morning-coffee

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by morning-coffee 19d ago
That is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by morning-coffee 1mo ago
This! Since it became easier for people to post their thoughts on a problem vs. research and learn from past work, we're now in the era where its harder to find the seminal and really-well-explained material for having to wade through
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by morning-coffee 1mo ago
> Otherwise corporations choose what gets funded, and they only fund narratives and experiments they think will be profitable for them. Well, that's the incentive mechanism that keeps the accountability for the results whether we li
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by morning-coffee 5mo ago
"established standards" - now who has the incentive to run shitty services? those big enough to control the "established standards".
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by morning-coffee 5mo ago
It's somewhat ironic... if a University's CS department was charged with developing and maintaining the system, what an awesome learning tool it would be. CS students would maybe even be invested in the outcome by having to eat
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by morning-coffee 6mo ago
Study history. Tractor businesses have operated successfully from the 1930's through the 1990's using this model. Those tractors are still running and still serviceable. (I've run a Farmall Model H from the 50's and IH-5
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by morning-coffee 6mo ago
Good. Simplicity should win out over enshittification in the end.
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by morning-coffee 6mo ago
This is (yet another reason) why we can't have nice things on the Internet anymore. Sigh.
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by morning-coffee 6mo ago
The F-35 was specified when the Joint Strike Fighter program began in 1995, with the development contract awarded in 2001, and the first flight in 2006 or thereabouts. Of course it was built for a different war... the use of drones didn&#x2
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by morning-coffee 6mo ago
Right. But the copyright was violated when you used 'a' to begin with.
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by morning-coffee 6mo ago
The Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter missions would beg to differ. (And "absolute" or other adjectives don't qualify "correctness"... it simply is or isn't.)
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by morning-coffee 7mo ago
In my engineering job of over 30 years, I've noticed that the heroes that get rewarded for fixing the problems are usually the same ones who created the problems in the first place. I've only been a paid-on-call firefighter for 10
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by morning-coffee 8mo ago
I don't know who is dumber now... the AI, or the humans who keep interacting with them thinking that they actually possess some form of intelligence and are not just stochastically regurgitating a token stream.
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by morning-coffee 8mo ago
If the premise contributing to the conclusion to run their own chat service is: > But Signal is still one company running one service. If they shut down tomorrow or change direction, I’m back to square one. Aren't they in the same b
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by morning-coffee 8mo ago
?? I don't understand the conclusion to block incoming SYNs with TTL > 70... you're blocking all (even valid) connection attempts from users running other OS's that don't choose the default TTL of 64... like Windows
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by morning-coffee 9mo ago
> "We totally lost all of our critical thinking skills " This nugget was buried in the article, and seems appropriate. I don't get where the author is coming from. If one doesn't take some level of responsibility and
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by morning-coffee 9mo ago
> To be honest, though, this seems like ideal content for an LLM to produce. It's basically fact regurgitation. You're trolling us, right? "Basically fact regurgitation" is all that teachers do after all. Have you eve
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by morning-coffee 9mo ago
> I want less code. I want to limit the amount of 3rd party code I pull in. This is mostly due to supply chain disasters over on NPM scaring me and the amount of code dependencies bringing in see rust dependencies scare me. `anyhow` has
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by morning-coffee 9mo ago
> I know it’s thermal throttling because I can see in iStat Menus that my CPU usage is 100% while the power usage in watts goes down. When I read this I wondered "Why isn't core temperature alone not a reliable indicator of the
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by morning-coffee 10mo ago
Amen
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by morning-coffee 10mo ago
Makes me wonder why there isn't a UI feature within easy reach to let the user drag a pin on a map and tap "I know I'm here right now"... and if that agrees with where GPS also indicates, let's it reset its notion o
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by morning-coffee 10mo ago
All the people who weren't raised on a phone or tablet shoved in front of them since they were a toddler...
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by morning-coffee 10mo ago
At least we still have the right to not buy a TV... (for now?)
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by morning-coffee 1y ago
But there's so much UB in C++ that can be exploited that I doubt attackers lament the lack of a module system to target. ;)
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by morning-coffee 1y ago
My question regrettably left out an unstated extrapolation I was inferring... what happens when we all "just google-ai it" when we're bored? Of course I don't think the energy usage of your individual questions is an iss
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by morning-coffee 1y ago
> I had never heard of Jon Postel before. Reading this makes me a bit sad and reminds me that I'm older now and lucky to have grown up during the golden age of the Internet.
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by morning-coffee 1y ago
The lie is that hyper thread "cores" are equal to real "cores". Maybe this is what happens when an over 20-year old technology (hack) becomes ubiquitous and gets forgotten about? (We have to rediscover why our performanc
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by morning-coffee 1y ago
They are unrelated. Larger windows help achieve higher throughput over paths with high delay. You allude to selective acknowledgements as a way to repair loss before the window completely drains which is true, but my point is that no data c
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by morning-coffee 1y ago
Yeah. I learned programming in high school in the mid-80's and was hooked. I liked electronics too, and got a BSEE. But took a summer job writing code and never looked back... still coding now, professionally. My analogy is that the 80
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by morning-coffee 1y ago
That's just one bottleneck. The other issue is head-of-line blocking. When there is packet loss on a TCP connection, nothing sent after that is delivered until the loss is repaired.

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