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by twic 3y ago
A rephrasing of this might be on-topic on retrocomputing: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/3083/21450 But almost nobody reads that.
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by twic 3y ago
Except that the mTOR pathway also promotes growth and preservation of muscle tissue, and we know that muscle tissue is rather important to quality of life and avoidance of injury in old age.
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by twic 3y ago
The specs are sort of published. There is this: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-interfa... But none of those documents contain a complete specification. I followed various links, but couldn&#x
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by twic 3y ago
Spores are highly resistant to oxidisation, but for a spore to produce more spores, it has to develop into a bacterium, and bacteria are not resistant to oxidation. This is not happenstance - spores can be resistant because they don't
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by twic 3y ago
> Dynamic safety (cells, Rcs, etc) just add too many overhead for the the critical path A low latency trading system can't have Rc, or any C equivalent of it, in the critical path, because it does allocation. More generally, your st
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by twic 3y ago
Currently, UK companies can file their accounts using the Companies House website. That's going away - all companies will have to use third-party software (IIUIC). This is an incredible retrograde step.
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Changes to accounts, part 1: moving to software-only filing (UK)(companieshouse.blog.gov.uk)
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by twic 3y ago
> I'm not sure what there is to learn, if you have a good working knowledge of Linux servers. Everything about the graphics and windowing stack, for starters. Why isn't my external display being detected after waking from sleep
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by twic 3y ago
Are you talking about Sam or an AGI?
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by twic 3y ago
Sounds like Roko's Basilisk knows where he lives.
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by twic 3y ago
> I'd say it's a far easier situation for the right AI than for humans. Actually this has already been studied in chess theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xNlzsnPCQ
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by twic 3y ago
Altman is an interesting character in all of this. As far as i can tell, he has never done anything impressive, in technology or business. Got into Stanford, but dropped out, founded a startup in 2005 which threw easy money at a boring prob
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by twic 3y ago
> The "lying" line in the original announcement feels like where the good gossip is This is exactly it, and it's astounding that so many people are going in other directions. Either this is true, and Altman has been a naug
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by twic 3y ago
"Any interesting space drive is a weapon of mass destruction. It only matters how long you want to wait for maximum damage." -- Jon Souza https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/prelimnotes.php#jo...
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by twic 3y ago
The original article says: > Despite this objection from locals, planning permission was granted last year. Which amazes me. Why on earth would Newham approve this? Your article has a clue: > Plans for the Stratford sphere were approv
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by twic 3y ago
Good outline of the idea of theory building. I especially appreciated that the author has added a feature to scare off simpletons.
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by twic 3y ago
You don't do risk, deal booking, etc in between the tick and the trade. You do them afterwards. You do drop copy completely separately, that's the whole point of it.
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by twic 3y ago
The low-latency core communicates with a more normal app via messages, over a socket or through shared memory or whatever. So you have normal UI code where a user can enter an instruction, then instead of writing to a database or making a H
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by twic 3y ago
My team did it in Rust. Others in our company have done it in C++, making heavy use of available wizardry. It's widespread in the industry to do it in Java, albeit a strange subset of Java where you avoid most of the features. I'd
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by twic 3y ago
And this plot's area is about 390 nanowaleses.
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by twic 3y ago
This prompted me to finally get round to making The System Is Down my PagerDuty ringtone.
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by twic 3y ago
The most recent thing i saw was Strong Bad doing let's plays on ancient games, including modding them on the fly, which was highly entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvscxQN1JlA&list=PLSFI7mabpY...
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by twic 3y ago
Also combined with the fact that many people in the west genuinely do look down on India. Not necessarily in an overtly racist way, but thinking it's still the India of the 1950s, rather than a country which can build supersonic jet fi
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by twic 3y ago
HN's libertarian crowd real quiet right now.
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by twic 3y ago
> Item 8: Use builders for complex types Hmm. > The boilerplate can be significantly reduced by implementing and using the Default trait, as described in Item 5: Yes, standard and good advice. > That's a more general concern:
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by twic 3y ago
Why does Java take weeks? For a straightforward application or library project, you can fill in this form and get a shovel-ready build: https://gradle-initializr.cleverapps.io/ I usually tweak it a bit, but that's minu
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by twic 3y ago
GitHub actions are configured by version-controlled files too though. I have an actions-dev branch on my project, so I can iterate on actions config without having to clutter up master. Would still be better if I could run locally to iterat
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by twic 3y ago
Filmed in an actual university by the look of it. It's funny how low budget films sometimes look more realistic than big budget ones, because they can't afford to build sets, and have to use the real thing. The brief biology lab s
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by twic 3y ago
The linking mentioned there has nothing to do with the linking in LTO. It happens before JITting, and is neither a barrier to nor an opportunity for optimisation.
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by twic 3y ago
It was so good. But then, the web was young, and everything was. You are quite right to feel sad. I know this doesn't help.

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