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by mhh__ 1mo ago
this is very "data centres using all the water" coded. the guardian used to be above running this kind of nonsense, now every single issue has pages of prickly "ooh, not a good look!" stilletto-ing. what does "no kn
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
I don't think they do. The revealed preference is online safety this online safety that - although in fairness some of this is out of a desire to avoid deeper issues.
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
How much do you trust the medical advice of a doctor in 2026?
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
The idea that humans were basically retarded prior to about 1901 is a little hubristic
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
It works
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
do go on... tease
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
Seems to work pretty well. The alternative is either no food or no prices.
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
The ISA not mattering I think isn't as true when you account cost e.g. in a huge OOO cpu all the fusions and so on are afaict fairly doable but if you are on a cheaper / worse CPU all those extra bytes in the instruction stream do
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
I really believe people who publish huge slop PRs (short of being fired) should have their tokens taxed on the basis that it's an unpriced cost on the colleagues and the firm
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
Yes but it doesn't actually exist yet so anyone saying "just use batteries" is basically either a bit naive or a journalist.
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
Really really hilarious. I commend and ask all centrist parties to continue sending failed comedians as their provincial vassals
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
When these batteries actually exist then sure...
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
The prices do change because (many, at least) renewable projects are subsidised via CFD schemes and so on and atop of that are selling into a spot market that may (it varies) pay them more than what they offer into the market. It's won
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
There still isn't really any equivalent of Excel for the things serious excel users use it for. In large part because Excel is a build system
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
the data is quite slow to be released so i haven't updated my charts for a bit but britain saw a decent spike in HIV / AIDS because of the migratory flows under boris johnson. In large part because we don't test on the basis
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
It's often basically true though - the guarantees that rust can make wrt to lifetimes and memory allocation clearly enable programs to allocate less and be more aggressive with what they do allocate (all while being a fairly high-level
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
yes i've found that there are a few topics that i've really been able probably 10x my understanding of using LLMs, in particular in getting me over hoops that are hard to navigate when solo, BUT I have to be really careful for it
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
what did they not implement from 754? Given the design of the processor i can imagine them being very aggressive with assumptions around exception handling / traps - iirc this is actually the original reason why Tomasulo algorithm exis
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
I assume it's often parallel construction
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18810/how-did-th... (was curious)
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
surely there is a roland emmerich movie in there somewhere
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
if it's really easy for a model to read the source code / docs of a tool i've found that they fill in the gaps really easily and have no trouble using it.
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
There should be a halfway point between kdb and postgres... So more seriously my thinking is that we should, on purely moral grounds strive to have things be fast and lean. How many years of human misery have been lost to waiting around for
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
If the tools are all in the same monorepo idk if that's actually true
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by mhh__ 2mo ago
When LIBOR was killed, financial derivatives were forced to reference (compounded) SOFR, it's a trimmed average of all the overnight lending agreements.
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by mhh__ 3mo ago
How much of the paper was written with AI?
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by mhh__ 3mo ago
A risk in this situation is that in names that are dominated by passive flows there is a pro-cyclical effect where because the name is valued in terms of the overall index but is also part of said index that you end up with a positive feedb
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by mhh__ 3mo ago
Indeed, we have just been through arguably the largest (nominal) drawdown in the history of fixed income.
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by mhh__ 3mo ago
The cost of insurance is carry e.g. when you buy an option you are paying for the convexity with time decay. It is quite expensive. It is worth saying however that part of tail hedging is that the payoff is worth a lot more when everything
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by mhh__ 3mo ago
This is actually kind of happening! (In a way) There are, at this point, quite a few git-successors that either basically or literally use gits object model - git-butler, jujutsu, sapling (iirc). It's at worst good-enough.

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