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by hansvm 2y ago
If it were a fish and chips stand there'd be no problem with picketing, praying, or most other nonviolent, non-threatening demonstrations that didn't get in somebody's way. You could make it your full-time job to protest ever
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by hansvm 2y ago
Looks like proofreading (sign being wrong) to me.
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by hansvm 2y ago
However good this thing is otherwise, "ID Everyone" is a horrible slogan for a new car. I wouldn't mind some manufacturer agreeing to not buy/sell your sexual history, creating radios which aren't vulnerable to remo
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by hansvm 2y ago
I've been using Zig for years, and for the last year I've been using it at work. I've coded professionally in all the usual languages, but Zig does what I want much more easily.
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by hansvm 2y ago
> There is almost zero causality in the U.S. government’s hiring and firing right now. Particularly relating to current conduct. The first firings were all people who knew a guy who knew a guy who wronged Trump. With that kind of retalia
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by hansvm 2y ago
That works great, so long as you don't have any malicious actors interested in the treasure trove of data you've amassed. It's kind of like how in physical systems, if you kill all the predators in a few square km it leaves a
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by hansvm 2y ago
It's common when mixing many executables over time. I prefer to interpret those as an optional/nullable _closed_ enum (or, situationally, a parse error) if I have to switch on them and let ordinary language conventions guide my co
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by hansvm 2y ago
Hence the advice to make that situation not happen. Update the client and server to support both versions and prefer the new one, then update both to not support the old version. With load balancers and other real-world problems you might h
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by hansvm 2y ago
I could see "proportion of 10s" vs "proportion of 5s" (the max score in either case) being meaningful.
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by hansvm 2y ago
At YT, I hated that you needed two weeks of prep for the meeting to uncover two weeks of prep for the meeting where you could get preliminary access to the data source you needed to figure out if your job description was even viable. I get
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by hansvm 2y ago
> salary comparison was valid pre-Trump Is it not valid now?
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by hansvm 2y ago
I've run the numbers a few times for every EU tech-adjacent job I'm eligible for. Except for some opportunities in France, I'd have a lower proportional tax rate (and, except for in France, I'd have enough of a lower pro
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by hansvm 2y ago
HTTP2 isn't free though. You don't have as many connections, but you do have to track each stream of data, making RAM a wash if TLS is non-existent or terminated outside your application. Moreover, on top of the branches the kerne
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by hansvm 2y ago
> install lots of software that duplicates native features I installed some software for key remapping and window tiling (karabiner and rectangle) when I couldn't figure out how to do it natively. You seem like you know what you&#x2
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by hansvm 2y ago
Everything has tradeoffs, but there's value in reducing both line and character counts as well. For example, nobody ever uses anything other than ijk for loop indices unless the index is particularly meaningful or they've written
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by hansvm 2y ago
Nowadays you can even let the machine do the dirty work. https://flatliner.herokuapp.com/
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by hansvm 2y ago
Why not though? Both kinds of models jumble around the data and spit out a probability distribution. Why is the tesseract distribution inherently more explainable (aside from the UI/UX problem of the uncertainty being per-token instead
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by hansvm 2y ago
Kind of. Tesseract's confidence is just a raw model probability output. You could easily use the entropy associated with each token coming out of an LLM to do the same thing.
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by hansvm 2y ago
Complex numbers work just fine on a GPU. You just represent the data as a real-part matrix and an imaginary-part matrix and do the (ac-bd)+(ad+bc)i stuff in matrix land instead of on complex scalars.
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by hansvm 2y ago
> sheer rigidity That looks more like a communication style difference than anything else. Uncle Bob's talks and writing are prescriptive -- which is a style literally beaten into me back when I was in grade school, since it's
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by hansvm 2y ago
> Jevons paradox That depends on the demand elasticity of the thing in question. If everyone already had about all the lights they wanted in their homes (a somewhat reasonable assumption, give or take a proportion of families turning off
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by hansvm 2y ago
TFA mentioned several ways in which Google reviews aren't an ideal tool here. Tossing out a couple more, you (1) don't have the same people giving reviews at each location, and (2) have a bias in those who choose to give reviews.
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by hansvm 2y ago
It's a little different in software. If I'm writing a varint decoder and find that it works for the smallest and largest 65k inputs, it's exceedingly unlikely that I'll have written a bug that somehow affects only some m
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by hansvm 2y ago
Could you ask to set a 780 second timer?
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by hansvm 2y ago
Assume there's no DRM involved. Do books not have the same protections as music (e.g., home archival being a defense against the otherwise legitimate copy)? I.e., is it not true that the download is fine but that what you do with it co
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by hansvm 2y ago
NAL, not legal advice, just my current understanding: > after you buy it Generally, yes. What you do with that digital copy might be illegal, but the download was legal. Using a torrent to download (and seeding) might still be illegal ev
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by hansvm 2y ago
Good to know the legally mandated speedometer is just media (I jest a little). > why mention cell coverage When the culprit is a borked OTA, it's very non-obvious that it'll behave correctly without another remote signal, and t
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by hansvm 2y ago
Oh definitely. This isn't exactly the same lesson, but I swore off Docker and friends ages ago, and I'm a bit allergic to all not-in-house dependencies for reasons like this. They always cost more than you think, so I like to thin
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by hansvm 2y ago
> but none of that fixes a production system that's built on the assumption that these changes aren't happening. Somebody's going to have the same excuse when Google graveyards GCP. Till this change, was it obvious to any
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by hansvm 2y ago
At least once to every one of my friends with a Tesla. Apparently it's safe enough (your fly-by-wire brakes and whatnot still work), but not even having a speedometer available while you're driving doesn't give a lot of confi

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