ragall

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by ragall 5d ago
> You seem to be focusing strictly on performance, Just like the vast majority of buyers do. SPARC was abandoned by customers due to poor performance. > but there were other factors: e.g., remote management is still a bit of a mess wi
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by ragall 5d ago
> You can't deny that Sun hardware was top tier and always ahead of its time (until Oracle bought them). From Brian Cantrill's original HN comment in 2011( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033 ): "I
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by ragall 11d ago
> Modernism is the act of using cheaper resources and more standardized/cheaper methods of production. That's how they sold it, but it's not true. By the end of the 19th century, all the building ornamentation that you can
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by ragall 11d ago
Given that models have been trained on tons of academic papers as well as internal corporate documentation, it's no surprise their output sounds a lot like an unholy fusion of both styles.
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by ragall 14d ago
Firefox 155.0.1 Linux/x86_64 with uBlock Origin enabled. https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js is blocked by uBlock, while https://hcker.news/api/reply-notifications/config and
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by ragall 15d ago
It looks nice but I can't load any comments, and I believe it's because I have Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on to the strictest level.
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by ragall 15d ago
An overspill of AI slop.
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by ragall 16d ago
> You can both be an asshole and be right. Only petty people can hold that view.
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by ragall 16d ago
Are you one of the developers ? If so, you need to add a specific page explaining in detail the guarantees that this gives. For example: point 08 says "Assign different tables or workloads to different shard groups" and point 02 s
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by ragall 16d ago
Evil has many forms.
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by ragall 16d ago
I see no mention of foreign keys, or any other constraints, across shards. If, as I suspect, they're not implemented, it would still be useful but at the level of Spanner 10 years ago.
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by ragall 16d ago
> Different people have different feelings. Different people have different feelings about what we know call "the Holocaust". They're not equally worthy.
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by ragall 16d ago
> Who cares if the site is LLM generated? Good people do.
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by ragall 18d ago
I would have preferred the old ways if that means upholding the rule of law. American MBAs are pure evil and toxic for a society's social fabric, and they should be kept away as much as possible, even if that means putting up with some
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by ragall 19d ago
I'm saying the European way is better.
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by ragall 19d ago
It's not "on a whim", it's clearly and publicly documented. That's not censorship.
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by ragall 20d ago
It actually, clearly, is.
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by ragall 20d ago
This isn't arbitrary and isn't censorship, you moron.
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by ragall 21d ago
That's entirely fine.
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by ragall 26d ago
Compare a professional trader's UI to something consumer-grade like Robinhood, or analytics UIs designed for marketers (exposing only a few cute graphs with a handful of predefined parameters) to the dashboards used in physics labs, or
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by ragall 26d ago
A mistake that both Dan and the forum users made, was to discuss averages instead of reliability for certain platforms and/or engine types. Most manufacturers have models with wildly different reliability.
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by ragall 26d ago
He only gave himself 30 minutes to write the post and publish it.
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by ragall 26d ago
That's trivially false. There's a large difference between products designed primarily to have a low learning curve, and products designed to maximize the efficiency of users that have been trained in its use.
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by ragall 1mo ago
> If I understand that correctly, it means your app always creates traces Yes, because otherwise what you propose requires modifying the binary in-place and that's too big of a security hole for lots of (production) environments. So
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by ragall 1mo ago
EU tires focus on low rolling resistance and low breaking distance (due to environmental and safety regulations), NA tires focus on durability (became people drive a lot more) and suitability for a wide range of temperatures (became of the
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by ragall 1mo ago
Precisely because NA drivers drive a lot more, NA compounds are more focused on durability rather than increasing car mileage. EU drivers are alright with less durable compounds because rubber gets cooked after a few years and would have to
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by ragall 1mo ago
Tire manufacturers tend to have different compounds for Europe (focused on lower rolling resistance) and North America (focused on traction and a wider range of working temperatures). I'd guess that California will now simply get the E
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by ragall 1mo ago
Indeed, I put a full set of CrossClimate2 on my German car and the two back tires were completely toast within 24 months and ~15k Km (on Canada). After that I decided to start using proper summer and winter tires.
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by ragall 1mo ago
You're wrong on every count: given the small context window of LLMs, the need for interfaces and scehmas is even greater.
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by ragall 1mo ago
Common law is insane, this is just the last example.

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