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imrehg
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Faculty https://faculty.ai
Contact: gergely@imreh.net
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Taipei Hackerspace co-founder https://taipeihack.org
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- Yes, the site seems to save the checked cocktails into Local Storage (you can click some, and in your browser's inspection tools you can check. Eg. in Firefox > Inspect > Storage > Local Storage, there's a key with "cocktail-tracker").
I've checked and closing/reopening works (of course locally only, no incognito tabs, etc...)
- News TV channels in Taiwan that I usually watch, very often use videos from Threads for local news reporting (stuff sent in by the public). X-originated ones pretty much disappeared for the same use. This doesn't account for millions of users (by a long shot), but definitely a noticeable shift.
- I still have my Thinkpad X201 from 2011 running, and I use it as my personal machine (have an M1 MacBook from/for work).
Of course, had to replace the hard drive once or twice, replaced the whole motherboard once[0], and even though it's 64-bit, the CPU arch (Westmere) lacks some instructions that make some things non-functional (MongoDB, some Steam games don't start), and I had to limit the CPU frequency so it doesn't go into thermal shutdown. Nonetheless it's a joy to use still, and I boot it up with pleasure every time...
Thinking when will I pull the trigger on a Framework, though at least I don't feel the pressure too much just yet. :)
[0]: https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2022/07/an-open-heart-motherb...
- This feels like an edge case.
The "reasonable limit" is likely set based on experimentation, and thus on how much people post on average and the load it generates (so the real number is unlikely to be exactly "2000", IMHO).
If you follow a lot of people, how likely it is that their posting pattern is so different from the average? The more people you follow, the less likely that is.
So while you can end up in such situation in theory, it would need to be a very unusual (and rare) case.
- Where's that Alain Bertaud quote from? I'd be interested in listening/reading more about his stuff.
- I found Notion's URL schema interesting as well. They have to contend with renames of pages, reorganisation of the hierarchy and all that. So they have something like:
where the name changes if the page is renamed, but the redirect works, as the page ID is unchanged. In fact, one can just usenotion.so/:account/Current-Name-of-Page-:pageid
and gets redirected to the right page, or evennotion.so/:account/:pageid
works too...notion.so/:account/Anything-else-:pageidThis is very handy in my use cases, when various Notion data is extracted into another tool, reassembled, and then needed to have a link to the original page. I don't need to worry about the page's name, or how that name gets converted into the URL, or any race conditions....
The page hierarchy is then just within the navigaton, not in the URL, so moved pages continue to work too (even if this looks like a flatter hierarchy than it really is).
I'm sure there are plenty of drawbacks, but I've found it an interesting, pragmatic solution.
- Besides all the other advice of using the password manager as a 2FA store as well, on the stand-alone side there is Aegis. I have good experience with it, and allows better interoperability than Authy as well.
- Very interesting, especially when compared to shogi (Japanese chess), where captured pieces can be dropped in anywhere on the board. So for shogi players this "ideal square" calculation can be even more natural and more flexible as well: besides the "getting existing pieces from A to B", the "drop on B" is a lot simpler. No wonder that piece exchanges (so there is something in the hand to drop) are basic feature of the gameplay.
(Source: being a fan of shogi but very very very early in my learning journey, so experts would likely describe this differently.)
- Looking at the two specs, interesting to see how Frontier (the first, running AMD CPUs) has much better power efficiency than Aurora (the second, running Intel), 18.89 kW/PFLOPS vs 38.24 kW/PFLOPS respectively... Good advertisement for AMD? :)
- That's a very good question. Likely depends on the circumstances. I don't quite know any ways of using untrusted sources safely. Maybe something where you can use temporary credentials (say 2FA), or the the likes of using AWS's EC2 Instance Connect, but there's always a problem of _something_ has to be on an untrusted location, I guess?
Having some emergency access certs in a password manager might be a good backup (and rotating it after using it on an untrusted source?).
The best way is, however, removing the need in emergencies to access a machine (e.g. more of the "cattle vs pets" way of thinking). But that's hard for sure.
- Whenever I look at those reports, I keep wondering how many automated systems have to be there in place to generate all that. All the waveform records, the intensity maps, etc..., they should be all auto-generated, and likely verified by humans afterwards? Would be super curious of the IT setup and deployment of such things.
This also likely feeds into the automatic warning systems (sent to mobile phones to warn of an incming earthquake, tsunami, or something else), which is likely going to be discussed afterwards, as loads of people didn't get a warning. (As opposted to recent Chinese satellite launch where _everyone_ got the overly scary rocket alert.)
Edit: now they are saying their calculation has to project a minimum "peak ground acceleration" (PGA) of 25 (what units?) to have an alert, and a lot of the places didn't hit that, in part due to underestimating the intensity at the epicentre. I guess they will be revising this criteria, as this was overly conservative on the "less noise" side, while people are likely more forgiving in reverse (getting an alert when they didn't need one).
- On that last point, I wouldn't pass around the certificate to log in from multiple sources, rather each source would have its own certificate. That is easy & cheap to do (especially with ed25519 certs).
- They are discontinuing Authy Desktop in 3 weeks (March 19th), brought forward (!) from August. https://help.twilio.com/articles/19753631228315
- This should be nice to be easier to integrate with things like Vanna.ai, that was on HN recently.
There a bunch of methods need to be implemented to work, but then usual OpenAI buts can be switched out to anything else, e.g. see the code stub in https://vanna.ai/docs/bigquery-other-llm-vannadb.html
Looking forward to more remixes for other tools too.
- This sounded interesting, so looked it up, some more details in https://www.vanmag.com/city/people/vancouver-taxi-driver-wor...
It looks like it wasn't the 1+M km version that they bought back, but the chap was an early adopter of Prius in that taxi role, and they bought back (exchanged?) his first one from 2001:
> For those working on the next generation Prius 2004 model, Grant’s taxi held invaluable information about wear and tear.They struck a deal: Grant sent his 2001 model back to Japan for testing and had a brand new 2003 model delivered.
Still excellent story, and good on him!
- I'd like to avoid having to convert it all the time (e.g. MacOS' music player doesn't seem to support that? But gonna have to check it). And the sizes are just enormous.
But yeah, as storage space & bandwidth are less and less an issue, if FLAC is fully supported across the board, the scale should be tipped. My worry comes from we not quite being there yet.
- I'm always uncertain what formats to use if I were to download my digital library from Bandcamp. It seems like at least FLAC, OGG, AAC versions of everything would be pretty mandatory, given how different music players' support is, plus the for archiving. During the day I need to switch between MacOS, Linux, Android, and that's an ethernal technical sudoku...
Any other versions one should take themselves (say one of the MP3 variants), that have any tangible benefits?
- I'm a listener for heaven knows how long, should be close to 20, writing this while being tuned into Space Station. My PhD thesis' epigraph was from a song that I listened way to many times on Secret Agent or Groove Salad. One of my first IoT project was deploying a SomaFM player remotely to a Raspberry Pi. Back in the day 2nd hand CDs from Amazon, now I regularly search on Bandcamp for something I just heard on one of the channels, and voila, have a larger album collection from there than ever before. Such strong influence on my musical taste.
Thank you Rusty! https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty
I think my t-shirt is getting worn out, it's time to get some more swag.
Loads of fun in this and in that. And does indeed make me sometimes question if I know anything about programming (in a good way:)