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by juancn 1y ago
Right or left wing populism have the same effect. Populism is bad. Period. The problem lies in that populist governments essentially make irrational decisions just to stay in power (appease the public), which makes most forms of government
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by juancn 1y ago
Super cool, have you considered using galvanometers rather than moving the fiber around? It should allow for faster scan rate (assuming the XY is the limiting factor).
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by juancn 1y ago
The most important thing is familiarity. I mean, any of those would work, but the one that works best is the one you're used to. The brain is great at learning patterns, I'm extremely used to IntelliJ's classic theme (light)
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by juancn 1y ago
Also, depending on the system, time spent on hardening is many times happening concurrently with some other tasks. Maybe you trigger a load test, or run a soaking test or whatever, while that runs you do something else, pause and check resu
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by juancn 1y ago
This will just encourage companies to off-shore more.
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by juancn 1y ago
It gives me hope that sometimes, mankind can take a long term project. Even with warts and all.
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by juancn 1y ago
AMD is much stronger in unified memory architectures than Nvidia at this point. It kinda makes sense, with the AI push. I wonder what this means for the ARC line of GPUs?
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by juancn 1y ago
I only use small local models like those of IntelliJ (under 100M each), which just save you the tedium of typing some common boilerplate. But I don't prompt them, they typically just suggest a completion, usually better than what we ha
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by juancn 1y ago
I read it as a nostalgia piece. When terminals were common, they pretty much all were 80 or 40 columns and 25 rows, not a lot of choice, most were about the same size. I actually like modern emulated terminals, with all the bells and whistl
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by juancn 1y ago
When I get bored? I mean, the learning is a huge motivator to me, but on most topics I reach a point I don't really want to go deeper or I get distracted by something else.
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by juancn 1y ago
It could be a good thing. Front end engineering has been a perpetual chase for The Shiny Thing™, constantly changing, with good excuses, but way too often throwing everything away and starting from scratch, forcing a perpetual catch up and
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Arbitrary control of the flow of light using pseudomagnetic fields(spiedigitallibrary.org)
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by juancn 1y ago
Arbitrary control of the flow of light using pseudomagnetic fields in photonic crystals at telecommunication wavelengths
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by juancn 1y ago
Don't forget the farts! They produces a lot of methane which a much more potent greenhouse gas!
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by juancn 1y ago
Gosh! So many fond memories! Deluxe Paint IV on my Amiga 500 was fantastic. I had so much fun making dumb animations with my friends. I think I still have the diskettes, I just need to fire up Greasweazle to dump those.
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by juancn 1y ago
Some people are even considering this as a possibly viable path to compute on memory. For example: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu4323
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by juancn 1y ago
I kinda like that `var` is `sus`.
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by juancn 1y ago
This is fluff, hallucinations are not avoidable with current models since those are part of the latent space defined by the model and the way we explore it, you'll always find some. Inference is kinda like doing energy minimization on
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by juancn 1y ago
Because PCIe bandwidth is higher than memory bandwidth This doesn't sound right, a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot offers up to 64 GB/s. That's fully saturated, a fairly old Xeon server can sustain >100 GB/s memory reads
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by juancn 1y ago
Signing into my accounts on my children’s devices has turned from a straightforward process to an incredibly frustrating experience. I find myself juggling all kinds of different apps and flows. This strikes home for me, I'm
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by juancn 1y ago
It's related to the concept of Mottainai (もったいない, 勿体無い) in Japanese culture. Where any waste is considered bad, specially related to food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottainai
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by juancn 1y ago
Apple did not remove it, it revoked notarization. The title is misleading. Google can and will do exactly the same thing for Android.
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by juancn 1y ago
I think it's a side effect of the graph layout algorithm. It seems all nodes repel and edges are elastic, so the layout algorithm is kind of like a physical simulation (think magnetic monopoles and rubber bands). He seems to throw new
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by juancn 1y ago
There are no unhealthy foods, just unhealthy diets. As Paracelsus said about 500 years ago: All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison
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by juancn 1y ago
TIL that the "Super" key is the "Windows" key.
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by juancn 1y ago
Math in programming is not about math, it's about careful reasoning. Yeah, sometimes it helps to actually know math, but even when it doesn't there are some concepts that come from math and are super useful, for example: commutati
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by juancn 1y ago
I think it works only for people with a certain thought pattern, the ones that like to think everything up-front before doing anything. Most people prefer to play around and make several crappy attempts and combine them until the whole is s
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by juancn 1y ago
From TFA: Imagine the 3 AM on-call alert. The engineer trying to fix it might be navigating a section of the codebase they've never seen before, generated entirely by an AI. In this scenario, you can't afford to vibe it out
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by juancn 1y ago
I think the article underestimates how much intent can be grasped from code alone. Even without comments. Humans (and I strongly suspect LLMs, since they're statistical synthesis of human production) are fairly predictable. We tend to
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It's really hard to achieve. It takes an awful lot of work and being able to put yourself in the shoes of somebody who doesn't know everything you know.

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