metalrain

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by metalrain 2y ago
I like how this explains the details. One can easily dismiss use of this kind of stringly typed construct, but once you see how abstraction enables optimizations in implementation, it's kind of win-win.
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by metalrain 2y ago
I would assume real number is much higher. Games have for decades used generation as source for content, now available methods are just more complex.
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by metalrain 2y ago
Video quality seems really good, but limitations are quite restrictive "Our model encounters challenges when processing extremely long videos (e.g. 200 frames or more)". I'd say most videos in practice are longer than 200 fra
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by metalrain 2y ago
I understood article saying that implicit invariants are like undocumented choices. If I have blog where blogposts have maximum length of 4096 bytes. But why would there be such limit, is it creative decision? is there technical limitation?
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by metalrain 2y ago
So as robots became more capable and less contained (like current industrial robot arms). What novel tools/techniques there are to stop misbehaving robot? Will casting a net stop robot like this or do you have to somehow dismember it?
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by metalrain 2y ago
Marketing scripts often are invasive, wanting to run before all other scripts or overriding event/clickhandlers. For me it kind of feels you need some runtime and DSL to enable all requirements in web. And Google Tag Manager isn't
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by metalrain 2y ago
And when you are ready to go for bit lower level, try Zachtronics games: - Opus Magnum - Exapunks - TIS-100
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by metalrain 2y ago
You can also start from classic problems: Dining philosophers, Byzantine Generals, CAP theorem etc. then go towards more concrete examples and implementations.
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by metalrain 3y ago
Maybe to be accessory to your phone, reduce screentime etc.
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by metalrain 3y ago
I think you need to parse the code and build AST to make good search. Even then normalizing over different aliases, may not be simple.
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by metalrain 3y ago
Reading this I was wondering how far are video compression (with transformers), turns out decoding is still too expensive in practice (under 10 FPS for 1080p video). https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07307 https://
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by metalrain 3y ago
I wonder what this means for Copilot integrations in Microsoft products?
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by metalrain 3y ago
You can also handle optionality when using the value. function maybeRenderBestFriends() { const user = maybeGetUser(); if (!user) { return null } const friends = maybeGetFriends(user); const bestFriends = frien
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by metalrain 3y ago
When I was younger I used to think I need to have children in order to understand parents and belong socially when almost everyone else has had children. I think there is some truth to that, parents don't become non-parents even after
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by metalrain 3y ago
Person can wallow in their thoughts, but when they engage in conversation, I'd expect them to want something else than just their words repeated back.
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by metalrain 3y ago
People reading articles from RSS are not using Google search or Google browser, not being monetized by Google Ads. There is a reason.
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by metalrain 3y ago
Does this technique have shelf life? Like glue degrades and then even non-counterfeit product becomes invalid?
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by metalrain 3y ago
Pattern like that isn't repeatable, but idea of letting go of expectations to recover the joy of doing whatever you are doing is.
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by metalrain 3y ago
I mean, even if messages are encrypted in the wire, surely most platform holders will comply to law enforcement requests. Exposing your messages from databases, logs, analytics, installing keyloggers.. Most of people use smartphones and the
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by metalrain 3y ago
At least for me it's very common to have several layers of clothing on most days. It would be hassle to attach this from outer jacket to shirt when moving from outside to inside.
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by metalrain 3y ago
Yes, I cannot imagine how anyone could know all the details that go into each step. It's good to have people that do know how computers operate and how we use them, but specialization is also good thing.
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by metalrain 3y ago
So given that minimum size of HTTP request is something under 32 bytes, some sources say 18 bytes but let's be generous here HTTP can be complex. In theory I could send 4M requests in second with 1 Gbps connection. 1 Tbps total connect
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by metalrain 3y ago
I wonder if recent drops in traffic are partly due to Google search rankings updates: 2022 May and 2023 March.
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by metalrain 3y ago
Unless client combines decompress and CSS parsing, they would at least allocate memory for the whitespace before parsing and then skipping them. It might be better to have slightly bigger payload on the wire to save time after decompress.
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by metalrain 3y ago
While I'm happy Figma exposes layout as CSS rules, one does not copy paste styles directly into project. There is still disconnect how to interpt the layout from lower level back to structural abstractions. Like margin of 24px may actu
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by metalrain 3y ago
Should Google index every website? I think answer is historically been yes, but more and more it's becoming no. Users of Google search want the best results, not all results. Customers of Google want their ad or site visible, not all s
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by metalrain 3y ago
Unfortunately it mixes up python and javascript syntax and produces code that doesn't actually run. But I guess A for effort.
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by metalrain 4y ago
I think you don't need to have deep flow state to make progress at work. For me I think flow state is more about how interested I am about the task than how much time I have. And frankly many tasks at work aren't that interesting
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by metalrain 4y ago
I feel like this cost is not as big as some say. Surely it takes time to collect your thoughts after conversation, but in my experience that is like 1-5 minutes. It is usually worth it. I really think there should be more communication at w
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by metalrain 4y ago
I think LLMs are great for exploration, but for repeated use efficiency matters and data structures matter. I can see that AI will compose UI and write reporting code for many analytical querying needs, but I can't imagine future where

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