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by mannyv 1y ago
"Adobe couldn't decide if PDF was for print control or documents" Apparently people don't understand the history of PDF. PDF was originally a way to encapsulate PostScript so you could display it on a screen. Unlike PCL,
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by mannyv 1y ago
I expect that the thing that makes it an extension is "T005: Tables with potential missing indexes (high sequential scan usage)." Can you get that data on the outside?
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by mannyv 1y ago
Been using like 7 external usb drives with 40-50tb total for a few years with no issues. Not raid, just backing up drive to drive. No controller or drive issues. Mix of seagate and wd 8/12/16gb. I hate blanket recommendations like
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by mannyv 1y ago
Leaving congestion control to apps means that congestion control at a system level will be impossible. Is that really a QUIC thing?
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by mannyv 1y ago
Pretty basic fluff piece. More detail would have been nice. This is a blog post that's like "look, we test but have no idea what we're doing." Questions: 1. What happened to throughput when lots of devices were present?
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by mannyv 1y ago
This is excellent for those of us who are building local AIs.
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by mannyv 1y ago
My understanding was that ATM was 53 bytes because it was a balance between latency and processing efficiency. If every packet is the same size your packet processing can be much faster.
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by mannyv 1y ago
Viral infection + quick death = hantavirus. The article does't provide enough information about what he was doing before the game, unfortunately. But if he was cleaning out a shed or garage then Hanta is in play.
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by mannyv 1y ago
NFS, hard mounts, hang. I remember them well.
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by mannyv 1y ago
Terraform isn't there to resolve the complexity of aws, it's there so you can manage tour aws deploy more easily. In fact, terraform exposes the complexity of AWS, since with terraform you need to hook everything up manually. And
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by mannyv 1y ago
At some level you can run all the econometric models you want to get an answer, but you can just ask an LLM and you'll probably get an answer that's just as accurate.
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by mannyv 1y ago
No, they're not. $4.3B in revenue is tremendous. What are you comparing them to?
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by mannyv 1y ago
My kids could read and do math in K, unlike many of their classmates. At that point it doesn't really matter, because K is really about play and learning the conventions. By the end of 2nd grade it was clear that they were bored out of
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by mannyv 1y ago
Because sandboxing has worked so well in preventing security issues?
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by mannyv 1y ago
The theory re: myopia was that spending time indoors weakened the eye muscles because the eye didn't focus far and near. Maybe it's due to the lack of these particular wavelengths.
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by mannyv 1y ago
Can you actually prompt an LLM to continue talking forever? Hmm, time to try.
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by mannyv 1y ago
Chinese youth unemployment is so high that at one point China stopped publishing statistics. I believe they're back, with a new methodology.
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by mannyv 1y ago
I guess that means you're young.
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by mannyv 1y ago
I think you're asking "what parts can be replaced without the end buyer noticing?" You can replace almost any part on an iphone, but if it isn't an Apple part its functionality is reduced. The only people that care are p
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by mannyv 1y ago
For two specific groups, aspirin reduces the recurrence of colorectal cancer by around 50%. Group a: 7.7% with aspirin vs 14.1% recurrence without aspirin. Group b: 7.7% with aspirin vs 16.8% recurrence without aspirin. What's nice is
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by mannyv 1y ago
The cohort of Japanese men would be of military age during WW2, so the gender proportions of centenarians are lower due to men being KIA.
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by mannyv 1y ago
I wondered about the radiation hardening aspect. At one altitude does that make a difference?
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by mannyv 1y ago
The DAC in the video 5.5 series was considered to be much better (Wolfson).
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by mannyv 1y ago
Someone is trying to redesign the web experience for humans instead of googlebot? Huzzah!
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by mannyv 1y ago
And yet, SS contributions are done every pay period. Who has that data then? Treasury?
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by mannyv 1y ago
Why doesn't BLS use data directly from Social Security? Everyone with a W2 pays into SS. SS also has everyone's birthdate, so it's easy to bucketize everyone into "can work" and "can't work." They can
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by mannyv 1y ago
Totally incorrect for Dynamo. It was probably correct for Cognito 1.0.
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Amazon will reap the results of the talent war. Why? Because Amazon will build services on top of the technologies that come out. Just today on hn there was a guy that trained his tiny model and got better results than most of the big model
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Oops!
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by mannyv 1y ago
The one big box assumes that you know how to configure everything for high performance. I suspect that skill has been lost, for the most part. You really need to tweak the TCP/IP stack, buffer sizes, and various other things to get eve

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