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by jefftk 3y ago
Agreed: https://www.jefftk.com/p/lifelong-investments
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by jefftk 3y ago
> It would also be nice if our environment wouldn't be plastered with microplastics. Does burning fossil fuels distribute microplastics?
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Compaq’s Clone Computers Skirted IBM’s IP and Gave Rise to EISA (2017)(allaboutcircuits.com)
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by jefftk 3y ago
More on Compaq's reverse engineering: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/how-compaqs-clone-comp...
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by jefftk 3y ago
For what it's worth, as someone who has put a lot of writing online, I'm not bothered by having my writing including in the training sets of these LLMs. I write because I want to share knowledge, and it isn't important whethe
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by jefftk 3y ago
They definitely scraped HN: one of my favorite ways to change the style of an LLM is to ask it to rephrase in the style of a snarky HN comment.
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by jefftk 3y ago
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying that you can report it to AirBnB if it does. Anecdotally, they take these reports seriously.
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by jefftk 3y ago
AirBnB does not allow hosting parties. The page https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3290 tells neighbors how to report disruptive parties.
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by jefftk 3y ago
A lot of people were only willing to contribute to StackOverflow because of the CC licensing, trusting the knowledge wouldn't be locked up. As a business that depends on vast amounts of volunteer effort they need to balance providing
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by jefftk 3y ago
That's also a reason, but the closest penguin being 500+ miles away through the Antarctic winter seems like a much larger barrier.
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by jefftk 3y ago
This is the south pole, near the center of the continent. Penguins are coastal.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Here's the paper this is summarizing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02056-2 In cases where a lot of people are contributing DNA to a sample, which I'd expect for most environmental sampling, it s
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by jefftk 3y ago
Sure, but that is less the remit of the CDC.
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by jefftk 3y ago
They include filtration or germicidal UV: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilat... If you do want to bring in outside air, you can use a heat exchange system to minimize the energy impa
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by jefftk 3y ago
Here are the actual guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilat... Note that when they say "5 ACH" they include both actual air changes and "effective air changes&q
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by jefftk 3y ago
In this case Microsoft is using Bing Chat to promote Edge use, but Bing Chat doesn't have anything close to a dominant position so it's hard for me to see an argument that this isn't allowed under US anti-trust (or that it sh
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by jefftk 3y ago
They estimate the person is shedding ~2e12 genomes daily [1]. If this person were in Boston, one of ~3M people shedding into Deer Island sewershed, then their stool would be diluted with an average of 4e8 gal/d [2] from other people.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Just like FTX, until November...
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by jefftk 3y ago
You should be able to look in the manual and see the maximum MERV your forced air system is rated for. MERV 3 is really really minimal filtering. Your furnace almost certainly is designed to take better filters than that.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Does anyone have a summary of what was changed?
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by jefftk 3y ago
That was a seriously bad call, but it was a single one and he's made a ton of other decisions over the years.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Sure, but none of that is hard on watches.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Actually, I was an idiot and misreading these numbers. It's 0.020s and 0.015s, which are 20ms and 15ms, not 200ms and 150ms.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Here's a list I made of how reversing incentives might look for a range of games, including Soccer/Football: https://www.jefftk.com/p/playing-to-lose This was prompted by a conversation with Ben Orlin, who wr
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by jefftk 3y ago
Neat! Once it got to three fingers I got stuck pretty quickly, though.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Looking now (no longer on my phone) it's a bit more complex than that: while MySQL has supported FULLTEXT indexes since 3.23.23 (2000-09-01) [1] if you wanted to use InnoDB (and you probably did -- it was much better than MyISAM [2]) y
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by jefftk 3y ago
> These included a MySQL database, where adding an index is no additional maintenance overhead whatsoever (FULLTEXT idx in the table DDL) MySQL didn't add support for FULLTEXT until v5.6, released 2013-02, a few years after I was
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by jefftk 3y ago
When building systems we are always making trade-offs between the present and the future. It's only "stealing time from future you" when you make bad trade-off; otherwise it's prioritization. In this case, leaving out an
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by jefftk 3y ago
(author) If you're already using a relational database you should almost certainly set up indexes on your table ids and foreign keys. But that's pretty different from the examples in the post! I'm not anti-index, I'm ant
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by jefftk 3y ago
Trying now, "cat > /dev/null" takes ~150ms, so I suspect it's related to keeping my history in Google Drive (with local mirroring). If it gets annoyingly slows I'll stop doing that and use a different syncin

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