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by gopalv 1y ago
> folks here would likely howl socialism with a 3rd place run by the city. It is not socialism, the problem is the lack of that. My city does a good job of running a 3rd place as part of their library, it is right outside the library in
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by gopalv 1y ago
> bangalore 2023 worked because entropy was high and friction was low Go a whole decade+ back, it was the Leela coffee shop which opened till 1 AM. > we maynot recreate that on a discord channel. IRC + freenode did the same decades ag
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Don’t abuse rules to force a puritanical or tyrannical lifestyle I really like the CGP Grey's "Themes" instead of calling a rule [1]. The concept of a "trends towards healthy" is much easier for me than "e
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by gopalv 1y ago
> So the latent heat is conducted away by the cooling apparatus, it's just not explicitly stated, to sound more sensational. In theory, if that makes it hotter than ambient air in the process, that would be a good thing - usually we
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by gopalv 1y ago
> those rates amortize and distribute the cost of storm recovery Not exactly when it is a farm out there away from a town. My experience is from a different era (90s) and a different kind of farm, but I spent a bunch of summers in one, w
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Titanium is mostly better where corrosion Until we mix metals and have galvanic corrosion, where an Al + Ti system corrodes exactly where the metals touch. It's not titanium that will corrode when you have an aluminium frame bike
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by gopalv 1y ago
> recognise the shape of a scored note, minim, crotchet, quaver on a 5 x 9 dot grid Reading music off a lined page sounds like a fun project, particularly to do it from scratch like 3Blue1Brown's number NN example[1]. Mix with somet
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Postgres can handle tables of that size out of the box This is definitely true, but I've seen migrations from other systems struggle to scale on Postgres because of decisions which worked better in a scale-out system, which doesn&
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Really hope this doesn’t change them too much. My guess is that this team gets rolled into Online Tables tech, which would make product sense. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/machine-learning/feature-.
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by gopalv 1y ago
> had to chuckle at the 20k IOPS AWS instance, given even a consumer $100-200 NVMe gives ~1million+ IOPS these days The IOPS figure usually hides the fact that it is not a single IOP that is really fast, but a collection of them. More IO
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Just roll it into property taxes and call it a day. It's what my district does and the benefits are obvious - there's no "gimme your lunch money" kids who have it hard at home & trying to supplement their diets.
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by gopalv 1y ago
An OLTP solution fixes a lot of the headaches about the traditional extract-load-transform steps. Mostly a lot of OLAP starts when the data loads in Kafka logs or a disk of some sort. Then you schedule a task or keep a task polling this con
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by gopalv 1y ago
> But let’s talk about my unfair advantage – my Lyon family mafia. I was living with my brother Bob and his wife. Bob was working at Xerox SDD developing the Xerox Star workstation. And my brother Dick was at Xerox PARC with an Alto on h
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by gopalv 1y ago
This is a great write up about a pull-style volcano SQL engine. The IR I've used is the Calcite implementation, this looks very concept adjacent enough that it makes sense on the first read. > tmp2/test-branch > explain plan
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by gopalv 1y ago
The 32x virtual memory to physical memory ratio plays into relocation and colored pointers (i.e pointers where some bits serve as flag bits). Putting the actual data layouts in 44 bits out of 64 is a neat trick which relies on the allocator
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by gopalv 1y ago
> they also outperform human expertise directly When measured statistically. This is not a takedown of that statement, but the reason we've trouble with this idea is that it works in the lab and not always in real life. To set up a
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by gopalv 1y ago
> is it possible to make a musical instrument that is more acessible "to everyone" Isn't that what MIDI did for music? The next best composer might not know a single instrument, but make great music every day. The intentio
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by gopalv 2y ago
> what it actually means is that this magic battery doodad needs to provide 90-95% of the performance of its existing, mature competitor The problem is mostly that it does the battery draw when parked. Solid electrolytes are coming some
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by gopalv 2y ago
> Cheaper knowledge work increases demand for knowledge work. This is Jevon's paradox. > So the number of workers required might actually increase. The increased demand for work turning into new jobs for existing workers, that is
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by gopalv 2y ago
> some of the tedious boiler-plate code is taken care of. For me that is the bit which stands out, I'm switching languages to TypeScript and JSX right now. Getting copilot (+ claude) to do things is much easier when I know exactly w
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by gopalv 2y ago
> During the times when you aren’t on a high-visibility project, I recommend carving out your own lab days or 20% time. (Maybe start with 10% time and work your way up.) This is a great way to rack up quick, bullet-point wins that can go
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by gopalv 2y ago
> that branch prediction got better in the ‘10s and a bunch of techniques that didn’t work before do now. They got better than they had any right to be, but then we found out that Spectre & Meltdown were vulnerabilities rather than o
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by gopalv 2y ago
This is mostly the real reason why interning gets used, to avoid long string comparisons over saving memory as such. Interned strings tend to not have a good cleanup mechanism, in a system where a lot of them are churned through. So often t
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by gopalv 2y ago
> The paper examines a world people will pay an AI lawyer $500 to write a document instead of paying a human lawyer $500 to write a document Is your theory that the next week there will be an AI lawyer that charges only 400$, then it is
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by gopalv 2y ago
Impatience is one of those selfish virtues. Most of everything in the article is about the speed at which a human moves. This is not about the machine, but it is indirectly about it - if I hit a sub-optimal build step, I will spend time spe
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by gopalv 2y ago
> LLMs are a lot better than my backend engineers who don't even try but not that much better than someone who's skimmed the docs. LLMs are basically at the skill-set of "Googled something and tried it", which for a l
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by gopalv 2y ago
> Computers have gotten a lot faster, even if the clock speed is not that much faster We're not stagnating but the same code I thought was too slow in 1998 was good enough in 2008, which is probably not true for code I would've
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by gopalv 2y ago
> Waymo will get big enough in San Francisco to affect this SF public transportation is "good enough" that owning a car in SF is already a decision outside of pure transportation needs. I lived in SoMA for 2+ years without a ca
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by gopalv 2y ago
> We need to fight over whether .999 repeating == 1.000 repeating Because we've already agreed that 9 repeating the other way is equal to -1. It must be because if you add 1, you get an infinite string of zeroes.
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by gopalv 2y ago
> this link specifically celebrates the user interface of the later versions of non-OSX MacOS. This doesn't really have a relation to the stability of the OS. "Very pretty but can't do much" was a general take on the

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