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Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:19AM (#50304298)
Then you just prompt-inject the agent to convince it to deploy a malicious patch. This isn't a solution.
I am skeptical of these results given that the end has:

> Favorite settings The model regularly used enable_sort=off and random_page_cost=1.1

If random_page_cost wasn't set correctly for the default cases postgres's query planner can generate terrible plans (unless you're running on a spinning disk).

That could easily explain the difference by itself.

Re:Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:06AM (#49563464)
I've long thought there should be a standard mechanism for back pressure for loads that can defer their usage.

For example dishwashers, overnight battery charging, car charging, etc should be able to receive scheduling data from the grid to determine the best time to run.

Users could of course be given a choice whether to use grid scheduling in exchange for lower prices or not.

Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:15PM (#49526641)
Gave it a quick try today, it works pretty well and is noticeably faster than the official app.
Obviously not, there's no need to create a new character for a new operation. You can just define it as @ or or any other symbol you want.
Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:12PM (#48936507)
What benchmarks are you referring to?

Rust itself doesn't have a scheduler of course, I assume this is comparing against tokio or one of the other async executors?

Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:15AM (#48551237)
This is the paradox of tolerance. There are a few suggested "resolutions", the most common being "tolerate everything except intolerance".
I now daily drive firefox, there are unfortunately plently of broken sites. Nebula's video player is broken in widescreen for example.
From memory this is true and nvml (Nvidia management library) is the way to get stats that doesn't cause the GPU to wake.
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:54AM (#47945806)
I agree, but it does have faults. Performance is woeful, and managing an on-prem instance is (literally) a full time job.
Re:This picture broke my brain [3B1B video] on Friday March 27, 2026 @11:49AM (#47544295)
Titles and thumbnails have a huge impact on video performance, and when it's your main income it seems reasonable to try to marginalise the impact.
Re:JPEG Compression on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:41AM (#47423528)
Badly phrased but not wrong, this is the minimum frame rate for humans to perceive motion as supposed to a slide show of images.

The maximum frame rate we can perceive is much higher, for regular video it's probably somewhere around 400-800.

I would love it if you had time to publish it!
I think what you're looking for is a bike.
Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:58AM (#46811053)
Could you elaborate what you think the problems are? I guess they should be using some form of multiple comparison correction?
Not really? At the moment it's done by some user-land job scheduler. That could be something container based like k8s, something in-process like ray, or a workload manager like slurm.
Until you need to schedule GPUs or other heterogenous compute...
LLM summaries of papers often make overly broad claims [1].

I don't think this is a good example personally.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00025

But there has been continual improvement over that time, both in the ecosystem, and in the language (like a syntax for generics).
Re:YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started on Sunday October 26, 2025 @01:12PM (#45713512)
NileRed?
Re:PyTorch Monarch on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:46AM (#45682440)
Not currently, but it is being worked on https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues/53976.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:08AM (#45656772)
If you use something like cockroachdb you can have a multi-master cluster and use regional-by-row tables to locate data close to users. It'll fail over fine to other regions if needed.
Re:DeepSeek OCR on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:53AM (#45643343)
I suspect the number of langauges it can do with reasonable accuracy is actually much smaller, probably <15.
For literature search that might be ok. It doesn't need to replace any other tools, and if 1/10 it surfaces something you wouldn't have found otherwise it could be worth the time on the dud attempts.
Re:Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:44PM (#45612001)
This is not the view everyone holds. For an example of work in the opposite direction see https://dioxus.notion.site/Dioxus-Labs-High-level-Rust-5fe1f....
Re:We're launching a new Google app for Windows experiment in Labs on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:19AM (#45273236)
Try everything from voidtools, it's incredibly fast (both search and indexing).
Re:OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:55AM (#44833897)
Might be fixable with promoting and/or a much lower temperature?
Re:Enough AI Copilots, We Need AI HUDs on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:03PM (#44725041)
I've wanted someone to write an extension utilising this idea since GPT-3 came out. Is it available to use anywhere?
Re:X X^t can be faster on Saturday May 17, 2025 @01:29AM (#44012246)
Do you know any resources for learning these heuristics?

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