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541.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Also, many of these countries are tropical or subtropical, with optimal conditions for solar energy year round. Nepal and Bhutan are relatively far from equator, but have many days of unobstructed sunshine.
542.
by nine_k 7mo ago
It took 15 if not 20 years to commercialize even such obvious, low-tech thing as radio telegraph, which can literally be built form common house supplies. It happened about 60 years after Maxwell predicted the electromagnetic waves theoreti
543.
by nine_k 7mo ago
3 PhDs is quite some dedication to science, given that a PhD student life is neither that of plenty nor leisure.
544.
by nine_k 7mo ago
This is fair! This should as you descripbe work with a partial index, and with picking the lowest ID that has status = pending (via that index) which is not locked (via select ... for update skip locked). The query plan should be triple-che
545.
by nine_k 7mo ago
For (2): the problem is that the index would still need to keep the dead tuples, until Postgres is positively certain that no transaction holds them, and runs vacuum over them. It may speed up things a bit, but would still overflow the disk
546.
by nine_k 7mo ago
In short: * Postgres still has the same problem with vacuum horizon, when a long-running query can block vacuuming of a quick-churning table. (The author uses a benchmark from 2015 when the problem was already well-understood.) * Stock Post
547.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Of course it worked. Apple turned from a company that sells electronic equipment into a company that sells media consumption devices which double as fashion accessories signaling high social status. Of course the addressable market is 2-3 o
548.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Because it's a kernel driver anyway?
549.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Yes, I meant the equality. We already operate on the assumption that P ≠ NP , so little would change if that were proved.
550.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Likely all existing cryptography would become crackable, possibly some of it, very readily.
551.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Apple computers are made for those who purchases a computer. They are engineered to look great on a demo shelf. «During the first Jobsian era at Apple, I used to joke that Steve Jobs cared deeply about Apple customers from the moment they f
552.
by nine_k 7mo ago
But uv is a (very-) nice-to-have tool, not the foundation. Also, uv is open source, and can be forked if the company behind it decides to close it (see Terraform → OpenTofu, etc).
553.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Disabling may be not sufficient (which is pretty insidious), but I still posit that enabling message preview is guaranteed secrecy loss. But indeed, the idea that disabled notifications are still stored, and not directed to /dev/n
554.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Indeed, the cost of decent good XR glasses is less than the cost of upgrade to the business class on a flight!
555.
by nine_k 7mo ago
JJ has a good chance, because it builds on top of git, not replacing it abruptly.
556.
by nine_k 7mo ago
The tool that could replace git must free, ubiquitous, and arguably open-source. This is why I cannot imagine how raising $17M may pay for itself in that case, to say nothing of a 10× return. It may be a great tool, but I'd be very r
557.
by nine_k 7mo ago
This is insidious indeed. Still I would suggest that any secret message, as it leaves the app that handles secrecy, ceases to be secret. This BTW also applies to copy-paste operations, screen readers, etc.
558.
by nine_k 7mo ago
If you care about security at all, you disable any previews on the lock screen. The lock screen is by definition visible to anyone without any authorization. Showing anything on it immediately destroys any secrecy. It must be obvious to any
559.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Does this resemble human language, with syntax, the ability to define new notions based on known notions, etc?
560.
by nine_k 7mo ago
But context window exhaustion does not look like mere forgetfulness, but more like loss of general coherence, like getting drunk.
561.
by nine_k 7mo ago
If you look at different ancient traditions, you will notice how they struggle with the limitations of language, with its inability to represent certain things that are not just crucial for understanding the world, but also are even som
562.
by nine_k 7mo ago
This is the most incredible part. I cannot even use a laptop adequately in an economy class seat, I cannot position the screen so that I could see it, and the keyboard so that I could type on it, at the same time. (To say nothing of connect
563.
by nine_k 7mo ago
But the git commands in the article is also programming of the same kind, just using more terse, more obscure language. All the shell pipelines are sort, uniq, and grep. A language that properly maps to the data model, and has readable iden
564.
by nine_k 7mo ago
People don't love to work hard per se. Sisyphus works hard. A prisoner in a labor camp works hard. They don't love it. What people love is purpose and agency. They love to do what they feel is right, and / or what they enjoy
565.
by nine_k 7mo ago
...because they love to explore, and running a company is work. So they hire someone to relegate it to them!
566.
by nine_k 7mo ago
I don't think it can continue the no-interaction line too far. This may be enough for movie-making purposes though.
567.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Removed the /s. Nothing materially changed.
568.
by nine_k 7mo ago
The Last Ninja ran at resolution 160x200, with effectively 2-bit color for graphic assets. It had amazing animations for that level of detail, but all the variety of the graphics could not take too much RAM even if it wanted to. The quest f
569.
by nine_k 7mo ago
Not all music I like makes good work music. For instance, I cannot work with code while listening to songs: the verbal center apparently gets overloaded.
570.
by nine_k 7mo ago
The fact that it works for the author, but totally does not for you is a big fat sign that says: search what works for you . More than that: search what works for you in a particular state of mind . You are a special enough snowflake to r

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