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by kortex 3y ago
Where are you getting 100MB from? You don't need the whole protoc toolchain. Well I've never worked with C or C++ and gRPC, but insofar as rust, go, and python are concerned, the increase in container/binary size is a few MB.
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by kortex 3y ago
It's really not that intense. I basically set up my last co's telemetry infrastructure all by myself, using terraform, otel-python, jaeger, and AWS elasticsearch. This TF project does most of the heavy lift. https://g
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by kortex 3y ago
Define "significant". At $lastco, we routed traces to Cassandra and stored them in an AWS elasticsearch domain. Jaeger was used to visualize traces. We also wrote some elasticsearch queries to generate some basic reports, eg findi
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by kortex 3y ago
What a time to be alive!
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by kortex 3y ago
Oof, I thought we banned thalidomide. I wonder if their pose detection/interpolation struggles for rarer poses, eg "kneeling with legs splayed leaning forward" is quite specific in saucy contexts and fairly sparse in more ty
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by kortex 3y ago
Oh yeah, totally ready for prime time, hyper realistic, SFW filter works great, not at all hallucinations /massive_sarcasm Actually NSFW, not safe for sanity. That's...not how body parts work: https://generated.photos&#
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by kortex 3y ago
Between nil and zero. Just because excel is "bigger" by various metrics, does not give MS any more ability to quash Python. The software world is way larger than it was in the heyday of EEE. Excel still has a fraction of the power
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by kortex 3y ago
If you read TFA, you'd see that the python env comes with a bunch of the favorites (pandas, matplotlib) baked in.
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by kortex 3y ago
Going from a black belt in Taekwondo (age 7-16) to doing Isshin-Ryū karate (with some BJJ, aikido, and budokai in between) was really eye-opening. Taekwondo is all about sharp form, clean lines, high kicks. Punches and kicks go to full exte
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by kortex 3y ago
Can you define the technical terms? Oly, DB, C2? I'm guessing DB is dumbbell (and bar is barbell).
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by kortex 3y ago
I love that the battery depletes slowly over time. Though it's a bit ominous that the most recent one shows battery in the red...
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by kortex 3y ago
> 2-Ethylhexanol smells even worse, it's really rough. If you get one drop on your foot, you're going to want to leave your shoes outside when you get home. I find it really fascinating the differences in subjective experience
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by kortex 3y ago
Vanillin, benzaldehyde, and 2-ethylhexanol are all found in edible plants, and in particular, those three smell very good. Paper is wood pulp (natively comprising lignocellulose) where the lignin has been broken down. The lignin breakdown p
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by kortex 3y ago
Alginate is probably not as dense as a suspension of kaolin, and also being an ionic polymer, there's no need for a surfactant or dispersant to stabilize it. Also it is probably way more expensive.
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by kortex 3y ago
I think the main takeaway is we probably should not put too much stock in a linear-time-invariant-cumulative model of radiation mapping to cancer risk. Sure it's the easiest to calculate, but that's the streetlamp search fallacy.
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by kortex 3y ago
I'm guessing it might have something to do with the "impulse curve" of the radiation. Atom bomb would look like a spike with exponential decay. This study looks at constant low-grade exposure. It might be that a single main r
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by kortex 3y ago
Very exciting. Sam Gross took a very bold move with his "I don't need a yes/no right now, but I do need to know what acceptance looks like, and this issue has been languishing." [0] That interaction could have gone a lot
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by kortex 3y ago
Terrible idea. Not only is it completely counter to the python zen koan of "explicit is better than implicit", you really don't want implicit concurrency without some sort of zero-cost abstraction and really strong guarantees
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by kortex 3y ago
Nope. Cause users would just ignore or silence the warning, continue on, get subtly incorrect, difficult to reproduce behavior, submit tickets/issues, and just cause a lot of dead weight overall. It's not remotely a trivial proble
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by kortex 3y ago
It sounds like to me a faulty solder joint (crack between the smd pin and the pad). Cooling probably causes a differential contraction which brings the pin into better contact, and of course clamping achieves the same. It may have started w
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by kortex 3y ago
Apps dumping cache/state into ~/.config/myapp/ is still better than ~/.myapp in the vast majority of situations. I can still usually afford to sync / strongly back up ~/.config even with a few bad apples b
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by kortex 3y ago
This is just appeal to tradition. And time and experience has shown that it is a subpar solution, especially when $HOME/.myapprc is effectively hardcoded, so you can't even reconfigure it, you gotta use links.
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by kortex 3y ago
Not really at all. Anything can use the XDG spec, it has absolutely no coupling to systemd. Really it's about apps chosing between - use some form of $APPDIR variable convention - using some app-specific $MYAPP_CONFIG variable (ick, bu
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by kortex 3y ago
The way I handle it on my systems, certain programs such as ssh and bash get "special status". They are so deeply fundamental that they get a pass when I gripe about .rcfile proliferation. You get .ssh/, .netrc, and .bashrc,
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by kortex 3y ago
> Most users don't care because they do the same with their own files. Maybe I'm not most users, but I absolutely put my files in ~/.config/$my_namespace/ > It didn't solve anything, just added more mess.
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by kortex 3y ago
The whole point is it's only deciding (3) things (config, data, cache), not (N_programs) things. > If I want .chromium, .0ad, etc. instead of .config, I'm SOL. Technically not SOL, you just need to set the launcher of whatever
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by kortex 3y ago
What usually matters more than absolute tolerances is relative tolerance, aka ppm. 100 micron / 4 thou tolerance can be achieved with hand tools and a bit of patience on the benchtop scale, say a 4" part. That's about 1000 pp
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by kortex 3y ago
> further, you seem to be identifying AI as if it were made of LLMs. GP is doing nothing of the sort. LLMs are a form of AI; artificial intelligence has been around since the 60s. They are not AGI (artificial general intelligence), and n
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by kortex 3y ago
> You agree to grant and hereby grant I get that legalese is like human-interpretable pseudocode, but like, is there really no better way to word this? How can you grant without agreeing to grant? > import, access, use, store, transmi
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by kortex 3y ago
I think it's in no small part because the news has been so dire for the past few years: pandemic, war in Ukraine, possibility of nuclear escalation, China licking lips at Taiwan, climate change, economy. Then some news comes along also

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