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by fbdab103 3y ago
1400 of 73k posted. Which boggles my mind. Would they actually hire all of those or are a significant fraction ~duplicated postings where there is one headcount but they are willing to accommodate a range of experience/levels? Evidentl
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by fbdab103 3y ago
A helium leak was responsible for taking down the large hadron collider for this same reason. Sudden volume expansion with nowhere to go. CERN retrospective on the event: https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators&#x
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I do not work with MRIs, but I work next to the guys who run the NMRs (which is the ~same technology). It is my understanding that all of these super cooled magnets are designed for the eventuality of an emergency quench. Which means the ma
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Bah, there goes my paranoia. I was already deeply uncomfortable with the amount of information my landlord demanded to sign the lease. Now I know that it has straight up been used for identity theft.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I am somewhat tickled at the thought of citing everything in a malicious compliance kind of way. Given a Nix environment, it should be possible to pull down a list of every bit of code that was used to construct the OS. Would we have to dif
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I would challenge the keyboard autocomplete. I find the Apple suggestions to be frustratingly poor vs my experience on Android.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I was thinking similarly. Do I really want to rely upon 2TB being stored in a SD card? Numerous failures over the year, and only consider them for temporary storage. How long does it even take to fill the drive?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
No Jaz drive?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
To slippery slope this, what happens if more tools start adopting this behavior? Curl now asks you to buy Daniel Stenberg a coffee on each use. Wget asks you to support Ukraine. Caddy wants you to invest in their startup. Each of which may
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I write Python every day, but still use miller here and there. If I am doing a "simple" operation (eye of the beholder), being able to pipe it on the command line is great. To do a comparable amount of manipulation in Python takes
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I refuse to use parallel due to that obnoxiousness. At minimum, it is not installed by default, so it is already a negative to just using xargs. That it then puts that barrier in my way makes it an easy tool to skip.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Tell that to Ronald Fisher, who made it a point to deride Bayesian stats wherever there was an opportunity.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
The article does not make it clear - what is the gain to Cummins for the defeat device? Cheaper to build? Better mileage?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
News to me! Will definitely break some of my current code (chained assignments no longer work), but is probably a more sensible default. To be default mode in Pandas 3, but seeing as how long it took them to pull the trigger on Pandas 2, th
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Bah. Especially for a veblen good where they can trivially institute huge price swings. This site ( https://millenarywatches.com/rolex-markup/ ) claims Rolex has a 40% margin. I suppose it only works if you can make a de
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by fbdab103 3y ago
In America, there is the First Sale Doctrine, which mostly(?) lets me do whatever I want with a product in my possession. What is preventing some nobody from going to these authorized dealers (presumably with no-online-sales agreements), bu
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I think the only answer is you fire up the sawzall your captor neglected to remove before they locked you inside. Also hope there are some earplugs, because you are going to be deaf before you can cut an escape hatch.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Given the dubiousness of their original number, I am taking all of that with a grain of salt. This page[0] lists the 2022 shrinkage for a few companies, and said Target was at $753M. Target is a huge national brand. Are there really ~100x m
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I mean, there was this story[0] ("How a Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database") about how the Docker rules allowed a hacker to delete someone's database. >Turns out the ufw firewall I ena
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by fbdab103 3y ago
As far as I know, Docker still punches through your firewall by default. I consider that a pretty big negative against assuming secure-by-design.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
The most live viewers of a TV episode was the season finale of MASH in 1983[0] with 106 million. Unless the population rises to a trillion, it seems hard to imagine there will ever again be so much cultural consciousness directed towards a
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Perfect, thanks. Don't suppose if you know if the conversion is easily reversible? Some of these models are big, it sucks to carry around the original plus the gguf, but I would hate to be in a situation where the gguf represents a dea
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I truly hope so, but there is so much momentum that it is going to be tough to topple. Any competitor which does not offer a git compatibility interface is dead on arrival. I dislike git for many reasons, but to get people to change is goin
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by fbdab103 3y ago
That was my question. How do I create the gguf?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
If I have the baseline Mixtral-8x7B .pth, how do I convert that to a llamafile compatible .gguf?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
If energy becomes "free" does it matter? If solar continues on its current trajectory, there needs to be some kind of sink to utilize the energy or it is all going to turn into bitcoins.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
It is an "anti-woke" law, which is likely to become a purity test in next year's election. GOP lawmakers who come in favor of Disney would have a harder time in a race against a similar candidate who is against. Add in a litt
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Florida passed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, to which Disney publicly stood against. Since then, GOP led Florida government has decided that Disney is the enemy and has taken active measures to bludgeon them.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Not just reviews, I thought it was a well established practice to purchase one's own book to ram it up the rankings. I have also heard that it is a backdoor way of spending political campaign money. Candidate "writes" a book,
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by fbdab103 3y ago
No hacks needed anymore. Now websites will just tell me that I have to use Chrome or GTFO.

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