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by mpyne 5mo ago
They'd actually make economic sense where I live, the only thing that's held me from pulling the trigger is that I want to time it with when I need to have the roof inspected/replaced. I'm aware of the arguments about ho
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by mpyne 5mo ago
My time in submarines at sea just coincided with the last few years where smoking on submarines was still authorized. It was awful, just awful. Especially in a space as cramped as a submarine and with a common ventilation system, you can&#x
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> The process didn’t work before because the person writing the requirements either put out vague requirements or bad requirements because they didn’t understand the business intent (or were careless). You make it sound like writing good
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by mpyne 5mo ago
If there are datacenters sitting idle right now then you could probably make a lot of money selling that capacity to Anthropic at this point...
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by mpyne 5mo ago
They're responding to the people doing things like buying the most expensive Mac they can find specifically to do local inference for their AI agents. Some do it to have control over their ability to use AI. Some do it because they thi
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by mpyne 5mo ago
I hadn't but it would make sense for doing my own personal programming challenges. Given the ongoing disasters around the software supply chains I've been fighting the creeping NPM-ism that people are trying to introduce to C++, w
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by mpyne 5mo ago
That's why it's an issue for investors. Their investment may not payout. But the things that were built will still have been built and available to sell for related purposes, the models that were trained will still be trained, and
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> I think a legitimate criticism is that it is unclear who std::simd is for. I think it's for people like me, who recognize that depending on the dataset that a lot of performance is left on the table for some datasets when you don&
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Yeah, this is the one that ruled my homeroom during last bit of elementary school.
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> The three years of ESU exists only for organisations like government departments that would rather pay Microsoft millions of dollars for patches than pay a competitive wage and hire competent IT staff that can complete upgrade projects
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Being able navigate change can provide stability in the long term though, at least as opposed to being resistant to change.
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Companies should contribute as they can, if only for self-centered business reasons relating to keeping the upstream viable. But there are obligations to the users of software as well, it's not AWS's fault if making their user&#
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by mpyne 5mo ago
I'm sorry, but "or pay $10 for a pre-picked basket" is not an open source product, because "free to pick" was the other option for an open source product. "free to pick by yourself" is the equivalent a pro
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Of course not, their individual contributors formed business models that make sense, and work at those companies instead. Companies that are, I must again reiterate, linked directly from the official PostgreSQL.org website, in case there&
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by mpyne 5mo ago
I would argue that was precisely the issue with Redis and its friends. As a rule they want to get credit for being an open source project and contributing to the global commons, but without actually contributing to the global commons. I&#x2
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Sure they do. AWS RDS, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, etc. are all "pro" / "officially supported" deployments of PostgreSQL. On top of that the PostgreSQL official website even lists a whole table full of vendors fr
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by mpyne 5mo ago
PostgreSQL is doing fine even with AWS having a multitude of hosted offerings. Maybe the business model / community-governance model does matter after all...
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> They had no choice but to change the licenses. Then why did they advertise themselves as open-source efforts when they weren't? They should have been the best possible providers of managed service offerings given they wrote the
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> However, there's a reason pre-computing bureaucracy came with paper trails and meeting minutes getting written up, why court cases are increasingly cautious about the reliability of eye witnesses. This was the comment I was coming
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by mpyne 5mo ago
I don't use it very often anymore (except for oneliners or simple one-offs) but I still like it!
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Did you miss the part about contraband? You quoted it, after all. Firing on neutral shipping is not the same as intercepting it and inspecting it for war materiel or other contraband. Preventing shipping from reaching or leaving Kuwaiti por
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by mpyne 5mo ago
That only applies to Iranian traffic. It would in fact be an act of war for the U.S. to blockade maritime traffic of countries it's not already at war with.
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Yeah my overall spending at McDonald's declined significantly after the 2022 bout with inflation, and it's not just that prices went up (it was inflation, they mostly all went up), but that they leaned into trying to appeal to peo
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Yeah, the first EV I bought was an otherwise boring Hyundai Kona. Great car and great EV but you could easily mistake it for the gas version if you weren't paying attention. And surprisingly to me it is even pretty damn efficient despi
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by mpyne 5mo ago
You're assuming that the customer growing their own fruit could do it at lower overall cost. Logistics are fairly inexpensive all things considered, if they really represent 90% of the total cost of fruit it says a lot for how low agri
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by mpyne 5mo ago
But again, these are all things that are also true of build systems. GCC 16.1 vs. 15.2 will get you differences. GNU ld vs. gold vs. mold vs. lld will get you differences. Whether you do or do not employ LTO or other whole-program optimiza
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by mpyne 5mo ago
It is random if you select it to be (temperature != 0, etc.). It is not random if you don't use random sampling in its output generation. It the whole thing were actually stochastic then prompt caching would be impossible because havin
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> I wrote about this - https://www.ebiester.com/agile/2023/04/22/what-agile-alterna ... - Royce was describing what he saw as an anti-pattern that it was risky and invited failure without iterations. Y
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> The reason reproducible builds are tricky is not because compilers are inherently prone to randomness And neither are LLMs. Having their output employ randomness by default is a choice, not a requirement, just like things like embeddin
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Digital computers were named after the humans whose jobs they automated out of existence. They were invented to reduce cost of computation, not to eliminate the probability of error per se. Ask a Windows 11 user, they'll tell you compu

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