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by vl 3y ago
The biggest go problem in practice is ironically omitted in both blog posts: Verbosity of error handling! There should be a shorthand for returning if last ret value is non-nil in one line. Otherwise all you code is littered with: if
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by vl 3y ago
But isn’t it just “two phase”? I.e. how “true” two phase would be different? Ok, help from our new common friend: Yes, your statement is essentially correct. In the United States, residential electrical supply is typically a single-phase,
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by vl 3y ago
Dissolving common table salt in water is endothermic. I.e. it consumes energy, not produces.
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by vl 3y ago
Google has multiple search clusters, and indecies are not fully in sync, since they are updated asynchronously. So often the difference is the cluster your query is landing on.
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by vl 3y ago
Moreover, if you have meetings with the same people regularly, you can tell when they have taken their drugs and when not. One week they will be manic and concentrate on some minor detail and drill into it, other week they are chill and not
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by vl 3y ago
Isn't it considered bad practice?
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by vl 3y ago
I wonder if it's possible to use slog in 1.20 already, is there a back-port? I'm changing logging on the service right now and it just makes sense to use it now , but entire service can't move to pre-release version of go.
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by vl 3y ago
For any RV: hook up to shore (and then disconnect) takes time. For travel trailer it’s harder to park (if you need to back in into tight spot) and level, and then you need to disconnect the vehicle (if you need it to drive around). And then
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by vl 3y ago
I upgraded from trailer to the motorhome and everything turned out to be more trickier on the motorhome. But there are benefits as well - it’s way more comfortable for passengers, and it’s easier to setup on arrival.
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by vl 3y ago
They raise beacons which communicate via laser with satellites , thus avoiding giving away position from radio or audio. They use audio for short-range underwater communication, but this has side effect of giving away position. US also bui
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by vl 3y ago
This is obviously incorrect: Let’s say they have to pay on each 500-play window, on true random, operator can end up with all 500 plays as non-paying and break the law. This is why they are programmed to increase payout odds if there was no
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by vl 3y ago
At the end of the day only technology which fully removes humans from the loop will both push humanity into post-scarcity society and make humans irrelevant. If two years ago it was "we'll get there one day", now "it&#x2
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by vl 3y ago
This is going to be most transformative technology invented by humanity yet, and Donald Knuth dismisses it with little thought or care, getting a “student” to type questions into the old version of “ChatGPT”. (And why it’s ok to use student
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by vl 3y ago
I also upgraded to new Zelda-edition OLED Switch and case and snatched two Zelda-edition controllers from local Walmart. They will have huge bump in hardware sales as well.
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by vl 3y ago
Peopleware and Mythical Man-Month
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by vl 3y ago
Inflation has gone up due to the reckless money printing, car prices just reflect this fact.
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by vl 3y ago
Interesting consideration: Starship is monolithic right now, ie it’s unclear how it can unload payload of its own size. There are no bay doors a-la shuttle. I guess they will have to do tilt-away nose section or something.
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by vl 3y ago
But why is it at the Lagrange point in the first place? Wouldn’t ultra-high orbit be equally enough?
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by vl 3y ago
Essentially you can think about them as "water which washes the filter", i.e. contaminants removed from the drinkable water are in this waste stream. Without this filter this fine would clog up in couple days. In typical home inst
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by vl 3y ago
What is turbo in this context?
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by vl 3y ago
How is network adapter connected to GPU? They just seat on the same bus? It looks like in TPU v4 cluster each pod with 2 or 4 (?) TPUs has 6 optical interfaces, which directly connect to next pods. I have no idea how they route though this
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by vl 3y ago
I assume/suspect internally Google has v5 already. The thing about TPU clusters that they have hyper-torus optical interconnect between TPUs. This allows for extremely efficient weight updates. To replicate this with A100s you need ver
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by vl 3y ago
Perhaps NVidia is close now. A bit hard to say without specific hardware info. Google’s were already available 5-6 years ago. And probably current versions are even faster. They have super fast optical interconnects in torus or hyper-torus
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by vl 3y ago
I had to use TF when I worked at G, when I left I immediately started to use PyTorch and never looked back.
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by vl 3y ago
>PyTorch/Nvidia GPUs easily overtaking TensorFlow/Google TPUs. TF lost to PyTorch, and this is Google’s fault - TF APIs are both insane and badly documented. But nothing comes close to performance of Google’s TPU exaflop mega-c
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by vl 3y ago
From the article: Apple introduced high-yield savings accounts. This is interesting, what would be the motivation for somebody to use this? Is return noticeably better than other institutions? Why Apple is doing it at all?
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by vl 3y ago
There are pre-paid credit cards you can buy in Safeway and such for a small premium. I'm not sure how to use them for paying online though (i.e. how to provide name/address/phone that match).
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by vl 3y ago
The better question is why Super Bowl, of all things is using Roman numerals... They could have stopped this insanity at 50, but decided to carry on.
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by vl 3y ago
But Boston as a choice is equally surprising.
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by vl 4y ago
It’s interesting that they used “supersonic” since phenomenon of sound emerges when there is enough molecules to collide with each other to transmit sound waves, which is not the case in the outer space. But most probable speed of hydrogen

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