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the8472
4y ago
Various distros have rustup packaged, so use that instead where available.
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4y ago
> and you will need to repair it and you won't be able do it easily because your setup is not containerized which would allow to return to the clean state quite easily with no effort. Automated deployment including server bringup is
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the8472
4y ago
Upfront customer requirements often say they want >99.5% uptime (which allows for 3.5h downtime a month anyway) or some such. In practice B2B customers often don't care much if hour-long downtimes happen every week during off-hours.
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the8472
4y ago
clone3+exec is a more powerful variant but very difficult to use unless you're libc. io_uring_spawn is a WIP. https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1213/
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4y ago
> These kinds of mistakes are easy to make and hard to debug, especially when the sleepable call is deeply nested. This means you either have to pass around permission-to-sleep tokens or you need additional function colors to make sure t
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the8472
4y ago
O_DIRECT is basically telling the OS to load a block of data straight from disk into your process memory, skipping all the caching, sharing, scheduling, coalescing and readaheads the OS normally does for you. Which means you now either must
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the8472
4y ago
single-core, latency doesn't matter, low footprint: serial throughput: parallel or G1 balance between latency, footprint and throughput: G1 latency more important than throughput or footprint: ZGC or shenandoah missiles and HFT: Epsilo
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the8472
4y ago
It can execute application code on more than one thread at a time. Something I'd think people would appreciate in the age of many-core systems.
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the8472
4y ago
Why not use your own registry with a pull-through cache?
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the8472
4y ago
Being confident in false things is part of what makes hallucinations troublesome.
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the8472
4y ago
They have NFS (called EFS), but it's about 10x more expensive.
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the8472
4y ago
They're saying that they have reduced hallucinations. But RLHF seems to undo some of the improvements (figure 8 in the paper).
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the8472
4y ago
> An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period GI in AGI stands for general intelligence. If what you said is your benchmark for general intelligence then humans who cannot perform all these tasks to the standard of bein
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the8472
4y ago
That might be because we're currently part of the control group* in the aerosol geoengineering experiment. https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1633566568528375811 * not controlled for GHGs
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the8472
4y ago
It's like saying an 8086 will never be able to render photorealistic graphics in realtime. They fuel the investment in technology and research that will likely lead there.
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the8472
4y ago
For smaller values of doom. The one he's talking about is unaligned AGI doing to humans what humans did to Xerces blue.
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4y ago
> So essentially you are saying we should destroy the environment because it appears to be cheaper in the short term? "Destroy the environment" is not a binary variable. Decentralized installations could also result in more emi
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4y ago
Installing in deserts means you need minimal mechanical support for the panels. Parking lots require raised ones. Individual roofs are small compared to large solar farms. Most farming isn't compatible with panels (think tractors and h
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the8472
4y ago
The standard for cryptographic security is that the attacker can do no better than brute force. And the complexity for that is usually set high enough that it is out of range for the entire computational capacity of our civilization for yea
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the8472
4y ago
"things live there" can also be true about gamma-ray sterilized canned food[0]. That doesn't mean it's important to the continued functioning of the ecosphere. Also, some deserts are more lifeless than others. [0] https
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the8472
4y ago
> Deserts are important ecosystem Are you using "important" to say "have a function beyond being inert matter"? Then sure, but that information is already conveyed by saying "it's an ecosystem", adding
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4y ago
With DRM the user who owns the machine is the "attacker". The keys have already been handed to the user, he only needs to get them out. This is like hiding an API key in a public website's javascript with rot13. Very much sec
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4y ago
There's kTLS NIC offload. So in principle could splice a file into a pipe and then the pipe into a kTLS socket and have the NVMe drive DMA it to the NIC and then NIC encrypts it and the data never touches main memory or the CPU.
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4y ago
To shed heat you want it to be reflective in the parts of the spectrum that represents sunlight and emissive in the IR windows so it can radiate into space.
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the8472
4y ago
For Zip it's TrustedRandomAccess[0] instead of TrustedLen. Imo the most radioactively unsafe trait in the standard library and will likely never be stabilized in its current form. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/r
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the8472
4y ago
In its reference frame light moves instantaneously.
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4y ago
Having to scan through more than one answer isn't that terrible, better than not having an answer at all.
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4y ago
> no one wants to post updated answers because "it's just going to get flagged". I've seen plenty of "20xx: Now we do Y instead of X" answers posted years after the original answer.
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4y ago
> There is still no equivalent to Microsoft Exchange, Group Policy, Enterprise PKI, and a bunch of other things in the Linux world. Which also means fewer attack vectors.
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4y ago
welding light is broad-spectrum, so it's not relevant when comparing to a narrow-peak light source. > UV-C As Potentially Mutagenic/Causing Damage not caught by normal replication suppression mechanisms - [ https://pu
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