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by hansvm 1y ago
Kind of. Suppose one of your effects is `read()`, and you want to be able to drop in an asynchronous implementation. Then you'll either require something equivalent to stack switching or you'll require one of the restrictions to a
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by hansvm 1y ago
Interesting, not sure how I missed that (edit: I missed the 4x on the drive count). Thanks for mentioning it. And, yes it's a different comparison, but that's why I was asking; I was curious if it was even viable (and initial sear
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by hansvm 1y ago
"Performative research" sounds far more NSFW than it has any right to in the context you've placed it.
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by hansvm 1y ago
I wouldn't have believed this at all till I met people who fell into that trap, after which I'm genuinely curious how common it is. It's interesting how different personalities (innate or learned -- probably doesn't matt
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by hansvm 1y ago
Just a few PB, and sharding it across servers is fine. It looks like all the disk-optimized examples on that site (still much more expensive than paying for raw disk, barely 5x cheaper than S3, when a disk-optimized colo solution only has ~
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by hansvm 1y ago
Jumping away from the article slightly, where would you go if you needed a ton of vanilla disk space, the ability to do compute near to that disk, and for it to be accessible with a reasonable pipe to the public internet? As far as I can te
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by hansvm 1y ago
I hear bleach kills cancer in a petri dish.
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by hansvm 1y ago
Something I've had a lot of success with (in cases where you're automating the same task with the same lighting) is having a human operator manually choose a variety of in-sample and out-of-sample regions, ideally with some of tho
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by hansvm 1y ago
Part of it is that more concentrated events are easier to do something about. By some way of contrast, fixing the diffuse deaths from car accidents requires re-licensing the entire population with stricter training, a metric f*$#-ton of roa
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by hansvm 1y ago
Those are less problematic than you might imagine. - For language, individual words might be discrete, but concepts being communicated have more nuance and fill in the gaps. - For language, even to the extent that discreteness applies, you
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by hansvm 1y ago
Merrill Lynch is usually good about that sort of thing. You're right that you wouldn't _only_ have the $1 401k, but they're fine having a few phantom accounts here and there to execute your financial strategies, and they&#x27
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by hansvm 1y ago
It would look like a Fourier transform ;) Zooming in to cartoonish levels might drive the point home a bit. Suppose you have sound waves |---------|---------|---------| What is the frequency exactly 1/3 the way between the first
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by hansvm 1y ago
Basically. It's just not built for any older OS.
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by hansvm 1y ago
Here and now, for the last nearly a decade. I pay $70/mo for, on a good day, 20Mbps down, 100Kbps up, 400ms ping, with a data cap. I have at least two major power outages each year and dozens of minor incidents (with the general qualit
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by hansvm 1y ago
But the reason emissions happen is for per-inhabitant benefits. It's a very reasonable idea [0] to set a per-inhabitant goal and criticize countries exceeding that threshold (which the US would still fail at, but I'm arguing again
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by hansvm 1y ago
That logic only applies in one direction though. Yes, this is (maybe [0]) practically injective in that you could use it as a hash function, but that says nothing about invertibility. If somebody gave you a function claiming to invert arbit
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by hansvm 1y ago
It sounds defective. Return it.
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by hansvm 1y ago
Yep, my description was mostly negative (I personally hate it because I don't think that way), but I was serious about it just being a mismatch of expectations. There's nothing written in stone about the MacOS method being wrong,
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by hansvm 1y ago
It's a little funny that, by far, the worst power and internet I've ever had [0], both by cost and by quality, has been in the Bay Area. The easiest way I'm aware of for me to cut my internet bill in half, cut my power bill 4
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by hansvm 1y ago
That's not a bad rule of thumb, but it's also easier to get dry, poorly seasoned rice, mushy fish, overdone or poorly done sauce and toppings combinations, and >1 day old uni than I'd really like at a lot of places. Your a
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by hansvm 1y ago
Mostly unrelated, but XKCD is relevant here I think [0]. Taste doesn't just require a broad perspective; a broad view of a category produces taste. [0] https://xkcd.com/915/
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by hansvm 1y ago
A few ergonomics improvements and a wifi stack that doesn't periodically crash could be enough to pull me to the dark side. I like my setup, but I'm lazy and don't really like the process of upgrading computers. Apple taking
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by hansvm 1y ago
That particular issue is just a conceptual mismatch. Exactly 0% of the time do I want to segregate my activities as "chrome" things vs "terminal" things vs whatever. When I want a feature like that, multiple desktops (mi
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by hansvm 1y ago
My HSA just implemented some bullshit where even the web interface requires a near-new phone to even log in. For now I'm just switching HSA providers rather than buying a new phone. I'm also worried about the future.
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by hansvm 1y ago
Pure security updates are often better than the status quo, but yes I'd prefer to have zero updates instead of the current mess.
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by hansvm 1y ago
No. It's a common enough term, but the handwavy concept I wanted to get across is that if you have code mixing and matching different syntaxes then there will necessarily be boundaries between those. Code with one syntax (if you can ac
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by hansvm 1y ago
It depends how we're defining "representation", but I'd argue that languages are definitely more dissimilar here than they are they same. If you want to mix and match two compilation units with the semantics of different
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by hansvm 1y ago
> once you're used to it > shame LLMs struggle That sounds like Stockholm syndrome more than an easy-to-use language.
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by hansvm 1y ago
The problem is the assumption that cows (and other similarly intensive animals) would exist in the same quantity. You'd expect something like 5x less cow-like biomass without people intervening.
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by hansvm 1y ago
Beyond that, the tips get less general-purpose. The two big over-arching ideas are: 1. Numerical code is the canonical example of "functional" code. If you prove all the pieces correct then the result is also correct. If you prove

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