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by philjohn 2y ago
Also avoids the "Hmmm, I can't think of something more interesting or productive to do, let's scroll through $streaming_service and find something that might interest me"
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HyperLogLog doesn't support exact counters though, does it? That seems to be one of the core requirements of the queue-based solution.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Have you worked with distributed counters before? It's a hard problem to solve. Typical tradeoffs are lower cardinality for exact counters. The queue solution is pretty elegant.
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As another poster pointed out, Harley Davidson had a painful time, and ended up having to make more motorcylces outside the US. Similarly, Soy Bean farmers needed a large bailout. Both of those sound pretty bad to me, and they were somewhat
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by philjohn 2y ago
Could it be motivated by more tax cuts?
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by philjohn 2y ago
Looking at the figures on China it feels like Coal is cheap and easy to deploy as a short term measure, but they're also investing heavily in renewables as you said (2X the rest of the world combined last year) and Nuclear. For just ho
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by philjohn 2y ago
If you're interested in other cases where people have self experimented and made a breakthrough, Roger Altounyan[1] is another fascinating case - he managed to discover sodium cromoglycate[2] was an effective treatment for Asthma. Arth
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by philjohn 2y ago
Yep - I think parent poster is conflating the effects of oral corticosteroid use (which believe me, I know, and they SUCK) with topical usage.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Any reason you choose to take PE rather than a corticosteroid nasal spray?
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by philjohn 2y ago
Not unless your entire stack down to the bare silicon is also FLOSS, and the community is able to verify. There is a lot of navel gazing in these comments about "the perfect solution", but we all know (or should know) that perfect
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by philjohn 2y ago
Yes - but humans possess other senses, and crucially, our eyes have a much greater dynamic range than even the best cameras (and they are not fitting the absolute best cameras, because that would be even more expensive than LiDAR). It also
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by philjohn 2y ago
mDNS would be one thing - e.g. anything like Sonos, or the Shelly (IoT hardware) apps that can look for devices on the local network.
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I think it's fair to assume this is where the VAST majority of the Reality Labs spend was going ... cutting edge R&D on getting this kind of form factor, whilst some others (who perhaps lack object permanence) thought it was all go
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by philjohn 2y ago
And on parts of the Northern Line (between Euston and Charring Cross) there's now even 5G down there.
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ULEZ compliant cars are dirt cheap - there's a scrappage sceheme as well that will give more than a ULEZ compliant car costs. It's a non issue turned into one by the "culture warriors" on the right.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Yes - although it's worth bearing in mind the number of load/unload cycles a drive is rated for over its lifetime. In the case of the IronWolf NAS drives in my home server, that's 600,000. I spin the drives down after 20 minu
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by philjohn 2y ago
I'd love to get rid of mine ... and there is a procedure, but I looked up photos of it and ... nope. Think I'll just stick to using dark mode when using my computer instead.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Global Cycling Network on YouTube did a spot on the American team this year ... fascinating stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvkx6oF_Zyk
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by philjohn 2y ago
Or someone social engineers you into clicking on a .reg file which changes these URL's to something malicious that will brick your drives.
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by philjohn 2y ago
But then trains highly overcrowded so in the case of another Greyrigg the death and injury toll would be far higher. But affording to a train company there is "no upper limit on the number of passengers in a given train carriage".
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by philjohn 2y ago
Yep - I believe they released the first Windows version in 1998 ... and by that time I was about to start my first year of uni ... not studying music, but instead AI + Comp Sci!
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by philjohn 2y ago
They'd respond to your kind words, but there are two faulty cables in their token ring network, and as such, no redundant paths for the beacon frame to get through.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Gosh - that's a blast from the past! I remember back in the 90's when studying for my Music A-Level you essentially had two choices for notation - Finale if you were on a PC, and Sibelius if you had an Acorn. For that reason, the
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by philjohn 2y ago
CSAM is different - in the US, as well as france, the law designates the service provider as a mandatory reporter. If you find CSAM and don't report the user who posted it to authorities (and Telegram have phone numbers of users) then
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by philjohn 2y ago
But is it dropping faster than the needs of the next model that needs to be trained?
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What's even funnier is that I've heard from someone working at OpenAI is that (at least in their office) they are hybrid, working from the office 3 days a week. From talking to people who've worked/work at Google it soun
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Ah yes, you're indeed correct - I forgot that :D I also used to know what most of the MARC 21 (library interchange format) codes stood for ... but that has now been purged from the memory banks ... except 245 $c - statement of responsi
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Listen to "Well There's your Problem" podcast on this. The maths don't math compared to literally any other form of mass underground transit.
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by philjohn 2y ago
It's pretty widely publicised that even on older Intel CPU's there is a non zero number of servers giving unexpected results at scale - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11245
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I still love the bit of book trivia that since 13 digit EAN's start with a country code, you can convert an ISBN-10 into an ISBN-13 by prepending it with the code for "book land" - 978. (I worked on Library Management Softwar

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