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by zellyn 2y ago
Yep. That tree is an hour a bit away from where I live, in Atlanta Georgia :-)
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by zellyn 2y ago
What I’m really looking forward to is when autonomous taxis can run a net profit —- including maintenance and upgrades —- at which point, instead of letting Waymo take all the vehicle profit in the world, I want to start an autonomous tax
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by zellyn 2y ago
This seems silly. It’s been obvious even to casual observers like myself for years that Waymo/Google was one of the only groups taking the problem seriously and trying to actually solve it, as opposed to pretending you could add self-d
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by zellyn 2y ago
If I read that blog post correctly, it's a model to infer normal maps from textures, not a new way to render geometry. The article in this thread is more about a small-voxel-based representation of displacement maps. A tool like Deep B
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by zellyn 2y ago
That's a very appealing aesthetic (possibly because I'm old enough to remember downloading games over a 2400 baud modem!). Very nice work! That video looked great, and (at least for me) felt very evocative. In the section where th
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by zellyn 2y ago
Same for MacOS
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by zellyn 2y ago
Am I wrong in thinking that if the same person uses the same plane for multiple, documentable trips, or if they are spotted entering or exiting their plane, it should be possible to de-anonymize their flight data?
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by zellyn 2y ago
You might be interested in "Forge", the open-source sequel… https://forgegame.com/ (last updated 2015, alas)
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by zellyn 2y ago
The 2x speed difference was the most surprising part of the whole article to me! I wonder if it’s possible to limit one’s use of typescript to just the subset that gives that same performance…
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by zellyn 2y ago
Anyone know offhand how this compares to Hermit? https://cashapp.github.io/hermit/
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by zellyn 2y ago
Problems can sneak in when you use the low-level API to do something to an object that can't be cleanly represented in the higher-level API. You need some kind of escape hatch, like a list of links to or ids of low-level details or a b
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by zellyn 3y ago
Since it happened, I've said that the “Year of Snowden” turned “It's theoretically possible to backdoor the firmware of a hard drive” (for example), into “Somewhere in the NSA, there's a Kanban board with post-its for each ma
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by zellyn 3y ago
Should that be Galaxy's Guide to the Hitchhiker, by Adam Douglas?
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by zellyn 3y ago
You should check out cursorless… it may be more directly targeting your use case
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by zellyn 3y ago
reconditerose wrote above: > At that time Redis created an open governing board that took over, with a majority of contributions coming from the community during this time (~25% of contributions came from Redis engineers, ~75% from the c
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by zellyn 3y ago
Hey WarpStream folks… does your blog have an atom/rss feed?
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by zellyn 3y ago
What this makes me wonder is whether there could be a way for GitHub or its equivalents to make the concept of “a fork by patching” a first-class concept. I’ve definitely done this for company-internal forks by trying to keep the changes as
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by zellyn 3y ago
By this logic, most things we do because of sentimentality and feeling, which many consider to be exactly those things that make us human, are “just silly”.
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by zellyn 3y ago
Yeah, I had the same issue and came to the comments to find out it it was just me.
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by zellyn 3y ago
Is the "books3" dataset mentioned in the Pile paper the one that authors are suing over? The one that includes a whole bunch of popular and copyrighted material?
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by zellyn 3y ago
Wow, thanks for the detailed and informative comments! Did you write up the mmap results as a paper? Sounds like it would be quite useful. (Is this the paper you're referring to? https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022&
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by zellyn 3y ago
As an addendum, I found the episode fascinating. As someone who has spent about five of the last eight years on a foundational engineering team, involved in _many_ long, grinding migrations where the end goal is clearly a win for the compan
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by zellyn 3y ago
I found the "finger guns" team and their plan fascinating, and I've definitely seen enthusiasm sweep the field many times. I work on an infrastructure / foundational engineering team, and it reminds of something I'm
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by zellyn 3y ago
Do y'all have an explanation for why Haiku outperforms Sonnet for code?
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by zellyn 3y ago
I've spent ages trying to get an RSS feed for changes to a particular file (on the main branch) out of fossil. I can't tell if I'm misunderstanding some fundamental organizing principle, or if RSS feeds from searches/fil
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by zellyn 3y ago
Seeing Rational Rose, ClearCase, etc. mentioned without expletives is novel! My impression of that family of tools was not favorable. They worked… ok at first. But were slow, and if things got messed up, recovery was very difficult. Also,
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by zellyn 3y ago
I think the algorithms and data structures in Pijul have been carefully designed to be fast over a decade, and one of the original points of departure was making high-level decisions to facilitate performance. I know performance optimizatio
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by zellyn 3y ago
There are times when the right algorithm dominates, and you end up using something written in a language that doesn't fit your expertise/deployment system/preferences/etc. because it's the only thing that implements
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by zellyn 3y ago
I'm fascinated by this. I like both Rust and Zig, but I would have guessed that for the kind of complex data structure manipulation required for CRDTs and other clever algorithms Pijul employs, the degree reliable correctness Rust give
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by zellyn 3y ago
No worries. And sorry for my unnecessarily sharp response! :-)

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