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by eirikbakke 1y ago
A subscription will renew at 2025-08-16 04:04Z, and the billing system must send an email to the user reminding them of this. What date do you show in the email? A meeting happens every Tuesday at 9am, starting February 18, 2025. What time
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
If that's the topic you were looking for, you may like this "Dave's Garage" episode, where a retired Microsoft engineer talks about implementing... Windows Activation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKN
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
This is a weird (possibly AI-generated?) summary of an article pre-print that is not even cited on the page. I think it's this one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.25331038v... Best to wait
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
And the Apple Silicon chips even include specialized cores that allow LLMs to run locally on both iPhones and MacBooks. (See the "Foundation Models Framework".)
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
This must be the mother of all "This is left for future work" paragraphs.
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
As I recall from John Akula's Corporate Law class, judges in the US tend to be sympathetic to the following argument: "Defendant has never worked in any other industry. He has three kids. He's gotta work." (That's f
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
With one extra step, you could get a lower bound with very high confidence. Just take a random sample (N=100) of the detected objects, and determine manually what percentage are really yurts. Then multiply that percentage by the number of d
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Reminds me of "In The Heart of the Sea: The Comedy of the Whaleship Essex" (a musical book report) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDU2I9fp_8
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
The government has a fixed pie to allocate to various projects. Businesses, by contrast, can create more pie, from labor and raw materials that cost less than the value of the final product. So funding charitable causes with money earned fr
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
PhDs are apprenticeships. Students perform original research under the supervision of a doctoral advisor, and submit their work to a "guild" of external reviewers (peer reviewed journals or conferences). Once the student has three
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Just watch at 150% speed.
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
The learning materials are all online, but realistically, very few students are going to work full-time 9 months per year for 4 years doing assignments by themselves, without weekly deadlines and friends to cheer them on. If you're goi
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
> comes up with a lot of magic numbers that are there presumably because other alternatives were tried and those happened to work. The process of experimentation is what makes Computer Science "science"!
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
This problem was traditionally solved with menu bars (File, Edit, View etc.). Every action in the app would be listed somewhere in the menu, spelled out in text and with the icon and keyboard shortcut listed next to it if available. That us
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
Stata was a great building to take a walk in. I discovered new rooms, and new coffee machines, every few months, and even started making a Minecraft model of it (got only as far as the elevator shafts). The people in various "fish tank
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
Norwegians love to speak English.
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
Ideally, framework code originates from some existing, working product, from which it was factored out because it happened to be useful. Contrast this with frameworks that are created for the framework's own sake, hoping to attract its
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
For CAC statistics purposes, if a database is used in a consumer product, then the customer of database-related products is the company that makes the consumer product, not the consumer themselves. "Software developer" typically r
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
Databases are B2B products, not consumer products. They are commercially useful only when placed in the context of some larger business process (e.g. tracking customers/orders/goods/users/batches/events/patient
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
The average true cost to acquire a single customer is in the hundreds of dollars, to pay for sales & marketing labor, advertising etc. So $5/month is nearly equivalent to "free" from a business perspective. https:/&
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
Fascinating! Does that mean you could improve performance further with Floyd–Steinberg dithering? (I.e. instead of rotating randomly, you track accumulated quantization error and add that amount instead.)
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
I made a version with llamas at some point, as a valentine's card. (Source code is yours, I just swapped the images!) # of llamas = log2(original number) https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/twothousandandfortyppaca
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
I'd amend it to: "If no one will pay for the solution, the problem might not be that important, or the solution is already commoditized."
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
Here is the CNE press conference where the numbers were announced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB7g4y4M4s8
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
The numerical problem does not hinge on the reputability of any particular observer organization, though. You can just verify it on a calculator yourself! Similarly, the call for local vote tallies is not unreasonable. Venezuelan law dictat
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
So, in the Swiss Water process, caffeine-free coffee is made by soaking the beans in... caffeine-free coffee? (My initial though was, "then how do you get the cafeeine-free coffee in the first place", but I see the answer is that
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by eirikbakke 2y ago
FlatLAF is a great one https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/
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Asianometry: The Birth of SQL and the Relational Database [video](youtube.com)
13 points by eirikbakke 3y ago|1 comments
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
I love this guy's YouTube documentaries... and suddenly he takes on the topic of relational databases. (Looking forward to a Part II with Larry Ellison etc.)
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by eirikbakke 3y ago
Another idea: Instead of actual tactile dots, use a voltage between two appropriately sized/positioned contact points, high enough to be felt by the fingertip, but not so high as to be uncomfortable. Then you just manufacture it as a r

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