bnegreve

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by bnegreve 9d ago
I keep the previous backup for one month and then delete it. So eventually the file is lost yes, but this is inevitable if you assume finite amount of storage.
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by bnegreve 9d ago
> rsync can delete remote files with --delete or --delete-after Yes but I don't use it precisely because that lets me recover files that I have accidentally deleted. I assume it's the intended default behavior of rsync.
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by bnegreve 10d ago
I have a cron script that rsync my entire home directory every day with a remote server. Since rsync doesn't remove remote files, I re-create a backup from scratch the first day of each month and store a copy of the previous one. Using
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by bnegreve 12d ago
> They are struggling with what they're drawing looking wrong to them, until they're fairly far along and the shapes are fairly complete. In general I agree, but I have a counter example. I have a friend that has always been ve
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by bnegreve 3mo ago
> all it should take is a system of valves, That would work, but it's not how to works apparently. According to this veritasium video, it's because of "negative pressure" aka tension. https://www.youtube.co
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by bnegreve 9mo ago
> Blame the consumers. The consumer is not a single person, and until we (the consumers) all coordinate, our individual incentive is to not pay (Classical prisoner dilemma). So "voting with your wallet" doesn't maximize yo
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by bnegreve 1y ago
> There's no "True" to an LLM, just how probable tokens are given previous context. It may be enough: tool assisted LLMs already know when to use tools such as calculators or question answering systems when hallucinating
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by bnegreve 1y ago
Surely reading/writing are useful skills that most people did not have before school was mandatory.
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by bnegreve 1y ago
> in "pixels wide" the word "wide" acts as a square root operator on the area and means "pixels^(-2)" Did you meant "pixels^(1/2)"? I'm not sure what kind of units pixels^(-2) would be.
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by bnegreve 2y ago
So many things in the IT world started as non-professional things by non-professional engineers. If you're a professional who lives off one of these things you should be glad that someone wanted to have fun at some point. Let this HTTP
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by bnegreve 2y ago
Most disciplines in CS have done that one way or another.
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by bnegreve 2y ago
It is probably good news, but to be fair land use and GHG emissions are not the same thing, especially given that fertilizers are involved.
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by bnegreve 2y ago
It is very impressive, and better than anything I've seen before but think something is bit off with the swell. If I had to explain I would say that high frequency waves don't travel on top of low frequency waves the way they do
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by bnegreve 2y ago
> but then set up a website where that button keeps jumping away from your mouse for 20 minutes, while it's showing you uplifting messages why in fact, you should continue with the subscription. Still, only one click Most laws can b
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by bnegreve 2y ago
> over an 4.75-inch gap
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by bnegreve 2y ago
> every group chat has a n-1 group containing everyone except that annoying member. And if you think your chat doesn’t have such a group, oh boy, do I have some bad news for you. There are more like 2^n - 1 subgroups, i.e. as many subgr
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by bnegreve 2y ago
I don't know. If the case is not discussed in court, we will never know. This is why we should not blindly follow a will out of respect of the dead person , because there may be evidence this is just a mistake.
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by bnegreve 2y ago
> In respect for the dead person, we absolutely have to carry out their will. We trust judges when they decide to send people to prison for decades, so I don't see why we shouldn't trust them if they decide that this will is p
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by bnegreve 2y ago
I agree and I don't think it is specific to the world of entrepreneurs and/or social science experiments. If your target variable depends on a large number of correlated variables you are very unlikely to formulate the correct hyp
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by bnegreve 3y ago
- The satellite will accomplish this [precision] by having the usual main Earth-measuring techniques co-located on board [satelite navigation, interferometry, laser ..] When used together, the ESA expects to be able to correct for biases i
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by bnegreve 3y ago
Soon we will be hearing of the global flattening.
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by bnegreve 3y ago
The title is rather ambiguous: evidence that RTO mandates do not increase firm performance is not evidence that returning to office is useless. > we do not find significant changes in firm performance in terms of profitability and stoc
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by bnegreve 3y ago
> Implementing them in large industrial (or open source) code bases in a maintainable way -- and then actually maintaining that code -- is a different skillset, a different set of interestes, You're making a very general point on ho
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by bnegreve 3y ago
Oh, indeed it is mentioned, i overlooked this part. > It even mentions Jupiter's moons later It is not a coincidence, I reused the example to illustrate my point.
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by bnegreve 3y ago
I am not a native speaker, but my feeling is that several can also be used to insist on non-uniqueness. E.g. "Most rich families own several cars" or "Jupiter has several moons" (= not one). I'm surprised that i
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by bnegreve 3y ago
The size of these vehicles is certainly absurd, but flying packages with drones that consume most of their energy to fight gravity does not seem particularly efficient either, (e.g. compared to small road electric vehicles with the same pay
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by bnegreve 3y ago
Be careful with large numbers: 10^23 shoes would be roughly 854B shoes for every (~117B) human that have ever lived, that is about 14 million pairs of shoes per individual and per day. I am pretty sure there has never been a market for that
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by bnegreve 3y ago
Damn, it took me years to accept that dropping C-style or C++-style explicit memory management in favor of garbage collection was an overall improvement. And now we have to reuse and mutate objects instead of creating new ones because of it
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by bnegreve 3y ago
The convention exists because for most articles, publication year is an important piece of context. I'm not sure we have to blindly follow the convention when it isn't.
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by bnegreve 3y ago
Yes and that is my point: most organizations will pretend they are human centered, because it is good PR. Hence my surprised reaction to GGP.

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