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by mbreese 3y ago
I think of it as similar to independent movies or independent bookstores (back in the day). Yes, it’s still a company/organization, but one that isn’t controlled by one of the big studios. So in this case, that really means that it’s n
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by mbreese 3y ago
Maybe it should thought of as production-adjacent...
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by mbreese 3y ago
> or im somewhere new and I don't know about the local charging infrastructure. When I’m traveling for work and need a car, it’s usually for smaller quick trips where I wouldn’t even need to refill a tank of gas. For these types o
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by mbreese 3y ago
> You don't edit the data in a text editor interactively, do you? That’s exactly what I’m doing. The code is written on the remote server. VSCode’s remote setup is actually very good at this. Mainly because, it is really a web edi
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by mbreese 3y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by vscode running locally with editing via ssh. I’m fairly certain that when you do a remote connection in vscode, it literally runs the vscode program remotely and you are just connecting to a tunneled web interf
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by mbreese 3y ago
> just mount the remote filesystem locally using FUSE somehow This is the step that never works consistently for me. There is always some amount of random extra latency that makes the this workflow painful. I work with some extremely l
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by mbreese 3y ago
> Using the editor on the server from a remote connection is silly. In my experience, this is the best way to do remote work. The alternative is to either not work with remote resources (data, hardware, etc), work locally and sync chan
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Building a better keyboard and mouse switch(hackaday.com)
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by mbreese 3y ago
Many of them still aren’t. Case in point - the firewall from the original post.
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by mbreese 3y ago
That’s just the effect of streaming IO vs reading in the file into memory all at once. That has nothing to do with the language you use, but how you process the data. I keep multiple little Python scripts around to do things like sum lists
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by mbreese 3y ago
You need two hats. A work hat and family hat. This is the only possible social cue that will work in the long term. I would completely expect my family to get behind this. I've worked remotely for many years now so my kids were (in the
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by mbreese 3y ago
ENPP1 is a known target that has been under active investigation for many years. This press release would like for you to think this Stanford lab discovered it, but it’s been known about for a while. We are just now starting to understand m
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by mbreese 3y ago
It’s a common trope in the field that we’ve already cured cancer in mice. They are similar enough to be a useful model for study. However, they are still quite different to the point where you never quite know how treatments will react… esp
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by mbreese 3y ago
> versus saving binary project files where diffs/merges make little sense and can corrupt the output Diffs and merges with binary files can work just fine. Look at rsync as an example. The problem is that it can take... too...
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by mbreese 3y ago
Notebook based computing isn't something that's known for great reproducibility in general. It's great for data exploration, but interactions between cells and the high potential for hidden variables makes reproducibility dif
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by mbreese 3y ago
> Also, full-time rigorous peer reviewing would be an interesting career prospect for many current scientists. And here is your startup idea.. I don’t know about this. (But I don’t have any answers for the question either). If you’re a
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by mbreese 3y ago
> then that will pressure employers to pay people better When taken to the logical end, this is true… but who ends up getting hurt the most during the transition? The workers you ultimately want to help. I can’t see that as a good alte
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by mbreese 3y ago
Back in the day, Jon Katz (of Slashdot/Slate fame) wrote a book (and several articles) about his experiences with a temperamental Border Collie. Working dogs want to work, so in order to make the dog happy, they had to effectively buy
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by mbreese 3y ago
New models might have different economics…
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by mbreese 3y ago
I don’t know about that. Yes, there was tension built into the structure, something happened to trigger this. You don’t fire your CEO without a backup plan if this was an on going conflict. And if your backup plan is to keep the current p
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by mbreese 3y ago
Any of their performance graphs… none of them include axis labels, so you never really know what they are comparing. All you can see is that the newer chip is “faster” or “more efficient” than something else. You just never know by how much
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by mbreese 3y ago
There is also an R package to do the same thing as a ggplot theme: https://xkcd.r-forge.r-project.org/
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by mbreese 3y ago
I think it's still pretty early to know how lasting these ARRs are. We are still early on the hype cycle here. Chat based language models have definitely found good uses, so I don't think we'll ever see them go away, but I&#x
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by mbreese 3y ago
Keeping a common ledger that contains potentially untrusted data is one of the few use cases I can see where a block chain made sense. Way back in the day (and maybe still, I’m not sure) didn’t MIT run a PGP key database? The only problem I
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by mbreese 3y ago
They are in chapter 11, which is aimed at reorganizing a company. They hope to still be a business going forward. For customers, it should still be relatively the same service. I expect some amenities to change, but you should still be able
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by mbreese 3y ago
I don’t know… I used to routinely install HPC batch schedulers on my laptops, so I could see someone legitimately doing this (unironically too).
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by mbreese 3y ago
Yeah, but that also requires disabling SIP, so you still might want to run it in a VM.
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by mbreese 3y ago
Spinning rust is still useful for many purposes and will probably live on for decades more. We generate a ton of data and most of it ends up as read rarely or never. But it can live with slower access times on longer duration storage. It’s
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by mbreese 3y ago
> I have had the linux kernel ntfs driver corrupt data more than once, so I use it read only mode. Back when I needed something like this (over decade ago?), the Linux NTFS driver had many warnings to only use it read only. For kernel
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by mbreese 3y ago
I don’t know about the fading. My in laws have a dock built out of it, and aside from it getting hot in the sun, the color is still pretty consistent between shaded and non-shaded sections.

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