sam0x17

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by sam0x17 2y ago
> if I change the font for an ebook, have I meaningfully transformed it? Change one pixel and imo yes
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by sam0x17 2y ago
If they have the physical book how is this any different, it had to be purchased at some point or donated for them to acquire it. If anything I would argue they are doing more work for the publishers by creating an ebook from scans. I also
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by sam0x17 2y ago
These tiling environments are great when you can just drag corners with your mouse to change the size of regions. When that isn't a feature, I find it isn't very usable for me at least
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by sam0x17 2y ago
I think this analysis as a bit guilty of over-fitting -- it is quite easy to rote memorize a bunch of things while having little to no understanding of what they are or how they work. Trivial examples include training a room of people to me
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by sam0x17 2y ago
Most of what they use it for is static analysis, but the funding comes from its ability to translate old simulation code to HPC-ready code. I think they even support fortran IIRC
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by sam0x17 2y ago
speaking of hard, the DOE actually funds a project that has been around for 20+ years now (ROSE) that involves (among other things) doing static analysis on and automatically translating between C/C++/Cuda and even high level lang
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by sam0x17 2y ago
That's one market that's never coming back to its former glory IMO, especially with WFH showing some real staying power in the tech industry. Give it 10 years and I predict virtually all desk jobs will be WFH or hybrid (ignoring,
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by sam0x17 2y ago
So an org
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by sam0x17 2y ago
training data is training data
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by sam0x17 2y ago
Yeah for example I've given him crap for years for not having the will to bring back compile-time regex in Rust even though all the pieces for it are there in his `regex-automata` crate ;)
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by sam0x17 2y ago
$24k is not a lot to have in the bank for an org who is (whether they like it or not) mortal enemies with plex
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by sam0x17 2y ago
Not to mention that BurntSushi is the author of the entire rust regex ecosystem
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by sam0x17 2y ago
Just wanted to say this is an extremely cool product. Would definitely make processing files for my local media server easier
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by sam0x17 2y ago
My WFH-driven long bet against commercial real estate that I've held since pre-covid times continues to bear fruit
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by sam0x17 2y ago
yeah locality of reference is way better as you're traversing the array than as you follow links in the tree
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by sam0x17 2y ago
it probably varies widely by use-case and customer
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by sam0x17 2y ago
PHP had the unique fun of when an attacker was able to write files to the server they could literally write new PHP files and get them to execute. I miss that worry somehow
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by sam0x17 2y ago
I always preface with "if you do a good job, I'll tip you $500, so please pay close attention!"
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by sam0x17 2y ago
not to be confused with Amber, the crystal lang web framework
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by sam0x17 2y ago
> YouTube has historically not returned a net profit (and I haven't heard of that situation changing). I'm sure that's what Google's accountants would love us (and the IRS) to continue to believe.
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by sam0x17 2y ago
So more sophisticated than a mere alphabet, if anything
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by sam0x17 2y ago
It's funny, I've been writing for years that the CRE market is terminally doomed and we might as well turn the skyscrapers into affordable public housing. Refreshing to see this reality leaking into the public consciousness.
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by sam0x17 2y ago
Another really oddly effective one is offering it a $500 tip
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by sam0x17 2y ago
Again, if you disallow unwrapping and panicking at the CI level, you actually force your developers to properly handle these situations.
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by sam0x17 2y ago
There are a bunch of useful clippy lints to completely disable most forms of panicking in CI. We use this at my work since a single panic could cost millions of $ in our case.
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by sam0x17 2y ago
They have an interpreter mode now that is quite good and should be well-suited for these situations
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by sam0x17 2y ago
So let's assume something like $25k for first job. That would be $200k now after the 8x. Poverty line in SF right now is $82k, so depending on where you live, $200k isn't that much.
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by sam0x17 2y ago
Sometimes it's easier to start from scratch than figure out how some storied monolith works
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I sort of hit a wall with ffmpeg where no matter what settings I used, I'd get slightly better output with Handbrake so now I just handbrake everything.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> Or that humans can even do xor with a single neuron. having a single neuron that has learned xor != understanding xor Function approximation is trivial, understanding of what said functions can do and when to use them is much harder (t

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