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by kortex 2y ago
I kinda dig zeeb! Naming is hard. Really awesome project by the way! Should have mentioned that first. Build systems are neat. I've always wanted to try building a build system, in a "learn how it works" sense, not so much &q
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by kortex 2y ago
How do you pronounce "Zb"? Zee-bee?
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by kortex 2y ago
> The goal of supporting non-deterministic builds also seems to go against this. I think this is actually a great escape hatch. Supporting non-deterministic builds means more folks will be able to migrate their existing build to zb. Post
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by kortex 2y ago
That's not what makes things artificial vs natural. Artificial vanillin is "more vanilla than real vanilla". A natural vanillin molecule is indistinguishable from fully synthetic vanillin from crude oil. The latter is still c
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by kortex 2y ago
Definitely eyebrow raising but I'm always a fan of a bit of "mad scientist" self-experimentation (within reason), whether it be Barry Marshall chugging H. pylori or Thought Emporium giving himself lactase gene therapy.
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by kortex 2y ago
> Rather, it's using the energy to deoxidize rust. Exactly, really what they are storing is electrons. Rusting the iron directly releases heat, which limits your efficiency to the delta-T of the process. Reducing steam to hydrogen a
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by kortex 2y ago
Iron oxide is completely inert. You can store it in piles, under the elements. Iron powder less so, you need to keep it dry, but again you can just pile it up. The only tricky part is moving dense dry solids around at the huge scales requir
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by kortex 2y ago
Provisioning a DynamoDB table is scarcely more effort than provisioning a bucket. And you get way nicer constructs (still not as nice as RDBMS) for locking like ConditionalUpdate and TransactWrite.
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by kortex 2y ago
I worked on a DARPA anti-deepfakes project up until spring 2021, so just before the real tidal wave of generative AI. At that time, state of the art (of publicly known tech) required a few hours of target footage to train something passably
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by kortex 2y ago
I think both need some workshopping. I tried search for "error oracle" and all I got were results about errors while using Oracle the database product. I gotta search "error oracle cryptography". "doom principle&quo
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by kortex 2y ago
> This seems very much like a solution in search of a problem. My friends and I independently came up with this exact idea at the most recent regional burn event, specifically to better coordinate meeting back up after wandering, and the
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by kortex 2y ago
Binary is a local maximum in terms of entropy vs complexity. Going from one state per element to two states per element is an increase from 0 to 1 bits: an ∞% increase. Going from two to three states increases it to 1.585 bits per element,
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by kortex 2y ago
I was expecting lulz but this was actually very well written and gets into a lot of the softer aspects of human-computer interaction. Also the double entendre of "plug" in technology contexts, subtly brilliant.
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by kortex 2y ago
> If you see people using requirements.txt in the wild instead of a poetry lock file or you see people using the decades-long broken python built-in logging framework instead of loguru you can see there’s opportunities for improvement ev
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by kortex 2y ago
Yes, but actually no. If the DEA or local LEOs actually wanted to crack down, there is plenty enough wiggle room in the scheduled substances act and all the related add-on laws (esp. Federal Analogue Act), there is enough molecular simila
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by kortex 2y ago
That's just reflection. That's a feature of code, not language runtime. I think there are some languages which in fact have type checking in the runtime as a bona-fide feature. Most won't, unless you do something like isinsta
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by kortex 2y ago
Many uses. There's tons of situations where you are already accelerating most of your heavy compute with tensor libraries, but the data input/output parts are still in python. They would benefit from loading data in parallel befor
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by kortex 2y ago
s/will never be/already is/g https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc You can compile python to c. Right now. Compatibility with extensions still needs a bit of work. But you can write extremely strict python. Tha
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by kortex 2y ago
That's true of most compiled languages. Unless we are talking about asserts, reflection, I think type erasure, and maybe a few other concepts, language runtimes don't check types. C does not check types at runtime. You compile it
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by kortex 2y ago
Nope. Type annotations can be executed and accessed by the runtime. That's how things like Pydantic, msgspec, etc, do runtime type enforcement and coercion. There are also multiple compilers (mypyc, nuitka, others I forget) which take
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by kortex 2y ago
https://github.com/python/mypy > Python itself doesn't do that The type syntax is python. MyPy is part of Python. It's maintained by the python foundation. Mypy is not part of CPython because modularit
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by kortex 2y ago
> when pip is only for Python That's the neat part, it's not! You can distribute basically any kind of data with pip, within reason. Iirc Cmake can be pip-installed.
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by kortex 2y ago
It probably started with Zipf's law in the 1930s and then Murphys law a few years later.
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by kortex 2y ago
Has there ever been an attack/leak based on time metadata in UUIDs/ULIDs/Snowflakes/etc (not sequential), in a domain outside of sensitive ones (HIPAA/healthcare, defense)? I'm skeptical that for the vast major
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by kortex 2y ago
Many TUIs (text user interface) with multiple operations will show one bar reach 100% and move onto the next process (or show multiple in parallel). If the UI automatically transitions to a totally new screen after completion, I'm neve
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by kortex 2y ago
What's stupid about it? Dig was an early and widespread DNS CLI tool. "dog" is a logical name for a next-gen dns cli, and of course that exists. "Doggo" is both a pretty standard linguistic drift pattern of English
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by kortex 2y ago
Yes it was python but that has nothing to do with it. Same would happen in go, rust, R, or matlab. Correct answers: 1.0, 0.0, 1.0 Confidence from algo: 1.0, 0.0, n/a Confidence on the wire: 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 Score after bug: 66% Score as i
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by kortex 2y ago
I believe this is the article: https://www.ajaonline.org/article/3863 > In July 2014, we conducted a survey of Pompeii’s street network to document traces of iron that were observed on the stone-paved streets, which
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by kortex 2y ago
I think part of the confusion is that food anaphylaxis isn't automatic death sentence in all cases, but the risk is that it could be. I have a peanut allergy and carry an epipen. I've been exposed ~5 times in my life but it neve
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by kortex 2y ago
Any time you have a scalar/measurement number, basically any value with physical units, counts, percentages, anything which could be in the denominator of a ratio, those are all strong indicators of a "semantic zero" and you

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