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Paul Shved
Personal blog · coldattic.infoprogrammingsystems
Paul Shved's personal blog at coldattic.info covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Shved's posts on AI and the Turing test, including an article proposing conversation length as a score for telling a human from a bot. The comments do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
exploring the diverse world of programming
What Hacker News says?
Probably rhymes with "btrfs balance". I'v had the misfortune of using btrfs in production with a few hundred machines on Ubuntu 14.04. It's one of the most finicky filesystems I've ever used. It's probably better in newer kernels, but if you have a lot of churn it requires constant care and feeding and tends to cause kernel softlockups fairly commonly. Also this: http://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/friends-dont-let-frien…
Comment linking /shvedsky/pro/blogs/a-foo-walks-into-a-bar/posts/70
on “ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04”Submitted SF Muni LED Sign at Home with Raspberry Pi as a story · 77 points
HN discussion> I am very motivated to delve into this space (it's been on my mind a while) and I want to do it right, which is why I am asking for personal experiences on this forum given that there is a very healthy mix of technology hobbyists as well as professionals on HN, of which the opinion of both is equally valuable to me for different reasons. Regarding personal experiences, I moved to ML engineering after almost 15 yea…
Comment linking /post/122/
on “Ask HN: What ML platform are you using?”Submitted How easy is it, to write a program that removes a file or a folder? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionTotally agree. Just yesterday, I was finishing up an article [1] that advocates for conversation length as the new definition of a "score" on a Turing test. You assume everyone is a robot and measure how long it takes to tell otherwise. [1]: http://coldattic.info/post/129/
Comment linking /post/129/
on “Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time”Submitted How to Get Binary Search Right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy parallelization with Bash in Linux, part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Is the Other Lane Always Faster? (2018) as a story · 1 points
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