rcthompson

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by rcthompson 1y ago
Hmm, I hadn't considered that doubling the drive size doubles the resilver time and therefore doubles the exposure time for risk of array loss. I guess the math gets complicated depending on RAID topology.
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by rcthompson 1y ago
Of note, assuming that decommissioning of drives is driven primarily by e.g. space concerns rather than signs of impending individual drive failures (which seems to be the case based on the linked article about storage scaling), you could c
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by rcthompson 1y ago
If hard drives increase in capacity while maintaining the same MTBF, does this count as an improvement? If you previously stored your data on 10 drives and now you can store the same data on 5 drives, that reduces the probability of failure
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by rcthompson 1y ago
I thought that it was a log10 scale, so each increment of 1 on the scale is a 10-fold power increase, not a 10^1.5-fold.
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by rcthompson 1y ago
In a similar vein, some of my colleagues have been feeding their scientific paper methods sections to LLMs and asking them to implement the method in code, using the LLM's degree of success/failure as a vague indicator of the clar
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by rcthompson 1y ago
The author notes that the resulting Rust port is not very "rusty", but I wonder if this could also be solved through further application of the same principle. Something like telling the AI to minimize the use of unsafe etc., whil
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by rcthompson 2y ago
DNA methylation means adding one or more methyl groups to the DNA, so technically it is an alteration. But most people would assume that altering a gene specifically means changing the "letters" of the gene sequence that encode th
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by rcthompson 2y ago
I can't speak for every institution, but our PR department does as many back and forth passes as it takes for the scientists who did the work to sign off that any edits made still preserve scientific accuracy.
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Describing a change to DNA methylation "alters" a gene is technically correct in the sense that it is an change to the molecular structure of the DNA that makes up the gene, but is indeed misleading, because without further clarif
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Imagine you have the text of a book in a word processor. You can change the text by typing new words or deleting ones that are there. You can also change the font, size, alignment, etc. The latter category of changes does not alter the word
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by rcthompson 2y ago
I think they're also confusing power and energy, or at least not clearly distinguishing between them, with phrases like "enough to power X houses".
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Are they breaking the law? I don't love that they're requiring either payment or allowing cookies, but at least they're fully disclosing that and giving you the choice. I'm pretty sure that's what the GDPR requires.
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Did you roll your own die or just trust that Randall's original die roll was sufficiently random?
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by rcthompson 2y ago
There actually are checklists you have to fill out when publishing a paper. You have to certify that you provided all relevant statistics, have not doctored any of your images, have provided all relevant code and data presented in the pa
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Does anyone know where I can see one of these screens in person? I'm interested in potentially owning one for reading comics, graphic novels, etc., but I'd really like to see what it looks like in person before spending money on o
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by rcthompson 2y ago
It has an alternate low-power mode that only provides a few basic functions (presumably phone, text, maybe a basic web browser?). When running in "regular" Android mode it won't reach those numbers (although I believe it stil
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by rcthompson 2y ago
I believe the equivalent term used in English (exhibited in the new translation) is "natural", short for "natural expansion", which refers to the obvious location where the player should build their first expansion. It s
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Our first new Framework Laptop 16 Expansion Bay module(frame.work)
2 points by rcthompson 2y ago|1 comments
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Presumably it's directed at anyone writing an article for public consumption.
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by rcthompson 2y ago
> car thefts To be specific, I don't think the cities are suing over the car thefts. If I understand correctly, they're suing because the availability of easily hacked Kia cars enabled a wave of other crimes, because the crimin
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Unfortunately KDE Connect prevents one of my devices from ever sleeping (IIRC it was my Tab S6 Lite w/LineargeOS), resulting in only a few hours of battery life, so I had to stop using it.
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by rcthompson 2y ago
Are you arguing that property rights should be based exclusively on calling "dibs" by building something on the land? If I see someone not using their front lawn, should I build my own house in front of theirs and tell them that I
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by rcthompson 2y ago
It's not just unstable, it's a security issue because control over CPU voltage allows someone to use that instability to compromise computations that are supposed to be performed securely (e.g. look up "Plundervolt").
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by rcthompson 2y ago
I don't know what the typical usage pattern is, but when I've used Perplexity, I generally do click the relevant links instead of just trusting Perplexity's summary. I've seen plenty of cases where Perplexity's summ
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by rcthompson 2y ago
I dunno what the interface looks like, but couldn't they hand the AI the entire stack of resumes and tell it to give them the N best ones?
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by rcthompson 2y ago
What does the code in this repo actually do, and how does it use DwarFS? The README just explains how to install it.
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by rcthompson 2y ago
What about durability? I've heard a lot of "one speck of dust gets in the wrong place and the screen self-destructs" stories.
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by rcthompson 2y ago
In turns out it's fine to have the snake eat its own tail if your real goal is just to keep the snake fed.
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by rcthompson 2y ago
I can't wait for the new wave of terrible UIs specifically designed to fool AI agents into clicking the "send me all your money" button. (For bonus points, do this while making the UI seem perfectly reasonable to humans.)
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by rcthompson 2y ago
It's an interesting idea, but they really made that title as unparseable as they possibly could.

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