> Marketers are addicted to bad data This article cites a random Statista page for the "36% percent of people in the UK use an adblocker" stat.
What a depressing outcome. This could have powered hundreds of thousands of households, cheaply, without adding any CO2 to the atmosphere.
It's the severance cost, mostly.
This really isn't true. You should use different parameters (specifically, you can reduce the random_page_cost to a little over 1) on a SSD but there isn't a really compelling reason to use a completely different DBMS…
Are there decent US based alternatives to Hetzner? I'd like to have my servers located in the US for a variety of reasons, but most of the alternatives I've seen to Hetzner seem to be pretty fly-by-night shops.
I think this has a lot to do with the mechanism of RoPE attention, where physical closeness in the code is a signal of relevance.
This reminds me of the "Natural engagement pattern" sketch that Mark Zuckerberg made about facebook content back in 2018: https://www.facebook.com/notes/751449002072082/ Content gets more engagement as it gets closer to…
I remember software working really badly in the early 2000s, when Microsoft had an unassailable monopoly over everything. Then there were a bunch of changes: Windows started getting better with Windows 7, Firefox and…
Can someone link to a real source for this? Like, a paper or something? This seems very interesting and important and I'd prefer to look at something less sketchy than venturebeat.com
> It's unfortunate people expect you to have social media like a girl asks me if I have Instagram and I'm weird to not have one, I get it they can scope you out too for safety but when I tried using that stuff I felt…
Approximately what proportion of the US federal budget is spent on scientific research? What proportion is spent on foreign aid? Looking up these values is a useful exercise.
I don't honestly think that technology is meaningfully downstream of money. A startup or hobbyist can build something that costs Google several million dollars in a weekend. Most of these systems are complex, but not as…
Starlark is nice but Google also has GCL...
The PISA scores are below average in 2022 but not significantly so. Most countries have had a pretty bad decline in test scores due to covid, but that's (hopefully) a one-time problem and future cohorts will do better.…
I'm not trying to say that the US educational performance is great, just that it's not terrible. I think there's a lot of room for improvement, but there's a narrative that US schools are failing horribly and that just…
In what world is the US education worse-than-third-world? The US has universal literacy, phenomenal higher education institutions, and primary and secondary schools that are comparable to peer countries on average. We…
If you don't want to do very much, you can try adsense. If nothing else you'll get a good sense of what the floor is.
There was a really good episode of the Odd Lots podcast where they discussed this. Arizona is a very favorable location for semiconductor fabs because there's a very low risk for natural disaster (no hurricanes or…
This is great, but keep in mind this is like a third derivative metric. North America is way behind China in number of batteries owned, batteries produced, and factories being built. This is just the growth rate of…
Regardless of the merits of the case, this is a really funny exploration into how bad Google's chat products are.
Also worth reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching
For some businesses, Yelp puts a big consumer alert on their business page when they catch the businesses soliciting reviews on craigslist or whatever: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2012/10/consumer-alerts-because...
One really cool tool that web programmers should know if they work with JSON data a lot is jq: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/. It's a line-oriented tool like sed, awk, and grep, but it's for manipulating JSON data. It…
It's funny that a huge part of the reason that a business like this exists is the TSA. If flying commercial airlines didn't require an hour and a half of waiting in line for security and a fair dose of humiliation, I…
I think this has a lot less to do with taxes than it does with the prices of real estate. Buying a house in California is prohibitively expensive for most people, which eats up a huge amount of everyone's disposable…
> Marketers are addicted to bad data This article cites a random Statista page for the "36% percent of people in the UK use an adblocker" stat.
What a depressing outcome. This could have powered hundreds of thousands of households, cheaply, without adding any CO2 to the atmosphere.
It's the severance cost, mostly.
This really isn't true. You should use different parameters (specifically, you can reduce the random_page_cost to a little over 1) on a SSD but there isn't a really compelling reason to use a completely different DBMS…
Are there decent US based alternatives to Hetzner? I'd like to have my servers located in the US for a variety of reasons, but most of the alternatives I've seen to Hetzner seem to be pretty fly-by-night shops.
I think this has a lot to do with the mechanism of RoPE attention, where physical closeness in the code is a signal of relevance.
This reminds me of the "Natural engagement pattern" sketch that Mark Zuckerberg made about facebook content back in 2018: https://www.facebook.com/notes/751449002072082/ Content gets more engagement as it gets closer to…
I remember software working really badly in the early 2000s, when Microsoft had an unassailable monopoly over everything. Then there were a bunch of changes: Windows started getting better with Windows 7, Firefox and…
Can someone link to a real source for this? Like, a paper or something? This seems very interesting and important and I'd prefer to look at something less sketchy than venturebeat.com
> It's unfortunate people expect you to have social media like a girl asks me if I have Instagram and I'm weird to not have one, I get it they can scope you out too for safety but when I tried using that stuff I felt…
Approximately what proportion of the US federal budget is spent on scientific research? What proportion is spent on foreign aid? Looking up these values is a useful exercise.
I don't honestly think that technology is meaningfully downstream of money. A startup or hobbyist can build something that costs Google several million dollars in a weekend. Most of these systems are complex, but not as…
Starlark is nice but Google also has GCL...
The PISA scores are below average in 2022 but not significantly so. Most countries have had a pretty bad decline in test scores due to covid, but that's (hopefully) a one-time problem and future cohorts will do better.…
I'm not trying to say that the US educational performance is great, just that it's not terrible. I think there's a lot of room for improvement, but there's a narrative that US schools are failing horribly and that just…
In what world is the US education worse-than-third-world? The US has universal literacy, phenomenal higher education institutions, and primary and secondary schools that are comparable to peer countries on average. We…
If you don't want to do very much, you can try adsense. If nothing else you'll get a good sense of what the floor is.
There was a really good episode of the Odd Lots podcast where they discussed this. Arizona is a very favorable location for semiconductor fabs because there's a very low risk for natural disaster (no hurricanes or…
This is great, but keep in mind this is like a third derivative metric. North America is way behind China in number of batteries owned, batteries produced, and factories being built. This is just the growth rate of…
Regardless of the merits of the case, this is a really funny exploration into how bad Google's chat products are.
Also worth reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching
For some businesses, Yelp puts a big consumer alert on their business page when they catch the businesses soliciting reviews on craigslist or whatever: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2012/10/consumer-alerts-because...
One really cool tool that web programmers should know if they work with JSON data a lot is jq: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/. It's a line-oriented tool like sed, awk, and grep, but it's for manipulating JSON data. It…
It's funny that a huge part of the reason that a business like this exists is the TSA. If flying commercial airlines didn't require an hour and a half of waiting in line for security and a fair dose of humiliation, I…
I think this has a lot less to do with taxes than it does with the prices of real estate. Buying a house in California is prohibitively expensive for most people, which eats up a huge amount of everyone's disposable…