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·11 दिन पहले·discuss
I built a 40 (later 80) node cluster with clusterknoppix ~2006 to run a bunch of physics simulations off of old library computers after I replaced a bunch of PSU fans. Kept my cubicle toasty until we moved them into a random subterranean room I think was used for some early nuclear research at university.
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·11 दिन पहले·discuss
Salesforce runs Salesforce on postgres with LSM:

https://vldb.org/cidrdb/2026/a-multi-tenant-relational-oltp-...
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·17 दिन पहले·discuss
you've had an account for four years, and _this_ is your comment?
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·19 दिन पहले·discuss
SAT isn’t an IQ test, and probably all sorts of people took it before they had cultural awareness or a diagnosis that would have lead to different testing conditions had it been taken after diagnosis, let alone the fact that test scores are not comparable.

GPAs similarly not comparable over large time ranges, schools, or degrees without normalization you can’t get.
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·पिछला माह·discuss
there’s really no limit to how many times and ways you can review something with AI, except dollars.
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·पिछला माह·discuss
They are not all filtered early nor are they necessarily missing from images. The data can be embargoed until orbits change effectively.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
Right, people haven’t internalized that these are really just scripts in natural language.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
Oracle is the hilarious version of this -

9i - "internet"

10g - "grid"

11g - "also grid"

12c - "cloud"

26ai - "ai"

various other examples. One really annoying thing is this has also happened in open source projects too - generic things that, sure, help out with AI tasks are now "AI" things.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
"rely" is overly strong in these cases usually (more like "make use of")
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
> The real core of infrastructure monitoring isn’t dashboards. It’s the alerts.

“it’s not X it’s Y”

at this point when I see this pattern in writing I assume most if not all of it is AI generated - same with em-dashes.

This is not to discount the idea that alerts are more important than dashboards (I work directly in observability) - but just to say that I personally shut off reading anything else with these patterns because, generally speaking, the rest of the content is just not original or interesting.
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
Can you build most of this with Ray?
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
For files up to 100kB of size, this should effectively be really close to the same price as S3 when writing (didn't check reading so much, but the writes/PUT is always much more expensive than read/GET)

Would be really useful pre-compaction and to deal with small files issue without latency penalties
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
Adversarial software development is also when I do my best work
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
I have honestly not had that problem much. Being specific, concise, and strong with your prompts helps out a lot.
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
I find the people who end up with spaghetti code did so because they didn’t translate their normal processes over.

Being completely methodical about development really helps. obra/superpowers, for example, gets close but I think it overindexes on testing and doesn’t go far enough with design document templates, planning, code style guides, code reviews, and more.

Being methodical about it takes more time, but prevents a good bit of the tech debt.

Planning modes help, but they are similarly not methodical enough.
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
It would be interesting to make that sort of thing generic. A law couldn’t legalize something without backporting the legalization.
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·3 माह पहले·discuss
I think people rarely reject even if it fails a slump test though
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·4 माह पहले·discuss
The sklearn to me is (and mirrors) the insane amount of engineering that exists/existed to bring Jupyter notebooks to something more prod-worthy and reproducible. There’s always going to be re-engineering of these things, you don’t need to use the same tools for all use cases
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·4 माह पहले·discuss
In amsterdam, few people wear modern/synthetic rain coats as well. Just riding around in the rain with what I assume must be waxed duck out something
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·4 माह पहले·discuss
I’d always hoped something like this could take advantage of FPGAs directly