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by mattclarkdotnet 7mo ago
In every sales-led company quarter end is a shitshow. It'll be even worse if there's only one chance to bring the numbers back in instead of 2 or 3. It's used to put pressure on sales teams, but the net result over the year
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by mattclarkdotnet 7mo ago
Thank you, that’s what I came here to learn!
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by mattclarkdotnet 7mo ago
Sure, but each request has its own context. Shared resources like DB connection pools will be longer lived but by definition they aren’t alllcated by the request thread. So why not simply exempt everything allocated by a request thread fr
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by mattclarkdotnet 7mo ago
Sorry if this is obvious to Java experts, but much as parallel GC is fine for batch workloads, is there a case for explicit GC control for web workloads? For example a single request to a web server will create a bunch of objects, but then
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
Seems like you’re the one not applying common sense now!
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
So… XP was the right way all along?
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
If you were to force the choice I might agree. But I’d prefer to think there’s likely a sliding scale in operation here. Even humans aren’t conscious all the time, or equally conscious at all times. It will be an amazing day when we figu
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
2+2 might well not equal 4, since you haven’t specified the base of the numbers or the modulus of the addition. And what if it’s a full service car wash and you’ve parked nearby because it’s full so you walk over and give them the keys? Ass
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
Fully agreed. It’s like the bad phrasings of the Monty Hall problem where it’s not made clear Monty actively chooses to show a goat.
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
Because inference costs are negligible compared to training costs
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
AGI is completely orthogonal to consciousness. Crows seem pretty conscious to me, as does my cat, but I have no way to test or prove it. They are intelligent though.
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by mattclarkdotnet 8mo ago
What? Nobody says cubic zirconia is an artificial diamond, it’s just a different shiny crystal. We have loads of actual artificial diamonds, so cheap you can get a cutting disc made fr9m them for $10 at home depot. And nobody working in t
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by mattclarkdotnet 9mo ago
I know lots of people who had the offer to work in gambling but chose not to take it for moral reasons
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by mattclarkdotnet 10mo ago
Presumably you mean a “trolley” not a “stroller”, because strollers are for moving children not luggage But yeah, free airport trolleys are are an easy marker of evolved civilisations, and the USA fails this test. Countries that have passed
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by mattclarkdotnet 10mo ago
So much this. We had a rental BYD in Greece this summer, and while it was actually great car in general the mandated “assistance” was awful. It constantly got the speed limits wrong, constantly tried to tug me out of the correct lane, and
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
The context for the 13th amendment was that slavery was legal in the US then. It mostly wasn’t in other countries, so they never had to try to find the language to allow judicial punishments while disallowing private slavery. If you are gi
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
Quite, another thing to add to the list of USAian weird exceptions.
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
Normal in the USA maybe? It’s very unusual here in Australia to see a wrapped car.
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
Most other countries seem to be able to have community service orders without labelling it “servitude”. Do you have a reference for why community service is defined as servitude in the US?
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
Missed opportunity to call it Thermostat-ForGood
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
This is excellent but in typical low voltage scenarios (5V or lower) the 600mV diode voltage drop becomes very significant. Simple diode half wave rectification works fine at 100V, but at 3.3V it breaks down.
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
Only in America
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by mattclarkdotnet 11mo ago
In two minds as to your sarcasm level. Anyone who has eaten bacon in Denmark or Raclette in Switzerland or a fresh pasta sauce in Italy could testify that the best stays home
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by mattclarkdotnet 1y ago
Because simulated fire burns other things in the simulation just as much as “real” fire burns real things. Searle &co assert that there is a real world that has special properties, without providing any way to show that we are living i
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by mattclarkdotnet 1y ago
Long driving distances in many areas, plus high electricity costs and poor charging infrastructure. Plug in hybrids sell like hot cakes though!
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by mattclarkdotnet 1y ago
That is not true at all. Banks are not funded by depositors money. Banks create money when they make loans, and destroy money when loans are repaid. Deposits in current accounts are liabilities from the bank’s point of view.
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by mattclarkdotnet 1y ago
Of course you want to be able to say 03:00 Europe/London for calendar appointments. Which it is true is not a timezone, and needs to be stored separately from the date time identifier…
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by mattclarkdotnet 1y ago
It’s amazing anyone can read, speak or write such a language!
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by mattclarkdotnet 1y ago
These are descriptive terms though? It’s not like the language actually works that way
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by mattclarkdotnet 1y ago
The paper’s abstract asserts that race leaders get support from multiple riders to get back to the peloton. That’s just wrong. They use the team car and usually a single domestique to recover to the back of the peloton. Should they use m

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