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by fifilura 2y ago
I still remember this episode from the 80s when sir David Attenborough climbs into a termite mound up to 6 feet below the surface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbbLCgh6sso These termites are fungus farmers and feed the g
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by fifilura 2y ago
I simply think the basic assumptions that anything was better in Soviet is wrong. They just focused much higher percentage of GDP on military and space stuff. Meanwhile, life in Russia was miserable. They got tanks, nuclear weapons and rock
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by fifilura 2y ago
I have a 2+ year long run streak ( https://www.runeveryday.com/ ) .Before that not doing a lot of exercise. The first 3-4 weeks are a bit heavy, but after that your mind switches over from "Should I run today?" to
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by fifilura 2y ago
Yeah, I suck at this game too. What score is even that?
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by fifilura 2y ago
"AI defense corps"
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by fifilura 2y ago
I remember getting help from my grandfather sending a mail to Denmark complaining that the rubber bands in some model broke, and they were not easily replaceable with regular rubber bands. So I got a reply back with some new rubber bands al
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by fifilura 2y ago
Looks bad on mobile only I think, not on desktop. That is why I did not understand.
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by fifilura 2y ago
When I was a child, the dream build was the programmable crane from the 8888 Lego Ideas book. https://rebrickable.com/blog/685/classic-review-technic-idea... Alas, I did not have enough gear racks to program it. T
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by fifilura 2y ago
I think this course is also relevant for some deeper context. https://gfxcourses.stanford.edu/cs149/fall23/lecture/datapar...
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by fifilura 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism Maybe?
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by fifilura 2y ago
The thing with data pipelines is they have a linear execution. You start from the top and work your way down. Notebooks do that, and even leave a trace while doing it. Table outputs, plots, etc. It is not like a python backend that listens
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by fifilura 2y ago
It also implies that an engineer has better understanding of what is supposed to be done and can discover all the error modes. In my experience, most of the time the problem is in the input and interpretation of the data. Not fixable by a u
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by fifilura 2y ago
Still pushing stories about Haitians and cats? Probably not. Even if - as in this case - it was 30-50 years later. (That Biden said kind words about Byrd)
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by fifilura 2y ago
Thank you for your thorough reply. I am sorry i don't have time to consider all aspects of it. But to me it seems like a problem around what optional means, and it has been very unstable, in particular in the transition between proto2
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by fifilura 2y ago
Byrd later apologized thoroughly as I understand it. Jimmie Åkesson just says "I saw nothing of that".
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by fifilura 2y ago
Yes, but it is an explanation for how the debate landed. Not everything in politics is pure logic, there are lots of emotions too. Not aligning with neo-nazis is one of those emotions.
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by fifilura 2y ago
The difference is how long time has passed. The current party leader joined the youth movement in 1994, when the party was still full of Neo-Nazi ideology.
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by fifilura 2y ago
Sweden had a pretty weird situation 10-15 years ago. The two parties that were traditionally resisting too much immigration turned around (M and S). Probably because, like all European countries, Sweden needs immigrants to keep the demograp
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by fifilura 2y ago
Not being able to distinguish between 0 value and a missing value. It is just a huge regression in a data format. How could it happen? Imagine building a data format for temperature measuring stations around that. Is it 0 degrees, or did th
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by fifilura 2y ago
One of the problems I have had when working with protobuf is that it is not favored by the Apache ecosystem. Apache is built around Avro instead. So support for protobuf in Apache frameworks like for example Flink and Iceberg is always late
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by fifilura 2y ago
Very good! I believe you. Unfortunately I feel like it would be irresponsible to transition our stack to working with J because of available competence and relearning. I can see it being used in research though.
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by fifilura 2y ago
I always felt that there is a hierarchy for working with numbers that goes something like this Ease of use: 1. Excel 2. SQL 3. Functional programming (e.g. Scala, Python to some measure e.g. Pandas) 4. Imperative programming (C/C++&#x2
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by fifilura 2y ago
Better connection to nature makes swimming safer. Children learn to swim and respect water.
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by fifilura 2y ago
Yeah, parsing XML is no small deal. Did it answer with a regexp or what?
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by fifilura 2y ago
I have been there! Duly upvoted! Too much power to architects worsen the situation because they both have formal responsibility to keep the downtime low, but they are also appointed to finding technical solutions rather than sometimes techn
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by fifilura 2y ago
I guess not strictly on topic, but I once had the dubious idea to read a book about the battle of Stalingrad while having the flu and high fever. Drifting to sleep and waking up with that book in my head was a ride.
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by fifilura 2y ago
Some of those servers are located in north Sweden, where electricity is cheaper (for now [1]) I expect it to be even cheaper for example on Iceland with an abundance of hydro power. [1] They are also trying to redefine steel-processing ther
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by fifilura 2y ago
Whenever there is a post about nuclear it is always about the latest and greatest. Or in the future - "how many SMRs is that?". I should call it the law-of-something. I feel reasonably comfortable with the estimated 2-3 reactors.
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by fifilura 2y ago
It also corresponds to 2-3 nuclear reactors. I am also not shocked. But somewhat surprised by the choice of unit in the article.
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by fifilura 2y ago
My point is that it is still not a magnitude change. And it (probably?) introduces bugs and incompatibilities. Many cloud providers now offer serverless SQL and Spark capacities (serverless=no set up for you). This is the magnitude change f

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