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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
Tell that to The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employ...
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
Super cynical take- Is this preparation for layoffs? With no hard-set PTO, do they still have to reimburse outstanding time off as required by law?
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
Someone fill me in - are all my understandings here correct? 1. ARM is a RISC architecture, but it is proprietary/licensed, subject to export law, etc. 2. ARM is having a heyday, powering just about every mobile device, plus Apple&#x27
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
I always come back to this exchange between the Yale administrator and the protesting students: Prof: I stand behind free speech; yes, I do. Student 2: Well then that sorry doesn't mean anything. Student 3: Even when it's offensiv
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
I just started working with a new team a few weeks ago. So far I've had "nice to meet you" calls with six or seven of the people on this team. And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD, just so you know
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
* clean-room M1 GPU driver created by (seemingly) one dev in a matter of months * an excellent POC of Rust drivers on Linux * the dev live-streamed almost every minute of development * the dev is a virtual anime girl So far I'm LOVING
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
> Monitors are horizontal. Televisions are horizontal. People's EYES are horizontal. smartphones are vertical
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
Can someone explain something - Assume for a moment Hans did not cheat (aside from the times he admitted to cheating). In the scenario where he did not cheat - how amazing is his performance? I.e. beating Magnus, Elo rating, etc. I know
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
I've been listening to the podcast Your Own Backyard (yes, I occasionally indulge in true crime, sue me!) There was recently an entire episode dedicated almost entirely to cadaver dog testimony. Well, the dog was not testifying, the ha
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
If this interests you, I highly recommend the novel "Overstory", which was a pulitzer prize winner in the last few years. It's a fictional collection of stories, all linked by trees (it makes sense if you've read it). Be
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
It was more than a moment. For roughly a decade, your options were Plasma, LCD, or rear projection (or briefly hi-def CRT which was pretty wild). There was not much overlap of consumer-priced plasma and OLED panels.
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
planning/development for progressively lower N-nm chips seems to happen extremely far in advance - here we are talking about 2-nm when 3-nm is still around the corner. My question is, does the development of 2-nm happen totally indepen
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
one thing I don't fully get- this specification is written based on the current behavior of rustc. The page even says that the specification will be updated as rustc is updated: > If there is a mismatch between what the FLS says an
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
this image makes me curious about something: imagine a distant galaxy, say ~1billion light years away (not 13 like in this new image). imagine a civilization in this galaxy. any information takes ~1billion years to travel between us and the
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
Really glad there's advanced open-source tools like darktable and RawTherapee. I've switched back and forth between RawTherapee and darktable for a few years now. I prefer the UI and workflow or RT, but dt has better performance o
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but what's in it for Apple for open-sourcing Darwin? Is it purely from some license restriction of some software they use? The next best reason is normally something like "open source code tends to prolifera
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
I think there's another, equally-good answer: "I don't care, as long as it is consistent per codebase." I work on a codebase that my team owns, and we use spaces. I work on another codebase another team owns, and it use
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
could someone explain how the Arm product pipeline works? This is my (probably totally wrong) understanding: Arm makes chip specification and defines assembly language --> companies (Samsung, Apple) license both of these and design their
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
fascinating. exactly the type of content I love about Hacker News.
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
> The icon isn't the photos app icon, although the general shape is similar. are you sure? I'm holding up my iPhone side-by-side, an to me there's no doubt this is attempting to represent that. To represent the different
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
possibly the v1 of the inevitable "Apple mixed reality visor/glasses" has a low-res, mono-color display, or else it uses low-res mono-color as an "idle" mode when not actively in use so the user is not distracted?
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
> Once you’ve decided, explore a single element that captures the essence of the app, and express that element in a simple, unique shape. For example, the Mail app icon uses an envelope, which is universally associated with mail. And thi
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
I can understand the reasoning behind this, though. Dall-E had an entire news cycle (on tech-minded publications, that is) that showcased just how amazing it was. Millions* of people became aware that technology like Dall-E exists, before a
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
> it will drive millions of people away I don't see this happening. I see the opposite. With free reign to post "anything under U.S. law", content on Twitter will become even further optimized to get the most eyeballs.
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
given that the same model can both: 1. tell me about a cat (given a prompt such as "describe a cat to me") 2. recognize a cat in a photo, and describe the cat in the photo does the model understand that a cat that it sees in an im
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
> There's no novel economic concept here. It's just a ponzi scheme that has run out of greater fools. Remove the layers of deception and it is fundamentally a ponzi scheme. I'm not defending the coin, but in what way is th
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
Or https://www.fleetlabs.com/constipation-relief-products/enema...
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by 2bitencryption 4y ago
I think there's a valid concern with this; a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to "big brother" or "corporate overlords". Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has imme
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by 2bitencryption 5y ago
There's an extra layer of complexity here. One requirement for MAD to work is two key properties of ICBMs: * their launch is easily detectable * they take a long time to reach the target, long enough to respond with your own ICBMs this
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by 2bitencryption 5y ago
Here's my fear, which I really really hope someone can allay. I just don't see an "off ramp" for Putin right now. The cost he's incurred is HUGE and there's really no way out of this for him. He's already

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