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by sargun 2y ago
Ah! You’d be glad to know that “we” know how to do this. Films are an area that a ton of people have poured time into. Two that I know that’d fit the bill well are Zein (corn) and Chitosan (Crustaceans, Mushrooms, although now we can make i
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by sargun 2y ago
This seems like a terrible idea “for the environment”. Growing food as massive scales, often times in places where people don’t want to live has incredible economies of scale in terms of water, and energy infrastructure. Can you imagine how
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by sargun 2y ago
I love SQLite. It’s pluggable interfaces and concise C code make it enjoyable to use (and sometimes to debug - as long as you don’t have to go through the single file version!). Unfortunately, I wish there were multiple implementations of i
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by sargun 2y ago
Subscription tier and device. If your device isn’t capable of playback, there’s no way to get the content.
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by sargun 2y ago
Depends on where it blows up, but if you hit it at its apogee, a lot of it will burn up in the atmophere.
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by sargun 2y ago
Video streaming is expensive for you . Google is incredible at making things cheap that we all thought were expensive.
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by sargun 2y ago
I worked at a place where I can say, FusionIO saved the company. W e had a single Postgres database which powered a significant portion of the app. We tried the kick off a horizontal scale project to little success around it - turns out tha
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by sargun 2y ago
They produce calibration sets. I'm not sure how they choose the colours they do (nor the names), but their most important job is to distribute the color sets with perfectly consistent colors, which isn't "free" work.
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by sargun 2y ago
At a previous company, we rotated secondary (more portable) devices around the oncall rotation. I think we used a macbook air, and some fancy portable Windows netbook. Now that iPads exist, and they're super portable, I can imagine tha
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by sargun 2y ago
Is there a way to run an app in a specific VRF nowadays?
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by sargun 2y ago
Far less due to TLS being ubiquitous
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by sargun 2y ago
How will technology target English, versus say, a tail language?
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by sargun 2y ago
That will be my reply whenever the next person asks how big the team I used to run was.
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by sargun 3y ago
I meant, more integrated boards.
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by sargun 3y ago
Does there exist DECT NR+ equipment yet? I imagine you can use the same RANs for this as "5G", but those are ridiculously expensive. What about mobile devices?
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by sargun 3y ago
To be fair, you also need software engineers to break the windows. It is in our best interest to break the windows.
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by sargun 3y ago
And to avoid wasting space on the journal. Also, iirc bootloaders didn’t have full ext3 support yet.
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by sargun 3y ago
When I was at Netflix, Brendan and his team made sure that we had a fair set of debugging tools installed everywhere (bpftrace, bcc, working perf) These were a lifesaver multiple times.
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by sargun 3y ago
Funnily enough, tar is like 3 different formats (PaX, tar, ustar). One of the annoying parts of the tar format is that even though you scan all the metadata upfront, you have to keep the directory metadata in RAM until the end and have to w
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by sargun 3y ago
I think what's more likely is "mode switching" in which you can disable these components of the CPU for a certain section of executing code (the abstraction would probably be at the thread level).
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by sargun 3y ago
I can see this playing out in one of two ways: 1. Suddenly shelf lives are massively extended. I think this would be a good thing. 2. Shelf lives are decreased to accommodate degradable packaging. Given the people who are in the food suppl
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by sargun 3y ago
I think that this will be a good case study in the future of whether or not you can de-MBA an organization. I can’t remember too many cases of organizations fixing themselves in this context. Microsoft is the largest example I can think of.
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by sargun 3y ago
I find it funny that companies like AT&T and Equifax are barely scrutinized for their data handling practices compared to the Amazon and Googles of the world. I wonder why that is.
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by sargun 3y ago
I believe AWS was calling them droplets prior to digital ocean.
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by sargun 3y ago
Droplets are what EC2 calls their hosts. Confusing? I know.
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by sargun 3y ago
Heh, perhaps we'll end up with inverted-ETOPS, where autonomous airplanes need certifications to spend more than 15, 30, 60 minutes over populated areas (or not water).
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by sargun 3y ago
Funnily enough, this is actually a massive problem when working with cloud automation APIs. Terraform and the like kinda handle this problem by calculating / storing the “goal state” and then looking at the system’s current state, and
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by sargun 3y ago
I think the poster meant the prior meaning of the word 'crypto' -- cryptography, in which the CFO could sign and encrypt some message and then the message's authenticity could be verified.
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by sargun 3y ago
Right, it seems like having another model (or just simply doing it with chatgpt itself) do adversarial classification is the right model here.
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by sargun 3y ago
This is actually better for latency, perhaps counter intuitively. Let’s say that each server experiences some high latency requests. Normally, if one server stored that file, you’d get high latency, this scheme on the other hand cuts down o

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