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by foota 2y ago
I guess there's maybe an argument for this out there for sufficiently large paranoid companies that would rather own something in house, but would also rather collaborate on an auth system than build one from scratch (something like if
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by foota 2y ago
He's not serious about anything. Sorry for the low effort comment. I'm just frustrated.
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by foota 2y ago
I agree this is something of a technical solution, but the court wasn't interpreting whether you could ask for rows from a database, but whether you could ask for the schema directly. I don't think the court had the option of sayi
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by foota 2y ago
Out of curiosity, could you ask for something like "one row of data from every table in the CANVAS database"?
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by foota 2y ago
> Normally, a flustered public records officer would just reject a giant request for being for “unduly burdensome”… but this sort of estimate is practically unheard of. So much so that other FOIA nerds have told me that this is the secon
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by foota 2y ago
That's a bit silly seeing as e.g., https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/20/291959446...
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by foota 2y ago
I don't know why he didn't write this email 3 weeks ago.
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by foota 2y ago
Um... Does anyone else see the repo owner?
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by foota 2y ago
Historically GPUs didn't cost 30,000 a pop. Also, the end of Moore's law etc.,.
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by foota 2y ago
In my experience (working on a heavily checksummed system) if you don't carefully think about where you're actually required to take checksums for data integrity, it's very easy to end up with wasteful checksums with every li
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by foota 2y ago
I think this is meant to be read as, "over the past decade, you haven't been able to wait a year and buy a new CPU to solve your vertical scalability issues.", not necessarily to claim that there hasn't been significant
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by foota 2y ago
I think I've seen the comparison with respect to training data, but it's interesting to think of the presence of LLMs as a sort of barrier to developing skills akin to pre-WW2 low background radiation steel (which, fun fact, isn&#
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by foota 2y ago
I guess the most we could hope for here is that this leads to some other discovery down the road, either in hashtables or maybe one of the similar structures like bloom filters?
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by foota 2y ago
Maybe, hopefully I realize it by the time I'm not too young :) I don't know that I necessarily have goals. I definitely don't want to become a director or anything like that or feel like I need 10 million dollars to be happy,
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by foota 2y ago
I constantly am :) well, not constantly, but I've put thought into it. I'm not exactly thrifty, but I spend way below what I could. I've been trying to spend less (eat out less, live in a cheaper apartment, etc.,) to see how
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by foota 2y ago
From my point of view, I make 400k right now with 7 years of experience at a large tech company. I could reasonably retire in a year or two at my current level of expenses. I could probably make the next level with a fair bit of work in som
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by foota 2y ago
Fun fact: rare earth metals are actually not the rarest metals per ton in the earth's crust, it's just that they only very rarely form into deposits in the form of minerals, and so they're very disperse.
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by foota 2y ago
Yep, I'm aware, hence the given digits part. The whole board is still drawn from 9 digits, it's just that precisely which 9 digits is unknown.
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by foota 2y ago
Sigh. My friend did this problem on pen and paper and made me feel stupid. Their solution was so wildly clever! It relied on the observation that the sum of the rows of the sudoku board (given the digits in use) is a known fixed value, and
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by foota 2y ago
This doesn't make sense to me, why is a manual language that requires validation better than a language that enforces some safety on its own?
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by foota 2y ago
Haha, I feel like this quote from the second post is highly relatable for anyone who's done any graphics programming (or... any linear algebra for that matter): "The only issue I ran into is that the tangent.w always came out with
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by foota 2y ago
MRI techs are paid a lot of money, so I don't think it's entirely free on the margins.
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by foota 2y ago
I'm not sure this is entirely true, see for example the Hunter Biden case. Maybe that's different because it's a criminal case?
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by foota 2y ago
Probably time to market I would guess?
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by foota 2y ago
You have 50,000 tickets to spread between one million people, you can partition people to tickets and only have 20 people per ticket. You won't have strict ordering (e.g., someone who applied after may get a ticket where someone who ap
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by foota 2y ago
I think this is really talking about an orthogonal sort of scaling to what you're looking at. Yes, given sufficiently balanced traffic patterns, spanner can serve essentially arbitrary load. If I understand correctly, this article is p
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by foota 2y ago
Wouldn't they still be behind on the chip technology curve? Seems like this would hurt Apple, not dramatically help Intel.
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by foota 2y ago
I was just wondering. It seemed like you had a perspective that I wouldn't associate with someone new to the industry.
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by foota 2y ago
This is off topic, but I recognize your username from a thread a couple weeks ago but your account is relatively new. Out of curiosity did you just find hacker news and decide to make an account, or is this a new alias and you have an older
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by foota 2y ago
You can of course play however you want (and I certainly think this is clever), but imo this is likely against the spirit, and perhaps letter, of the rules. The rule on giving clues is: "If you are the spymaster, you are trying to thin

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