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Seattle's mayor waves goodbye to prosperity

washingtonpost.com
1 points·by loeg·قبل شهرين·0 comments

Data centers' heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around them

blog.andymasley.com
6 points·by loeg·قبل 3 أشهر·3 comments

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch

nytimes.com
7 points·by loeg·قبل 7 أشهر·4 comments

Meta wins landmark antitrust case over Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions

axios.com
2 points·by loeg·قبل 8 أشهر·0 comments

How efficient is RocksDB for IO-bound, point-query workloads?

smalldatum.blogspot.com
2 points·by loeg·قبل 9 أشهر·0 comments

comments

loeg
·قبل 7 ساعات·discuss
Granted I took AP Chem 20 years ago, but I don't remember those names (sigma and pi bonds) being covered at all. (I got a 5 on the test, for what it's worth.)
loeg
·قبل 7 ساعات·discuss
I work for a Silicon Valley headquartered company and would expect the same.
loeg
·قبل 7 ساعات·discuss
Yeah but it isn't just unethical, it's also deeply stupid -- you will be caught.
loeg
·أول أمس·discuss
I'm not saying this as a hypothetical -- I believe xAI is already renting their GPU farm out to frontier labs. Whatever logistical challenges exist, enough of them seem to have been overcome.
loeg
·أول أمس·discuss
Don't they just rent them out to the frontier AI shops? They're not sitting idle.
loeg
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
You're moving goalposts.
loeg
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
> The membarrier syscall can fail to allocate, returning ENOMEM.

This is mentioned in the source comment, but not documented in the membarrier(2) manual page.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.1.2/source/kernel/sched/...

In reality... what is it allocating?

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.1.2/source/kernel/sched/...

Ok, so it needs to allocate a cpumask (tiny) under some usages.

Similar requirement in other sites, e.g.: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.1.2/source/kernel/sched/...

Depending on kernel config (e.g., !CONFIG_CPUMAKS_OFFSTACK), this allocation literally cannot fail:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.1.2/source/include/linux...

On OFFSTACK configs, it's merely a tiny heap allocation:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.1.2/source/lib/cpumask.c...

If this fails, your system is already hosed; program abort vs kernel lock up a few seconds later is probably immaterial. I think folly's choice to abort is a reasonable one.
loeg
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
If it's only for tracking books you really liked, it's not a Good Reads replacement.
loeg
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
I can't object to any of that. If you can swing the space for a squat rack at home, it's pretty life-changing. Highly recommend.
loeg
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Lift weights, but like 30-60 minutes 3x a week is plenty. You definitely don't have to do it multiple times a day if that would be inconvenient.
loeg
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Virtually no one puts on 30 kg of muscle by weight training without steroids. Certainly not by accident. Those are like college-NFL football numbers.
loeg
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
> People will eventually realize it causes cancer. Weight training literally generates inflation.

Inflation? I don't think this comment could have better intentionally illustrated how ill-informed it is if you tried.
loeg
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
The root problem is drunk people lighting off a bunch of rocket-propelled explosives, actually. Even if the houses were fireproof concrete bunkers, they'd still be starting wildfires in the grass/brush/trees. (And of course, it's more than "a few dollars.")
loeg
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
Having used them all, the Meta model is weaker than flagship models (OpenAI/Anthropic).
loeg
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
> said a review of a recent data security incident with the company's controversial mouse-tracking software indicated that no employee data was included in AI training.

That's... not quite right. The employee data is used in AI training and is intended to be used this way. But despite not correctly ACLing the data for a couple weeks, it is believed it was not accessed inappropriately.
loeg
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
Are you saying that lying isn't considered poor behavior by Wikipedia or what? I don't believe that.
loeg
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
It's relatively well known? Certainly not mainstream.
loeg
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
> My hypothesis is quite simple: I don't think GingerBill ever cared about Wikipedia's standards for programming. He follows several right-wing figures on Twitter, who have long since made up their mind that Wikipedia has been ideologically captured by activists and "the woke".

Oh, well, if a critic fails your ideological purity test, I guess that must mean there can't be any valid criticisms.
loeg
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Right. US consumers don't want 25 gig.
loeg
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
There's a lot of real things you can criticize the current admin for, but "recession" isn't one of them.