willvarfar

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by willvarfar 11mo ago
I often crunch 'biggish data' on a single node using duckdb (because I love using the modern style of painless and efficient SQL engines). I don't use delta or iceberg (because I haven't needed to; I'm describing wh
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
Most of the wall has been plundered for stone and to make way for new development over the past millennium. Its not conflict that has destroyed 2 miles of a 6m high 3m thick wall, it's peace :)
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
(An aside, there is a lot of scandal in the UK about how the privatised water providers have been basically shitting on the public and environment, and literally discharging raw sewage because its too expensive to moderate!)
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
I'd be really surprised if Gmail's + behaviour isn't so well known by spammers that they just strip them off?
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
Yes the article talks about consumers scheduling things like washing machines during the day, or even filling up a battery.
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
Ignoring the politics, we have to say that China has done the world collectively as a whole a major service in strategically developing and mass producing super cheap solar panels.
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
Sometimes you have to pick your poison when those with other agendas or just inexperience want to complicate things. Conceding that they can use Redis somehow might be enough to get them to stop blaming you for the 'out of date'
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
I'd always imagined the "pied piper" as being 'pied' as in patched or even checkerboard of black and white. A piebald pony is patches of black or white, for example. Is it that 'pied' is or was less speci
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
(Interestingly, some of the world's dictators do seem to have an interest in the current state of the art in prolonging life. For example Xi and Putin chatted about organ replacement https://www.bbc.com/news/articl
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
Venezuela and Nigeria have vast oil and rare earth deposits. Eh also Greenland. Hmm, there might be a pattern :)
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by willvarfar 11mo ago
actually I've been detecting a sharp increase in US rightwingness and nationalism comments on HN. I was wondering if it was just trolling or HN was now on some bot list or if there was a real change in sentiment in the US?
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Many people who live off grid do not have a well or anything, they carry water in. This means they do things to minimise the amount of drinking water (called "potable water") they need. This is just normal off grid life, nothing
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by willvarfar 1y ago
(Interestingly, some of the world's dictators do seem to have an interest in the current state of the art in prolonging life. For example Xi and Putin chatted about organ replacement https://www.bbc.com/news/artic
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Further down the article explains: > Joachim himself declined to provide his last name or workplace because his employer does not want to be associated with the campaign. POLITICO has verified his identity. Joachim said his employer has
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Unfortunately not. I would welcome it.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Its interesting that just today I randomly watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE that lists some points an American living in the UK found to compare Europe and the US. And one of those points was about how A
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Most countries have generation a long way from populated areas. They also typically have much better and more modern and being built out transmission architecture so it is less of a problem though.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Sweden used to have a single zone even though most generation is in the sparsely populated north and most consumption is in the slightly more populated south. Then they had to move to a zonal model because of pressure from Denmark who comp
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by willvarfar 1y ago
its popular in basic games where fonts are made from bitmap glyphs and pixels are at a premium.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Yes it is sad that the whole Nobel prize coverage will be just a background to a week talking about Trump, whether he wins or not :(
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by willvarfar 1y ago
People have loud motorbikes and cars because they want attention. It seems very fundamentally selfish. I've spent a lot of time in the countryside where there is a motorway in the distance, and the general low rumble road noise seems
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by willvarfar 1y ago
You can imagine LLM fingerprinting to be part of future pentest workflows where they identify the model and know it's weaknesses and vulnerabilities etc...
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by willvarfar 1y ago
I think the memory safety aspects of capabilities kind of missed the boat (often intrusive and breaking for memory unsafe languages whilst superfluous in practice for memory safe languages). The memory safety stuff is better dealt with by
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Yes they thought that dependence would be codependence and make Russia less willing to start wars etc.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Yeah the narrative always seems to be bent by political biases seeping in. It is easy to speculate that if were talking about the flip side about how power company cartels have regulatory capture to prevent home owners from complementing ho
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Can there be 'latent talent' then? The dictionary def of talent is an innate ability; application and practice are not mentioned. Lady Catherine hilariously claimed "There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more t
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by willvarfar 1y ago
To be fair there might be other students in your same class who, like perhaps Mrs Broadbent herself, would find classic literature to be the thing that ignites their love of reading? Personally I tried and failed to get into LotR as a kid e
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by willvarfar 1y ago
And you can use online services to interact with the government and other important things like your bank. Imagine the alternative: each government department has their own auth system to roll out and maintain, and you have a gazillion logi
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by willvarfar 1y ago
The App Store is full of paid search result placements etc. Search for app x and first result is competitor y etc. It's a slippery slope.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
I'm still momentarily paused when kids today say 'shit' to mean 'good' etc. Yeah some words shift in meaning and other words swap in meaning.

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