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by moritonal 1y ago
Reading it I imagine it's roughly because they started with the problem of "we have to async writes to postgres for scale" and then solved it with "we synchronously write checkpoints with enough performance and guarantee
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by moritonal 1y ago
Watching a checker-board of laser-light scattering across your eyes is a highly uncomfortable and wildly unique experience. I agree with the other comment that it's a very safe process, done hundreds of thousands of times, and improves
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by moritonal 1y ago
There's a difference between prosecuting a crime, and restricting people to prevent it from even happening. Both have a place but only the former retains your liberty.
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by moritonal 1y ago
I believe a logic similar to this was used to enact the "Gestures" system in Black and White 1. Breaking down the mouse-movements into vectors following a guide-point. ( https://blackandwhite.fandom.com/wiki/Ge
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by moritonal 1y ago
To add a bit more, I didn't really read until later, around 8, but then read at a fairly quick and passionate amount for my age. People thought I'd dodged my family curse but later around 10 it was shown I was quite behind at scho
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by moritonal 1y ago
I imagine part of the issue is how many PDFs are just a series of images anyway.
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by moritonal 1y ago
Just to add an anecdote, as of 15 years ago I had similar scores and was diagnosed with dyslexia.
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by moritonal 1y ago
Major grocery shops routinely swap their profitable items with the popular items. They do this to stop the customer going into auto-pilot and instead forcing them into actually looking for what they want. So no, shoppers finding their produ
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by moritonal 1y ago
But we did, I've been protesting against laws like this for 17 years now! Genuinely, they've always been trying to implement these laws, and simply relied on us missing the ship one time.
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by moritonal 1y ago
The fact another story on the front page is about a User Verification site having a massive leak is pretty relevant ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373 )
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by moritonal 1y ago
I have to ask, if they have access to get a loan of $2.2m then the friend could likely save for 5-7 years and just retire someplace cheap. Like, spending that much seems wild given the implied access to straight cash.
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by moritonal 1y ago
But you brought it here to get feedback? Our feedback is things like, the docs ( https://github.com/ebogdum/callfs/blob/main/docs_markdown/02... ) have a pile of references to things that just don&#x2
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by moritonal 1y ago
So you're trying to get buy-in for a tool, when you yourself don't see the point in confirming it works? Those "tedious tasks" are software development.
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by moritonal 1y ago
I actually like the style. It's very on brand for Ruby from what I've read. Make coding punk again.
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by moritonal 1y ago
Thank you! Finally a good Rama reference in the wild.
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by moritonal 1y ago
Hey, yeah, the site name is great, I'll never judge that. And even as design goes it's not "bad", it's just not as great as the parent comment originally implied. I originally mistook the site as an ad-website becau
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by moritonal 1y ago
Politely, on point 1 I disagree entirely. At a glance I thought it was a parking domain and closed it because I figured their site had crashed. Likely because the "Listen Now" looks exactly like a Google Advert and the jump in gra
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by moritonal 1y ago
Just going to say it. It sounds like you are using the wrong medium. What you're doing is emailing, nothing wrong with that, but imagine if someone talked as you described face-to-face. It would be a very weird experience.
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by moritonal 1y ago
I'll say it as I always do. One time I threw together a "blurred version of your text is shown as you type, becomes clear when you hit enter" and it was some of the nicest instant-messaging I've ever had with another per
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by moritonal 1y ago
I see it as basically Cunningham's Law. It's easier to see the LLM's attempt a solution and how it's wrong than to write a perfectly correct solution first time.
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by moritonal 1y ago
Just a small caveat, that article was from 2012 (13 years ago). Things may have changed for the better or worse since then.
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by moritonal 1y ago
This would be the actual issue right. Any AI smart enough to write the good things can also write the bad things. Because ethics are something humans made. How long until we have internal court systems for fleets of AI?
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by moritonal 1y ago
I know that due to being interested in a specific industry, lets say Video Games, I can combine a general understanding of the environment, to a specific understanding of certain companies and the games they're making. If I see in a lo
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by moritonal 1y ago
Spacechem!
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by moritonal 1y ago
Just to challenge that slightly. There is a range of clubs, some are honestly very easy to get into if you end up there for some work event and talk to at least two people. It's the ability to socialize, and lack of clubs focused on ne
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by moritonal 1y ago
Anecdotally I heard this was because straight-women would prefer these clubs due to less pressure and more fun, which caused straight-men to try get into the clubs just to hit on them.
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by moritonal 1y ago
Context: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by moritonal 1y ago
I got lost investigating the battery claim of a week because this seemed quite low for such minimum specs. But then noticed it has a range of Wifi features? If you're selling a product focused on privacy, isn't it a bit weird that
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by moritonal 1y ago
For the people awaiting the singularity, lines like this written almost straight from science fiction: > By suggesting modifications in the standard language of chip designers, AlphaEvolve promotes a collaborative approach between AI and
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by moritonal 1y ago
Love the immediate protest votes of Horn after we missed the turn.

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