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mfcl commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions   resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david
bdbdbdb · 4 days ago
This seems backwards. Why charge for me to run the thing myself instead of them?
mfcl · 4 days ago
They still run the whole orchestration.

If you don't want to pay, you'd have to not use GitHub Actions at all, maybe by using their API to test new commits and PRs and mark them as failed or passed.

mfcl commented on French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Na9Vm... · Posted by u/gbugniot
throwfaraway135 · 9 days ago
It is a wholesome ad, but as I don't care that my shoes are handmade, I also don't care if the supermarket ad is without AI.
mfcl · 9 days ago
There was controversy because of a Mcdonald's AI ad recently so I think they say that as a little wink.
mfcl commented on Disassembling terabytes of random data with Zig and Capstone to prove a point   jstrieb.github.io/posts/r... · Posted by u/birdculture
mfcl · a month ago
Why the AI disclosure? Is it just for the author to make sure the readers know they are AI-skeptic and use the opportunity to link to another article, or would there be something wrong with the proof had AI been used to help write the code?

(By help I mean just help, not write an entire sloppy article.)

mfcl commented on A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet   messenger.abeto.co/... · Posted by u/thecupisblue
_ZeD_ · 3 months ago
Ummm... it seems that it doesn't work on Firefox mobile for android. I just see a black screen.
mfcl · 3 months ago
Strange, I am also on Firefox for Android and the game works fine.
mfcl commented on Leveraging the lightcone around the source of truth with Postgres   benoitessiambre.com/pgcen... · Posted by u/BenoitEssiambre
awesomeMilou · a year ago
> The more logic happens near the db, the more surface for errors and edge cases can be reduced and reliability issues avoided. The reduction in distances may also result in improved abstractions and in making the computations efficient in a fundamental thermodynamic way.

Fundamentally this sounds great, but isn't this rather painful with Postgres?

In my DB lectures in Uni I've been informally told to avoid managing logic from within Postgres, as the development and debugging experience for stored procedures is rather poor. I would add to this the painfully slow development cycles for third party language implementations such as plv8. In addition, platform support is next to none, because language extensions cannot load external code due to the trusted nature of the execution environment.

mfcl · a year ago
It says near the db, not necessarily in it.

The way I understand it, the closer the better for the reasons stated, but that's just a factor and there are others that might make you not want to stay too close for certain logic.

mfcl commented on Why Yaak is not open source   yaak.app/blog/why-not-ope... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
mfcl · 2 years ago
Open source does not mean accepting everyone's work or even accepting contributions at all. From the article, it seemed like this was the major concern.

I found the part that said "yes open source provides transparency but we have a roadmap" a bit weird.

It's their product, so if they don't want to open source it then they shouldn't. No need to write a silly article with almost as many emojis as words.

mfcl commented on Base 10 is not a good base   teamten.com/lawrence/writ... · Posted by u/andsoitis
yedpodtrzitko · 2 years ago
How about multiplying? Do quickly 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 vs. 12 * 12 * 12 * 12
mfcl · 2 years ago
But in base 12 the number 12 would be written as 10. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, 10, 11, etc.
mfcl commented on It will never be a good time to buy a house   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/fortran77
ulizzle · 2 years ago
Buying a house in 2019 was one of the top 5 worst decisions in my life
mfcl · 2 years ago
How so? It's probably worth more now. You can sell, no?
mfcl commented on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99   arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516... · Posted by u/spekcular
cryptonector · 2 years ago
What's AGI?
mfcl · 2 years ago
Artificial general intelligence, and it does not exist yet.

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