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by rented_mule 8mo ago
Randomly, I spent an afternoon with a team of loom engineers long ago. In 1989, I took a month-long trip to the USSR. Trips for Americans back then were guided / chaperoned by the Soviet government, with the clear intention of showing
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by rented_mule 8mo ago
If you know about this ahead of time, and can be a contractor, then forming a corporation that is its own tax entity gives you this in the US. I did exactly this in the mid-90s when 9 months of work was suddenly going to yield 4-5x what I h
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by rented_mule 8mo ago
> Basically thought crime Let's go in the opposite direction... >> Amanda was 10 years old. she went into the bathroom and had sex with a 30 year old man. If the story was real, should Amanda be banned from publishing her own
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by rented_mule 8mo ago
I think one additional objection to AI generated depictions is that photo-realistic AI generated content gives plausible deniability to those who create/possess real life CSAM.
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by rented_mule 8mo ago
Oh wow, what a bad memory. This exact thing happened in a building I lived in several years ago, a couple of floors above me. It looked like waterfalls outside our windows and water was rushing in under the baseboards. All while every fire
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by rented_mule 8mo ago
A fascinating takeaway from that video for me... If you take the US land that is dedicated to growing corn for ethanol that is put in gasoline, and replace all the corn on that land with solar panels, how much energy would it produce? Twic
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by rented_mule 8mo ago
20 years ago, I was working on a consumer device, doing indexing and searching of books. The indexer had about 1 MB of RAM available, and had to work in the background on a very slow, single core CPU, without the user noticing any slowdown.
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
> Even the Google "AI" knows better than that. CSAM "is [...]" Please don't use the "knowledge" of LLMs as evidence or support for anything. Generative models generate things that have some likelihood o
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
California offers both. I renewed my license last year. I opted for a non Real ID version because I could renew online rather than spend hours at the DMV.
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
I can't think of another electronic device that has survived and remained useful for half the 43 years my 15C has - through two years of high school, a math degree, and an entire software engineering career. When I calculate something
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
The Lookout ( https://www.youtube.com/@TheLookout1 and https://the-lookout.org ), by Zeke Lunder, is a great resource for learning about wildfire. Zeke spent many years doing GIS / cartography onsite for wild
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
About the same time the 500-mile email problem happened (mid 1990s), I had a difficult to understand issue with my office PC. Every morning, I'd come in, slide my hard drive sled in, and turn the computer on. We had 128 Kbps ISDN inter
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
> you need to be better to it than it is to you If the person you are responding to hasn't screwed society over, then it sounds like they have easily cleared that bar, even by doing nothing.
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
I wish I'd missed it. We had 12 feet of snow in 3 weeks where I live in the Sierra, and we're only at 4,500 feet above sea level. We average several feet a year, so we know snow, but not 12 feet in 3 weeks. We couldn't see ou
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
I like the peer comment's answer about a processing time threshold (e.g., a day). Another obvious threshold is data that doesn't conveniently fit on local disks. Large scale processing solutions can often process directly from&#x2
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
I don't know what the GP was referring too, but often this is about "JSONL" / "JSON Lines" - files containing one JSON object per line. This is common for things like log files. So, process the data as each lin
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
A little bit of history related to the article for any who might be interested... mrjob, the tool mentioned in the article, has a local mode that does not use Hadoop, but just runs on the local computer. That mode is primarily for developin
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
Nearly 20 years ago, I was working on indexing gigabytes of text on a mobile CPU, before smart phones caused massive investment in such CPUs. Word normalization logic (e.g., sky/skies/sky's -> sky) was very slow, so I used
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
> The daylight is orders of magnitude stronger but you have no problem with it because your eyes adapt. It turns out bodies don't all respond the same way to the same stimuli. Sunny days cause me real pain. A thin layer of ground fo
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
> In my experience, most people don’t know what should be developed. Even users don’t know if you ask them. That's also my experience. The most productive use of coding agents I've found so far is rooted in this. I wanted to bu
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
I wish more business / product people understood this concept. When a product has been refined enough to approach Pareto optimality (at least on the dimensions the product is easily measured), it's all too common for people to cha
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
And if this money improves PyPI security (part of the focus), that reduces the chance of Claude Code adding malicious packages to a code base (a well publicized case of this could be a big PR headache for Anthropic). This donation is likely
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
Late one evening, about 15 years ago, we were wondering why we were seeing several hits per second from a single IP address on our company's search page. It didn't follow any of the patterns of the (admittedly simple) bot detectio
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
pyinfra is for running things across a number of machines and/or containers. For example to provision them, much like Ansible. So Python's startup time isn't terribly relevant. Also, have you tried Python's startup time
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by rented_mule 9mo ago
My favorite code editor is where I write anything longer than a sentence or two, including this comment. Then I paste the result into its final destination. Given that I tend to heavily edit my writing, the muscle memory I've built up
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
I've been using https://www.beatunes.com/en/beatunes-matchlist.html (35€ for Mac or Windows) to create static playlists like this for years from my library of ~13K songs. I've created a few dozen such playlis
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
What many startups need to succeed is to be able to pivot/develop/repeat very quickly to find a product+market that makes money. If they don't find that, and most don't, the millions you talk about never come due. They a
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
It seems plausible that it would help with latency, but not by a game changing amount. This is 70/550 or 13% closer. Not all of the latency is caused by distance to the the satellites (e.g., terrestrial latency is not 0), so my guess w
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
I just tried the one you are replying to and it worked great on macOS. I frequently use a variant of this on my Mac.
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
It's subtle, but I think the use of "senior" rather than "Senior" in the article is an attempt to distinguish the concept of being a senior engineer from the title of Senior Engineer. The article is focused on actua

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