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ks6g10··on Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up
I would guess the roundtrip of intercepting every file stat call in the repo, it's very lovely. But will check.
ks6g10··on Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up
For me it can be slow, especially refreshing magit (which probably is blocked by git, blocked by the bs)(on MacOS)
ks6g10··on Git rebase -I is not that scary
Even just rebase fixup a commit that is a few commits below HEAD is just a few chords away. Use it many times a week when working.
ks6g10··on SIMD for Collision
They should name it Multiple memory data, one single CPU instruction, or mmdosci for short. Easy to remember.
ks6g10··on In Emacs, everything looks like a service
I scheduled my intune upgrade when I needed a week off for doing house moving stuff. I was told Emacs would work, didn't. Took them about a week before I could use it again.
ks6g10··on Trust your compiler: Modern C++
But what is the resulting assembly? I would assume completely different!
ks6g10··on Trust your compiler: Modern C++
Unfortunately some exchanges (twse) uses packed BCD encoding.
ks6g10··on Gaussian Point Splatting
Just like 2 threads can execute on the same core at the "same" time, i.e. no synchronization, the same is true for GPU threads/ thread groups.
ks6g10··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
I just use tailscale and remote desktop.
ks6g10··on User reports indicate problems at Vodafone
Here we go again, just last month we had a problem with someone removing routes.
ks6g10··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
I think you have the wrong understanding, VAT is applied irrespective of origin, so the same reduction would apply to domestic products.

To simplify,

US product for sale for £100, then VAT would be £20 ( assuming 20% rate)

UK product for sale for £100, then VAT would be £20 ( assuming 20% rate)

ks6g10··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
I would presume that EU products sold in the US are charged sales tax already(for those states that have it).

The difference between sales tax and tarrifs is it applies to all products within the same category irrespective of its origin.

ks6g10··on The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas
TXSE*

TSE would be the Tokyo Stock Exchange

ks6g10··on jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
I do this regularly with magit, but mby I am missing something?

I.e. the typical Gerrit workflow

ks6g10··on LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory
The reason why arm is not affected is that their "local" memory is non existent and they just spill everything to cache.
ks6g10··on LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory
Could probably be that the shared memory (at least in the past) also was used for cache, so the same mechanism that probably sanitizer the cache is/was in play here.
ks6g10··on LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory
This is specific to local/scratch memory which is not exposed for allocation in the same way dram is.
ks6g10··on UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm
Let the people with virgin use a custom dns, like cloudflare or google, have solved many issues I had whilst under virgin.
ks6g10··on UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm
It might be their crappy DNS virgin is running. Had a big issue pulling big repos with git (TLS error) before I switched my DNS. Same with accessing certain websites when I had my vpn on. Ever since I got my eeros so I can set the dns network wide(virgin does not allow custom dns), no problems.
ks6g10··on Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September
Commute

Home <-> Walk <-> train(euston) <-> walk <-> tube <-> walk <-> work

Time required if everything work correctly

~ 1h 10m to work

~ 1h 30m from work, (more since you dont want to miss the train)

Now, a single cancelled/missed train for me is +30m, happened at least once a week due to faulty train etc.

In addition, these things happen all the time:

Is the tube delayed today causing me to miss my train? +30m

Is it hot summer week? expect almost everyday to be cancellations of 1h+++

Someone trespassing/ hit by train, cancellations of 1h+++

Signalling problem, cancellation of 1h+++

Fire next to track cancellation of 3h+++

plus more Many days I have spent more than 4hrs just to get home.

Now this 2h 40m commute easily averages out to 4h

ks6g10··on The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing (2017) [video]
I appreciate your reply, my experience

1) Agree, personally I am too lazy to clean it every time, just rinse it in water

2) Agree, though, everything in contact when brewing is metal or glass

3) Had my current french press for 6 years without issue.

Nonetheless, guess the difference boils down to personal practicality.

ks6g10··on The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing (2017) [video]
I dont see how this differs much from using a french press.
ks6g10··on Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home
Are people so hopelessly dense that they don't realise an office economy means lower net wages, massive outsourcing and the obsolescence of local communities?
ks6g10··on Notes on My Chemotherapy
Having had almost the same everything, and now almost 2 years cancer free, the neuropathy did take some time to disappear. Don't know if it disappeared or my body got used to it, but do not notice it anymore. Best of fortune in the future.
ks6g10··on Notes on My Chemotherapy
For my experience, noticed rich red blood at first collected in the bowl of the toilet, then started noticing streaks of blood on the stool, consistently there every time. I did put it of for 3 months, and I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, that had spread from my colon to the liver through my lymph nodes.
ks6g10··on Notes on My Chemotherapy
Having had almost the same history and chemotherapy, the cold sensitivity and neuropathy is cause by platinum based drugs, in this case oxaliplatin. The cold sensitivity is quite fascinating i found, its like your skin reaching a threshold and feels like pressing against some cold metal.

As for the fatigue, just the chemotherapy doing its stuff, never had fatigue from the cancer.

ks6g10··on Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story
Yes, people with darker skin is at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency in northern territories.

"Vitamin D synthesis is highly dependent on the concentration of melanin in the skin as melanin absorbs and scatters UVR-B, resulting in a less efficient conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol to previtamin D3[3]. Therefore, dark-skinned individuals will experience slower vitamin D synthesis than light-skinned ones. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067096/

ks6g10··on I lost my boyfriend to cancer 'conspiracy theories’
I would say chemo and cancer is very individual, you and doctors will look at the statistics and be pessimistic, they because they don't want to give you false expectations, since setbacks are probably harder to fight than no progress. And you because you don't have the personal experience with cancer yet.

You have X chance of Z time, etc.

But that's statistics, you as an individual will often fall in the normal range in your stratified group. Except when you don't.

27 Years old, I was dying of cancer really bad, it is worse than chemo, I didnt know it, but I was dying very bad. It felt like the worst flu ever, with constant cold symptoms, fatigue and night sweats, it was so bad I had to change several times a night. It was terrible.

When I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with secondary cancer in my liver, I thought that was it, I have screwed up bad and should have gone to the doctor earlier.

The first meeting with my oncologist he said the chemotherapy is to give you time, it is not a cure. I didnt ask how long, it is nothing I want to know. He said he will throw what ever he can at me, since I am fit and young. Even though there was no reassurance, I felt much better after this.

So chemo, it sucks, I was on a 2 week cycle routine, which meant usually, go to the clinic on Thursday, get 3 different drugs over 3-4 hours. Some are fine, like oxaliplatin (and quite interesting when its cold outside), others hit you right in the head like irinotecan (this one sucks bad, kicks you in the head hard and make you feel sick), and finally 5fu which is much milder than irinotecan. The 5fu I would get as a pump which administered it over 46 hours or so at home.

So Thursday, on the day I feel bad when administered, would say a 3 when irinotecan hits. Afterwards mby a 6 or 7. I would have energy to work this day if I wanted.

Friday, did go to work some days with my pump. Feeling probably a 5-6, energy a 7.

Saturday, pump disconnected and the fatigue starts to hit, Feeling probably a 5, energy a 5.

Sunday, Feeling probably a 4, energy a 3.

Monday, Feeling probably a 3-4, energy a 2-3.

Tuesday, Feeling probably a 4, energy a 4.

Wednesday, Feeling probably a 5, energy a 5.

Thursday, Feeling probably a 6, energy a 6.

... It would improve until the next Thursday where I would be feeling probably a 8, energy a 8-9.

So by the time you go back for more chemo you would feel quite good. So on average I worked one week every two weeks.

Now, as soon as I started chemo, much of my cancer symptoms started to melt away, no more gut wrenching pain in my bowels, no more regular night sweats because my liver is shutting down, not feeling like having a flu, this is after 2-3 cycles of chemo. Chemo can make your quality of life better, it did it for me. Chemo sucks and I was lucky that I found ways to eat, keep my weight and stay healthy and positive.

In the end, I managed to have liver surgery and bowel surgery and am now cancer free. My oncologist didnt think that I would survive until surgery, and was lucky my chemo was soooo effective. 1 year from diagnosis to cancer free, I am lucky.

But of course, this is an individual experience, but I would say, dying of cancer suck more than chemo, for me.

ks6g10··on MIT creates blackest black that is darker than Vantablack
Easiest to use paint is probably black 3.0, just apply coats until desired result. Have black 2.0 and it is quite black, but would like something blacker.