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ndr

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About ndr

Software Engineer, traveler and wonderer.

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    Comment #49185606

    Imagine being a VC and getting to this slide on their pitch deck, "involved in creating the following": https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2085036253263921218

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    Comment #49146366

    I thought this was true for tuna and somewhat never registered it might be true for salmon too. I need to look this up and update, thank you.

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    Comment #49121580

    Unless I grossly misunderstood your point, you're bound to see stale data. Such is the nature of distributed systems.

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    Comment #49121320

    Median also lies more than 99th/100th percentiles because in many workloads the same client is making multiple parallel requests and often waiting for the slowest. See this piece f…

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    Comment #49087046

    But that is my point. Chase the responsible adult if you see a kid with an overpowered phone, much like you would if you found the same kid with a bottle of wine. And granted, we d…

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    Comment #49086638

    It is a parenting issue. Don't let kids have an internet-connected phone, the same way they can't have a bottle of wine. If they really need such device make sure that device is lo…

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    Comment #49070526

    Yes, EVO smokes at ~190C, and you need 200C-230C for Leidenfrost. Heating up good EVO is a waste anyways. I do mostly cook in ghee, beef tallow and coconut oil. If you're ok with r…

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    Comment #49070419

    Maybe not for creamy scrambled eggs, but for most eggs that's entirely doable. Frying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYpYK1DV_SU Scrambled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtkmI…

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    Comment #49070226

    Thank you for these tests! I've recently tossed all my coated pans (my favourite were the Anolon, but those too shed) and moved to stainless steel, save for a cast iron and carbon …

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    Comment #48946134

    I use it in several projects. You're still open to a few seconds of possible downtime (depending how often you flush the WAL to your remote location, and how bursty your writes are…

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    Comment #48944539

    You can and should eval your judges. They're also typically easier to eval because often you have them emit categorical/structured data.

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    Comment #48944475

    I wonder if piano players find that easier too, compared to lay people.

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    Comment #48889849

    It's not (just) GDPR and TFA mentions that as soon as they move on from Cookies, ie point 2 on local storage: "This buys you nothing. Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive". They …

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    Comment #48889822

    It's powered by paying your ISPs bills as much as the restaurant bill is paid by what you spent in car/public-transport commute to the restaurant.

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    Comment #48815464

    From TFA: > The authorized PDF versions can be purchased at www.informit.com/taocp

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    Comment #48805817

    Is it only me or this sounds a bit counter to clojure philosophy?

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    Comment #48747320

    Use that logic to sell phones. Don't limit civil liberties to compensate for failures of parental supervision.

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    Comment #48732331

    There are game-theoretically aligned ways. See for example https://oneacrefund.org/ [0] where they have a revolving loan fund. OAF lends materials and teachers to farmers to make t…

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    Comment #48671314

    This is what kamal does when you use localhost as registry [0] [1]. Pretty cool thing, I ship plenty of services to my tiny $5/mo vps with it without having to pay for a docker reg…

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    Comment #48671175

    I do consume the parquets with DuckDB but had to read in firebird sql stuff. I didn't think of checking, but I now learnt there's an extension for DuckDB but it's C++ and also embe…