jamesrom

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by jamesrom 4y ago
> Please don't dismiss that these circumstances exist altogether and don't shift the "blame" exclusively on the people who already have their lives be needlessly hard, this isn't likely to encourage a positive ou
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by jamesrom 4y ago
This is completely backwards. As someone that has been an SRE and DevOps engineer. Almost all of the questions can be simply answered with: "This is a NFR that was created by SRE". The important thing is to collaborate with each t
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by jamesrom 4y ago
I'd like to see more patterns than just different sized rows. What would a polygon packing algorithm produce? Say constrain all stars be equal size, but as large as possible.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
If you're leaving twitter, why do you care if someone grabs your username? Test your convictions here: is twitter going to remain relevant or is it dead?
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by jamesrom 4y ago
We don't need to live our lives in low-power mode. There's another way.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
> Going fully alphabetical is consistent with the go documentation, though Nope, look how initializers are at the top of each section. That is not fully alphabetical at all.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
This is the sort of linter that almost certainly reduces productivity in the long run. 1. Spending minutes to reorganize funcs to be alphabetical (think, ci fails, commits, pipeline reruns), to save an extra second navigating the file is no
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by jamesrom 4y ago
tinygrad core is over 1000 loc now[1]. If anyone was looking for a fun weekend project :) https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/.github/workf...
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by jamesrom 4y ago
100% agreed. You know what's better than an issue thread? Well documented tests in a commit that reproduces the issue.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
> AFAICT he's planning on folding to any authoritarian governments demands citation needed
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by jamesrom 4y ago
The proposed change to free-disk is a hack. Using --track-bytes-deleted on ZFS wont really track the bytes deleted, but just the size of the file that was deleted -- as the author points out, that may not be the number of bytes actually fre
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by jamesrom 4y ago
I took his idea of a "fan" blowing air to be like a sort of bias applied to the vector in a certain direction, perhaps a small bias for not going "backward".
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by jamesrom 4y ago
It's great that you're doing your part to help the grid. But we don't need to live life in low-battery mode. There is another option.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
... instead of nuclear bombs?
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by jamesrom 4y ago
I like A, as it iterates toward C anyway. You can deliver value with the naïve implementation delivered quickly. If Mary Jones has further requirements that were not considered at the outset, now she'll be able to consider them. Conver
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by jamesrom 4y ago
> Construction time - average is 10 years, we don’t have that long to wait. This is a fallacy in two ways: 1. Scaling up nuclear projects will decrease construction time and cost. Efficiencies are found by with scale. 2. The opportunity
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by jamesrom 4y ago
Machine Learning is the process of dumbing down machines to be intelligent enough to understand our world. When humans get the matmul upgrade, we'll grok this properly.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
>GitHub Copilot, but for merge conflicts? Great idea. The corpus of data to train with would be incredible. Every merge commit across all of GitHub.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
It's true, emotions and argumentivity require a different tact than just "steelmanning". I can think of plenty of reasons where steelmanning is not the best rhetoric in those kinds of situations. On the flip side, steelmannin
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by jamesrom 4y ago
> The reality is more nuanced > #Batterygate Pick one.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
Exactly this. You can encode a computer anywhere, given your own definition of "computer". Getting your computer to compute, there's the rub.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
Have you verified if the particles in your CPU are following the laws of physics and doing computation as you read this?
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by jamesrom 4y ago
I have read the whole thing. My point is I’m taking the narrow conclusion and not the broader conclusion, if I have to spell it out to you. Please continue not responding to the rest of my points.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
> This is exactly what it is... I'm literally taking the narrow conclusion from the second paragraph: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ > This is exactly what it is ... albeit not "c
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by jamesrom 4y ago
The "Chinese Room" argument isn't an argument against consciousness being computation. In the same way the man in the room doesn't understand Chinese to be able to produce Chinese, the mind in your brain does not need to
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by jamesrom 4y ago
This sounds like the plot of an unaired episode of House.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
You could utilize UUIDv8 for this purpose. Of course v5 isn't strong in the cryptographic sense, but probably suits most purposes where you need a unique ID per an object: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html&#x2F
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by jamesrom 4y ago
CUE is the most interesting language in this space right now https://cuelang.org/
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by jamesrom 4y ago
What's with these "throwaway" accounts saying stuff is "laughable" without an opinion to back it up? Can you explain what is laughable here?
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by jamesrom 4y ago
I’d go 0 out 10. Waiting for taxi/uber/etc is still very much a thing.

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