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by philjohn 2y ago
I can second the sequence key table being because auto increment wasn't available on some databases. I ran into the same some years back at a company who's software dated back to the late 60's.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Seeing as software engineers at Facebook and many other tech companies tend to mostly use Apple MBP's, I'd say yes.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Ah yes, the dreaded University integration! I was in charge of a SaaS offering for Academic and Public libraries years ago, and we had to add SAML functionality for the Academic side ... it was a frustrating few weeks, and I was glad when i
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by philjohn 2y ago
I had to use something like this to get into The Killers gig last week at the O2 in London (fantastic gig btw, and Andy Bell from Erasure made a special guest appearance to sing A Little Respect which was the cherry on top, but I digress).
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by philjohn 2y ago
Except doesn't the "can't enter things into evidence" clause of the ruling mean that bringing the prosecution against Nixon would never have had a snowball's hell in chance of being argued and won?
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by philjohn 2y ago
Because as much as it is great, musl isn't a drop-in replacement for glibc and requires extra work from maintainers to get software working on it (see PyTorch, AWS CLI etc. etc.).
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by philjohn 2y ago
Yes - but people don't want to pay $4k for a phone with 128GB of unified memory, do they? And whilst the LLM's running locally are cool, they're still pretty damn slow compared to Chat-GPT, or Meta's LLM.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Also depends on the leather. If it's aniline, there's little they can do. That's also the nicest leather for a sofa (IMHO) as it breathes and so doesn't get uncomfortable to sit in when the weather is warm.
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by philjohn 2y ago
It's a difficult one. The old net metering model where the utility serves as a battery was never going to be sustainable as distributed renewables grew in popularity. Home batteries are definitely the way forward, but NEM 3.0 is an abo
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by philjohn 2y ago
The fans literally never come on for my personal M2 MBP 14" or on my work 16" M1 (it helps that the heavy lifting of running stuff and compiling happens on a dev server) During work from home during Covid I was still using an Inte
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by philjohn 2y ago
It was ever thus - remember when everything was about "The Cloud"? TheOnion satirical news report about HP adopting "That cloud thing that everyone is talking about" is still relevant 11 years later: https://w
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by philjohn 2y ago
I wonder if a kind of Seti@Home approach could work - although I'm guessing the limited VRAM in most consumer cards compared to an H100, as well as the much slower "virtual WAN interconnect" versus the mellanox goodies that n
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by philjohn 2y ago
Lufthansa are also rolling it out across their entire freight fleet.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Yep - the more detailed page on the Lufthansa site states a 777 sees a 1% reduction in aerodynamic drag (it's a bit less for a 747 at 0.8%)
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by philjohn 2y ago
That's why I love my EV6 - physical knobs.
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by philjohn 2y ago
There's a fork of ESPHome called LibreTiny that runs on some of the more recent Tuya devices, but it requires flashing it using a serial adapter and soldering to various pads unless you have a jig to do it. I just decided to go all in
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by philjohn 2y ago
Let's not forget a Murder of Crows.
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by philjohn 2y ago
I didn't I'm afraid, but it was just like building any other computer, except repinning the 24pin ATX connector for the motherboard as it uses a 4 pin connection only (still Molex branded).
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by philjohn 2y ago
About 2.5-3 years ago, yes.
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by philjohn 2y ago
I built my own NAS for a total cost of £1000. 24TB physical drives, 16TB useable (Raid Z2). It runs Ubuntu LTS server edition and I spin up any containers I need in Docker using Portainer. Is it a point and click GUI that is friendly to all
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by philjohn 2y ago
Doesn't musl still not support pthread_attr_setaffinity_np, which means you can't run some software on it. PyTorch being the biggest.
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by philjohn 2y ago
It probably helps that Apple Silicon has dedicated die space to the Neural Engine - essentially a TPU. No good for training, great for inference.
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by philjohn 2y ago
Yes - I noticed that the OP mentions they reboot a lot. If you just reboot for OS updates, and use sleep the rest of the time, most (all?) of these problems go away. Same for closing apps - with modern OS's keeping an app open is likel
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by philjohn 2y ago
I don't know - the Star Wars game on Quest was amazing from an immersion point of view. And beat saber is a surprisingly fun way to do some cardio.
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by philjohn 2y ago
That's why the actual end goal for everyone working in this space is Mixed Reality (AR/MR/XR) in a glasses form factor that replaces your phone. It's obvious that's what Apple is targetting, and Meta have also demo&
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by philjohn 3y ago
No.
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by philjohn 3y ago
At Meta they probably don't get built unless they're impactful, and they're not impactful if they're not used in production to solve a real pain point.
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by philjohn 3y ago
More theatre performances are doing this now. Cabaret at the Kit Kat club in London places a sticker over any camera lens. The Burnt City, an immersive theatrical experience, makes you place your phone in a pouch that is then sealed with a
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by philjohn 3y ago
Maybe? But the scarcity of manufacturers of integrated home battery systems is also a thing. There are some Solar inverters that will just work with anything, but if you want a DC coupled system (for better efficiency, and to absorb inverte
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by philjohn 3y ago
I also had a lumbar puncture as a child (Viral Meningitis was diagnosed by it) and mine was like the author's, lying on my side in a foetal position. I don't remember it being painful, but in retrospect, my head felt like it wante

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