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by jefftk 3y ago
I was going to say that it was "instant", because that's how it feels when using it, but got 200ms from running "time" on grepping it to include a number in the post.
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by jefftk 3y ago
In cases where your data is small enough that you don't need an index, an index is adding technical complexity. In some cases that will be small (you are already using a database and it has built-in support for the kind of index you ne
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by jefftk 3y ago
> screw the guy who’s on call the night this system starts timing out This was a very small billing practice, and that person was going to be me. I thought then, and still think now, that I made a reasonable trade off between what woul
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by jefftk 3y ago
Consider the example from the post of searching your shell history. If I don't need indexes I can just have it all in one flat file and use grep. Switching to a tool that supports indexing adds a lot of potential complexity and ways th
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by jefftk 3y ago
I was thinking this was impractical (the Cape is in the way) but Nantucket is pretty far East so it's not that bad to go around. ~115mi each way, so within range.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> Google owns a bit over 5% of Uber at 70B Are you sure? Below lotsofpulp pointed out that they're not listed as a major holder [1] and there was news in 2019 about them considering selling their stake [2] [1] https://n
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by jefftk 3y ago
They owned 5% from 2013 to at least 2019: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/alphabet-uber-investment-sta... I think they sold it in 2019 when their lockup expired, but I can only find "they're think
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by jefftk 3y ago
> Spinning up the legal structure, figuring out all the local regulations and getting permits Is experience doing this with human drivers all that helpful for building a driverless service? I'd expect the legal and regulatory que
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by jefftk 3y ago
Google Maps has had this for 6y: https://www.uber.com/newsroom/googlemaps/ In the mobile app it used to be a tab at the top ("rideshare services") but now it's at the bottom of the public transit ta
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by jefftk 3y ago
> £1.6 per litre Where are you getting that? At your link I see "£660 per one million litres", or ~2,000x cheaper than that.
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by jefftk 3y ago
A regional proxy should be the same thing, yes. The important thing is that it's not a replica.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Not necessarily: they could terminate the initial connection close to the user and then run a new connection. While this sounds like it shouldn't help, because the second connection is fully under their control they can make it highly
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by jefftk 3y ago
I wonder how practical it would be to add something smelly and distinctive to CO2 the way we do with natural gas? Otherwise a CO2 leak is really mysterious. It could be in quite low concentrations, to the point where you would only smell it
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by jefftk 3y ago
The abstract claims, "whereas native writing samples are accurately identified", which is very different from claims I've seen elsewhere about how well these detectors work. The test they're reporting is running the det
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by jefftk 3y ago
I think the line you're quoting is actually from the article we're commenting on?
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by jefftk 3y ago
That would be very dangerous for OpenAI to agree to: high risk of it all getting leaked. I can't think of any enterprise software you might run on premises that has leaking incentives anywhere near as high.
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by jefftk 3y ago
They don't have to store the whole contents of your cart locally, but they need to store at least a token on your machine so they can remember that this cart is yours.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Login cookies, yes: by entering the username and password the user is requesting that you log them in. Shopping carts, sort of: if they don't check out immediately and you keep the item in their cart (which they may want but didn'
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by jefftk 3y ago
> "Flammable" isn't supposed to be a word, even though people keep using it. On the contrary! "Flammable" has been used in English for centuries ( https://www.etymonline.com/word/flammable
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by jefftk 3y ago
1. Your proposal is not enough for EU privacy law, so you'd still see banners. First-party tracking is still tracking and you still need a banner if you're going to store any data on the client that is not "strictly necessar
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by jefftk 3y ago
If only they'd used english and required inflammable wood!
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by jefftk 3y ago
Survivor bias is a specific case of selection bias, and the issue here is also selection bias: there's a selection effect on which dashcam videos you end up seeing.
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by jefftk 3y ago
It sounds to me like you if you place it on the dashboard where it's not in the line of sight between the driver and the windshield it wouldn't be something that "obstructs or reduces the driver’s clear view" and so woul
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by jefftk 3y ago
> the one mRNA vaccine we gave had in people did not provide much immunity past three months That's much more about the virus than the vaccine type, no? The non-mRNA vaccines acted similarly.
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by jefftk 3y ago
The Vatican sort of has a subway. It has a single train station, which has (rare) passenger service, and about 100m of train tunnel.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Just got let in off the waitlist. Initial thoughts: * It really doesn't understand what makes good fiddle tunes. So bad. * It's somewhat better with electronic music, but while it's locally solid (each ~2sec bit is good) it
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by jefftk 3y ago
You can join the waitlist at https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/experiments/music-lm
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by jefftk 3y ago
> OpenAI finds it worthwhile. So I guess they are working out pretty well. The trade-off is pretty different for OpenAI because the maximum penalty for violating the GDPR is 4% of worldwide annual revenue. Google has a lot of revenue,
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by jefftk 3y ago
Is the right answer pointing out that Arnold might not be Beth's father, and so Beth Junior might be unrelated to Jacob?
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by jefftk 3y ago
Almost all of my feedback today is via comments immediately after I post something, but I suspect more of the readers are people who come in via search. That's not that different from a future in which the searchers are intermediated

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