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by koolba 2mo ago
Turning off synchronous_commit gets you most of the way without ever worrying about data corruption if something crashes mid way through. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-async-commit.htm...
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by koolba 2mo ago
When I have a truly difficult prompt, I give it to the laziest model.
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by koolba 2mo ago
All of this boils down to an extra underscore in his username. It’s the type of thing I’d hope our LLM-powered future solves for the common man. Catching typos like that would be load bearing for someone armed only with a public defender.
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by koolba 2mo ago
Be funnier if you even write “do not enter 123456”.
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by koolba 2mo ago
Damn straight. 99% of these types of plays is being willing to run in before there’s a set up. Big up to a 59 year old that is still willing to do so. One can only hope his own knees up that well at that age.
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by koolba 2mo ago
That “-I” really needs to be lowercase.
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by koolba 2mo ago
> It’s a Herculean task, though. I believe it’s spelled Sisyphean.
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by koolba 3mo ago
Kill a man you’re a murderer. Kill a thousand, you’re a conqueror.
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by koolba 3mo ago
And for most of those commands add a dash dash so that nothing with a dash prefix turns into options.
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by koolba 3mo ago
> will we eventually be discovering new forms of math that will in turn have some applications down the line in engineering or biomedicine etc? If we do it probably won’t be for a long while. We’re barely using math from a couple hundred
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by koolba 3mo ago
I don’t think US companies could ever fully trust models sponsored by foreign adversaries. How would you ever verify they are safe? Provenance of training set is going to be critical. It’s largely ignored now, but the first time a malicious
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by koolba 3mo ago
There’s always a buyer on the other side of a short, naked or located. The question is whether the originating broker actually borrowed the shares. They are supposed to verify that before they place the trade and generally do follow the rul
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by koolba 3mo ago
The site infers that 105 people are working at the two companies. What’s the denominator though? After 20 or so years of YC, with multiple catches per year, and the insanely high failure rate of start ups, there must be a lot of former or f
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by koolba 3mo ago
> My setup is a laptop and a mac mini without an interface. The agent can work on the mini all night, and in the morning I extract its memory. Then the agent on my laptop will know what the mini tried, what broke, and what eventually wor
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by koolba 3mo ago
Even in the case of a default it’s not a zero payoff. Bond holders get first dibs of unsecured assets at liquidation.
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by koolba 3mo ago
Which is a perfectly cromulent usage of the phrase.
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by koolba 3mo ago
Is it though? Cause you can have an agent analyze the reports to filter out the wheat from the chaff.
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by koolba 3mo ago
I like apps to sequester authentication. Not for everything, but nice to keep some things only authenticated in their own walled garden.
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by koolba 3mo ago
Yes in three specific environments for varying durations. Lying down to sleep, showering and driving. Each last for a different amount of time and you generally can’t write or even read anything. But in my personal experience, all three lea
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Patriotism in the US, Europe and Canada, Charted(politico.com)
3 points by koolba 3mo ago|0 comments
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by koolba 3mo ago
That’s incredible. What does one eat and drink on a trip like this? The article talks about her cooking. With a fire or one of those little butane stoves? Can a small canoe carry enough water for a trip like this or do you rely on rain wate
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by koolba 3mo ago
> Last year, former USAA CEO Wayne Peacock received $14.1 million in total compensation from five USAA insurance companies for working slightly more than a quarter of 2025 before his retirement. That was a 47% increase from the $9.6 mill
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by koolba 3mo ago
You could (and should) run with minimal permissions which would exclude DDL.
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by koolba 3mo ago
That video from 2004 is so refreshing. It’s just two people talking without asking me to “please subscribe” every 30-seconds.
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by koolba 3mo ago
> In 2004 we solved the types for JS with ECMAScript 4 (or ActionScript 2.0). > Unfortunately this was in the middle of browser wars, so no one cared about the standards and all of that work was lost like tears in rain. > Around th
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by koolba 3mo ago
> Fines should really be about "what size fine will be a deterrent for this company?" To a degree. But it also has to be commensurate to the actual market size and impact. If an Amazon releases a defective dog toy that is bough
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by koolba 3mo ago
This reminds me of cpu benchmarks vs actually running games and measuring FPS.
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Boston Is Drinking Like It's 1776. The Founding Fathers Would Be Proud(nytimes.com)
2 points by koolba 3mo ago|0 comments
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by koolba 3mo ago
The two sides would be the strongly typed union and the duck typed heretics of the confederacy.
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by koolba 3mo ago
Some will surely exist. We already have public funding for things that are not particularly profitable. The question is if it will net a better system overall. Even with the current system everything older than X years is public. That means

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