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by bob1029 8mo ago
We should all strive to be the most Japanese that we can be while in spaces like this.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
One gram of finished 3nm packaged semiconductor is roughly equivalent to half a kilogram of refined aluminum in terms of energy cost. If you want to spend a lot of energy for not much mass, photolithography is fantastic.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
The only flock cameras indicated in my town are the canonical Home Depot arrangement. I'm pretty sure it's part of their standard operating procedures at this point. The effect these have had on the in store experience (at my loca
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> This doesn't even factor in MDM and app cost comparisons. I would argue that Apple has a better MDM ecosystem if there are any kind of policy constraints beyond one laptop per child.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> What would you do if two different people were emailing a spreadsheet back and forth to track something? I realize this is part of an interview game, but perhaps the best response is still to ask why this is a problem in the first plac
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by bob1029 8mo ago
The biggest problem with recurrent spiking neural networks is searching for them. Neuromorphic chips won't help because we don't even know what topology makes sense. Searching for topologies is unbelievably slow. The only thing yo
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by bob1029 8mo ago
At some level the application needs to participate in the performance conversation too. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-prepare.html
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by bob1029 8mo ago
A fun experiment but I wonder how many out there seriously think we could ever completely rid ourselves of the CPU. It seems to be a rising sentiment. The cost of communicating information through space is dealt with in fundamentally differ
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> GPT‑5.3 Instant is available starting today to all users in ChatGPT, as well as to developers in the API as ‘gpt-5.3-chat-latest.’
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by bob1029 8mo ago
What prevents us from giving this system access to other real systems that live in physical labs? I don't see much difference between parameterizing and executing a particle accelerator run and invoking some SQL against a provider. It&
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I feel like Apple pulled an Instant Pot with the M1 MacBook Pro. I still haven't had a single situation where I felt like spending more money would improve my experience. The battery is wearing out a bit, but it started out life with s
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Losing the SEO battle is a lot like losing money on the stock market. The system you are fighting is incredibly efficient and will never in a trillion years give a single shit about your specific concerns. You can hire lawyers and spend tim
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by bob1029 8mo ago
In the case of private jets, the Mach figure is mostly a proxy for other performance metrics. Flying an aircraft at max cruise can save a lot of time on longer flights, but it's also substantially more expensive.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
This stuff is probably the most esoteric part of windows. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...
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by bob1029 8mo ago
It can't be that hard... https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...
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by bob1029 8mo ago
My favorite tool for trying scary complicated things in an unknown space is the feature flag. This works even if you have zero tests and no documentation. The only thing you need is the live production system and a way to toggle the flag at
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by bob1029 8mo ago
What is the cost per bit of a laser link to the ground over the total lifetime of the system? What is the typical availability? Lasers don't work very well through thick cloud layers.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
It's not that complicated. The pro license at ~$2k/year per seat is all you need unless you are making a shitload of money. In which case, you are going to pay ~5k/year per seat.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
User interfaces for complex physical plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin
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by bob1029 8mo ago
The primary thing I'm going for in a commercial engine is platform targeting and stability. Some of the defaults are certainly "bland", but that ensures I can actually ship this thing to a meaningful % of the available market
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I think it could become economically viable to physically send storage devices back and forth. You can put a lot of bits in a kilogram of mass. If we get to the point where we can reliably make a round trip to LEO once per day every day,
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by bob1029 8mo ago
MSSQL keeps a lot of this stuff internal. This is why I prefer it for certain scenarios. Worrying about the tuning parameters can be overwhelming if you aren't pushing the instance to its limits.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
If you want your conversation history I think we could figure something out with headless browser automation. I would be hesitant to use their wire protocols directly. Edit: perhaps you can just ask nicely? https://help.openai.co
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I'd like to point out that not all oatmeal products have the same nutritional value. Quaker instant oats might as well be a box of crackers or other snacky food compared to original or steel cut variety.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
https://ads.apple.com/app-store
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I think stronger determinism could dramatically improve the situation here. Right now, I don't know if the same model within the same hour will produce consistent output given identical prompts and low temperature. I have no clue what
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by bob1029 8mo ago
This is also why we use quaternary min-heaps instead of binary ones for general purpose applications.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Valve originally devised this technique in 2007: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...
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> BTW, I think a lot of people were/are greatly overestimating the value of coding to business success. I've frequently argued to my organization's leadership that the product could be open source on GitHub with a flashing
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by bob1029 8mo ago
These schemas also support non-individuals with the same fields. EINs have a lot more edge cases than SSNs.

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