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by rdtsc 10mo ago
In case you're wondering Maxwell is a Finite Element Analysis package from Ansys for low frequency EM fields [1]. It looks quite neat. I never used it, but I worked for a competitor and we had something similar. [1] https://
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> Should we also change other languages’ orthographies to make them easier to pronounce for English speakers? “Bonzhoor” instead of “Bonjour”? Already done. - Komen ça va? - Mo byin, mærsi. We don't have anything against https:&#x
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> At a minimum, you would expect the happiest countries in the world to have some of the lowest incidences of adverse mental health outcomes. But it turns out that the residents of the same Scandinavian countries that the press dutifully
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> We use SED data to measure the number of PhD graduates in our focal STEM fields who were non-US citizens at the time of graduation. [...] > Emigration rates across PhD cohorts correlate strongly with the foreign national share of g
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. We will all soon write and talk like ChatGPT. Kids growing up asking ChatGPT for homework help, people use it for therapy, to
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> And where’s Sitting Bull Gentle correction: you meant Crowfoot, or maybe John Two Guns White Calf? Because Sitting Bull, was a Lakota chief.
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> I had the same sense. I can see why people like the shows, but to me there's a subtle arrogance to the rich, white American guy just holding court everywhere he goes and explaining local matters as if he's an expert. The food
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> You can’t fake care. People feel it. In small moments, in the gaps between your words, in the way you prioritise your business over their wellbeing This resonates with me. I've seen way too much of this "performative" ca
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> Yes, but at least now we're comparing artificial to real neural networks, so the way it works at least has a chance of being similar. Indeed, and I wasn't even saying it's wrong, it may be pretty close. > What would b
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> But what if our neurobiological reality includes a system that behaves something like an LLM? With every technological breakthrough we always posit that the brain has to work like the newly discovered thing. At various times brains wer
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> It is worth noting that the newest proposed standard for unique identifiers, UUID v7, aims to address the sortability and database performance issues of older UUID versions by adopting a similar time-ordered structure to ULID. Yeah, I
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
Exactly, it's a teapot. And my point was, it's fine to let the user configure that but shipping it as a default seems fishy. It looks in benchmarks, so that's why they do, just like MongoDB did initially.
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
> By default, NATS only flushes data to disk every two minutes, but acknowledges operations immediately. This approach can lead to the loss of committed writes when several nodes experience a power failure, kernel crash, or hardware faul
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
Someone knew C# and was good at parsers, would be my guess. It could have just as easily been Scala or something else.
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
The recent interview with Arvind had the “grapes are too green, anyway” energy. They missed the train because they were licking their Watson wounds. Then sorta regretted it but it’s too late. Same thing happened with their cloud offering. T
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
Executives will say anything to boost the next quarter results. After that they get rebooted and start again, and nothing they said before counts for anything.
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by rdtsc 10mo ago
I never quite figured out why IBM even bought them. Terraform? Wasn’t there an open source clone by that point?
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They tell that to every company they buy
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> Things I had taken for granted all my life suddenly became un-anchored and as a result so did I. Same for me. If you don’t grow up with a number of small regular quakes or live in high-rise building that sways with the wind, it’s prett
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
Not op and may not agree with them but the original comment was how I read it "...we ostensibly have rights but the exercising of rights is ...". We're talking about a non-citizen on a visitor visa and there is just simply no
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
Yeah good point, they are downsides for sure but it's a simple enough approach and most of all it can be shoved in a database (or b-tree or any 1d-sorted data structure). And for a z-curve, the order is basically a depth-first traversa
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
I was just using it as an example of doing the absolute minimum. They could write a dumb Javascript debugger or something with minimal effort. But yeah, IANAL either and just guessing, I just know Oracle is shady and if you challenge them
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
The fact that this shows higher numbers than the community college kids ("...have far lower rates of disabled students...") is interesting too. Yeah, one can argue that Stanford maybe is just so accommodating that it just serves a
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
> Oracle is an incredibly litigious company. Their awful reputation in this respect means that the JS ecosystem can never be sure they won't swoop in and attempt to demand rent someday. This is made worse by the army of lawyers they
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
Do you have to use Azure? Maybe Azure is nice and signaling this way the state of the internals and how things will work from here on. So it's sneakily trying to help you move to somewhere else, before things become worse and you spend
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
I always joke that Google pays for a dedicated developer to spend their full time just to make pelicans on bicycles look good. They certainly have the cash to do it.
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
> Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive. "Where we're going, we won't need ~eyes~ drives" (Dr. Weir) ( https://eventhorizonfilm.fandom.com/wiki/Gravity_Drive )
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
> Java could do it 20+ years ago, just upload your .WAR files to an application server. Erlang could do it almost 40 years ago. It can be used to upgrade applications at runtime without stopping the service. That works well in Erlang, it
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
Yup, good point on the BEAM. The joke we used when microservices were hot was that the BEAM is already ahead with nano-services: a gen_server is a nice lightweight, isolated process. You can define a callback API wrapper for it and deploy m
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by rdtsc 11mo ago
Would a spark plug work on laminated glass?

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