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by singhrac 4y ago
I have definitely received larger than 3-4% discounts (5% is pretty common, I've even seen 10%). At the time I had a pretty long discussion about reasons with my friends, but there's a lot of illegal and legal reasons to prefer ca
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by singhrac 4y ago
Hmm, I've never heard of such a setup, actually. Usually these kinds of generators are called "behind-the-meter" because they are literally behind the electric meter, so any generation you make is directly used by your house,
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by singhrac 4y ago
Can’t have a list like this and miss Eric Jang’s blog: https://evjang.com/
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by singhrac 4y ago
I very much agree with all of this. I tried to use desktop Linux for years, and besides the UX issues you mentioned above, I also just found every desktop environment (I tried Gnome at length, grew up on KDE/Xfce) mildly clunky and lac
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by singhrac 4y ago
One (small) nice update in Ventura that is often overlooked is Metal 3 support, which is a pretty neat graphics API upgrade.
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by singhrac 4y ago
There’s a set of sushi restaurants in NYC called Bondi Sushi, maybe related?
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by singhrac 4y ago
As a slight contrast to the other responses, I found setting up maturin (Rust + Python) very straightforward since the documentation is recent, and I find it's easy to write parsers in Rust because the ADT syntax is very terse.
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by singhrac 4y ago
This is really cool. I really enjoyed having this built into my Pixel a few years ago (super useful when you want to watch a video in public but don't have headphones). The implementation in Chrome doesn't work that well. It would
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by singhrac 4y ago
My brain had a tough time aligning those two numbers (the former felt very expensive and the latter felt small), possibly because I think about money in $XK amounts as "personal" money and money in $Xmm amounts as "business&q
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by singhrac 4y ago
I'm also largely skeptical of the claim that Google is going to completely drop the ball here, but this is classic Innovator's Dilemma - sometimes a business can't effectively segment their existing customers enough to introd
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by singhrac 4y ago
I think that term already has usage as a proxy for "lowest sampling variance"; for example the Gauss Markov theorem shows that OLS is the most efficient unbiased linear estimator. I guess this is echoing your point 2, but I would
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by singhrac 4y ago
This is likely related to Microsoft’s DirectStorage API: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-1-1-now... . While this is mostly game-focused, I wonder if ML training libraries will take advantage of this
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by singhrac 4y ago
For what it's worth, the CPython core/Faster CPython developers are actively investigating implementations of this idea: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/485 .
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by singhrac 4y ago
Also another drive by question, but I was surprised that the Apple TVs have A-series chips. Has anyone worked with Asahi on the A-series? I assume the performance isn’t great but curious about the technical challenges.
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by singhrac 4y ago
I would play games on my iPad... but there aren't very many that work, because Apple hasn't spent the time (or money) making Metal support widespread. Really, they should just fund / build their own MoltenVK implementation, b
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by singhrac 4y ago
Significantly used in finance as well, risk estimation is often approximately fitting an MVN to sparse data. I’ve used ideas from this blog many times.
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by singhrac 4y ago
I'm pretty interested in running Clickhouse, but to poll the room: is it easy to run without an infra person maintaining it? We don't need any kind of persistence guarantee or backups, happy to tear it down every day and refresh t
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by singhrac 4y ago
I saw a lot of fairly unstructured C in embedded programming - copied source / header files, hacked together Makefiles, lots of "works on my machine". Almost no abstraction to prevent use-after-free (mostly rigorous code revi
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by singhrac 4y ago
I’ve worked on a Perl codebase written by a good programmer and had the pleasure of starting the port over to Python. This was surprisingly doable? Marshaling/unmarshaling Perl objects into Python ones isn’t difficult these days, and y
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by singhrac 4y ago
You mean least expensive? Generally speaking the availability of renewable energy (sun and/or wind) coincides with cheaper electricity prices.
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by singhrac 4y ago
As a data point (probably closer to anecdote), I'd be willing to pay for just an email client. I don't know about recurring payments yet, but something like Superhuman-but-cheaper is definitely something I'd consider. My only
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by singhrac 4y ago
I recently had the experience of setting up some Prefect pipelines, which I can compare to this article. Note that while I'm not new to data engineering, I'm new to open source frameworks, and have some insight into Airflow (studi
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by singhrac 4y ago
Is there a reason it needs to be started as root? In similar self-hosted apps I’ve run into many issues from having scripts run as root. Often the individual apps don’t play nicely enough with each other. Otherwise it looks interesting, I l
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by singhrac 4y ago
Does anyone have an opinion on ARM Windows? Is it anywhere near the experience of regular x86 Windows? Do things like WSL and most apps work as expected (is the x86 virtualization anywhere near as good as Rosetta).
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by singhrac 4y ago
They’re just harder to run on your own resources, since large language models are very large. BLOOM was released a month ago, is likely better than GPT-3 in quality, and requires 8 A100s for inference, which pretty much no one has on thei
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by singhrac 4y ago
So interestingly I think "better spam detection" has a relatively straightforward interface (e.g. connect this app to Gmail's servers via SMTP, move emails between folders), but I assume you need almost Google-scale (or at le
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by singhrac 4y ago
Gmail quality dropped off a cliff all of a sudden. In particular, many many emails get sent to spam now, including emails sent by Google itself! Notifications about calendar invites regularly get sent to spam at inconvenient times. I can&
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by singhrac 4y ago
I am ok with startups attempting to innovate in products that meet the needs of humans beyond wealthy tech workers; sure they deserve criticism when being discriminatory or having bad societal effects, but can we really rely on the public s
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by singhrac 4y ago
Mixes are great. I think people are underestimating the ability of batteries, though. With the new 30% ITC in batteries (and rapidly declining costs), expect to see a lot of new utility-scale batteries over the coming years. We could see 10
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On shore wind has the lowest LCOE (even excluding subsidies) of any utility scale type of energy; significantly lower than coal, and a bit lower than solar or nat gas.

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