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I've heard this called a "dancing bear" before. It's interesting because it's a bear dancing, not because the dancing is any good. These conversations get frustrating since one gro…

In the first paragraph (either of chapter 1 or the prologue), not at all. It's pulling everything from pre-training, so it is likely relying just as much on all the visual mediums …

I think you could use the two shafts to align and attach the mounting bracket by drilling two holes the proper distance apart. Drilling holes is pretty easy compared to cutting str…

As long as it's some automated signal, the User-Agent can use any logic it wants to send it without cooperation. The specifics of how to send the signal don't have to be legislated…

Is there any evidence of division? Are all the vibe-coders going to some codeberg2? One of the main complaints is that the banned projects don't have human users proportionate to t…

TFA says the whole codebase is 600k, so that would be 1.8% dead code. IME dead code is much more common in larger codebases as figuring out that code is dead becomes more non-local…

Currently, JsonObject.of has this signature: static JsonObject of(Map map); java.lang.String and other types don't extend JsonValue, and java lacks any trait-like way to add this f…

The system the fight is in experiences time-dilation, where everything slows down to 10% speed or even less. However, a few effects create a positive feedback loop that makes the p…

That's interesting, although "read committed" here would be different from the isolation level of the same name. It seems really tricky to implement since tuples could be removed d…

Pre-purchase, the customers are just looking at lists of features. Post-purchase, they realize the ovens burn bread and cake 10% of the time and pizza 100% of the time, and they ju…

If you turn it off, it might attempt a 45 minute update when you start it again (yes this has happened to me with macos).

Other companies were allegedly distilling the models by training on the reasoning output. By hiding the reasoning tokens, it makes it harder to do this. You can still try to distil…

I really wish there was an 80% kubernetes. I think you could get there with some changes: 1. No overlay networks. 1 IP per machine. pods use dynamically allocated ports, and the ku…

If your working set is 20 TB, then it's pretty big. Each database has its own mix of hot/cold data, so it's impossible to compare without more information. A better measure might b…

I have mysteriously lost comments/descriptions I wrote on issues. I figured it was related to a failed and lost opportunistic update like this, although I suppose it could have bee…

I'm not sure this is true for Google. Ignoring their equity in Anthropic, AI is generally a threat to Google, since it's the closest thing to upsetting their search monopoly. The b…

It's circular since Google owns part of SpaceX. According to [1] they own 7% of SpaceX, so a $1.75T IPO would value their stake at $120B. The target IPO price is >90x revenue, so i…

I haven't worked there in several years, but assuming memegen hasn't wildly changed: Management likes having a pulse on employees, and they tolerate memegen since it's mostly fun, …

After 5 years, you'll have an extra $1M in savings, and you can safely pay yourself 4% or $40k each year in perpetuity without doing any work. This is also a really extreme version…

These guard types are great and I've heavily used them in the past. But why codegen them? E.g. the jwt auth example has some major problems since the verification rules aren't full…

Specifically it decrements the TTL of routed packets, so hotspot traffic will tend to have a TTL of 63 instead of 64. You could theoretically disable this at the risk of creating i…

Yes. The original Dapper used 64 bit trace ids and collisions were rarely a problem. If you don't drop any spans from a trace, you can completely disambiguate a collision since the…

I thought it was clear and am also surprised by the reaction (en-US speaker). "Is/are expected" is generally used as a passive-voiced form of "we/they predict" (obviously without h…

A specific process can use mlockall to keep all its mapped memory resident and prevent swapping or page cache eviction. That's what earlyoom does so that it can stay responsive whe…

This has the wrong explanation of the proposed rseq (Restartable Sequences) solution. > a Linux kernel facility that lets userspace code detect whether it was preempted or migrated…