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by oofbey 4y ago
Yes! We just need to get our users to visit the website in order of their user_id, at their assigned time, and then we wouldn't have these random access patterns. /s Unfortunately, reality.
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by oofbey 4y ago
This looks quite cool from a technical perspective, but the unusual license definitely gives me pause. Largely because I'm not familiar with BSL. Others say it's increasingly popular, but with a little googling the acronym is st
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by oofbey 4y ago
The more I use microk8s the less I like it. It seems neato and magic "just works". Until snap upgrades your k8s and it "just stops working". The quality control on their plugins is also pretty low. E.g. the GPU plugi
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by oofbey 4y ago
My standard trick here is to mount your code directory into the container. Pretty easy with k8s using `hostPath`. You can still build the container with the production-worthy process, but whatever directory your code ends up in gets overr
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by oofbey 4y ago
Looking through some of this code is a painful reminder of the time when lots of people thought XML was a good idea. <math result="sf.spec.sbs.numberofjobs" operand1="${env.NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}" operation=" &quo
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by oofbey 4y ago
"Buttonless" is also critical. If you make people press a button on their key to open the car, it's secure.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Blindly repeating the bits actually works just fine. The relay doesn't need to know anything about the content of the conversation - it just needs to boost the signal enough that the car and key can talk to each other when they'r
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by oofbey 4y ago
I appreciate and agree with your main point, but I want to push back on the "impossible to solve" assertion because solving hard problems is fun. Using latency seems intrinsically expensive because there's no lower limit to h
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by oofbey 4y ago
When they introduce new products, do they say "and really we won't abandon this in 2 years" and keep a straight face, or do they just not even bother?
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by oofbey 4y ago
I’ve read this but always had a hard time believing it. Why would the omega 6/3 ratio matter? Seems like a falsehood peddled by people trying to convince you to buy more expensive unsustainable hunted fish.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Or is LigmaYC actually in fact Casey himself??? Troll-busters want to know.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Fair point. He didn't need to deliberately generate the conflict. But he sure seems to be enjoying it. Instead of maybe moving on, or using the experience to build connections and strengthen relationships with the people he interact
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by oofbey 4y ago
Good for him. Sounds worthwhile. I'd be more inclined to watch him or recommend him based on that instead of learning of his existence by him yelling "I told you so!" in reaction to the kind of thing that happens every day
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by oofbey 4y ago
Another example of this is their OKR system. If you meet all your quarterly goals at Google, that's not a success. In fact, you're frowned upon for not setting your goals high enough. Their whole management process encourages pe
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by oofbey 4y ago
I totally hear you - this seems SUPER SHADY. But I think the truth is it's really not. These data brokers are totally legit - legally. And also pretty common. Cell companies cell this stuff all the time to just about anybody. They
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by oofbey 4y ago
I wonder how much the software engineers at Tesla & similar think about this stuff. I bet not much.
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by oofbey 4y ago
> a single almond requires more water than a human. Also incorrect. Humans need to drink about 0.7 gallons PER DAY. To grow, an almond needs 1 gallon PER YEAR. (I'm guessing almond trees produce nuts once per year.) Point is the
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by oofbey 4y ago
Which is a completely pointless reference when discussing municipal water supplies.
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by oofbey 4y ago
> a person only needs 0.5 gallons a day This is simply wrong, by a lot. Americans use about 100 gallons/day of water per person on average, including things like toilets, showers, etc. Maybe we don’t “need” to use that much (whate
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by oofbey 4y ago
s/is going to/should/; It's frightening how many industrial product are completely insecure, assuming/hoping/wishing the installers only use them on a secure network. But all too often that "secure networ
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by oofbey 4y ago
I agree. I’d love to read about how they plan to monitor and react to such risks instead of just saying “nothing will go wrong!”
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by oofbey 4y ago
Proposals like this seem promising but are hard to take seriously when they refuse to acknowledge potential risks. Merely stating the risk is “very low” does nothing to persuade people’s legitimate concerns about climate engineering. That s
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by oofbey 4y ago
As somebody who spends a lot of time in Jupyter, I might say this "lets your IDE work like a notebook." That's what it makes me think. Right now I go to Jupyter when I want to figure out what works interactively. This look
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by oofbey 4y ago
This looks quite cool. But the authors could really use some help with marketing. "Advanced hot reloading" sounds like nothing I'd never be interested in at all. Maybe that's standard jargon for this tech? Never hear
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by oofbey 4y ago
> Organic chemistry is covalent polar bonds, which don't require ionizing radiation to break. This sounds wrong. It's been decades since my last chemistry class, so I sure could be wrong. But IIRC organic covalent bonds aren&
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by oofbey 5y ago
What’s the chemical mechanism causing this? I thought that because these RF photons don’t have enough energy to break any bonds (so-called non-ionizing) that they should generally be assumed to be safe.
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by oofbey 5y ago
OpenAI's ties to MSFT run very deep.[1] Meta's not going to get their hands on anything coming out of there anytime soon. [1] q.v. $1 billion investment https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/22/microsoft-in
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by oofbey 5y ago
Sure, with a $5k card like that it would be physically capable, but still unreasonably slow. FWIW RTX 8000 is previous-generation - the current gen is the A6000, which is also $5k, and similarly spec'd but faster. If you're look
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by oofbey 5y ago
Yeah. HN should just switch to markdown. ;)
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by oofbey 5y ago
Maybe possible with a fabulous GPU, but still likely not, and if it did work it would take a horrendously long time. The real blocker is gonna be GPU memory. With an RTX 3090 you have 24 GB of GPU RAM and _might_ be able to try it, but I&

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