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by ruuda 4y ago
Renting a studio, musicians, engineers, etc.
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by ruuda 4y ago
If it's due to anticipation and violated expectations, how come the same song can still give you goosebumps even after you know it very well?
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by ruuda 4y ago
> Nightwish, Ghost Love Score, Wacken 2013 @ 9:22, affectionately nicknamed the "Floor-gasm" by fans. I saw Floor Jansen live last month. It was to a different song, but it was the first time ever that live music gave me gooseb
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by ruuda 4y ago
This paper caused quite a big shift in the Metaculus predictions on when "AGI" will be achieved, https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general... and https://www.metaculus.com&#
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by ruuda 4y ago
This was the paper that got it started, but now a few years later, strategies have gotten much more advanced. There was an entire conference day devoted to it a few weeks ago, with some interesting talks, if you are interested in the state
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by ruuda 5y ago
Also in Dutch universities to mark a contradiction, especially in a proof by contradiction.
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by ruuda 5y ago
It's not unheard of. I live in a Dutch city. There are five supermarkets within 1km from my home, a tiny one, two medium ones and two larger ones. Now that I’m working from home, I usually walk to one twice a week. When I worked at an
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by ruuda 5y ago
I have been using this one for years, it used to drive two 4k displays at 60 Hz. But since half a year or so, I can't get the second display to run at 60 Hz any more. I think it's a regression in the Linux kernel, but it's ba
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by ruuda 5y ago
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipknip
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by ruuda 5y ago
Type confusion in V8 ... Fortunately I turned off javascript by default since Meltdown/Spectre.
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by ruuda 5y ago
Unfortunately it's part of http. One thing you can do is to send both the standard Retry-After header for tools that rely on it, and a nonstandard but unambiguous Retry-After-Seconds. That makes responses self-documenting. (One downsid
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by ruuda 5y ago
You don't have to use the default serialization format. You can have `timeout_seconds = «int»` or `timeout = «int»s` in your config file, store it internally as timedelta, and convert when you read the file.
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by ruuda 5y ago
Yeah, Rust is one of the few languages that gets it right! And before they had the `Duration` type with `thread::sleep(d: Duration)`, there was `thread::sleep_ms(ms: u32)`, which is also unambiguous.
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by ruuda 5y ago
Yeah, this is also happens in code. The solutions are the same, either use a type that is unambiguous (`timestamptz` in Postgres, `datetime` in Python with `.tzinfo is not None`, `DateTimeOffset` in .NET, `UTCTime` in Haskell etc.), or if y
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by ruuda 5y ago
There's a crackdown in Utrecht as well: https://www.duic.nl/algemeen/utrecht-legt-flitsbezorgers-aan... (Dutch) It does feel magic to order groceries and have them at your doorstep in 10 minutes (literally). But i
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by ruuda 5y ago
Scott Alexander recently ran a grants program ( https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-run-a-m... ) and wrote this about the experience: > Then you have to actually give people money. > > You know
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by ruuda 5y ago
It's not just that Solana is fairly new; the entire way the chain works is “torment the programmer on behalf of chain speed”, and if one of those decisions causes trouble down the line, instead of taking a step back and going with the
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by ruuda 5y ago
Nice write-up. I realized recently how poorly understood AMMs are, despite their apparent mathematical simplicity. I used to think of AMM swaps as analogous to market orders, and this is still the dominant view. But in the presence of MEV,
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by ruuda 5y ago
Keep in mind that there were 48% more US dollars in existence in November 2021, than in January 2019. That's a 15.0% increase per year. Most of this happened in March–May 2020. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
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by ruuda 5y ago
This is why you pin all dependencies and upgrade (and test) when it's convenient for _you_, not when the author pushes a new version.
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by ruuda 5y ago
Package your software with any regular package manager (or even as a container image if you prefer), run it with systemd on a VM, manage with Ansible or any other config manager. Or use NixOS. Most things don't need autoscaling, and bi
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by ruuda 5y ago
Works fine with javascript disabled. The images don't load, but on Vice they usually add nothing to the story anyway.
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by ruuda 5y ago
Works fine with js disabled
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by ruuda 5y ago
There's a much simpler way to identify recruiter spam: put this in your profile: “Please include the word ‘banana’ in your message.”
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by ruuda 5y ago
They hang from the ceiling because they use evaporative cooling (the high-energy particles escape, and the low-energy particles remain in the bucket), each lower stage a bit cooler than the one above it.
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by ruuda 5y ago
Semi-related, at https://app.electricitymap.org/map you can get a realtime view of electricity production, consumption, and import/export.
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Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model(microsoft.com)
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by ruuda 5y ago
https://abstrusegoose.com/504
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by ruuda 5y ago
Interesting bit on the about page: > During the first ten months of this period, the server was online for 98.2% of the time. This means that it was offline for only 152 hours (6.4 days) – and this includes the winter months. > Howeve
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by ruuda 5y ago
Borsuk-Ulam applies to surfaces homeomorphic to a sphere, but the picture shows that the earth's surface is a sphere with at least one handle, a donut with at least one hole.

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