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by zeroxfe 2y ago
I highly recommend "With Each And Every Breath": https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/WithEachAndEveryBreath/Con... Also, the "Waking Up" app, which has a fantastic collection of guided meditation
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
One of the things you quickly discover when you start meditating is how deeply your breath is connected to your mind and body. You can literally detect a thought forming before it does simply by sensing subtle changes in your breathing. You
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
Let's not move the goalposts here :-) The context is an audio codec, not heavyweight web applications, in response to your question "Are there really many situations where a 10kbps connection would actually be stable enough to be
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
> Are there really many situations where a 10kbps connection would actually be stable enough to be usable? Yes there are. We ran on stable low bandwidth connections for a very long time before we had stable high bandwidth connections. A
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
Neither is dressing well, dining out, or taking an uber. Very few things are actually "required." For some people, alcohol is a low-cost low-effort means to enhance experience and improve social function.
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
Yes, standard is using a key management system (KMS), but there's a lot of nuance and complexity there. Depending on the threat model, you can use software systems, hardware systems, multiparty crypto systems, and you need to think thr
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
> AI is horrendously bad at anything not in its training set. The whole point of AL/ML algorithms is to find generalizations that explicitly apply to data outside the training set. Just because it gets some things wrong doesn't
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
> why did the developer decide to add the feature in the first place? Was it community feedback or some other mechanism that inspired this choice? You're moving the goalposts and again putting the developer in a position where they
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
Even without a grammar spec, there's lots of things common in _most_ languages: quoted strings, whitespaces, matching braces/parens, etc.
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
Yes, it means that you can reliably expect most UNIX/Linux systems (possibly even most OSs with IP stacks) to resolve the port "doom" to 666.
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
I don't understand why this is a problem. It's not uncommon to see multi-decade old systems refactored for extensibility and maintainability every once in a while. What worked when it was initially designed won't work forever
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
I don't think we are. The premise of this is that the foundation model can learn some kind of baseline ability to reason about forecasting, that is generalizable across different domains (each which needs fine tuning.) I don't kno
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
> I'm curious why we seem convinced that this is a task that is possible or something worthy of investigation. There's a huge industry around time series forecasting used for all kinds of things like engineering, finance, clima
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by zeroxfe 2y ago
There's no way you're getting a machine for $40/month. :-) Did you mean a dedicated VM or VPS? (I have a bunch of actual dedicated machines with different providers, and this would save me a lot of money.) (Edit: holy moly th
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> A transpiler will be consistent and can be correct. No disagreement. My point is that it's impractically hard to build especially given the scope and complexity of the SQL dialects of major databases.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> Am surprised PG gave this talk at a UK school without mentioning an important assumption that they will need to migrate to the US in his opening paragraph. Seems kinda reasonable for a motivational speech not to mention it (even assumi
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> Paul is fundamentally wrong with one thiing here: Larry knew google was going to be huge from the beginning. Nobody can know such a thing -- especially turning around a billion-dollar business, a thing with a near-zero prior probabilit
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Apologies, I was trying to imply that LLMs may be more practical to solve these kinds of problems than hand-built translators (assuming the primary purpose is for engineers using this during development.)
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
I asked Google Gemini to do this, and it gave me a seemingly convincing response. Anyone know if it's right? Prompt: translate the SQL statement "select TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'month') from dual" to a PostgreSQL dialect
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Your approach seems like the worst of both worlds: a single codebase with mixed styles. I work at a large tech company, and while I don't really participate in style wars, I do care that there is a single enforced standard across any p
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
We designed our systems to be resistant to certain types of fraud, but never got successful enough to be a target. :-/ But also, yes, micropayments are far less "fraud worthy" from an attackers perspective.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
I wrote a [1] post-mortem when I shut down my payment startup a few years ago. The vast majority of our challenges were non-technical: navigating regulation, high legal costs, complex insurance requirements, etc. on an uneven playing field
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
I think you're drastically underestimating the purpose and management of UUIDs in large scale systems. If you're building for a single application or data type, sure do your thing, have at it. If you're trying to coordinate U
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> It doesn't sound like they have a great security team That's an unfair comment. Even the best teams ship bugs. If you want to measure the quality of a security team, you look at their performance trajectory (for both detectio
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Yes, CapsLock is useless, and I've been remapping it to Ctrl since forever, which serves me a lot more than Esc.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Wired/wireless keyboard manufacturers are going to go nuts with a whole new product line :-)
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
This reminds me of an experience from two decades ago. https://0xfe.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-firewall-guy.html It's not always the Firewall -- unless it is :-)
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The Firewall Guy(0xfe.blogspot.com)
2 points by zeroxfe 3y ago|0 comments
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Karpathy: A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python (2021)(karpathy.github.io)
3 points by zeroxfe 3y ago|0 comments
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
I really like both the Adyashanti series.

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