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by teraflop 9mo ago
They said "could", not "should". I believe the point is that it's much easier to create a plausible justification than an accurate justification. So simply requiring that the system produce some kind of explanat
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by teraflop 9mo ago
The Internet Archive supports full-text search on (AFAIK) its entire scanned book collection, even books that aren't available for borrowing.
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by teraflop 9mo ago
I don't really understand what you mean by this or how it relates to what I said. I certainly wasn't suggesting that you can vertically scale a service to handle unlimited traffic on a single instance. The point is that if you h
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by teraflop 9mo ago
> You can easily scale different parts of your application independently. Just to add that I think some people assume this is something they need, even when there's no basis for it. Do you actually need 1 instance that handles Foo
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by teraflop 9mo ago
Come on, even if that's true, it's obviously a very different situation. For one thing, the grocery store is deciding what produce to stock and what suppliers to get it from. They can choose suppliers that have at least a minimum
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by teraflop 9mo ago
> We pay roughly $0.30 per million requests But the per-request cost is not the only one. You're also paying $0.02 per million CPU-microseconds. If you do the math, that's easily double or triple the equivalent hourly charge fo
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by teraflop 9mo ago
Go does hardcode system call numbers on Linux, but it doesn't on Windows. Instead it follows the normal Windows convention of calling the userspace wrappers from kernel32.dll and similar libraries. https://cs.opensource.
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by teraflop 9mo ago
There's a similar anecdote in Iain M. Banks' The Player of Games . https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/270578/negotiator-...
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by teraflop 9mo ago
In that respect, it reminds me a bit of the busy beaver problem. I wonder: consider the decision problem of determining whether or not a given still life is glider-constructible. Is this problem known to be undecidable? It's straightfo
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by teraflop 9mo ago
Cool demo! I notice that the stars don't seem to be rendered correctly. If you zoom out, you can see the sun's position relative to the stars. As you scroll the date slider through the course of a year, the sun should make a compl
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by teraflop 9mo ago
I guess it's just a display bug, then? Though it's hard to imagine what kind of bug would lead the game state and the visual representation to get out of sync in that particular way.
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by teraflop 10mo ago
Don't get me wrong, it's fun to see performance optimizations like this. But I'd expect that a naive implementation of the same strategy would already take like 0.1% of the time needed to actually generate embeddings for your
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by teraflop 10mo ago
It's referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring_theory_of_economic_deve... The name is a reference to the Challenger disaster, which was caused by a failure of actual sealing O-rings, but the theory i
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by teraflop 10mo ago
Careful -- that statement is half true. It's true that no matter what symbolic representation format you choose (binary or otherwise) it will never be able to encode all irrational numbers, because there are uncountably many of them.
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by teraflop 10mo ago
You're muddying the waters by using the word "received". The instant in time at which your letter is technically "received" by the USPS, in the sense of them having physical possession, has never mattered for any
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by teraflop 10mo ago
The title of this summary blog post is grossly misleading. (To the point where I suspect it of being an AI hallucination, thanks to its use of ChatGPT's distinctive formatting style of bulleted list with Capitalized Colon-Delimited Hea
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by teraflop 10mo ago
That was already the case. This "rule" is not any kind of change in process, it's just a formal acknowledgement that the situation you're describing can happen. Why do you think that acknowledgement is a problem?
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by teraflop 10mo ago
Maybe they are making progress. But given that they first started talking about this in 2018, and then in 2022 they announced that they were planning to release a version with CoreCLR in 2023, and then in 2024 they said it would be in beta
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by teraflop 10mo ago
That 1956 article on the long-distance telephone network is fascinating reading. The chart on page 24 gives the very first division of the US phone into area codes, many of which have of course remained unchanged today. From page 82, when d
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by teraflop 10mo ago
The thing is that the abundance of IPv6 addresses enables fewer prefixes to be used, by allowing addresses to be allocated in much larger chunks. For instance, Comcast (AS 7922) owns about 2^26 IPv4 addresses, distributed across 149 diffe
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by teraflop 10mo ago
"The administration" is not a monolithic entity. For the last ~150 years, even though it's had political appointees at the top, the vast majority of its employees have been selected (at least ostensibly) on the basis of merit
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by teraflop 10mo ago
> Expectations vs systemd/supervisord/tmux/dtach: where would you use this? Sorry to be blunt, but I feel like this is a big unanswered question that you should be addressing. Why would I use your tool over the other wel
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by teraflop 10mo ago
The "incorrect state" being talked about is the IP prefix being misregistered in ARIN's database. The "hijacking" happened later, when the IP prefix was announced via BGP by the registrant who it was incorrectly ass
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by teraflop 10mo ago
They did, and that's what this article is benchmarking. Specifically, it's comparing the native ARM64 version against the emulated x86_64 version, both running on an ARM64 CPU.
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by teraflop 10mo ago
Google and ZeroSSL both provide free certificates via ACME. The links posted above have more details.
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by teraflop 10mo ago
Adrian Schoolcraft is the name that comes to mind for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft > Schoolcraft amassed a set of tapes which demonstrated corruption and abuse within New York City's 81s
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by teraflop 10mo ago
Nice article! One point of clarification: > When the kernel starts it does not have all of the parts loaded that are needed to access the disks in the computer, so it needs a filesystem loaded into the memory called initramfs (Initial RA
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by teraflop 11mo ago
When you're making a work of art (such as a game) you don't just want any old font, you want one that serves a particular aesthetic purpose. If you've picked a typeface, and designed other UI elements that look good in conjun
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by teraflop 11mo ago
That question is answered by the first sentence on the page that this thread is discussing: > At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpo
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by teraflop 11mo ago
Based on approximate sales figures, it's one of the top-selling books of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

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