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by mbreese 8mo ago
I left out that the line before there was a check to make sure the input byte was between ‘a’ and ‘z’. This ensures that if the char is already upper case, you don’t do an extraneous OR. And at this point, OR, XOR, or even a subtract 0x20 w
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by mbreese 8mo ago
I was thinking of something similar — instead of just two passes, couldn’t you also store different quantized values? If you have thousands of documents, you could narrow it down to a handful with a few bit-wise Hamming comparisons before d
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by mbreese 8mo ago
I came across this a week ago when I was looking at some LLM generated code for a ToUpper() function. At some point I “knew” this relationship, but I didn’t really “grok” it until I read a function that converted lowercase ascii to uppercas
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by mbreese 8mo ago
I’ve always thought that the proper competitor to Slack/Twitter/etc… was a protocol not another service. Protocols enable competition, services just shift the market to another service.
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by mbreese 8mo ago
> My post argues that the demand has permanently shifted The time horizon for this is murky at best. This is something you think, but can’t know. But, you’re putting money behind it, so if you’re right, you’ll make a good profit! But f
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by mbreese 8mo ago
The question isn’t if the demand is real or not (supplies are low, so demand must exist). The question is if the demand curve has permanently shifted, or is this a short-term issue. No one builds new capacity in response to short term chang
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by mbreese 8mo ago
Static or pre-rendered static? I rarely come across the latter, but the former is pretty common.
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by mbreese 8mo ago
There might be an institutional block in Google due to the way that Google Wave was received. Google has tried (a few times) to get chat to work. It's never quite lived up to expectations (or hype in the case of Wave). Knowing their hi
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by mbreese 8mo ago
You could also look at it as: in order for a Slack competitor to compete with Slack's network effects, the new program will need to offer an easy way to extend chat workspaces with external collaborators. It's not impossible, but
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by mbreese 8mo ago
ArsTechnica has had subscriber tiers for quite a while. I am one. I’m not sure how many people subscribe or what their numbers look like, but I’d hope that Ars will be able to still be able to keep going in whatever the new media market loo
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by mbreese 8mo ago
This looks like a nice project! I always have a love hate relationship with bookmarks. I tend to treat bookmarks as a write once read never datastore. I have a set of 2-3 bookmarklets that I use often, but almost never use other bookmarks.
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by mbreese 8mo ago
Or many other sources. If you’re writing about Space, you kinda need to cover SpaceX. If you’re opening critical of everything the owner says, pretty soon you won’t have any sources at SpaceX to give you the insights you need to do your job
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by mbreese 8mo ago
I think the fact that they one of the last places surviving from that generation of the Internet says a lot. The Condé Nast acquisition may have been a tragedy, but they managed to survive for this long. They’ve been continuously publishing
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by mbreese 8mo ago
This goes back a lot farther with Ars. They done this for years because their comments section is driven by forum software. The main conversations happen in the forums. They are then reformatted for a the comment view. So, their main goal w
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by mbreese 8mo ago
The MinIO business model was a freemium model (well, Open Source + commercial support, which is slightly different). They used the free OSS version to drive demand for the commercially licensed version. It’s not like they had a free communi
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by mbreese 8mo ago
And this product will work great for any industry... can I get a suggestion for an industry from the crowd? Audience: Transportation... Education... Insurance... Speaker: Great! I heard "Healthcare". Right... as we can see from
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by mbreese 8mo ago
I stopped using my Remarkable because I couldn’t read my own writing on it. I have have no problem reading my writing when I write in a physical paper notebook (well, fewer problems). But the resolution either for capture or display on the
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by mbreese 8mo ago
I think it's the latter. But, in either case, you're right in that you get the same result. Now, let's assume that if it is the latter (it's spam related), and Google were to accept the message, but then internally bin t
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by mbreese 9mo ago
In general, I think LLM content has been found to not be copyrightable, but it would still speech when it's published. It would be the speech of the company publishing it, not the dev that wrote the script. So, ai-junk-news.com is stil
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by mbreese 9mo ago
I don’t think PCR is necessarily relevant here. I had the impression that this would be lost useful at linking multi-kb fragments together. If we are looking at sizes much above 2kb, PCR is going to struggle to generate full length fragment
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by mbreese 9mo ago
We’ve been able to do this type of nucleotide 3D engineering for a while. I used to use large DNA branched complexed fluorophores to label cDNA back when I was in grad school. They were more or less mixed of DNA that self assembled into lar
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by mbreese 9mo ago
This is not a bad overview of DNS from a theoretical perspective. It’s also pretty well written and has good examples and figures. What I think is missing is a bit more of the “in practice” side. If the author was surprised about TTL values
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by mbreese 9mo ago
None of those bills/laws involve legislating publishing though. This bill would require a disclaimer on something published. That’s a freedom of speech issue, so it going to be tougher to enforce and keep from getting overturned in the
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by mbreese 9mo ago
This makes me wonder if Amazon the retailer requires having access to AWS services “at cost” in order to be profitable. If AWS was spun out completely, would Amazon proper be able to afford their AWS bill of AWS had a profit margin on it. I
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by mbreese 9mo ago
I agree that “customer” is a better term. I’m not sure I agree with the rest of the rationale. In my mind, “user” stated to take over when we started having web based services that were used by people, but they were the ones paying. For exa
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by mbreese 9mo ago
The lack of microtransaction/loot box/forced ads/etc driven gameplay is why I keep it. If I can get versions of newer games without all of that cruft, I’m happy. I’m also happy that the game developer gets paid for it.
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by mbreese 9mo ago
They've had cloud products for a long time, but I don't think that Microsoft fundamentally changed. I still see them organized and treated as an Enterprise software company. (This is from my N=1 outside perspective.) ChatGPT says
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by mbreese 9mo ago
Just one cycle? This is cyclical and I see the main axis of contention as centralized vs de-centralized computing. Mainframes (network) gave way to mini and microcomputers (PCs). PCs gave way to server farms and web-based applications. Priv
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by mbreese 9mo ago
I think this is a really good take, and not one I’ve seen mentioned a lot. Pre-Internet (the world Microsoft was started for), the man expense for a software company was R&D. Once the code was written, it was all profit. You’d have some

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