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porridgeraisin

1,976karma·1,374submissions·March 26, 2023
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I understand the linting aspect but not gonna lie I understood the first one immediately way more than the 2nd one due to knowing SQL well.
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> The main difference was light authoritarianism. India has too much democracy at the local level, where any wannabe neta can block a project Makes sense. In some ways, the opposite problem also ex…
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In tamil nadu atleast, building housing for workers nearby the workplace is not the part that causes issues. The way it typically happens is that the business bears the costs, and at the least gets to…
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In some way, it works out. Because of LARR being the way it is, the system descends into things being built on politician owned land and them pocketing the money, or politicians buying up land near an…
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That is not in this one. That is only the datacenter one(SEV) This one (SME) is a single machine wide key and it doesn't have integrity protection either.
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Two possibilties, one, less likely: typically they work on the bottleneck things first and redeploy the people there. Two: most likely, an earlier contract to construct the station (and especially for…
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All Indian metros without exception are managed by SPVs. Land acquisition is not something that gets over. It is a continuous process. Then the court cases if any always show up with some delay, and t…
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And? do you worry about the gaming server owner's neighbour breaking in, freezing the ram, quickly transferring it to another machine and reading it off?
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It's not bad at all. Long story short, this feature prevented people stealing your ram stick off of your machine, super-freezing it and quickly moving it to their machine before the charge runs o…
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Metro doesn't use PPP or directly public in any Indian city I can think of, they setup SPVs and actually have stable engineering and finance teams across contracts. And most of the engineers are …
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As someone that trains LLMs, even if grok does have a "avoid ""woke""" fine-tuning, adding that needs a few thousand examples SFT and a system prompt. It costs nothing ex…
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Companies using cursor could not care less about the CEO's ideology if they tried. Individuals may, but they don't matter in this context.
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Valuation and elasticity of demand not related even if you ignore consumer surplus
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> This shows Rubyterm running on my Ruby based WM, running Rubyterm with a text-based-backend that renders a a terminal to text (so it can run in any terminal), running my editor Re editing the Rub…
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Will they reject google / meta / etc internships and job offers? If not and I suspect not, it's the classic performative stuff activists around the world are used to.
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Here: amdgpu + x11 + xfwm4 $ xrandr | grep -A1 ' connected' | sed 's/^/ /' eDP connected 1920x1200+0+240 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 286mm x 17…
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Not true, see my comment a little deeper down this thread
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To be fair, among all the linux users I know, no one except developers/cs-adjacent would actually get hit by this. The point is that "noob users" use packages that are, to put it short,…
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This is true. The failure modes are simpler. And yes the ceiling is lower as well. Smaller models stability is lower over long sequences. And thus anything that needs a lot of CoT will be weaker. For …
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I have been using this for a while and it's great. Here's my config [main] # Maps capslock to escape when pressed and control when held. capslock = overload(control, esc) # Maps le…
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Yes, I watch it when its doing it. it's not unattended. I watch it, it just operates the pty opening the pkgbuild, reads the file in vim in the pty, and otherwise has no need for any other toolca…
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Spacex gave lots of low level employees stocks. Either on top of, or as a payroll deduction ESPP.
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I have LLM operate yay on my machine before installing and read PKGBUILDs and summarise it for me and I look through the weird ones and only then do the actual upgrade. Maybe we can make an aur helper…
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Nothing is necessary if you didn't update AUR packages over the last 2 days. If you wait a day further, the maintainers will cleanup these as well, after taht you can upgrade.
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I have opencode review it for me. Works great. With the opencode-pty plugin it operates a terminal like a human would, runs yay, opens the pkgbuild in vim when yay asks it, reviews, etc etc. gives an …
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Pass@128 is a lot. They were not easy. > Discovery / creativity I'm absolutely uninterested in the semantic discussions of what is a real discovery, what is creativity, what is intelligen…
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That, and it also needs to be mentioned that if an engineer is given a tool like claude, they will be given _more_ work. As an example, you might give an intern the following task: "we have servi…
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I said slightly lower, I meant it. It's virtually impossible to sample a trajectory that is really really low probability (say, by smoothening the distribution before sampling) without incurring …
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They only said the jobs won't go away. They didn't say it would pay the same :)
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Mode-seeking is describing the way in which the distribution changes. RL is capable of picking out slightly lower probability trajectories and moving them toward the top of the distribution. However, …
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