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by dgacmu 11mo ago
The comment is by the author. And it's not wrong! You can get super cheap microcontrollers for pennies that will act as an easy to use programmable oscillator, if that's what you want. And more to the point, you usually want an os
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
The memory of Microsoft's Tay fiasco was strong around the time the brain team started playing with chatbots.
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
I dunno - I have a seven year old whom I try to allow to be as feral as possible. We let him go alone to the neighborhood park, which requires seven small residential street crossings. But I would hesitate also about a multi-lane stroad if
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
This is correct but also a little misleading: Google gives you a choice to disable smart features globally, but you end up tossing out things you might want as well, such as the automatic classification into smart folders in Gmail. It feels
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
This seems unrelated to the topic at hand, which is whether Rust results in a net improvement in the time required to deliver (systems) software that meets a particular set of requirements and those requirements include resilience to handli
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
Rust is more difficult to learn the basics of than C, but I'm not sure it's more difficult to learn to write memory-safe code in Rust than in C. It's also not clear to me it's that much harder to learn Rust than it is to
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
I had an astoundingly high blood pressure reading last year when I tore my bicep the day after the election and dragged myself to the ER. The staff freaked. I was like, "I had a normal reading two weeks ago in my doctor's office a
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
In my admittedly limited-domain tests, Gemini did _far_ better at image recognition tasks than any of the other models. (This was about 9 months ago, though, so who knows what the current state of things). Google has one of the best interna
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by dgacmu 1y ago
If it's the same account, the two operations will have the same dependencies, and thus the system will be forced to order them the same at all replicas.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Those transfers would be represented as having dependencies on both accounts they touch, and so would be forced to be ordered. Transfer(a, b, $50) And Transfer(b, c, $50) Are conflicting operations. They don't commute because of the po
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand Q1 - that's exactly the point: If you withdraw _from your account_ and customer B withdraws from _their_ account, then the two events are unrelated and can be executed in either order (and, in fact, repli
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by dgacmu 1y ago
otrack et al.: Thank you and congratulations! It's gratifying seeing the wheels of research make progress. My appreciation of formal and machine-checked proofs has grown since we wrote the original EPaxos paper; I was delighted at the
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by dgacmu 1y ago
In practice, almost every implementation of Paxos uses multi-paxos. Even the "Paxos Made Simple" paper notes: > In normal operation, a single server is elected to be the leader, which acts as the distinguished proposer (the onl
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by dgacmu 1y ago
The original Paxos paper was termed "The Part-Time Parliament", and was explained -- I'm serious here -- not as a distributed systems protocol, but as a discussion about how electors on a Greek island could vote despite wande
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by dgacmu 1y ago
The post you're replying to didn't explain it well, but: LFP batteries don't use cobalt (or nickel). LFP production is starting to pass NMC (lithium + nickel manganese cobalt oxide). Slightly lower density but a lot of advant
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by dgacmu 1y ago
These have all been stated as goals by various machine learning research efforts. And -- they're actually all examples in which a better search heuristic through an absolutely massive configuration space is helpful.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I've switched 3 of my 4 nests to a z-wave thermostat and I'm really happy[1] with it so far. The Honeywell T6 pro. I got them used for about $56 each and they were in near-perfect condition. [1] With one exception, which is really
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I think that it's more useful to think of all defenses against physical intrusion as increasing the cost of intrusion in some way, be that time, skill, risk of being caught, access to specialized devices, etc. Most "normal" l
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I agree that the wording was a bit confusing (as a native speaker).
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by dgacmu 1y ago
We had our first when I was 37 and our second when I was 43. It wasn't so bad - it's tiring but I'm also a lot more emotionally mature than I was in my 20s and early 30s. And I have an absolute ton more money and stability (w
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I think you're misinterpreting: "with the advent of transformers, (many) people doing NLP with pre-transformers techniques had to salvage their shit"
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I literally was just working around this two days ago with muchpdf and now it's built in. Woo.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
If it's taking images every 30 seconds, it's getting 86400 x 30 = 2.5 million images per day per camera. So when it causes enormous, unnecessary trauma to one student per week, the company can rightfully claim it has less than a 1
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Now a clever engineer needs to add "peloton mode" -- use it as a stationary exercise bike and charge the battery at the same time.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
My tern gsd (cargo e-bike) was in this range and it was totally worth it. Not sure I'd feel the same about a basic commuter bike though.
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by dgacmu 1y ago
This seems like an unhelpful comment? First of all, the ugrep performance comparisons are online (and haven't been updated to compare against this version that was only released 3 days ago). So your question is answerable: https:&#x2F
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by dgacmu 1y ago
Just to make sure we're actually in agreement: It's a _total_ of $3-4k paid out monthly over a period of 20-20 years, right?
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by dgacmu 1y ago
I finally replaced my m1 mini because of memory capacity (16GB doesn't cut it for me and jumping to 64 was worth it), but I'm having the same feeling about my M1 pro MBP with 32GB. It just still works so well for nearly everything
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by dgacmu 1y ago
You can do rotation with a 3x3 matrix. The first lecture was using a 4x4 matrix because you can use it for a more general set of transformations, including affine transforms (think: translating an object by moving it in a particular directi
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by dgacmu 1y ago
This is for a 20 or 30 year lease. One time payment. 4k is on the high side.

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