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by com2kid 2y ago
Note that the underlying C++ libraries for Node are perfectly capable of using threads, only the final user space model is single threaded by default.
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by com2kid 2y ago
This makes me wonder what scenarios would be unlocked if OpenAI gave access to gpt4-instruct. I wonder if they avoid that due to the potential for negative press from the outputs of a more "raw" model.
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by com2kid 2y ago
This works until it doesn't. Professional body builders do bulk/cut/bulk/cut because after awhile you can't lose weight and put on muscle at the same time, especially if you want to get to the point of being shredde
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Do you have a source that 40% muscle loss is typical for a caloric restriction diet without GLP1 agonists? OK I actually checked up on this, and it is more like 30%, but that number gets worse as you get older. For young healthy men it
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by com2kid 2y ago
Outside of cardiac muscle, which is a bit worrisome, 40% of weight loss being from muscles is incredibly typical for any diet that sheds pounds. There are very complex dietary regimes that can be followed to minimize this, but most studies
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by com2kid 2y ago
Labor is at most 10% of the overall cost of a car. Now explain the remaining 15k of price difference! Sure another 5 or 6k is subsidies from the Chinese government to the manufacturers, but there is still another $10k more that American car
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by com2kid 2y ago
IMHO TypeScript is the best mainstream language to write code in right now. It is incredibly expressive and feature rich, and you can model in almost any paradigm you like. The ecosystem around it allows you to choose whatever blend of runt
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Bud I think you just don't like the US and maybe that's a personal problem. You'd be wrong. What I have done is read my history books, and visited historical sites all around the US and abroad. Saying "shit was viol
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Your points about skilled slaves leave me puzzled. If they were agricultural and engineering geniuses, surely we should find thriving civilizations in Central Africa from around the time when they were abducted into slavery? This isn&#
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by com2kid 2y ago
I'm a huge Zig fan! Thank you for making native programming fun again! Zig is the exception to native build systems being painful. But even a great build system doesn't help when old native libraries don't support newer hardw
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by com2kid 2y ago
> So in your mind, slaves picked cotton in the south, Slaves built the irrigation systems that made rice farming possible in the south. (People forget that the other huge slavery cash crop was rice). Without the engineering and agricultu
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by com2kid 2y ago
> But everyone just started writing everything in JS, and the ecosystem ended up as a mish-mash of native/non-native. Because the native written stuff breaks all the darn time and it creates cross-plat nightmares. My stress levels
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by com2kid 2y ago
node-gyp is a huge source of these issues for Node projects, especially older ones. For those reading this who don't know much about node - node-gyp is how you pull in native code libraries to Node projects, typically for performance
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by com2kid 2y ago
> OpenAI clearly downgrades some of their APIs from their maximal theoretic capability, for the purposes of response time/alignment/efficiency/whatever. When ChatGPT3.5 first came out, people were using it to simulate enti
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by com2kid 2y ago
I'd argue that it is a lot easier than doing it with threads! Promises are a primitive, and async and await keywords in JavaScript is just syntactic sugar around promises (it is sugar around similar constructs in other languages). A pr
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by com2kid 2y ago
Tl;dr the author doesn't understand why having "async operation running in the background" is a useful primitive in a language. Well, for one example, it means the syntax for kicking off dozens of IO requests and collecting a
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by com2kid 2y ago
We looked at over 100 houses over the course of a year. Our agent earned his commission!
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by com2kid 2y ago
That 4o is often times worse that GPT 4 has been widely ignored. :/
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by com2kid 2y ago
I worked at HBO Max when it launched. Less than 300 engineers, backend services written in either Node or Go. Mostly plain REST calls between services, fancier stuff was only used when there was a performance bottleneck. The engineering was
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by com2kid 2y ago
You said > I wouldn't commit a kid who struggles with math in 3rd grade to a life in the trades. Which has a lot of implications: 1. That someone who is bad at math has to go into the trades, ignoring that many trades require quite
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by com2kid 2y ago
The trades cover a wide range of fields, from car mechanics to people using CNC machines to roofers. Is the roofer going to suffer a lot later in life? Yes. Is the CNC operator going to have problems down the line? Probably not. > The on
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I wouldn't commit a kid who struggles with math in 3rd grade to a life in the trades. Students should be re-evaluated every year. I've been at the bottom of classes and the top of classes in the same subject! Also as others h
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Nonsense. Equity is not to blame. Finland has arguably the most equitable education system in the world and it's ahead of the US. Finland has one of the most equitable societies in the world. This means the amount of effort it tak
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by com2kid 2y ago
This has been the strategy used by families around the world for thousands of years. Have some kids, pick the one that seems like they'll be the most successful, put all of the family's limited resources into that one kid. If that
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by com2kid 2y ago
> That same school has a music program with a huge ballroom, recording studio, fancy musical instruments...bass sax, harps, bassoons and contrabassoons, double bass, violas... Seattle has cancelled a bunch of their music programs as well
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I know that in Seattle, I've been very frustrated with all the talk and promise of our school to provide enrichment to kids like mine who are able to learn quickly and are ready for more advanced learning opportunities, only to d
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Teams should be good enough that they are a) autonomous and b) there are no mysteries. In the ideal state, everyone understands how everything works. New employees should hit the ground running and be able to produce value immediately.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Having a 5 second delay between the crosswalk light and the street light doesn't increase revenue, especially because in America, free right turns are ignored by red light cameras, and the light timing change is purely about preventing
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Why? Probably to lower the amount of people crossing the street getting hit by someone turning right in their car. Neat trick. That is exactly the reason, you can find plenty of studies on it!

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