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by saltcured 3mo ago
This kind of advice is very dependent on the scenario. If you are doing some kind of full cross product where the join creates a much larger set of rows, it could optimize the DB load and network traffic to fetch the source sets and then ge
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Well, it does rely on decomposing the problem to optimize cache efficiency. I don't read Portuguese, but the tables of results seem to imply they are tuning block sizes that leverage the L3 cache. They also talk about prefetch, which t
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Understood and agreed. I admit I was feeling a bit pithy with that comment. I shouldn't really have referenced "replace" at all, but rather "optimize". And not targeting middle management but the whole non-medical s
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by saltcured 3mo ago
One of the most common interactions I witness at our local supermarket butcher counter is the guy explaining to yet another customer that the advertised weekly special sold out before lunch a couple days prior.
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Now let's talk about how AI could replace Kaiser middle management and streamline bureaucracy to preserve more budget for doctors and nurses...
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by saltcured 3mo ago
You say "digital" rather than "smart". Digital or analog, a basic watch has that single advantage of being mounted on the wrist. It is always there, supporting a quick glance when you don't have time, free hands, or
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by saltcured 3mo ago
An annoyance with Garmin is that they use something as trivial as customizable shortcuts as a price discriminator. They have it in their UI already, but remove it from the affordable budget models. On the other side, I think they are a litt
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by saltcured 3mo ago
I find so many of these things utterly insane. Much like the way a fax of a signed document is considered legally meaningful. I think we have to stop pretending any kind of digital media presentation of a document, face, voice, etc. can be
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Sad times are coming for a lot of families and individuals. It isn't just that technology is upending our naive ideas of trust and authenticity. This is, essentially, the broad class of "confused deputy" attacks. And the robu
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by saltcured 3mo ago
This is actually a laptop with its builtin display. Edit to add: I don't think it has too much to do with display latency. It is some convolution of the desktop environment and display server deciding that keyboard input doesn't g
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by saltcured 3mo ago
The input latency that has been driving me crazy lately is the screen unblank latency to allow input to a program. E.g. I have an old laptop running a browser playing some internet radio stream. Eventually the screen blanker (without lockin
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Are you using the tools a lot and having first-hand exposure that gives you this sensitivity to phrasing? Or are you reacting to second-hand exposure? To a large degree, I've been isolating myself from the LLM craze. I have zero natura
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by saltcured 3mo ago
I'll never accept a 24 hour dial that puts midnight at the top and noon at the bottom.
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by saltcured 3mo ago
I think the day needs time units which are factors of 10x or 1000x to match SI prefixes. I give translations assuming current solar day length and current normal units: - deciday (2.4 hrs) - centiday (~0.24 hrs, ~14.4 minutes) - milliday (~
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Ideally the single-use slop should just go straight into the self-satisfied user's system and never appear in the public "release" arena. But we have to suffer through this awkward phase where people want to have it both ways
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by saltcured 3mo ago
They should have started adopting olive size factors. After Ultra High, we could have had Jumbo, Colossal, Super Colossal. and Mammoth frequency ranges. Not to be confused with Colossal wavelengths, which is what we could have used if we ne
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by saltcured 3mo ago
RAM is more like agricultural products (with short shelf-life) than commodities like fossil fuels, mineral ores, etc. You can manage an inventory or speculate on production, but you cannot really hold a "portfolio" of it in any se
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by saltcured 3mo ago
It could make sense along an electrified rail line, if the power lines used to supply the trains can be leveraged for distribution? But, putting panels between the rails seems foolhardy to me too.
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Yeah, I can only imagine the stability when breezy weather hits that big sail
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by saltcured 3mo ago
But does it have FX!32 working to run important x86 software in there?
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Back in the 90s when I was in university, SQL (and databases in general) sounded like a boring topic that appealed to people who wanted to go into accounting/finance or some consultancy. I didn't study CS to learn to use an applic
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Yeah I'm just lazy about dealing with the room. If I find the motivation, I'll pull the original equipment back out of storage.
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Yes, perhaps the amplitude was subtly different. This was supposed to be running the DACs to match the source configuration, not resampling into some common format. I think that is an unavoidable part of the whole end-to-end ABX test concep
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by saltcured 3mo ago
> As referenced in the article, a common explanation for those audible differences is that the high-resolution version of the album is sourced from a different master. In this case, it was my brother's own 24/192 recording, dow
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by saltcured 3mo ago
Decades ago, I was treated to an ABX test in my brother's recording studio. I easily recognized and preferred a 24/192 master he played versus the 16/44.1 down-mix. I honestly don't know whether there was something wrong
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by saltcured 3mo ago
USENET with a threaded newsreader like "trn" provided the optimal experience here. You saw things in their threaded context, but it remembered what you've read and there is a direct action to "go to next unread" tha
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by saltcured 3mo ago
You make it sound like there are no ideas until words arrive? For me, my normal ground state is full of thinking that is not linguistic. My mode switch is more like having to turn on the whole language subsystem and pay attention to it, of
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by saltcured 3mo ago
My first Linux PC was a 386DX-40 with 20 MB RAM and about 80 MB of HDD space. I was able to run X Windows, Emacs, and gcc for university CS work. I had to use 8 bit psuedocolor graphics to have a decent sized desktop like 1024x768 or 1280x1
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by saltcured 4mo ago
Yeah, I used WordStar on CP/M for my school homework in the early-mid 80s. (As soon as we had our first "typing allowed" or "typing required" kinds of assignments.) My dad brought home a circus of different PCs in t
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by saltcured 4mo ago
It would be interesting if there was a DNS record of some kind to announce a PKI registry for a particular domain's email addresses. This would allow for some kind of decentralized discovery of suitable public keys for individual addre

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