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by spenczar5 2y ago
We can overly fetishize specialization in the past, too, though. Those 6,000 workers were aiming for speed. Amateurs tend to aim for perfect quality. Sometimes when you look at old things, it can be shocking how “sloppy” the workmanship is,
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by spenczar5 2y ago
> The economy is built on grifting, at this point I agreed until here. Obviously, lying isn't the only way to make money. I make furniture and fix windows in old houses for a living. Am I grifting? When you stretch into hyperbole, y
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by spenczar5 2y ago
“do I want to suffer such rejection humiliation? Not really” The point of Terence Tao’s original post is that you just cannot think of rejection as humiliation. Rejection is not a catastrophe.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
> I am not aware of any dependency system that has an explicit machine-readable representation for the “unknown” state, so that they can say something like “A is known to depend on B; versions of B before v1 are known to break; version v
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Rachel by the Bay ( https://rachelbythebay.com/ ) has long impressed me as someone who clearly is deep in the actual work of systems, day in and day out, and can write well about it. Julia Evans has a wonderful approach as we
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by spenczar5 2y ago
I still don’t think it’s enough, but let’s be clear. They are facing criminal charges and jail time. See the DOJ press release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-... > Today’s resolu
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by spenczar5 2y ago
But… this does drop data? Only the start and end timestamp are preserved; the middle ones have no time. How can this be called lossless? Genuinely lossless compression algorithms like gzip work pretty well.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Certainly when we managed Twitch’s ~10,000 boxes of video servers, neither of the tasks you describe would have been simple. We underinvested in tools, for sure. Even so, I don’t think you can really argue that dynamically changing configs
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by spenczar5 2y ago
If you have an inverse function, use that to test all round tripa?
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Suppose you run a fleet of a thousand machines. They all autotune. They are, lets say, serving cached video, or something. You notice that your aggregate error rate been drifting upwards since using bpftune. It turns out, in reality, there
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by spenczar5 2y ago
That’s really interesting! Do you have other interesting specific examples? I would have guessed that most industrial control problems were simpler sets of differential equations that could be directly estimated.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Suppose I give Gemini a 10 minute video. Will it spend 10 minutes “watching” it if I ask it to extract something? Or does it know how to speed up the video? I assume it must do some sort of preprocessing like extracting keyframes; it surely
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by spenczar5 2y ago
If you think a sports book is a retailer, selling a product, sure. But sports books pitch themselves like brokers, giving fair access to bets. A brokerage-style betting market would be perhaps more fair (or at least, the sharks would take t
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Yes, I said “impractical”, not “impossible”.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Castings can achieve shapes that are impractical to machine. A classic example is a spoked wheel. The spokes are really hard to make precisely with machining, but fairly straightforward when casting. Bandsaw wheels are virtually always cast
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The New Internet(tailscale.com)
2 points by spenczar5 2y ago|2 comments
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Yeah, I use the specialized libraries. But in Python, this has been painful: the good astronomy library is Astropy’s Time, but everyone uses datetime. So if I want to use a third library - for my database, or for making plots, or whatever -
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by spenczar5 2y ago
The nice thing is that you would have a static table of leap seconds, and would not need to poll a URL to check for new leap second data (as Astropy does, for example, on import!).
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by spenczar5 2y ago
I work in astronomy, on detection of asteroids. Catalogs of historical asteroid detections may be reported in UTC from some observatories for historical reasons. Finding a trajectory that matches several candidate detections is called “link
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by spenczar5 2y ago
I for one am glad they they sell clean water in pharmacies, and support its continued sale!
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by spenczar5 2y ago
A ten point gap is not a swing state, that’s big. Its about the same as New Jersey vs Texas in the 2020 presidential vote.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
May I ask why the URL was changed? This is a very different article, and the comments (including mine) seem pretty off, now.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
To me, an uneducated outsider, these remind me of terraced farm plots. They look like models of a region that one could use for recording ownership, taxation, yields, or planning crop rotations. I wonder why this article is so convinced the
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by spenczar5 2y ago
I am curious whether you are a UK citizen? In general, British law does not protect privacy, and is far less liberal (in the classical sense) than outsiders expect. The bits you cite seem fairly typical for UK expectations and rights.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Client-side transport is pretty unusual with OTel. I think almost everybody is sending things from the server side, so I don’t think your concern is usually relevant.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Mandatory browser extensions are common, as are MITM proxies for all traffic.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
In the realm of applications, most engineers would say that our confidence in the RH (or more realistically, downstream consequences thereof) is high enough to treat it as true. The proof is, for applications, a formality (albeit a wide-ran
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by spenczar5 2y ago
There seems to be a history of data technologies requiring a serious corporate sponsor. Arrow gets so much dev and marketing effort from Voltron, Spark from Databricks, etc. Did Ballista have anything’s similar? I loved the project but it n
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Nuclear Grade Duct Tape(technicaldatasheets.3m.com)
4 points by spenczar5 2y ago|2 comments
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by spenczar5 2y ago
This is a form of sampling bias. The quick projects are only there briefly, so you're less likely to see them. Everyone sees a slow project that has some scheduling disaster occur, like a strike or a supply shortage or a government f

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