johncalvinyoung

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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Explains why Spotify and Kindle Unlimited is an automatic yes from me, and new fiction hard copies much less so, based on my usage. - Spotify: 65k minutes a year, 90h/mo, so around 0.13/h I’m a fast reader, so a novel averages 2-5
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
I'm not a fan of Apple's practices, but there's some aggravating elements to this. Apple doesn't brick your device if it it spends time at a repair location, for instance. Apple also doesn't simulate failures on syn
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Philadelphia was just a single span long, albeit two bridges involved, for N/Sbound. I'm not personally familiar with either location, but between Google Maps and the article, this is looking like a full elevated viaduct, and more
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Spectrum/shape of the spectral efficiency curve. Sure, you can get a vague color temperature match out of LED, but it's HARD to get a curve out of LED that looks at all like sunlight or like tungsten incandescents. And even the re
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
The full 40c Max GPU is back up to the full 400GB/s bandwidth, but you're right, the Pro has significantly lower memory bandwidth, and the 30c Max does too.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
that, and the missing 27" iMac, seemed to very keenly indicate that if you want more power or more pixels, Apple will push you to buy a Mini + a Studio Display.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Going to be looking for outside validation of that Max GPU performance before making a buy decision, I think. Biggest hopes for this generation were dramatically better GPU performance--and Apple says they've got it--but we'll hav
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
I know! I sent this to my family group chat. Had no idea the specific typographical patterns of our study Bibles go so far back!
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. I was reading docs but missed that somehow.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
What's the terms on your forward geocoding? Many providers have terms that require live lookup of address->latlong, no caching permitted. My client's use case has long-lived addresses that may need to be mapped many times, and
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Most industries that deal in refining or other heat-intensive processes are nearly hard to impossible to pause or stop. My understanding is that glassmaking plants, for instance, will literally solidify if they ever stop operation--making i
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Custom router bits do exist for the track groove profiles, which suggests that SOME folks are doing it. I've always wanted to create some custom pieces--my siblings and I growing up played with Brio far later than the expected ages, as
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
And aside from Kindle, even the 'formatting the manuscript' part is very much underestimated by most self-publishers. Professional-grade typesetting and cover design makes a great deal of difference to reading comfort, shelf appea
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
If I'm understanding correctly, the OP is claiming that our current efficiency of computation is relatively close (within 1-2 orders of magnitude) to a theoretical lower bound of how much energy is required to flip a bit (physics and i
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
In rough order of priority (highest to lowest): a) I do not believe that it produces useful-quality results for almost any of my use cases (Even if other concerns were addressed, I don't want to generate buggy code I then have to debug
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
As someone strongly in the first camp and not the second, this feels like a very odd observation. I despise generative LLMs and avoid using them at every opportunity. I'm also spending all my free time this week perusing arxiv preprint
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
idiom stems from waiting in the wings of the stage... i.e. just out of sight of the audience.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Found another earlier paper on LK-99, published in Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology in April '23. I don't read Korean though so didn't get a lot out of it. http://journal.kci.go.kr/j
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
My family (avid do-it-yourselfers, who renovated each house we lived in) used to score project size by trips to the hardware store, both proposed/planned/expected, and also actual. :P
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Use of payment networks and keys are protected by contractual agreements that have quite a lot to do with liability.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
The frequency of published medium-length pieces with a low signal to noise ratio (which I generally avoid, whether human-generated or not) does seem to be going up with the proliferation of LLMs.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Skunk Works, by Ben Rich. It's a classic, and the origin of my own fascination with the A-12/SR-71, and the F-117.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Contradictory or inconsistent requirements? I've heard lots of anecdotes around that sort of thing in hardware engineering. It happens whenever abstractions meet implementation.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Ruby - Devise. A beautifully functional gem that also makes customization of its magic really easy. Also ActiveRecord, as it's just a delight to read.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
If this is the future I do not want to live in it. No VR is ever going to match the actual experience of travelling to a place unlike any you've ever been. No emulated persona is ever going to match looking into a loved one's eyes
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Ugh, so true. I'm both a software developer and an avid reader of literature & philosophy, so my day to day word stream is both extremely varied, and frequently allusive with cryptic phrases and idioms. Not to mention the fact I do
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
If I was more skilled with a debugger, I'd try to dig into why one of my favorite childhood games (an arcade WWII dogfighter game) runs just fine on Windows for ARM64, EXCEPT resetting inventory between each level, which makes final bo
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Apache 2.0 as of... 18min ago?
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Not always fast enough. Automerge with 32MB of JSON to parse is... painfully slow.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Very interested in seeing progress, JSON CRDTs benchmarked with JS objects and arrays, I currently have an implementation based on Automerge but it's borderline nonviable on our largest data structures.

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