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just send sighup to nginx and it will reload all the config—there's very few settings that require a restart

It's true that turbopuffer does vector search, though it also does BM25. The biggest difference at a low level is that turbopuffer records have unique primary keys, and can be upda…

LSM tree storage engine vs time series storage engine, similar philosophy but different use cases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612475/ is a review of Britton's research discussed in the article. It presents several points of evidence with a coherent argument fo…

Proper brokerages will pay you to lend your securities, transparently disclose their programs, and require consent. For example: - https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/pricing/sto…

JPEG XL implements lossless image compression, but that's definitely not the most interesting feature. It also implements lossless JPEG recompression. So your existing JPEGs can be…

Production audio and video recorders generate or intake an SMPTE timecode signal, and stamp recordings with this timecode. This timecode format is a timestamp with seconds resoluti…

I wrote 100ns, and meant an analog repeater. Full digital regeneration is probably in the 1-10μs range.

In theory having fewer repeaters improves latency, probably in the range of 100ns per repeater. I don't know how much of a practical effect that has, likely very minimal with moder…

Shortwave radio can be transmitted around the curve of Earth by ionospheric reflection and refraction so fewer repeaters are needed. This allows crossing vast oceans where microwav…

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Worst case you just add more layers, like we do with sound absorbers now. If some kind of moth wing inspired metamaterial can shrink the width of broadband sound absorbing panels b…

Reaper and FabFilter getting on board would definitely help make this standard gain some momentum. The list of “Following companies and projects are already evaluating CLAP for the…

> I'd be bothered with my own stupidity if i did not cheat. What? I'd be bothered with my own stupidity if I felt I couldn't get a good grade without cheating. I put in a minimal a…

According to the sources I've read, it uses a tiled rasterizing architecture but it's not deferred in the same way as typical mobile TBDR that bins all vertexes before starting ras…

> football player style contracts for engineers, where you are tied in to a team for N years, and with a requirement that another team has to pay big money for your contract if the…

In casual English “or” means “xor” most of the time.