[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Have you tried plugging it in first? Machine kneading is usually faster than hand kneading.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You can find plenty of people complaining online about the startup time of the windows and gnome (snap) calculators. The problem in those cases isn't solved by compiled languages, but it illustrates that it's important to consider performance even for things like calculator apps.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can sometimes deal with performance issues by caching, if you want to trade one hard problem for another (cache invalidation). There's plenty of cases where that's not a solution though. I recently had a 1ns time budget on a change. That kind of optimization is fun/impossible to do in Python and straightforward to accomplish Rust or C/C++ once you've set up your measurements.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

"welp" isn't related to whelping. It's a way to write the word "well" when it's used as an interjection (meaning it has no definition). The word is often pronounced with a terminal -p and people started writing the letter in text.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

The CSB doesn't regulate and it can't issue fines. They also don't show up unless you've already had an incident. When they do show up, it's simply to document and investigate the root causes, so they can issue recommendations to one of the regulatory agencies that actually enforces things. You need to have really fucked up for an agency with literally 40 staff overseeing one of the largest industrial economies in the world to notice you.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It does, but in less significant ways that are easier to work around.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Standardized tests are normalized, so...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

ML is not an ENIAC situation. Computers got more efficient not by doing fewer operations, but by making what they were already doing much more efficient.

The basic operations underlying ML (e.g. matrix multiplication) are already some of the most heavily optimized things around. ML is inefficient because it needs to do a lot of that. The problem is very different.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

It's a little weird and very European, so OpenSUSE.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

1 Lakh, or 100k. It's a common way of writing numbers in India and South Asia, though it's a suspiciously large number of notes.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Cost of living isn't the same everywhere and perspective is relative.

Rent in my area averages around 3k USD/mo for fairly plain arrangements. Between that and "unavoidable" costs like utilities, you'd get 3-4 months max on that amount, even living frugally. It really isn't that much for a lot of people, even if that amount might be to you.

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