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by juancn 2y ago
It will use mostly unused ram for tmp files, but if it doesn't fit, the swap manager will swap it out to disk (think of a ramdisk with swapping). This means that is should work a lot faster for typical workloads and that data in `&#x2F
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by juancn 2y ago
Why is the example word wrap so bad? It's breaking words in half. No sane editor does it that way.
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by juancn 2y ago
It reminds me of the issue with the old night-vision Sony camcorders and cameras that were used to get pictures of people naked. Polyester and a few other fabrics are transparent on IR.
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by juancn 2y ago
Atomics are not magical, usually there's a type of "lock" at the cache line level (actually a lot of message passing across cores). Using the memory ordering relaxed basically only guarantees there won't be word tearing.
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by juancn 2y ago
Nitpicking here, but it bothers me a lot the use of "exponentially" to mean "quadratically" in the article. It even shows a quadratic formula for the number of relationships.
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by juancn 2y ago
It's like bars having ladies nights, or discos charging only males. Human mating is female selection driven, if there are no females, there's no business.
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by juancn 2y ago
It does look like it, also the point is weird, we have radios in everything now, why ultrasound? (unless we want this to work underwater).
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by juancn 2y ago
I remember doing a similar upgrade in 1996 when I was in second year of college. But at that price it has to be 1997 or later which is when we hit a dime per MB.
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by juancn 2y ago
It is, but on the plus side we will get cheap NPUs to do stupid shit with them. MS is asking for 40 TOPS for certification as Cortana+. That's 4X what anything has today, even the M4, which is as next gen as it gets barely reaches 38 T
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by juancn 2y ago
It's a market failure. A difficult one to solve, but not impossible. There's a mismatch between skillset in the workforce and what is required by the employers. The way around it as an employer is to hire for potential, not actual
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by juancn 3y ago
That, and we're constantly exposed to new information and situations. The way to mimic it would be to self-train and add new crap onto the training continuously to simulate world experience, otherwise things get a bit too deterministic
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by juancn 3y ago
It reads like something a GPT model would write, they go all over the place. I also wonder what would their point of view be if the internet truly was wilder, like 4chan or everything behind TOR. On one hand, I kind of like the idea of spre
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by juancn 3y ago
Maybe make the ring vertical? I mean, if they worry about human exposure, wouldn’t pointing it down make sense?
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by juancn 3y ago
This could be very useful as a covert channel on a hacked device, there goes your air gap!
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by juancn 3y ago
How would you deal with things like Japanese and English, where the source and target languages are awfully apart? French, Italian and Spanish all share the same root and English borrows a lot of words from the three of them (plus the alpha
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by juancn 3y ago
Best time is [on november]( https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f8e627ae2765b515&sca_u... )
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by juancn 3y ago
I like it mixed, periods of high stress, challenging work, followed by periods of mellow coasting doing simple jobs (even repetitive jobs). If I stay too long on the high stress, I burn out and tend to snap at coworkers (it brings out my ag
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by juancn 3y ago
When facing an advanced adversary such as China, embargoes can backfire badly. Short term, you may annoy them for while, but you better use that time wisely, long term, your embargo may be the forcing function that makes them even more adva
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by juancn 3y ago
I still find it hard to fathom that there are advanced cultures walking around with dirty asses.
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by juancn 3y ago
Neat, I built one language when I was 12 or so, it was a ripoff of basic (and it was written in basic). Parsing was hard, so commands were a single letter. The cool thing about it was that it supported windows and multi tasking (but no sync
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by juancn 3y ago
There are forms of coding that resemble art, they elicit feelings, but that's true of math also. The issue, like more academic writing (or music composition for that matter), is that to be able to appreciate those works, a certain leve
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by juancn 3y ago
Yeah, if there are pathological conditions (e.g. depression) my advise doesn't really apply. What I see is a push to make procrastination look like a character flaw and trying to sell "solutions" to it. Even to the point of u
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by juancn 3y ago
We're fantastic correlation engines with a bit of randomness thrown for flavor.
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by juancn 3y ago
Procrastination can be bad if pathological, but it's a great heuristic in the absence of information (close to optimal). I think people over think it, causing excessive anxiety to themselves. Why is it a good evolved strategy? Because
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by juancn 3y ago
The link is broken for me (may be a transient error), alternative: https://github.com/GaussianObject/GaussianObject
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by juancn 3y ago
When you see these failures, it becomes apparent that LLMs just are really good auto complete engines. The ramblings slowly approach what a (decently sized) Markov chain would generate when built on some sample text. It will be interesting
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by juancn 3y ago
Yeah, raw strength is a limiting factor for amateurs (like me). You need to put the work and that requires dedication. If I wanted to get to the next level relatively quickly I would need to start doing more specific strength training. I&#x
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by juancn 3y ago
It's not that simple. If you try too much, you may end up automating the wrong thing and getting yourself further from mastery. It may take 10k hours, but if you rush it, it's possible you'll never get there. For example, whe
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by juancn 3y ago
Wasn't this an issue with diesels too? I've seen trucks parked in Iowa in the winter with a heater plugged so the fluids don't freeze (a power cord coming out of the hood).
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by juancn 3y ago
There's no magic involved (even though it sometimes feels like there is). Everything is understandable and usually has a rather mundane explanation about why it is the way it is, so don't be scared. If someone understood how it wo

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