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The budget is just another constraint that helps define the perfect solution. Sometimes quick and dirty is the perfect solution.

My read is that xAI built a lot of compute for their own use, but they didn't get any adoption so they are reselling the unused capacity to recoup at least some of the costs. So ca…

It may not be slow, but this crazy complexity is probably a hint at why it can't even scroll up without jumping to the beginning of time.

Today is my last day at my current employer. After some time off, I'm considering several different options. I have enough saved that retirement is probably doable, although last t…

Have you tried dafny, which seems roughly comparable for your purposes? I heard some buzz about it a little while ago but I haven't been following this space closely.

If you are ten nested functions deep in sync code and want to call an async function you could always choose to block the thread to do it, which stops the async color from propagat…

It's interesting that you mention Facebook. They have a ton of their own data centers and yet they are now also spending tens of billions on cloud. It's not that easy to build hund…

They all smear the purchases and sales from index changes, but I don't think they publish on what timescale. Most funds try to minimize tracking error. There are funds that take th…

Well they also shadowed production traffic and fixed some bugs that were causing mismatching results. Not saying that stuff can't still slip through, but it's a good way to evaluat…

In this incarnation, the only one who "wants" red to win is the first column. Every other column will choose whatever color it wants to win, subject to the rules of the game. It's …

The final diagram is a bit confusing, so it's worth pointing out one additional thing. It appears that R5 could vote green in column 2 and have green be agreed by a majority, even …

Well it is hedged with the word "fancy". I think a charitable reading is to understand the problem domain. If N is always small then trying to minimize the big-O is just showing of…

Even treating the process as read only after forking is potentially fraught. What if a background thread is mutating some data structure? When it forks the data structure might be …

It's not your main point, but I can't help but point out that artificial diamonds ARE diamonds. Cubic zirconia is a different mineral. Usually the distinction is "natural" vs "lab …

Take a homily written by someone 2000 miles away and it will likely feel just as relevant to me. Most humans deal with similar issues.

If I'm not mistaken, all the pitfalls in the article have clang-tidy lints to catch

> You must implement a move constructor or a move assignment operator in order for std::move to do anything Bit of a nitpick, but there are sometimes other functions with overloads…

> so clearly an LLM that does math well only does so by ignoring the majority of the space it is trained on There are probably good reasons why LLMs are not the "ultimate solution"…

An often underlooked aspect of SSDs for databases is write endurance. With the wrong workload random writes can burn through your drive in months instead of years. This is the hidd…

LLM only fairly recently underwent a step change from "maybe someday" to actually useful now. That opened many new doors that people didn't even think were possible. Getting increm…

Yeah, -O3 generally performs well in small benchmarks because of aggressive loop unrolling and inlining. But in large programs that face icache pressure, it can end up being slower…

It'd be very hard for the compiler to enforce constant-time execution for generic code. As an example, if you wrote the naive password checking where the first byte that doesn't ma…

Of course it depends on the situation. But I don't see how you could think that in this case, crashing is better than stale config. Crashing on a config update is usually only done…

Instead of crashing when applying the new config, it's more common to simply ignore the new config if it cannot be applied. You keep running in the last known good state. Operators…

It sounds like part of the problem was how the application reacted to the reverted fail over. They had to restart their service to get writes to be accepted, implying some sort of …