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by fdr 2y ago
I do like Perplexity.ai. But interpreting how it works, and portrays itself as, is that the LLM component of it is, in fact, not a search engine. How I interpret it: it is a more powerful version of stemming and synonym expansion of informa
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by fdr 2y ago
The article goes on about watery and/or mealy avocado. I've personally found the best way to avoid this, and get a more interesting, nuttier flavor, is to buy small avocados. I like the trader joe's "teeny tiny avocado&q
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by fdr 2y ago
My dad had some interesting-acid stories, when he was a young chemist. They both involve cleaning glassware. The era is around 1970. One was something he said resembled a wok full of the usual suspects of strong acids. Overnight, the mixtu
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by fdr 2y ago
My understanding is it forbids the hosting of the government collected (and curated, e.g. with regard to military bases) data outside the country, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat... . Se
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by fdr 2y ago
I recently (last quarter) started cycling to work in San Francisco, netting 80-100 miles a week, and your statements ring true. Looking at my Strava relative effort and resting heart rate, the amount of aggregate exercise I get is far super
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by fdr 2y ago
We might also say the same thing about spelling and grammar checkers. The difference will be in the quality of oversight of the tool. The "AI generated drivel" has minimum oversight. Example: I have a huge number of perplexity.ai
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by fdr 2y ago
That's an average service life from what I can tell, not a minimum (a minimum average?). But yes, it does trend a tad higher than what my cursory search indicated (25-30, feds want 31) Looks like this has been the subject of some indus
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by fdr 2y ago
This requires no wrapping, you can instrument with perf using the syscall rather than indirecting a library. You might say "same difference," but it is less invasive, and can be enabled or disabled on the fly.
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by fdr 2y ago
I wouldn't call myself as particular on train maintenance...but consider that these trains are run more or less continuously. You thrash your car in seasonally tough conditions every morning, but these drive all day and most of the nig
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by fdr 2y ago
That’s right. System refreshes are a fact of life, especially if one is parsimonious in using what works until obsolescence. There are downsides of doing things that way, but I don’t see it inherently more defective than other approaches, s
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by fdr 2y ago
A once a generation refresh seems okay in my book. The Breda trains that came in 1996 were being phased out about twenty years into their tenure, most generally seem to think that is about reasonable a time to do something like that. I don’
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by fdr 3y ago
> If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. I think that's an interesting perception of the public.
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by fdr 3y ago
This is pretty interesting. I'm not sure if many commenters have abstracted this approach the way I would have, but it is sure is a handy trick to couple virtual memory related system calls (brk, mmap) to stack dumps and aggregation th
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by fdr 3y ago
That's a good one. Ubicloud has decent IPv6 support as we use it for our underlay network (in fact...for a while, as a prototype, it only supported IP6), but we missed a trick here. https://github.com/ubicloud/ubic
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by fdr 3y ago
I think history is at least a part of this. The software flow table implementation (which ubicloud demonstrates here, full disclosure, I work there) offers some speedup, but the motive appears closely coupled with hardware flow table offloa
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by fdr 3y ago
I think you're right. Back when there were tangible protests against technology workers moving in, there was more writing by the protest organizers themselves about it, as well as protest actions. Usually the ire was directed at shuttl
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Crunchy Bridge: Announcing Postgres Insights in Your CLI(crunchydata.com)
1 points by fdr 3y ago|0 comments
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by fdr 3y ago
The GitHub image is 86GB and people want an action VM to start reasonably quickly, so a full copy for every run isn’t going to work so well. As a side note, isn’t it nuts that GHA operates on a principle of “installing the universe” (and ap
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by fdr 3y ago
I work at Ubicloud. Although we have a KEK and DEK code for regular VMs, they are not operative on GHA...yet. The reason has to do with a technical conflict with copy-on-write we aim to close, not least of which because Ubicloud needs to gr
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by fdr 3y ago
It generates efficient code (similar to a C program, e.g. you could write a reasonable ray tracer), and is concise. Many Ruby programs would not see a size expansion from being written in Crystal. It's also good at interoperating with
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by fdr 3y ago
It seems like these accidents could have been prevented by humans driving cars with collision avoidance. I'm a big fan of this feature on my relatively late-model Subaru, which tends to come part-and-parcel with adaptive cruise control
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by fdr 3y ago
This, with virtual certainty, permitted. I am a founder of Ubicloud, so, I suppose you can take that to the bank. For guidelines, see: https://www.elastic.co/licensing/elastic-license/faq Text: I'm using Elas
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by fdr 3y ago
I work at Ubicloud. The general plan is: write a SPDK module. We spent some of the last year getting used to using SPDK, for cryptography and workaday disk access, and the first copy-on-access custom bdev (a unit of abstraction in SPDK) is
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Postgres and Citus and Partman, Your IoT Database(crunchydata.com)
10 points by fdr 3y ago|0 comments
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VCPU, thread, core, node, socket. What do CPU terms mean these days?(ubicloud.com)
4 points by fdr 3y ago|0 comments
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by fdr 3y ago
One thing to keep in mind: the type system is extremely unusual even in simple cases compared to what I'd expect in a SQL-92 system. It's clever, giving SQLite a lot of power in limited code, important in its conventional applicat
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by fdr 3y ago
Mechanism might be interesting. It's a rudimentary sectoral bargaining arrangement https://onlabor.org/california-fast-food-workers-secure-big-... > Undeterred, labor advocates worked with progressive lawmakers to g
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by fdr 3y ago
Yes, SPDK for us sits on adjacent to the VM however, so our use of it for now can be best compared to an alternative to specialized PCIe hardware operating in pass-through mode directly to guests (e.g. AWS Nitro), with enough industry heft
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by fdr 3y ago
Well, I would have, except there weren't that many viable alternatives that don't involve one of: 1. Writing a lot of code that runs in the kernel, which is too expensive to be viable, in my estimation. 2. Combining existing kerne
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by fdr 3y ago
I've considered at various points (but not with deep seriousness I admit), typescript, julia, scala, swift. You might notice all of these have a REPL in common. Elixir might be a reasonable alternative, but not one I exercised here. I

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