jakewins

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by jakewins 1y ago
> Also at one point there were no VMs available anymore in our region, which caused a lot of issues. I'm not sure if this is a difference between other clouds, at least a few years ago this was a weekly or even daily problem in GCP;
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by jakewins 1y ago
We live in a small echo chamber :) It seems extremely likely the author of this post wrote it after reading the other post from the other day.
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by jakewins 1y ago
The whole point of this framework is that a ton of the logic remains on the backend, with live connections to the frontend. At least for me the performance and hosting cost implications of that was the first question that came to my mind wh
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by jakewins 1y ago
Sorry I still don’t understand. Are you saying you disagree that a new architectural leap is needed and just more compute for training is enough? Or are you saying a new architectural leap is needed and that or those new architectures wil
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by jakewins 1y ago
That “only big tech can solve AGI” bit doesn’t make sense to me - the scale argument was made back when people thought just more scale and more training was gonna keep yielding results. Now it seems clear that what’s missing is another arch
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by jakewins 1y ago
Aye, was involved in some really messed up outages from New Relics agent libraries generating bogus byte code at runtime, absolute nightmare for the teams trying to debug it because none of the code causing the crashing existed anywhere you
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by jakewins 1y ago
Someone apparently had the exact same question in 2020: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62298929/what-is-an-anal... Answer is pretty vague though, but sounds like it’s about not trying to “reverse” what the co
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by jakewins 1y ago
You are right to be sceptical of “dependency bloat” - many many systems could be made simpler to debug and maintain if that advice was followed. But: I urge you to give constraint solvers a try. This is something very different from some hi
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by jakewins 1y ago
Ethereum is able to process something like 150 transactions per second, using about 1,000,000 validator machines. Postgres running on a single Raspberry Pi is something like 200 TPC-B read/write transactions per second. Saying Ethereu
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by jakewins 1y ago
The person you are responding to is not arguing there is not a use case for crypto in cases like this. They are arguing that stablecoins , specifically, require an off-chain entity that ultimately control them. And if you have an entity ac
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by jakewins 1y ago
The shortest bed f150 you can buy is 5.5ft, with a 2ft tailgate, trivially hauling 8ft with just a few inches overhang with the tailgate down, and easily doing 10ft lumber. Again, I think pickup trucks are idiotically oversized and dangerou
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by jakewins 1y ago
Respectfully, if you don’t know how long a 2x4 is, I think it would be very reasonable to look this up, as it will make you much better equipped to make this argument. I generally agree with what you are saying, and frequently haul 2x4s wit
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by jakewins 1y ago
Are you saying the physics of a bicycle are somehow different than a car going up and down hills? Or are you saying actually hybrid cars use more gasoline driving in hilly terrain as well, and their benefits only accrue in stop-go city traf
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by jakewins 1y ago
A hybrid car trivially improves total energy input needed, since it replaces braking by generating heat by braking by storing energy later to be reused. The same should he true here, right? The added energy needed to carry the weight of the
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by jakewins 1y ago
I think they are saying: Imagine 100 games were sold on steam, and 50 of them were unplayed. If each game was bought by a different person, then both most games bought and most people never play the games. However, it’s very likely a small
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by jakewins 1y ago
I don't know about the Spanish market, but at least in the markets I'm involved in aFRR is an "always on" product, the TSO controls your plant with a setpoint that updates in near-real-time throughout the period you&#x27
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by jakewins 1y ago
I don't claim to know the details of reactive power management, but the primary mechanisms for grid stability in the EU is the "cascade" of services the TSOs procures: - Fast Frequency Response (FFR), sub-second power adjustm
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by jakewins 1y ago
> caused by the reaction of renewable generation to those conditions No, that is not what the report says. It says, just like you say, that renewables reacted to market prices, causing a generation drop. It then says explicitly that sync
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by jakewins 1y ago
After you’ve run kubectl run, and it’s created the pod resource for you, what are you imagining will happen without the reconciliation system? You can invent a new resource type that spawns raw processes if you like, and then use k8s withou
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by jakewins 1y ago
The core idea isn’t pods. The core idea is reconciliation loops: you have some desired state - a picture of how you’d like a resource to look or be - and little controller loops that indefinitely compare that to the world, and update the wo
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by jakewins 1y ago
True - but most languages make it much easier than Python to disallow this kind of accidental public API creation. Python inverts the public API thing - in most (all?) other mainstream languages I can think of you need to explicitly export
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by jakewins 1y ago
Primary reason for my choices was I didn’t want the other company. Do I want to work for Instacart? Not really. Do I prefer working for Instacart over Tesla? Well, I’d rather go back to hand digging trenches in the rain than work for Tesla,
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by jakewins 1y ago
Any language that offers a mechanism for libraries has formal or informal support for defining modules with public APIs? Or maybe I’m missing what you mean - can you explain with an example an API boundary you can’t define by interfaces in
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by jakewins 1y ago
We use solvers throughout the stack at work: solvers to schedule home batteries and EVs in peoples homes optimally, solvers to schedule hundreds of thousands of those homes optimally as portfolios, solvers to trade that portfolio optimally.
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by jakewins 1y ago
I thought this article seemed like well articulated criticism of the hype cycle - can you be more specific what you mean? Are the results in the Apple paper incorrect?
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by jakewins 1y ago
People do - but the actual answer to your question is as you’re implying: it’s not as simple as “you get paid to consume”. There are negative spot prices in Europe all the time - but they are not usually negative enough to make up for the g
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Sending electricity prices to devices is not sufficient(climate.davis-hansson.com)
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by jakewins 1y ago
Similarly in Europe; spot market with a big single pay-as-cleared spot auction for every quarter-hour, and then a continuous auction for the same periods closer to delivery, similar to the normal stock market. Millions of residential device
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China CO2 emissions have likely peaked and entered structural decline(carbonbrief.org)
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by jakewins 1y ago
My experience is this is nearly impossible, the solution is new packages written after typing was introduced. I don’t know about SQLAlchemy, but for libraries like pandas I just don’t see how it can be done, and so people are actively repla

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