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by lr1970 2y ago
> For months they were camped on floating sea ice, and then to tack on a 800 mile journey through open, stormy sea in a battered whaling boat, Minor but important correction: it was a life boat, much smaller than a whaling boat.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> It perplexes me, and the rest of our neighborhood, how someone can float a mortgage, much less an investment mortgage, without a renter. In the USA it is happening all the time because, surprisingly, landlords have little skin in the t
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by lr1970 2y ago
Ghostty - a modern cross-platform very fast terminal written in Zig by non other than Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp fame - is currently in private beta. Public release date is not set but seems to be in few months. BTW, getting into priva
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by lr1970 2y ago
And don't forget StarLink that revolutionized satellite communications.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Any stories or events you can talk about? It sounds interesting reply Paul Graham fired Sam Altman from YC on the spot for "loss of trust". Full details unknown.
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by lr1970 2y ago
This is an animal study (rats). Use on your own risk.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> I certainly understand the sentiment, but my question to someone on the "anti" immigration side would be this: what do you see as a possible alternative solution? Most people are not against immigration per se, they are again
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by lr1970 2y ago
Until Apple makes their devices with user replaceable batteries all their environmental efforts are falling short. Making consumable part -- a battery -- an integrated component that requires special tools and training to replace is environ
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by lr1970 2y ago
Related discussion on HN [0] with 1000+ comments when Hixie was let go from google. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38381573
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by lr1970 2y ago
Zig is flexible. If you don't like global allocators or explicitly passing allocators, you can store pointer to the allocator in your object and it will be passed implicitly.
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by lr1970 2y ago
Any change to the status page requires at least VP sign-off. They declare outage or a problem only when hiding it any longer becomes impossible.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> I wonder what will happen if one starts developing, say, a RTOS for cruise missiles in Rust. It is already happening and with the help of some known personalities in the Rust community [0]. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/
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Zig Language 0.12 Release(github.com)
7 points by lr1970 2y ago|2 comments
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by lr1970 2y ago
After 8 months of active development the new version of Zig language is out. Many improvements in the language, std library, build system, documentation, compiler and linker. Nice to see Zig making rapid progress.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Having password + SMS OTP is strictly better, regardless of how shitty SMS OTP might be. Unfortunately one can claim to "forgot my password" and use SMS OTP to reset it. Now it becomes a single factor authentication with a co
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by lr1970 3y ago
What is the difference between a Software Engineer and a Mechanical Engineer? Mechanical Engineer thinks that 1KB = 1000 Bytes and Software Engineer thinks that 1km = 1024 meters. :-)
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Even autonomous "fire-and-forget" drones need a somewhat robust GPS link for navigation. GPS is a satellite "broadcast" that GPS receivers listen to. GPS receivers are "passive" in a sense that they do not
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Behind every successful woman is a man, who tried to stop her What are you talking about? Her husband Bob Harp was the head of R&D and main technical and product force behind all of Vector products [0]. After he left in 1982 over t
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by lr1970 3y ago
For a more balanced contemporary (from 1985) depiction of the Vector story, see [0]. Basically, Bob Harp was the main technical force behind all Vector products, akin to Steve Wozniak at early Apple. In 1982 Bob and Lore could not agree who
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by lr1970 3y ago
> I've never been able to understand if there is something "truly fundamental" about H compared to L, or if H is more of a mathematical convenience for making the equations first-order. Actually, Hamiltonian formulation, b
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by lr1970 3y ago
Look how brilliantly they selected their target project: (1) xz and the lib are widely used in the wild including linux kernel, systemd, openSSH; (2) single maintainer, low rate of maintenance; (3) the original maintainer has other problems
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by lr1970 3y ago
One of the most interesting examples is Mitchell Hashimoto of HashiCorp fame (13B publicly traded company). His career path was: HashiCorp CoFounder -> CEO -> CTO -> Engineer -> finally left HashiCorp in December 2023. Now he en
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by lr1970 3y ago
> The alternative is certain death so not a lot to choose from. Human kidney transplants (both cadaveric and from a living donor) have been a common operation for many years.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Flight recorders are fireproof / water proof / shock proof devices on the airplane and are limited in size of memory they can have. On the factory floor, on the other hand, one can store lots of data or/and upload it to some
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by lr1970 3y ago
Financial sanctions against Russia force Russians into crypto-currency as an alternative. This drives crypto prices up.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Bear in mind that GPT-3 was published ("Language Models are Few-Shot Learners") in 2020, and Anthropic were only founded after that in 2021. Keep in mind that Antropic was founded by former OpenAI people (Dario Amadei and oth
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by lr1970 3y ago
> I think what's changed most is our standards. Used to be if you survived to reproduce, you were doing pretty good With so many people deciding to go childless i am not so sure.
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by lr1970 3y ago
towards the end of the paper they mentioned training on 2T tokens.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Authors reported perplexity only for small up to 3B weights models. On the other hand, they reported throughput for 70B model, but not its performance (perplexity, end-to-end tasks). Very unfortunate omission. Overall, the paper is rather p
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by lr1970 3y ago
> This. Amartya Sen has claimed that two actual democracies have never been at war between each other. At least I find hard to find significant counterexamples in history. Off the top of my head -- a war of 1812 between Great Britain and

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