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by pdpi 7mo ago
We all know that 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1, but 0.33 + 0.33 + 0.33 = 0.99. We're sufficiently used to decimal to know that 1/3 doesn't have a finite decimal representation. Decimal 1/10 doesn't have a finit
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by pdpi 7mo ago
> Big fat database schemas with big fat CRUD It's not rocket science. Those particular database schemas, together with those particular CRUD layers, do something useful, and neither building nor maintaining those applications is par
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by pdpi 7mo ago
DST shenanigans aside (we're in the "US has changed but Europe hasn't" window), 10:00 in SF is 18:00 in London. Meaning their peak time window is 13:00–19:00 London time, or 14:00–20:00 Berlin time. So us European folks
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by pdpi 7mo ago
If you're forbidding people from doing things they could do yesterday, it's best to be a little conservative with your scope. 16-yo kids might do some amount of part time work, and should at least have enough of a concept of money
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by pdpi 7mo ago
I followed the inquiry when it was ongoing — all of the depositions were live on YouTube. The level of both hubris and incompetence involved in that case was breathtaking.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
(Nearly) everybody does, it's not an American thing. It takes a bit of personal discipline to avoid it.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
The idea is that it slices the Amen Break into however many slices you specify, and the list being sorted is the indices for those slices. At each step, it plays the slice the pivot is being compared to. Because it only plays the samples be
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by pdpi 7mo ago
There's a bazillion ways to discuss a topic that don't involve giving advice with unearned confidence. Even just saying "My experience is that doing X helped" instead of "You should do X" is a massive massive
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by pdpi 7mo ago
> e.g. the mantra of 'upstream early; upstream often' This is the gold standard, sure. In practice, you end up maintaining a branch simply because upstream isn't merging your changes on your timescale, or because you don&#
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by pdpi 7mo ago
There are people I've worked with who I'll never worth with again. There are others I'd be willing to work with if they got their act together. "If you disagree this strongly with their actions, how can you still respect
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by pdpi 7mo ago
In the UK, it's pretty common for the post code to be the first field in address forms, and for the form to then offer auto-completion for the whole address based on the post code. Postcodes are specific enough that the autocomplete wi
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by pdpi 7mo ago
I think the single biggest jump I ever experienced was my first dedicated GPU — a GeForce 2 MX if I'm not mistaken.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
For a bit over half the price of the Air, you get the iPhone 16 Pro SoC (minus one GPU core, so somewhere between the 16 and 16 Pro, actually) in a laptop chassis that's all around a bit less premium than the Air.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
The baseline mini costs $499, so it seems to be going strong.
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by pdpi 7mo ago
That M4 Max is in a laptop. The Mac Studio version is a couple percent faster still: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16839304?baseli... The M3 Ultra sacrifices a bunch of single-thread performanc
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by pdpi 7mo ago
I think it's reasonable to say that the people responding to surveys on Stack Overflow aren't the same people who work on pushing the state of the art in local LLM deployment. (which doesn't prove that that crowd is Apple-cen
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by pdpi 7mo ago
There's nothing special about ARM, sure. Hence "for whatever reason". Still, ARM is a known quantity, and the leading alternative to x86 for desktop CPUs. The article is titled "reaching desktop performance". We kno
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by pdpi 7mo ago
Sure. Insofar as Apple Silicon beats these things, "I'll take less powerful hardware if it means I'm not stuck with the Apple ecosystem" is a perfectly reasonable tradeoff to make. Two things, though. First, I don't
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by pdpi 7mo ago
Kind of weird to see an article about high-performance ARM cores without a single reference to Apple or how this hardware compares to M4 or M5 cores.
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by pdpi 8mo ago
"redundant" effectively means "dismissed because your old job no longer exists" rather than "dismissed because you're no good at your old job".
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by pdpi 8mo ago
> “You are not allowed to do illegal things” is meaningless, since they already can’t legally do illegal things. That's not quite right. First off, I don't expect that "you used my service to commit a crime" is in and
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by pdpi 8mo ago
I would never have expected that "Shatner and Henry Rollins ranting while Adrian Belew and Matt Chamberlain go absolutely wild on guitar and drums respectively" would be anywhere close to as good as it is. Incidentally, Rollins ta
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by pdpi 8mo ago
There's two separate things at play here. One is "I don't want to use Meta products as a matter of principle", and WhatsApp's a no-go if that's your posture. The other is "I don't want to drown in hor
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by pdpi 8mo ago
> For many years I wanted to believe they had a consistent and defensible legal viewpoint, even if I thought it was misguided. Watching from across the Atlantic, I was always fascinated by Scalia's opinions (especially his dissents
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by pdpi 8mo ago
You want concrete proof? Vasquez Perdomo v Noem is your proof. The Supreme Court effectively legitimised racial profiling.
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by pdpi 8mo ago
Sort of, except not really, except yes really. It's complicated. The China that was a founding member of the United Nations was the Republic of China (ROC), and it controlled both mainland China and what we call Taiwan. In 1949, at the
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by pdpi 8mo ago
The context is somebody asking "Mainland US or Mainland China?" The comment you're responding to brought up Taiwan because that's the natural "not-mainland" when you're talking about China.
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by pdpi 8mo ago
You don't buy in-game money like GTA5, sure. Then again, you'll never see a group of pre-schoolers wearing GTA5 hoodies and hats and backpacks, and you can't watch the GTA film in cinemas.
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by pdpi 8mo ago
> A lot of the memory problems that you can see without a GC are hard to find and diagnose The nastiest leak I've ever seen in a C++ production system happened inside the allocator. We had a really hostile allocation pattern that
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by pdpi 8mo ago
A company as large as Microsoft has resources to do a lot of things, but you’re not borrowing resources from the Office team to help on this project. The relevant measurement is the resources Mojang has as a studio. And I expect the decisio

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