fabian2k

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by fabian2k 4mo ago
The COVID19 vaccines were the most-discussed vaccines ever. And there was an enormous amount of coverage for the potential side effects. Recommendations were adjusted based on new data. There was also bad communication on the topic, often w
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
What happens right now is vastly different than before. Of course there are different priorities in funding for each administration, but those are usually more gradual shifts and especially don't cancel running grants arbitrarily. And
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
This administration is both fundamentally anti-science and wants to enforce political control over all government institutions. Science was never a particularly stable work environment, but the sheer insanity you have now makes it a deeply
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
> 30-50% of engineers on core teams have been forcefully reassigned to data labeling and RLHF, upsetting folks even more. This really doesn't sound believable to me, but who knows with all the craziness going on. Software developers
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
If I read it correctly, they did espresso and filter taste tests at room temperature (thought they don't state the exact temperature, and how they managed to brew filter coffee with the described setup). Overall the press release is so
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
But people want to drink coffee/espresso hot, not room-temperature. So you have to heat the water afterward anyway. I'm not seeing that much potential for energy savings here, unless you're comparing setups with large boilers
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
It's up to the employer, they can ask for a doctor's note from day 1. Many employers have more lenient rules, though.
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
Some kind of versioning is extremely important for certain use cases. And having it a core DB feature makes it easier to show that you implement that checkbox. One thing I'm wondering about is the performance of temporal tables for the
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
Should the Cubans that will inevitably be killed along the way be thankful as well? Or the Cubans currently suffering due to the blockade? Even for clearly despotic regimes, overthrowing them is not the obviously right thing.
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
Appears a bit too superficial to me to be useful. It groups topics very weirdly (bool and timestamp, uuid and JSONB) and there is almost no detail in each topic. Explaining text column types without mentioning limiting length with constrain
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
You can manually add more advanced statistics in PostgreSQL. That includes statistics over multiple columns. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/planner-stats.html#P...
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
yeah, there's plenty of ways to do that. I like having the attribute there so that there is a strong hint that some magic is happening somewhere with that class.
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
The only case I've used them was to mark classes that I need to find via reflection and do something with them. For example a migration system where you want to load all migrations that are defined and check if you need to run them. Of
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by fabian2k 4mo ago
They didn't mention anything about SLAs. This is about all the time, effort, paperwork and risk it takes to add yet another vendor. Having fewer vendors does actually reduce risk, as long as your chosen vendors are reasonably good. Tho
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
If the main job is putting out a report, starting with AI is wrong in any case. What's the value of an AI-generated report, even if experts fix the biggest issues with it? Maybe this kind of report didn't have all that much value
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
I'm always a bit skeptical about benchmarks like this. There's quite a few knobs you want to adjust for a production PostgreSQL on bigger hardware. And the article doesn't provide any configuration details (like shared buffer
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
It's a different country and a different time, but when I studied (a natural science) there were dedicated courses at the start for refreshing high school math. Those were optional, and covered relatively simple topics. There was also
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
Why would that make you more conservative? Republicans don't have any answers to fix the US healthcare system. It would be far more plausible that someone that experienced the failure of the health care system would vote for a populist
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
Modern medicine saves lives. Of course natural selection doesn't fully apply anymore in our society. But you're suggesting that letting children die from preventable diseases is a bad thing. It's not.
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
The media and the scientific community are not set up for the situation where cranks with absurdly unscientific views are at the top of the major scientific and health authorities. RFK Jr. still gets too much benefit of the doubt for his in
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
Of course there's more than that. Predicting higher uncertainty than warranted would be a different failure in the model. But that didn't really happen in that election.
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a 30% chance. Their reporting did make clear that with margin was within the range of a normal polling error. And sometimes you get more than a normal polling error. It doesn't help that the US has a terrible
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
I think it's a good thing if the pricing gets more realistic. Both for the customers long-term and for the economy. To evaluate AI tools and how much benefit they provide you need to evaluate the costs as well. And right now nobody tru
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
Why assume it's rational? The Ukraine belonged to the USSR, Russia sees itself as the legitimate successor to the Soviet Union. So the Ukraine and the Baltic states belong to it, as far as Putin sees it.
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
The 70:30 prediction against Trump was far better than most. I did see models back then that considered the state polls mostly or entirely uncorrelated, and those produced obviously garbage with 90% or even 99% in favor of Clinton. But in t
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
I switched to Linux again because on this PC Windows suddenly just doesn't run stable anymore. Even a complete reinstall didn't fix it, I assume it is some driver issue or something like that. It took me a while to convince myself
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
Once you run your app with the updated dependencies, that code is executed anyway. And root or non-root doesn't matter, the important stuff is available as the user running the application anyway.
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
At least it was only online for 1-2 hours at most, and it didn't affect react-query. But still a bunch of quite well-known packages. This doesn't really feel sustainable, you're rolling the dice every time the dependencies ar
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
The blogs post seems overly dramatic to me and vastly exaggerating the importance of that document. A bunch of doctors voiced their concern about the president, and that concern was added to the public record. That's it. We don't
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by fabian2k 5mo ago
I'd expect someone like AWS to just throttle machines before overloading their cooling. Because they probably can do that, while e.g. a data center that just rents the space can't really throttle their customers nicely.

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