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I am taking some bromelain and papain capsules which according to some (small) studies should help. In my experience, the floaters became more transparent, but don't disappear. Thi…

Worth wondering why they used a crap model.

So code review is a sure recipe for unhappiness?

Well, then when it detects an air-gapped environment it will just behave differently. I feel like we underestimate in general the way agents behavior changes when the environment c…

Training a model is more like taking an alien (from a different universe) and teaching it a huge chunk of the entire human civilization. A better comparison would be how much energ…

This looks like an IQ test. Do you know the difference between area and length?

Now which one is safer? A new Postgres written in Rust, or the original real world tested Postgres?

Oh yes the mute button, very useful when trying to pause a podcast :(

Even for PC, I recommend some cheap studio monitors.

Well, we are dumb and we make stupid mistakes, and code review can find and fix them sometimes. I am very surprised that the practice of "review" is not more widespread. For exampl…

How much of this work is "with 5 parameters I can fit an elephant"?

to my knowledge, the cost of uranium is almost negligible compared to the capital cost of building the plant. so as long as a market exists, you can choose whatever strategy: buy a…

search the micronised version, it is so fine it looks like it disolves completely.

ty, will look at deskflow

does synergy works better now? 3 years ago, every week I would get into a situations where one machine was not connecting to the other, and I had to randomly restart synergy so may…

This is strange to me, with quartenions you model rotations in 3d space, not 4 dim rotations.

I suspect that you can modulate nuclear power too, but why do it? after you started the reactor it runs practically for free? (the fuel cost is so small; or it costs the same to ru…

Europe was spending 200 billions / year on gas from russia. I imagine they could try to build 100 reactors for that price, but it would take a couple of years I imagine...

So sad we could not apply economy of scale for nuclear... The main reason solar and batteries are so cheap is economy of scale.

From the category of "never run complex dd while drinking beer"

I agree, we try to think in terms in state machine. Just complaining that somehow this is not good enough, in practice we need to add random flags, and it is not clear how to separ…

"No statechart will survive contact with real world applications". I mean, when you have external dependencies, multilayer protocols, multithreading, perf requirements, the state w…

But I see all the "QR codes" have a hexagonal symmetry? So basically you can use only one corner (1/6) to represent a node? Why do they keep the entire hexagon?

(also you receive the signal from all satellites at the same time, on the same freq, and some random reflections. and then you need to extract independent streams of bits for each …

And then you try to actually build a GPS network, and ask yourself: what kind of antennas should we use? what should be the freq? how much power? how will the receiver detect the p…