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by thamer 2y ago
As far as I know it is not a native feature, but inline hints for parameter names can be added with a VSCode extension called "Inline Parameters for VSCode": https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liam
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by thamer 2y ago
This attack happened a few days before Halloween 2023 (pumpkins), with a large drop in the number of devices connected to the Internet – like how an eclipse suddenly brings a period of darkness, maybe? This is just my interpretation, I also
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by thamer 2y ago
> For example, the first goal required her to create a plan to reduce data storage costs across the entire AmazonBot web crawling organization by 75 percent in just eight workdays. Oh sure, no big deal. If true and if this description is
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by thamer 3y ago
The "Data Storage Internals" section[1] of the README sounds to me like it has its own column-oriented format for these tables, at least that's how I'm reading the part about segments. Is that the case? If so, have you t
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by thamer 3y ago
They can't just change the verification code, and it's not based on the fields of the contact card. You can think of it as a fingerprint for their iMessage public key, the one used to encrypt messages end-to-end. If the key with w
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by thamer 3y ago
Shading is used in California to prevent evaporation, see for example the well-documented use of "shade balls": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_balls Their use in Los Angeles was covered in a Veritasium
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by thamer 3y ago
I've never experienced this behavior, but I see people do mention it online. I also just tried to save a JPEG image, and Chrome offered to save it as JPEG. Could it be that the web page offered different formats and Chrome chose WebP?
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by thamer 3y ago
If anyone from the project is reading this, the multiple misspellings or typos featured prominently on your website make it look very amateurish (imo). Between "You deserve better then YAML", "autotomatically escaped", a
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by thamer 3y ago
For those interested in this sort of thing, see also Raft's TLA+ specification: https://github.com/ongardie/raft.tla
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by thamer 3y ago
When asked by ATC, the pilots mention the threat level escalated to a 4 (at 2:39). I wasn't familiar with this scale so I looked it up, it's from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO): Level 1 — Disruptive beh
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by thamer 3y ago
I use conditional includes for this, but I also add a single letter describing which Git identity I'm currently using to my PS1 so that it appears before $ in my shell prompt. This prevents me from committing code with the wrong identi
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by thamer 3y ago
The VideoCore VII GPU does not have its own VRAM, it's only a compute chip. From the Hackster.io review[1]: > The chip also features a new Broadcom Videocore-VII graphics processor running at up to 800MHz, and is linked to the buyer
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by thamer 3y ago
http://archive.is/06Gsa
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by thamer 3y ago
Yes: https://gist.github.com/forivall/a80d382b8c399044eb7d45d9124... Playground: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/PTAEHkCUEkHFoHIEEA...
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by thamer 3y ago
Understanding what the compiler outputs is also essential to debug the inevitable issues that come up when porting an existing program to WASM. Since it's a different platform with significant limitations, it's important to know h
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by thamer 3y ago
How is the GIMBAL video still listed as "unresolved"? Mick West's analysis seems to explain it pretty thoroughly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs At the very least I would have hoped that there wo
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by thamer 3y ago
If you're considering sharding a database, please spend some time finding the best key distribution strategy, and don't just use `key % shard_count` as if it was automatically the right way to do it. The distribution of values for
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by thamer 3y ago
I'm not sure you'll see this, but just in case: the Apollo Guidance Computer used RAM called "core rope memory", and the cycle time was 11.7 microseconds[1]. This isn't too far off from what the best SSDs can achiev
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by thamer 3y ago
If you're curious about ancient cuisines and want to see what the food may have looked like, check out the YouTube channel "Tasting History"[1]. The host re-creates recipes from original sources, which is often difficult give
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by thamer 3y ago
They are as useful as ChatGPT with a good prompt . For a given task, ChatGPT seems to do way better if it given a precise prompt with detailed instructions. This includes describing the context of the problem, maybe what kind of data it wi
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by thamer 3y ago
I tried the basic "llama2" model with a simple question, and did not expect this kind of answer. Q: who was the first man on the moon? A: I apologize, but it is not possible for me to provide an answer to your question as there ha
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by thamer 3y ago
Another post about the same story, also on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815744
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by thamer 3y ago
Great insight from Abadi as always. To add to his point about guarantees and network partitions: I find that the way consistency is explained in documentation or even courses can be somewhat misleading or at least incomplete. If you read th
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by thamer 3y ago
Protecting against these vulnerabilities involves a lot more than just the OS. On this topic, see this incredible multi-step exploit from Google's Project Zero team, which goes from exploiting the Wi-Fi firmware to eventually gaining r
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by thamer 3y ago
Trying the most commonly reported frequency of ~8,000 Hz on a tone generator[1] provides a good example of how distressing this can be. If you give it a try, I would recommend you turn the volume almost all the way down before pressing play
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by thamer 4y ago
The regular version of ChatGPT can explain it pretty well. I asked it about your regex and it gave me a detailed breakdown; it's a bit too long to post it here but just to quote the [gimuy] part: > [gimuy]{0,5}: This part of the pat
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by thamer 4y ago
This also made me think of prepared statements. It would be more readable to have all the values in their respective place in the SQL string, rather than have a bunch of question marks followed by all the values bunched together at the end.
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by thamer 4y ago
You mentioned mountains, and I was thinking this might work well for seismic instruments placed in remote locations if the data plan is enough to transmit this kind of data.
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by thamer 4y ago
One argument against the cross-species transmission theory is that Chinese horseshoe bats (the reservoir for SARS and possibly SARS-CoV-2) don't really live in Wuhan. They live mainly in the south of China, see for example this map[1]
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by thamer 4y ago
This is answered in the blog post: > This led to completion chains of over 20 calls to GPT for a single user question. […] it takes 15 seconds and costs $1 in credits vs $50 and 1 hour for the analyst.

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