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Betteridge's Law of Headlines(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by riknos314 1y ago|0 comments
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by riknos314 1y ago
Fume hoods have an exhaust to outside the inhabited area, which allows the interior of the hood to operate at a negative pressure. This means air is drawn in through the gaps rather than allowed to escape through them.
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by riknos314 1y ago
The feature requires both the airpods and a connected iPhone to work. The phone has GPS.
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by riknos314 1y ago
Amazon seems to be taking the "When Everybody Is Digging for Gold, It’s Good To Be in the Pick and Shovel Business" approach here. Don't need to train the models to make money hosting them.
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Inventing the Adjustable Allen Key [video](youtube.com)
3 points by riknos314 1y ago|0 comments
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by riknos314 1y ago
This is and isn't true. The room is the limiting factor in most speaker setups. The worse the room, the sooner you hit diminishing returns for upgrading any other part of the system. In a fantastic room a $50 speaker will be nowhere ne
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by riknos314 1y ago
Prior thread on the paper about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699452
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by riknos314 1y ago
Can you share settings and/or a link so an exported SVG?
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by riknos314 1y ago
DSQL only uses Postgres for the query processor layer, so it doesn't require a replication library within postgres itself. Definitely NOT from DSQL. > We’re not using any of the storage or transaction processing parts of PostgreSQ
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by riknos314 1y ago
This could easily have as much to do with support costs as anything with the technical side of the protocols. A member of my family works in customer support for a company making devices using both zigbee and thread, and claims that support
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by riknos314 1y ago
> knobs look dated Not all. Knobs designed with dated designs and/or materials look dated. There's a million ways to make a knob, just use a modern or novel one.
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by riknos314 1y ago
Maybe. If starcloud integrated with something like starlink, using the laser inter satellite links to distribute ground comms across a network of satellites, then the datacenter maintaining a direct link to a base station is probably a non-
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by riknos314 1y ago
Actual incident link posted: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...
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by riknos314 1y ago
The phrasing of the title and paper steer the interpretation towards reducing cysteine as a method for increasing weight loss, however I think that the much more interesting takeaway is this: > Notably, restoration of up to 75% cystine l
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by riknos314 1y ago
I had the distinct pleasure of working on S3 (Lifecycle) during the timeframe that the index team was working on the rearchitecture that enabled the read-after-write consistency. I can confidently say that as impressive as S3 is from the ou
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by riknos314 1y ago
Upon reading further found this: "would be a double whammy)." with no opening parenthesis to be found. Seems like sloppy writing and editing throughout.
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by riknos314 1y ago
I came here to say exactly this. I feel like I learned the proper way to write this before first grade, and that was in rural Iowa. How are the editors of a historically respected publication allowing this through?
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by riknos314 1y ago
My experience is that LLMs regress to the average of the context they have for the task at hand. If you're getting average results you most likely haven't given it enough details about what you're looking for. The same larg
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by riknos314 1y ago
> if possible disable encryption, then you can profit from not only timing pattern (of white noise), but also listen in on the plaintext payload. the NSA loves plaintext. Haha, incredible. On a more serious note this is a really cool ide
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by riknos314 1y ago
A new public key per password-mutating session is quite an interesting idea. It does have some challenges in introducing a read-before-write to fetch the session key at the start of the session, but given the relatively low call volume of s
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High-speed Airo trains are coming to Seattle(axios.com)
3 points by riknos314 1y ago|0 comments
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by riknos314 1y ago
I'm not on Matrix, but the author might be interested in Swerl roasters in Sweden. https://swerl.se/
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by riknos314 1y ago
So the secret was just making the alchemical circle with a particle collider.
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by riknos314 1y ago
100% agree. LLMs may seem like magic buy they aren't. They operate within the confines of the context they're given. The more abstract the context, the more abstract the results. I expect to need to give a model at least as muc
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by riknos314 1y ago
The improvement is in `tsc`, the type checker. The improvement is reduced build times and thus faster developer or agent cycle times.
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Amazon Q Developer releases state of the art agent for feature development(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by riknos314 1y ago|1 comments
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by riknos314 2y ago
> The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut
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by riknos314 2y ago
This comment would be much more useful it it included the model of phone, OS version, and browser (ideally with version) you're using as context. All of these variables are highly relevant to performance and any attempt to reproduce&#x
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by riknos314 2y ago
For me, impartiality is the wrong goal for a primary news source. I want as close to the truth as is possible, with as little influence of the publication as possible. I want to have the option to take the in raw facts and contextualize th
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by riknos314 2y ago
The article directly mentions several. > Teams across AWS that build some of its flagship products—from storage (e.g., Amazon S3, EBS), to databases (e.g., Amazon DynamoDB, MemoryDB, Aurora), to compute (e.g., EC2, IoT)—have been using P

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