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by wwarner 3y ago
would really like to see serverless functions based on unikernel instant starts. containers are a great way to integrate functionality like that into kubernetes.
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by wwarner 3y ago
this seems to be an accurate capture of the original "databasecolumn" blog post https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs286/papers/backwards-vertica2008....
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by wwarner 3y ago
Agree with everything you said except "transit is already great". Subway could be greatly improved, and taxing congestion is one way to address that.
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by wwarner 3y ago
It can be a successful way to raise money for the subway system even if it doesn't help much with congestion.
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by wwarner 3y ago
You still have it, you chose learning.
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by wwarner 3y ago
here’s a map for just North America that includes weather forecasts https://ncsu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id...
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by wwarner 3y ago
There is more to Not Even Wrong than criticizing string theory, there are great posts about theoretical developments, and great great discussion in the comments. Woit’s own interests of twistors and spinors are very interesting to me and se
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by wwarner 3y ago
yes, possible in my case here as i listened to the audiobook for book 1.
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by wwarner 3y ago
When the solarians, who have a totalitarian society of necessity, devote 100% of several decades their planet's energy and creativity to creating a subatomic weapon, and in the first demonstration it doesn't work and the president
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by wwarner 3y ago
i think you're missing the humor. i felt that the book is filled with a touch of humor about how we come to the conclusion that we actually know something.
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by wwarner 3y ago
I believe this update also made copy/paste functionality from terminals unreliable. I usually use iterm, but i got the same behavior when i switched to the builtin terminal app. It used to be that highlighting text with the mouse autom
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by wwarner 3y ago
Data centers produce 30M tons of co2 [0], concrete 4 billion tons [1]. 2 orders of magnitude. I'd really like to see more depoliticized, scientific discussion of the topic. So many discussions of climate change end with all participant
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by wwarner 3y ago
Interesting read but pushes its agenda very hard. Six benefits to asynchronous work but zero costs?
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by wwarner 3y ago
I feel like all the innovation around wireguard is a reaction to this situation. Cloud security, especially from AWS, is (as described elsewhere in the comments) byzantine, but I've always felt that the real underlying problem is gener
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by wwarner 3y ago
really so beautiful. the writeup really revved up my imagination, thinking about how the wheels slow and reverse direction to change and then maintain equilibrium, and thinking about how wheels like this control the orientation of the hubbl
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by wwarner 3y ago
I really love emacs in the terminal. I created a docker image that looks beautiful (and identical) whether you're editing locally or remotely. It's configured properly for 24 bit color and unicode, and it also has all the underlyi
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by wwarner 3y ago
Want to agree with you, as so many ML apps seem to be solutions looking for problems. But I actually feel that we are rapidly deploying ML in a development context for vastly improved results. The way that good models are built relies on ma
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by wwarner 3y ago
this guy is a good writer
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Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by wwarner 3y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 3y ago
Sure, it's a harmless observation, which doesn't explain much about the intent in selecting it. Here's a similar quote from Phillip K. Dick "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.&quo
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by wwarner 3y ago
go basically has exceptions with panic & recover. and it’s perfectly simple to add stack traces to errors, should you want it.
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by wwarner 3y ago
This use case is a killer feature of emacs. Rg supports wgrep (writable grep). `rg` to match lines, and then in the resulting buffer, `e` to edit the results and save the changes back to the matched files.
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by wwarner 3y ago
The author is saying that reducing benefits is good because it will force people into marriage and into the very lowest tier of the job market. Kind of a terrible idea.
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by wwarner 3y ago
Incredibly small numbers. This feels like the end of a cycle of tech layoffs.
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Chinese lunar lander's cotton seeds spring to life on far side of the moon(scmp.com)
8 points by wwarner 3y ago|1 comments
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by wwarner 3y ago
Starts slow, gets better every minute. Really great!
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by wwarner 3y ago
You might think that in every real world application, complex numbers are introduced as a convenience, and that every calculation that takes advantage of them ends with taking the real part of the result, but that's not the case. In QM
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by wwarner 3y ago
True, of course, but miniaturization is always lurking in the background of every big physics project. When I was in college, we had a Nobel laureate in physics that won the race to photograph an atom by figuring out how to do it on a tab
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by wwarner 3y ago
go has panic and defer for exception-like flow control, so you’re free to use it and advocate for it, but most go programmers prefer errors as values.
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Mindscape: David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation(preposterousuniverse.com)
2 points by wwarner 3y ago|0 comments

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