB or so (I regularly prune).
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by biogene 3y ago
>Pixel Binary Transparency responds to a new wave of attacks targeting the software supply chain—that is, attacks on software while in transit to users. These attacks are on the rise in recent years, likely in part because of the enormou
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by biogene 3y ago
How many songs do you have in your collection?
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by biogene 3y ago
True, but our IT only lets important/critical updates through, so its not really a big burden.
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by biogene 3y ago
Whenever there are implications to people's lively hood, its always a serious matter - but I hope people are able to transition to other roles. I think Gen AI will commoditize the mundane and "typical", and heavily push peopl
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by biogene 3y ago
They do, on the same workload. But if you look at the virtual memory breakdown, the vast majority of pages are non-executable data pages. Just did a rough check with Firefox and the executable pages are ~200MiB compared to ~2GiB of Private+
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by biogene 3y ago
Not seeing those boot times, but I rarely reboot. I usually reboot my W10 box once every few months or so. Our IT department commissions our Windows PCs in about an hour. Something seems very very wrong here, but I'm not an IT expert.
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by biogene 3y ago
That's a nice way to put it!
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by biogene 3y ago
"It wouldn't make a difference" - To whom? And how do you know? Even if a bot passes the Turing test, a community where there isn't any creativity or new information will die out. LLM is not the be all and end all of the
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by biogene 3y ago
HN is a social community too. So are other online forums, discord chat groups, mailing lists, gaming communities, open source communities, etc. People are driven to social interaction, whether virtual or in-person. I don't know what is
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by biogene 3y ago
It's a bit odd to make such a blanket statement for people living in rural areas all over the world. These are "my peeps" and we're not any of those things.
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by biogene 3y ago
The point is that it was guaranteed behavior before the spec was changed. As an aside, I do find it amusing that the memo was co-authored by a Googler. Google has the best fingerprinting & tracking tech baked into their core products. I
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by biogene 3y ago
> AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54% - in a specific MariaDB based benchmark.
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by biogene 3y ago
Yes, I agree - This remote-work push-pull will be continuous based on who has the leverage at any given time. I exited the industry many years back, but I would not want to be a remote-only worker in a high income country competing with the
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by biogene 3y ago
>Somebody might interpret this statement as if nobody (in their context) should worry about writing good code. The comment you quoted refers to great/eloquent code. But you took it to mean something different. Given the rehashing of
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by biogene 3y ago
On a general note, this is a golden opportunity to snatch up all the talented people who want to WFH. But the WFH debate has shown that very few people want to put their money where their mouths are.
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by biogene 3y ago
>A lot of other companies get into trouble trying to cargo-cult what Google does when they are operating in very different environments wherein those practices aren't optimal. E.g. different levels of scale. Any prominent examples?