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by polynox 4y ago
I recently migrated a few systems to Fly - volume snapshot downloads (S3 or otherwise) - built in log drain rather than needing to deploy fly-log-shipper - customizable Prometheus alert rules. As is to get alerting using the fly-metrics.net
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by polynox 5y ago
This is a lie at least as it corresponds to bigtech hiring today. > "I'd Google the exact algorithm for X" This is a fail in the interviewer's book. Read: "Could not produce an algorithm with less than O(n)"
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by polynox 5y ago
I could imagine that left turns like you mentioned would be systematically disadvantaged, but doesn't that just mean you should circle around so that you are going north? If instead you were going west and competing against northbound
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by polynox 5y ago
> subject to unknown latency (stuck behind the first request) Also known as "head of line blocking" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-of-line_blocking
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by polynox 5y ago
Fastmail now reports they're "under attack": > We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider. We're working with them to block the attack and restore access.
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by polynox 5y ago
The failure modes are going to be very strange and the technology is not strictly comparable to a human driver. It is going to fail in ways that a human never would. Not recognizing obstacles, misrecognizing things, sensors being obscured i
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by polynox 5y ago
I believe that unfortunately the fourth amendment aspect, regardless of Smith and third party doctrine, will fall flat because of another line of cases, namely the contraband cases. Caballes, Jacobsen, Kyllo, all of them tend to point in th
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by polynox 5y ago
> others have shown that on average, a ride back home will cost more than a ride from home to somewhere else Are you sure this isn't confounded by riding into and out of dense or commercial areas?
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by polynox 5y ago
Try explaining to your employer that your employer's laptop was seized because the police took all of your computers and devices when arresting you.
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by polynox 5y ago
I was able to substantiate your comment about the laws being changed in two California bills (2013 AB1278 and 2005 AB592) amending BPC 2234.1 that appears to relax restrictions about treatment of "persistent" Lyme disease. I do no
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by polynox 5y ago
Being wrong is the essence of science. By contrast, lyme disease is (1) more than 40 years old, (2) not contagious, and (3) has no political headwinds. There is little reason to distrust CDC on this.
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by polynox 5y ago
As a somewhat imprecise example, if a single "request" requires sorting 2.4 billion integers, then a 2.4 GHz CPU with 16 cores will be able to process at most 16 RPS no matter how much you switch from JavaScript to Java or if you
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by polynox 5y ago
Indices work best when the number of matching entries is low. There is a metric called index selectivity which is the number of distinct values of the indexed columns divided by the total number of records. For a boolean value, this would b
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Launchpad now runs on Python 3(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
3 points by polynox 5y ago|0 comments
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by polynox 5y ago
Google Alerts has a bad reputation. https://www.gwern.net/Google-Alerts
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by polynox 5y ago
I don't believe it's a critical component of Autopilot. From the last public video release in 2019 [1], it seems like they use the stereo cameras to derive depth information, and use radar as a kind of ground-truth in informing th
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by polynox 5y ago
You are right that this is a scenario. I imagine that a permissible solution could be to effectively join the requests together by waiting for the (original) request to be finished.
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by polynox 5y ago
You're right that they do have an interest, but I think it is wrong to go as far as if the expected value of the loss is more than the premium then one shouldn't buy insurance. Consider a risk of losing $200 with probability 5% on