loxias

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by loxias 2y ago
> as long as latency is known? Ah, but how do you know latency, without accurate clocks? :) Accurate clocks facilitates measuring latency, which is used to calculate distance. :)
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by loxias 2y ago
> I’ve been working on an MN3205 with digital controls... I should get myself some of those to play with, and you, friend, might enjoy a tape delay or two off ebay. (I have an Echoplex and it's tons of fun)
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by loxias 2y ago
Seconding this, Greg Egan is one of the best of all time. The short stories "Luminous" and "Dark Integers", the novels "Diaspora" and "Schild's Ladder". So good. qntm (another author) hits somew
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by loxias 2y ago
I don't know if I would trust the implicit editorial lens of popularity on Wikipedia as my only window into the world.
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by loxias 2y ago
Interesting. I've tried to use it for a few things, it works where I'd expect -- make a scaffolding for a simple Java project, edit this English -- but whenever I then try to use it for Real Work, things that require some thought
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by loxias 2y ago
IYKYK
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by loxias 2y ago
Damn, I would really like such a thing, if it was just the hardware and not the associated lock in to a third party getting their grubby hands on my internal metrics. I'd pay a premium for it even, which makes you wonder just how much
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by loxias 2y ago
It's quite good at following a detailed paragraph long description of an scene, which is a double edged sword. A lot of the fun for me with early text to image models was underspecifying an image and then enjoying how the model "
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by loxias 2y ago
Try https://github.com/leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp
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by loxias 2y ago
Can I please, please, please, have C++ or at least C bindings? :) Or the desired way to call Rust from another runtime? I don't know any Rust.
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by loxias 2y ago
Just offering another point of data, your observation of the "same space with no overlap" and the anecdote about the restaurant hits so true for me! Almost the exactly same thing happened to me, Spanish nearly the whole time. La
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by loxias 2y ago
Second the desire for C bindings! (or someone showing how to wrap and call the rust bindings?)
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by loxias 2y ago
This is really fun. Multiple questions seem to yield a blank page, does this mean it's hugged to death, or are my questions too difficult? :) I'm enjoying probing the bounds of understanding by giving progressively harder problem
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by loxias 2y ago
Borderline dangerous software. If it was reliable and worthy of supporting a stack, it wouldn't be Windows only. By being Windows only, it conveys "toy" status. Professional database engineers don't use non-Linux, henc
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by loxias 3y ago
Whyyyyyyy. bangs head into desk
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by loxias 3y ago
Oh cool! That's a vote for getting on Mastodon...
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by loxias 3y ago
Wait, so you don't think that China is a brutal country that doesn't give a damn about the lives of their people? Leaving out the deeply incorrect "stone age" part, that strikes me as a perfectly reasonable objective f
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by loxias 3y ago
Gross. Why in the world do I want a gif for a tiny code release? Just read the source. This looks extremely interesting, considering the author I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. The source looks fugly, but who cares,
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by loxias 3y ago
Shrug. People will always care about performance because they will always want more functionality. I bet you care about the performance of your database or how fast your pages load. You want your streaming videos to be skip-free and your p
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by loxias 3y ago
God no, hah! Not surprising at all. They didn't have first mover disadvantage. There's a cost to being the first to invent infrastructure. Others can stand on your shoulders and build improvements, while you're stuck with
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by loxias 3y ago
I always heard it as "float management", or "managing your float".
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by loxias 3y ago
"Isolating" is where the performance (innovation) is. I used a very similar setup, first time I needed to implement a tree. Now, I'm a fan of Eytzinger layout. (referenced in a previous comment in this thread) Yeah, most cod
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by loxias 3y ago
I'm interested in the same stuff/area. There's a lot of great results to read, check out cache-oblivious B-trees by Dr. Demaine (or honestly anything by him.) This link is a good distillation of some of the concepts. http
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by loxias 3y ago
I wonder if one could use raw data like this to build a sort of spam filter for papers. Perhaps there are common metadata (institution?, date?, time?, name?, topic?...) among BS papers that could be part of a classifier score? I know that
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by loxias 3y ago
Speaking purely for myself, (curious what other people think) my preference is _always_ for the link to go to the most "principal" source. Then, in the comments, add a link to a pop news article or the comments section. I hate
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by loxias 3y ago
This. The older and more experienced I get at building things and solving hard problems, the more convinced I am that the "magic" part is in the selling, the convincing, the communicating, the getting someone to pay money for this
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by loxias 3y ago
Fair enough, fair enough. Also I'm a data hoarder too, have been since pre-reddit. internet high five. :) I've gotten a lot of mileage (at least 15 years) off of centralizing all my storage, and centralizing all my compute, bu
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by loxias 3y ago
Hah! I hadn't even noticed that, I just saw "I could build that for 1/4th the cost"+"wtf, only 4 drives?" Stuff like this prompts a dual response in me. :) It always gives me a strong urge to educate "it&#
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by loxias 3y ago
> my server is a qnap tvs-473e with an embedded amd cpu/gpu That's your problem. I googled and it looks like one of these all-in-one appliances like a drobo or whatever's popular these days. That's not a server. (
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by loxias 3y ago
> And then, wouldn't we have to think about how to sidestep all the numerical issues with the cumulative products? I think so. And also potential issues with all the sums. :) (see: "compensated summation") god I love

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