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I use Postgres via its Docker image on a VPS with some other containers.

That's probably a bit abnormal nowadays - I prefer simplicity with my deployment, and it can all fit on a single VPS with plenty of margin. It's not difficult to do, and I haven't had to touch that container since it was started.

I haven't upgraded Postgres from one version to another.

> From the MongoDB point of view, was it hard to get into Postgres

Nope, and I barely know SQL. You probably know more than me.

> What are your favorites features ?

Getting out of my way and being nice and fast. In retrospect I overengineered some aspects of my code around the assumption that postgres is far slower than it actually is.

I really don't use many of its features.

The ARM problems were just that MongoDB didn't like ARM to start with (iirc), and then when I got it running on my raspberry pi they didn't like the lack of SIMD instructions, and then it was a bit of a pain installing an older version that was barely supported anymore. It wasn't particularly difficult, just irritating.

Postgres just worked. Different ARM machine though, so it wasn't quite representative.
What is the downvote here supposed to mean? Do people think this is wrong, or just not like it?
The point is that there is no correct national answer, because the locals don't see it as a matter of national identity.

What's expected is an ability to identify trick questions, i.e., to recognize fundamental problems in the phrasing of a question rather than trying to provide a "helpful" answer at all costs.

This corresponds to one of the many reasons LLM output is banned on Stack Overflow.
One of you who just emailed me can't receive my reply due to a configuration error. I think it was you. Gmail says:

"response from the remote server was '554 5.7.1: relay access denied."

If it was you, just email me back when you think that's fixed and I'll re-send hte reply. :)
In the UK, the financial year ends on 5 April. This is Lady Day (25 March) plus the 11 days lost in the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
Could that also be because he reviewed the papers first and made sure they were in a suitable state to publish? Or you think it really was just the name alone, and if you had published without him they would not have been accepted?
I once had a client who had that written into the contract. I’d consider that a huge red flag now.
This is neat. Simple but smart.

I have been thinking of something similar: I'd like a wearable that haptic taps me once every 10 or 15 minutes. Then I would check with myself if I am doing something that's actually interesting to me or just idling away.

I keep considering smart watches but if the goal is to prevent me from wasting time those could be counter-productive. Also I am sick of having products that require their specific charging dock.
"Hallucinating a fact" that isn't in the training set and is also illogical, is exactly what a failure to reason correctly looks like.
This is the secret level (E1M9) that you'd normally encounter after E1M3. By this point in the regular progression you'd have found a shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher, and probably some armor. Starting this level with just a pistol (and it looks like maybe U-V or Nightmare difficulty) is just begging for a buttwhipping.
if you have a backup but can't rely on it, is it really a backup?
Are you utilizing the SIMD and acceleration instructions in the S3? What kind of performance are you seeing?

Neural accelerators are coming into MCUs. The just released STM32N6 is probably among the best. Alif with the U55/U85 has been out for a little while. Maxim MAX78000 has a CNN accelerator out for a couple of years. More will come in the next few years - though not from Nvidia any time soon.
I never bought any Apple products but did get two items gifted over the years due to seemingly standard defects which render them inoperable: a 'late 2009' 27" iMac with an inoperable video card (a standard defect in these things) which I made operable again by toasting it for 5 minutes and a 2011 Macbook Air with a broken keyboard (qwertyuio keys dead, again a standard defect in these things). To fix the latter I'll have to get an new keyboard, rip out the old one - which Apple in all its financial wisdom riveted down with some 30-odd tiny rivets so as to make it more difficult to economically replace the thing - and screw in a new one. I'm not yet clear on whether I'll go so far to revive the thing but the level of planned obsolescence in Apple products is quite disgusting to me, seasoned user of previously owned hardware.
Looks cool but it seems to have a lot of tracking of personal data that is used for more than just the social features of the app. Am I misunderstanding?
I've done linux/arm yocto development from VMs. The best solution to pass usb/serial was still VMWare the last time I had to.
The pricing page shows different commercial plans at $149 or $499 per month: https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-ion/pricing/
terence tao is suffering from imposter syndrome? if anything, imposter syndrome is suffering from terence tao ... do you maybe not know who terence tao is?
And now we are getting back to having to deploy those 50 stored procedures to a database to test your code when you branch.

Are you going to use a shared dev database? What happens when other developers are also making changes to other branches?

I’m assuming you need to test with a representative size data set with a representative size database server.

Just like with traditional Kubernetes Gitops where you have your source code in one repo and a pipeline to create your docker containers and your K8s configuration in another repo to manage your cluster and update the referenced Docker images, even if you don’t have stored procs, you would keep your schema change sql files in another repo and “version” your database separately with a separate pipeline.
I have used a Virtual Box VM with a Ubuntu guest for years and it has worked great. It's as close to the VM's in prod you can get.
> It keeps people from taking the law into their own hands.

Definitely an upside, though the punishment of trial (and the victim being heard), conviction, repayment, etc. may be sufficient for that.

> We can debate the merits of retribution, but not that it’s a seemingly-innate part of human nature. (It’s an open question if we can condition it out of ourselves. But that’s pretty serious social engineering that, to my knowledge, no society has achieved.

Here I think you overstate it. I believe a large number of people, maybe the majority, do not choose retribution.

'Innate' has become a loaded word, and one used (not necessarily in this case) politically to make the speaker's argument into something inevitable. Stepping back from that:

Lots of things are 'innate'; people focus on the more harsh ones, but so are goodness, a desire for justice, fairness, love, hunger, laziness, sleepiness, etc. And innate drives are not all-powerful or determinative; some are barely noticeable and some powerful, often the same one varying greatly (consider sex drive, for example). And of course our actions depend, very much, on our will and reason and choice.
Which things would be on the list in south bay?
It's widely accepted that reasoning is not a binary skill.

You can make mistakes and still reason. Very often people given the same premises will disagree in thier reasoning as we are doing right here.
Cigarette smoke is one of the most disgusting and at the same time lasting odours. I think smokers are not aware of this. I can smell a smoker at 50 meters distance on the street.
Because devops and their service are way more dynamic than a simple static html file
Isn't it just saying, a gain realized from compound interest over long-enough time is crazy yet short term gains is practically zero, yet total gain is anything but zero, and also there really isn't a magical zero effort quick and easy jackpot skill gain IRL
That series definitely had a different feel at the start compared to his current work (and even later work in the same series).

He's no less funny, but he's honed in on exploring the human condition (in a natural way) in each of his books.
nice, that was the first thing that I noticed that I kept trying to do. It makes it a lot easier. I forgot about how clunky controls can be for older games without retroarch rebinds and stuff. I was playing Perfect Dark last night on my Steamdeck and I was able to bind the controls to a modern layout (left-stick walk, right-stick look, etc...) and it makes the game a ton easier.
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It is in n3301, the last 202y draft. In the 201x draft it was note 95.
What types of questions are you hoping to answer for that to be considered a vague statement?
oh i notice. But im a picky user. You’re probably right that _well designed_ apps are indistinguishable to most users.
o1 has a ~1650 rating, at that level many or most problems you will be solving are going to be a transplant of a relatively known problem.

Since o1 on codeforces just tried hundreds or thousands of solutions, it's not surprising it can solve problems where it is really about finding a relatively simple correspondence to a known problem and regurgitating an algorithm.

In fact when you run o1 on ""non-standard"" codeforces problems it will almost always fail.

See for example this post running o1 multiple times on various problems: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/133887

So the thesis that it's about recognizing a problem with a known solution and not actually coming up with a solution yourself seems to hold, as o1 seems to fail even on low rated problems which require more than fitting templates.
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i think it was doctorow who addressed this, saying that he would rather you not bypass his publishers that way because they formed a valuable part of the book ecosystem and he would rather they continued to make their share and keep publishing books. so if you want to support him after getting a copy for free, just buy one of his books, which supports the author and the publishing industry, and moreover helps prove a continuing demand for his works.
Your reply to my reply has nothing to do with what I said! I suspect yours has a veiled political/2nd amendment agenda.

Again, and please read this slowly, to be a decent, caring, good neighbor is not to have them worried about what you're building in your garage. Your reply cares nothing if one of his kids or neighborhood playmates happens upon one of his bombs that could lead to a potential explosion.
Will be consider mostly irrational, but I'll mention it:

Learn medicine, and practice outside of of the mainstream clandestinely (a past real world example would be abortion clinics on ships). It needs a group of committed/smart people to pull it off, so not easy. Also it cannot be offered to the public at large for several obvious reasons.

As a general rule one cannot involve 'average' people in such an endeavor. All organization settle down to the lowest common denominator. When it come to large organizations in govt/health/etc. they are prone to increasing corruption and bureaucracy if average people are involved.
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I don't understand what this new functionality is.

I'm still on 17.x, and if I ask it to show me pictures from Angels Stadium, I get pictures from Angels Stadium. Mind, I have no idea how it "knew" I was at Angels Stadium when I took the picture. Apple Maps certainly knows where Angels Stadium is.

So I'm just not quite sure what this new function is bringing to the table?
glean.com is pretty awesome. The responses it generates will have citations from our internal Jira, Wiki, Slack, Github, etc.

It's also great for when I get pulled into a busy Slack channel and need a summary of what's been going on in there for the past week.
Wait, how did they both know that they both discovered it, but only after they had both discovered it?
In 2005, my paper on breaking RSA by observing a single private-key operation from a different hyperthread sharing the same L1 cache -- literally the first publication of a cryptographic attack exploiting shared caches -- was rejected from the cryptology preprint archive on the grounds that "it was about CPU architecture, not cryptography". Rejection from journals is like rejection from VCs -- it happens all the time and often not for any good reason.

(That paper has now been cited 971 times according to Google Scholar, despite never appearing in a journal.)
What's the compensation scheme for reviewers?

Are there any mechanisms to balance out the "race to the bottom" observed in other types of academic compensation? e.g. increase of adjunct/gig work replacing full-time professorship.

Do universities require staff to perform a certain number of reviews in academic journals?
Thinking about it, what happens if you lose your eyes or your fingercups(say for example from frostbite). Are you just screwed or is there a recovery method
In academic publishing, there is an implicit agreement between the authors and the journal to roughly match the importance of the paper to the prestige of the journal. Since there is no universal standard on either the prestige of the journal or the importance of the paper, mismatches happen regularly, and rejection is the natural result. In fact, the only way to avoid rejections is to submit a paper to a journal of lower prestige than your estimate, which is clearly not what authors want to do.
The point is that it's not consistent on variations, unless it finds a way to connect it to something it already knows. The fact it sometimes succeeds on variations (in codeforces the models are allowed multiple tries, sometimes ridiculous numbers, to be useful) doesn't matter.

The point is that the fact it's no longer consistent once you vary the terminology indicates it's fitting a memorized template instead of reasoning from first principles.
Deep philosophical insights gained through pedantic accounting - I genuinly love it.
I built a small router that can use Prerender for SEO compatibility on vanilla React projects. So there are some alternatives.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/routerino
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> their goal isn't to work together to find a solution but to present roadblocks. The reasoning can be complicated..

Or as simple as “the less I appear to value this solution, the lower the supplier will estimate my maximum price for it”
> tent cities are not a harm to those who are subject to them

Nothing inherent about tent cities harms neighbors. They could be badly located but so can lots of things. They suck as housing, but the residents wouldn't be there if they had better options.

> It’s a bit meme-ish

Whatever this means, who cares? We're talking about shelter and human rights, not memes.

> sidewalk poop is actually a quality of life issue

Yes, that could be an actual health risk, but I think people are searching for a justification. I'm dubious it's really a big problem, or one that requires taking away anyone's freedom. How about providing a bathroom?

If it's ok to take away people's freedom, why don't you give up yours? We could force you to walk down a different sidewalk.
the data storage alone is not the issue. the cost of accessing that data is. not every place has unlimited fast internet that would allow you to download that much data without problems.

with a replaceable SSD i can (and in fact just did a few weeks ago) take the SSD from the old laptop and put it into the new one. took me 5 minutes.

restoring all that data from the cloud would have cost me a few hundred dollars in mobile data fees. or several weeks of visiting a restaurant which has free data, but would also have racked up a restaurant bill not to mention the time that would have been taken away from working.
I would trust a company more if their random features sending data are opt-in.

A non-advertized feature, which is not independently verified, which about image contents? I would be prefer independent verification of their claims.
> Yeah, this is the original version of this riddle. People who don't know it think the trick is that people will reflexively say the metal is heavier instead of "they're the same"

...Have you really never encountered people who would reflexively say that?
Are you familiar with Centralia?
I know from some of my peers that reviewed biology (genetics) papers, they weren’t compensated.

I was approached to review something for no compensation as well, but I was a bad fit.
a 4 hour day/night cycle would be wild
That would be very oppressive and expensive, and I doubt you really mean it beyond theoretically.
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I’ve routinely needed to open a 5GB text file on my computer before (previous job), and only some “apps” can do it. If we even call them apps lol. It’s just bloated web browser junk packaged to look like a native app.

notepad++ solved this problem 20+ years ago.

I agree it’s an uncommon use case but it’s kind of sad when an app struggles to open a file like that on a modern machine in 2024. Just sad.
Reasoning is not a binary skill.

And failure modes of other types of reasoners do not need to be the same as the failure modes of humans.
ISP should never be and to see the HTML. If they can, that's already a huge privacy issues.

If you want to use the content and filter client-side, that's nothing to do with ISPs and there's lots of apps that already do it.
> They had some of the brightest minds in the world, thanks in part to the Nazi's rejection of "Jewish science".

Indeed.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/scientist-refugees-and-manhatt...

However, the US didn't accept "Nazi science" when they accepted actual Nazis, because there's no such thing as Nazi science, any more than there is Jewish science; there is just science performed by individuals and groups, who may share a heritage, country, or culture, or may not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Furthermore, it's unclear but some Nazis or Nazi sympathizers may have been leaking nuclear secrets from Los Alamos to Germany:

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/09/13/what-did-the-nazi...

Speaking of Jews involved in the project, Ethel Rosenberg's brother was working at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project, and she and her husband were already working on behalf of the USSR as early as 1942.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

> Rosenberg had been introduced to Semyonov by Bernard Schuster, a high-ranking member of the Communist Party USA and NKVD liaison for Earl Browder. After Semyonov was recalled to Moscow in 1944 his duties were taken over by Feklisov.

> Feklisov learned through Rosenberg that Ethel's brother David was working on the top-secret Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; he directed Julius to recruit Greenglass.

> In February 1944, Rosenberg succeeded in recruiting a second source of Manhattan Project information, engineer Russell McNutt, who worked on designs for the plants at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For this success Rosenberg received a $100 bonus. McNutt's employment provided access to secrets about processes for manufacturing weapons-grade uranium.

All of this is not to say that being Jewish or Gentile is a sign of scientific rigor or moral uprightness or lack thereof, but rather to say that "misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows," and that Nazis and Jews were both miserable, but in entirely different senses of the word, and that misery led to both astonishing atrocities and roses growing from concrete.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/strange_bedfellows
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I see it now. I guess the GCC developers were wrong then.
The idea of the article is to not run the newer, more demanding software which drives the replacement cycle. Instead install a lightweight Linux or similar and don’t use all those extra CPU cycles.
With BackBlaze you can have them ship you your data on a hard drive. They charge you for the hard drive. But if you send the hard drive, they refund your money.
Although I'm only interested in a few books on the list I find it a nicely done list: a good theme and a good amount of detail per book. I can't do as well but these are my favorites this year(ish):

* Fur Trade Nation by Carl Gawboy - a graphical history of the Ojibway nation between 1650 and 1850. Not a hard history with detailed discussion of evidence and possibilities but more of a grade school style overview of the history and really well done as that. I do better with text than most but I still think this style communication has a lot of advantages and should be used more.

* The Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich (historical fiction, starting at the end of the period Fur Trade Nation covers) - I've read the first three books and while they are aimed at children they have complex characters and themes (and also some cute animals and a focus on the kids). I read her book Tracks a couple of decades ago and liked it well enough to remember her name when I saw a few years ago that she has a bookstore in Minneapolis called Birchbark Books. Their online store has a great selection of books by indigenous authors.

* The Gift is in the Making Anishinaabeg stories retold by Leanne Simpson - Traditional stories retold with a few recent references. This one has a few ojibway terms but is in english while I also read Plums or Nuts by Larry Amik Smallwood and Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr. which is fully in ojibway as well as english and the stories there are more personal by the first author. They are chosen primarily for language learning reasons but they are also nice "slice of life" stories and I recommend it even if you aren't trying to learn ojibway.

* Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot - The author has a breakdown and writes about it. A really rough read but well writen and has a lot of love for such a tramatic story.

* Bringing Joy: A Local Literary Welcome - I heard about Fur Trade Nation when it was first published and not widely available so I got it from the publisher at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and found this poetry collection and decided to try it even though I'm not usually into poetry. There were a couple that I will hopefully never forget and more that I enjoyed reading. I picked up What Book!? later thinking I'd try a bit more poetry but haven't enjoyed that one as much so far.

* A Space for the Unbound - Technically a game not a book but very story focused and in my opinion the best game story (by quite a bit) of any game I've played. Again some severe abuse depicted and also a lot of love.
Crystal is the closest alternative to Ruby with types we have, even though they are semantically different and differ in some places. I do not see why you mentioned Dart as an alternative thought, it’s a totally different language.
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I used to do that, but now that all of our microservices are dockerized every microservice has its own docker container

Vscode supports remote containers, so everyone in the org just develops INSIDE a replica of the prod container

All containers run remotely on enormous machines with 800+ GB of RAM and 8+ GPUs

It’s trivial to share environments now because you just open the project and the dev container starts up and installs all the deps, devcontainer.json is just a few kb so just check it into git

Engineering, DevOps, Data science all use this setup, push around your devcontainer.json and everyone gets the same GPU accelerated dev environment with near unlimited RAM and hundreds of CPU cores, none of this hardware is local so you can code on the balcony/beach on your MacBook Air, light and easy to travel with.

We put VMs in the same country as our staff so latency has never been an issue

This is the dev setup I’ve wanted for ages, and it’s a joy to use
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Getting coffee in South Park, maybe, but not Blue Bottle itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bottle_Coffee#History
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