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IsTom··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
I might be holding it wrong, but last time I tried to use DynamoDB it made absolutely no sense performance-wise to me. Postgres on my laptop was many orders of magnitude faster for fraction of price. It seemed like it maybe might make sense when you hit multiple TBs of database data and can no longer run on a single server? But then the costs would be sky-high and you probably could engineer your way around this with this kind of money.
IsTom··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
You could like, just trust a single binary. Have a button right there in the popup that already shows up.
IsTom··on All means are fair except solving the problem
Last time I had that problem -xerror helped.
IsTom··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
It's the punishment for all the times people laughed at calling regular Linux "GNU/Linux".
IsTom··on Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal
Well, I'm using uBlock Origin on Firefox and can see the content just fine. So maybe that's the way.
IsTom··on Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs
Docker is already hogging a lot of disk space and needs to be pruned regularly. I can't imagine what's it's going to be like now.
IsTom··on What can we gain by losing infinity?
There is a way to look at mathematics as just a bunch of rewrite rules for things on paper. It might not be particularly inspiring, but it's a valid way to look at things.
IsTom··on The Social Edge of Intelligence: Individual Gain, Collective Loss
Besides "secret" knowledge like the know-how at jobs, there's things like unwritten social etiquette (especially as it varies from place to place) or interfacing with physical world – reading about chopping tomatoes is different from experience acquired by actually chopping tomatoes.
IsTom··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
Historically aristocracy was the military class. Nowadays in authoritarian societies it looks like it's mostly matter of time before military takes the lead.
IsTom··on DeepSeek v4
You can say the same about the US
IsTom··on I am building a cloud
And funnily recently many of the Big Serious Cloud Websites are shitting the bed of availability aggressively.
IsTom··on New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production
Wikipedia seems to disagree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Abiogenic_petroleum
IsTom··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Well, it's on web archive. So unless they got their hands on it almost a month early or escaped their light cone it wasn't.
IsTom··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Never had this issue with several cellphones I had in ye olden times when all cellphones had removable batteries. All it takes is a properly designed connector.
IsTom··on The RAM shortage could last years
Or just using less electron and writing less shit code.
IsTom··on Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
I think that CT is more akin to just a different language for mathematics than a solid set of axioms from which you can prove things. The most fact-y proof I've personally seen was that you can't extend the usual definition of functions in set theory to work with parametric polymorphism (not that just some constructions won't work, but that there isn't one at all).
IsTom··on This year’s insane timeline of hacks
But have you thought about the bonus you can get by reducing house building costs in Q3?
IsTom··on Tofolli gates are all you need
For example all the quantum computing is reversible and really doesn't want qbits to interact (hence get any energy) with the outside. So if you ignore all the supporting apparatus in theory it could work without spending energy. Toffoli gates can be used/realized in quantum computes.
IsTom··on AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
In Poland law is similar in this regard, so I'd assume at least some other countries do this as well.
IsTom··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
FFmpeg has a lot of weird and not widely used codecs that don't get a lot of scrutiny. If there's no specifics then it could be a bug in one them.
IsTom··on IPv6 is the only way forward
Like there was any chance to see UX of this to work or not in most of places. I've never had an ISP that even offered any IPv6 connectivity besides mobile internet.
IsTom··on IPv6 is the only way forward
How do you squeeze that in IPv4 packet? Especially in a way that won't get mangled by random ossified devices in between?
IsTom··on Peptides: where to begin?
> you need 3 squares a day to get to the higher numbers.

> Collagen powders

In that case if you're eating collagen powder you could be eating just regular protein powder then?

IsTom··on Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
There are limits to algorithms. AI won't solve the halting problem nor will it solve EXPTIME problems in polynomial time.
IsTom··on Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
Money? Bankman-Fried wasn't the only one.
IsTom··on Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
There's a "addons" browser in the game.
IsTom··on 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
> to be have.

Meatbag spotted, get 'im boys.

IsTom··on Sequential Optimal Packing for PCB Placement
I wonder how a MIP solver would fare in this?
IsTom··on Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
They can also just not roll them over. That takes time, but it's a good % of holdings each year.
IsTom··on Significant raise of reports
On x86/x64/variable instruction length architectures this isn't always the case. You can jump in middle of an instruction to get a different instruction. It can be used to obfuscate code.
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