HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

hejdufufjrj

22 karma · joined June 5, 2024

submissionscomments
hejdufufjrj··on A Revolution in Biology?
In compression contests you count the size of both the compressed data (DNA) and the decompressor binary (egg cell).

We don't know how much data is required to fully describe a living cell, but it's not just the DNA since you can't turn that into a cell without using an existing cell

hejdufufjrj··on Alarms in medical equipment
In an airplane at least all the alarms are integrated, but in a hospital room you'll have 15 devices from 7 manufacturers spanning 5 generations.
hejdufufjrj··on Own a weather station? We want your data
Big Weather does provide the data for "free" to the weather widgets on millions of phones and computers.

So they do provide a public service, even if maybe they get too much money from it.

hejdufufjrj··on AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
No, half of new code has at least one character AI generated, something like that.
hejdufufjrj··on In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
Your on a desktop.

In a server environment you don't have the luxury of running your 4 GB needing app on a 128 GB machine - that means you have overprovissioned and are paying a stupid tax.

A modern server aims to run as close as possible to 100% CPU and RAM usage.

In those cases you need swap to kick out rarely used memory (initialization, ...)