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by nopurpose 7mo ago
I was missing magit, but then found `gitu` CLI and now use it happily for rebasing.
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by nopurpose 8mo ago
Reminds me of "false sharing" effect: hidden common dependency and bottleneck for what looks like independent variables on the surface.
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by nopurpose 8mo ago
How do those companies make money? Qwen, GLM, Kimi, etc all released for free. I have no experience in the field, but from reading HN alone my impression was training is exceptionally costly and inference can be barely made profitable. How&
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by nopurpose 8mo ago
they can recognise on the informal level, but you can't put it into end of the year review document. What it will be? "Kept N PRs from introducing cruft into our systems?". Fixing or building things is much more visible, than
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by nopurpose 8mo ago
Adjacent to it are PR reviews. Suggesting simpler approach in PR almost always causes friction: work is done and tested, why redo? It also doesn't make a good promotion material: keeping landscape clear of overengineered solutions is
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by nopurpose 8mo ago
Because it is RNG, their 5th can be my 1st.
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by nopurpose 8mo ago
a few? all sorts of websites and services are thriving on the Internet even after significant consolidation of attention social media caused. Not even close to a dystopian picture parent comment paints.
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by nopurpose 8mo ago
You could make same argument in "information superhighway" days, but it turned out to be the opposite: no company monopolised internet services, despite trying hard. With so many companies in AI race it is already pretty competiti
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by nopurpose 9mo ago
Is there a good tool for background migrations? For example add temporarily nullable column to a large table, deploy new code which starts writing to the new column, in background populate that column for existing rows in batches and finall
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by nopurpose 9mo ago
> They don’t understand it and think it will replace them so they are afraid. I don't have evidence, but I am certain that AI replaced most of all logo and simple landing pages designers already. AI in Figma is surprisingly good.
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by nopurpose 9mo ago
Just bought a digital piano as New Year present to myself. So far I am doing single-note-a-time melodies from my child's practice book and so far enjoying my slow progress, but I am really struggling. Spent 3 evenings on a single simpl
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by nopurpose 10mo ago
> As long as the vehicle has a known starting point, quantum accelerometers can continue tracking its movement accurately, regardless of what’s happening above the atmosphere. So this is a much more precise inertial guidance system repla
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by nopurpose 10mo ago
given that there is no dev mode or ssh server running on a console, how do they even read low level binary code such as boot loader? Do they transplant memory chips?
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by nopurpose 10mo ago
can we have another battlezone, please?
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by nopurpose 10mo ago
At first I wanted to comment that 20k users/day require manufacturing same amount of terminals, which seemed impressive to me. But then I decided to compare with iPhone and was blown away by the volume: 235M iPhones a year or 643K unit
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by nopurpose 10mo ago
Cables on overhead high voltage lines are mounted using stacks of ceramic insulators, but here they seemingly just sleeved in some protection and hang on a tunnel wall. Why is that?
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by nopurpose 10mo ago
> my quarterly feedback was that I don’t ask too many questions Sounds like your manager felt that he need to provide at least some feedback and it is best/safest he could come up with.
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by nopurpose 10mo ago
My immediate question is that if all of that was on-disk data duplication, why did it affected download size? Can't small download be expanded into optimal layout on the client side?
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
update-refs works only in a narrow case when every branch starts form the tip of a previous. Your helper might still be useful if it properly "replants" whole tree keeping its structure.
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
discoverability is a big problem, especially for CLI tools which can't afford to show small hints or "what's new" popups. I myself learned it from someone else, not docs.
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
That particular case can be solved much easier by rebasing outer-most branch with `--update-refs` flag.
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
I got a lot of noise when plugging speakers to my display :(
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
How many before you stopped? I am at 37.
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
VPN app can still solve it by locally resolving configured domain into special local IP, which get VPNed into real IP on their side. You'll need to encode original DNS name into protocol somehow, so that remote side knows which real I
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
Majority of people think they are better than average drivers. Surely those models are not smarter than _you_, right?
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
Having worked with QUIC extensively lately I must say that having protocol entirely in userspace is truly liberating. It also helps that almost everything, including headers is encrypted, as a result middle boxes can't interfere and &q
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by nopurpose 11mo ago
Then you see 25% cache hit rate in production and realise that disabling it for benchmark is not a good option either.
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by nopurpose 1y ago
How is it possible to develop emotional connection to anyone with a goldfish memory? I'd be surprised if context size there is more than 50K tokens.
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by nopurpose 1y ago
huh? What did I miss?

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