pantsforbirds

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by pantsforbirds 10d ago
ah, i think i misunderstood your original post. if you mean the wayback-machine/arkive, then I suspect it'd be hard to justify? You are essentially paying a third-party source to validate that diffs didn't go through on the s
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by pantsforbirds 10d ago
I mean we already paid for the article from the source itself. I guess I'd expect a better "diff" source from them, but if they dont even update the article itself, i guess i wouldn't expect a paid service to have those
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by pantsforbirds 11d ago
We used to always "scrape" the wayback machine for any sort of news article we actually paid to consume. I was absolutely shocked by major news sites making very important edits to an article without any sort of editorial notice!
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by pantsforbirds 1mo ago
I think it's VERY project specific. If you are looking for anything technical at all, then keyword search almost always does better (in my experience). I'd actually recommend starting with keyword search, and then expanding with e
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by pantsforbirds 1mo ago
I'm hoping this means we get an rds + s3 implementation of ducklake from AWS: https://ducklake.select/
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by pantsforbirds 1mo ago
I have a Google account that I had tied to a domain I originally purchased from google (when they had the .dev offerings), and now that it's been purchased by square space my ability to use AI through that account is in a bizarre state
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
I appreciate the comparison to Timescale, DuckDB, and ClickHouse. It's interesting to see the differences between a more specialized db, like Quest, and DuckDB/ClickHouse.
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
Ah yes, I specifically mean you can keep earning points infinitely. After the board is full, it resets the game, and you get points for each piece on the board. I usually stop the simulation after it clears the board 10 times or so.
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
I'm fairly sure the code snippets aren't equal in the last python example: ```python names = sorted({name.lower() for name in users if name}) ``` vs. ```gossamer let names = users |> iter::filter(|n: String| n.len() > 0)
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
I've never seen the level of anti-scientific, straight misinformation as I have with data centers. I genuinely think it's to the point where the antivaxxers have a stronger scientific backing for their stance. It did not feel orga
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
The way the game is seeded, it's 100% deterministic. So if you can scan enough potential moves / second, it's very easy to infinitely play the game at a fast rate. Shockingly, Claude was able to find the exact random generato
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
I started by pulling the game source locally and doing some initial testing with a few solvers. I ended up having Claude make a 1-for-1 perfect sim of the original game using rust with some optimizations. The original engine was able to che
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
I had a lot of fun playing the game. I also made a local solver to see how far you can theoretically get, and it's definitely infinite if you play perfectly. Working on the local sim / solver was almost as fun as playing the game
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
Fun article and worth the read, but sadly none of the LaTeX was rendered for me (assuming it was supposed to).
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by pantsforbirds 3mo ago
I would have loved to buy my children some small C&H figurines or, especially, a stuffed tiger, but I do respect Waterson's decision
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by pantsforbirds 4mo ago
How many existing data centers do you think you rely on each day? Almonds do not realistically improve my life in nearly the way the internet does, but also who am I to say whether you should be allowed to farm almonds or build a datacenter
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by pantsforbirds 4mo ago
Like producing more tax revenue for a county than the rest of the county combined? That payoff allows for insane levels of infrastructure improvement at literally no cost to locals.
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by pantsforbirds 4mo ago
In the case of the Stratos / Box Elder County mega-datacenter, they are planning to use gas turbines to run off of the nearby Ruby Pipeline. It's a pretty tidy solution, if you ask me.
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by pantsforbirds 4mo ago
The mega-scale ones almost all have power as part of the ramp-up process. They are also a massive tax benefit. Looking at the controversial Stratos data center in Box Elder County: Box Elder County baseline (before Stratos): 2026 General
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by pantsforbirds 4mo ago
Except datacenters are actually very low environmental impact. As long as they provide their own power, they have MUCH lower impact than most farms would.
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by pantsforbirds 5mo ago
It's a neat product, but I am also a bit confused by the choice to use C as the primary language. I would think you'd want something more ergonomic since this is entirely I/O bound. I'm 100% on board with using C for the
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by pantsforbirds 5mo ago
I don't understand why people on this website hate Grok for being tied to Elon Musk, but also have no problem with models that are directly sponsored by the CCP.
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by pantsforbirds 5mo ago
Grok and Gemini are the ones I tend to use for finding news related to breaking events. Both were really nice during the Iran incident when I wanted to find out things as they were being reported.
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by pantsforbirds 5mo ago
If your data follows a relatively uniform distribution, you can try out interpolation search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation_search
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by pantsforbirds 7mo ago
The US doesn't have a desire to annex Canada; that's very silly. And the reason Russia doesn't have the capability is because of Canada's alliance with the US.
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by pantsforbirds 7mo ago
That seems entirely plausible. I based my comment on one of Elon's tweets (xeets?) about it: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2028261823678759335?s=20
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by pantsforbirds 7mo ago
Ignoring the ... less substantive portions of your response > I can both deny you the means to defend yourself, forcing you to rely on me for protection. That's the definition of a protection racket. The US didn't deny Europe t
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by pantsforbirds 7mo ago
> Many people believe that the US annexing Canada is a higher probability than either China or Russia doing so. All three are very low probabilities. I believe those people are being a bit silly, and their position probably comes from a
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by pantsforbirds 7mo ago
There is a separate entity, StarShield, that the US military uses. I think it's a fully separate set of satellites, but I'm not 100% on that.
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by pantsforbirds 7mo ago
You can't simultaneously argue that NATO is a "protection racket" for the US to sell weapons and control European foreign policy, and also argue that the EU would be in trouble without the current levels of US participation.

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