AlanYx

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by AlanYx 6mo ago
In the US, yes, but Huawei has been gaining ground selling its SuperPod/Ascend turnkey solutions internationally, with some major recent wins in Thailand, Brazil, Egypt and Morocco.
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by AlanYx 6mo ago
No. They're a decent playground for prototyping hybrid algorithms but even that is limited. No one has yet published a hybrid algorithm on a rentable QC provider that has better benchmark performance than a modern CPU/GPU implemen
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by AlanYx 7mo ago
It's the Adobe suite of tools that's more of a concern performance-wise on 8GB Macs.
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by AlanYx 7mo ago
>there are cross shaped parasites that grant eternal life Without giving away any spoilers to the books, the parasites are only that on the surface. If anything, the books present a wary picture of religion, especially the last two Endym
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by AlanYx 8mo ago
I'm somewhat sympathetic to the conclusion, but from a different perspective. One of the interesting things I've found about literature is that it's hard to fully appreciate the nuances in the decade it's written. It&#x2
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by AlanYx 8mo ago
In this case the article's guess is probably accurate. Apple did change how they measure RHR in WatchOS 11.2. If the author was using an Apple Watch that doesn't support 11.2 and then switched to one that does, a swing was very li
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
That's the interesting thing about this study. A lot of people here are speculating around explanations connected to metamerism, but the control (Figs 7 and 9) partly rules that out.
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
In the Christmas Special, the kids come to see Charlie Brown as right and are fairly vocal about this ("he's not a blockhead after all", etc.). It is somewhat tethered to the religious elements voiced by Linus, which gives th
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
I'm not sure I understand the Burroughs example as relevant to the UK, but another good illustration is Thomas Hardy. His books sold well but were never seen as consistent with the UK cultural mainstream, and the reaction to Jude the O
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
A lot of the stuff written on "izzat" is questionable or wrong, but it is true that India has a collective concept of saving face. This can be an adjustment even if you're used to the East Asian concept of saving face.
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
The enduring success of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special (despite its hokey Coca-Cola sponsored origins) strongly runs counter to this idea. The other kids in the special are outright mean to Charlie, but at the end no one identifies wit
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
The phenomenon Adams is talking about here is largely a post-WW1 phenomenon in UK culture, related to the post-WW1 malaise. His best examples are post-WW1 (Paul Pennyfeather, Tony Last, and the book by Stephen Pile). The others arguably don
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
Interesting, thanks! Apparently it requires a German eID-enabled ID card (or compatible EU ID) and doesn't include transactions involving real estate, but still it's progress.
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
I'm surprised that Germany never relaxed the in-person notarization requirements during COVID. A lot of jurisdictions around the world did change their rules to allow remote notarization.
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
That same paragraph also describes ways in which it can be accomplished other than chemical etching ("...chemical etching, laser ablation, mechanical removal of material, mechanical pre-treatment followed by etching, lithography in com
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
Rainbow isn't really the right term. It's more of a sparkling effect. Apple actually uses the term "sparkle" for this characteristic in their patent for the display treatment (see para 0073). They also mention that diffe
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
It is true that nVidia GPU-CC TEE is not secure against decapsulation attacks, but there is a lot of effort to minimize the attack surface. This recent paper gives a pretty good overview of the security architecture: https://arxi
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
That's probably a clue that maintaining Photomator is not on Apple's long-term roadmap. I imagine they'll merge some features into Photos and eventually discontinue it.
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
There's also the problem that not every window in Tahoe has the same corner radius. Some people thought this was laziness/lack of polish or a bug, but Alan Dye confirmed on a podcast that it was intentional. So then they're l
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by AlanYx 9mo ago
>What could be simpler than that? At risk of being tongue-in-cheek, a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
I'm not criticizing the content of this post, but the author is likely wrong about this specific initiative being called "Going Dark". "Going Dark" has been the umbrella term various worldwide intelligence orgs have
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
Maybe I'm weird, but one of the first things I've always done when setting up emacs is to enable Typo mode (or Typopunct) for writing modes, which handles typing en and em dashes and "smart" quotation marks in a fairly n
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
I think there is room for non-gamified learning apps depending on the field and how it's intended to be used. A good example is the field of early reading instruction. The best two apps right now IMHO are Reading.com and Mentava, and t
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
The EL backlight adds to the slightly unearthly vibe too. The eMate was one of the last mainstream laptop-size devices made with an EL backlight. I miss those.
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
This is my view as well. That being said, Time New Roman is marginally better because there are several good, modern open source alternatives with the same metrics that can be substituted. And there's good tool support virtually everyw
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
I know a few people who use Quantrix for financial modelling. It is an exceptionally nice piece of software, basically the successor of Lotus Improv, with Improv's more robust and auditable separation of data and formulas.
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
That might be a better name :) The project doesn't have as much visibility as it should because it's gone through several names over the last 20 years: FreeNAS (prior to the TrueNAS split), NAS4free, and now XigmaNAS.
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by AlanYx 10mo ago
Yes, that's the reason why a dedup vdev that has lower redundancy than your main pool will fail with "mismatched replication level" unless you use the -f (force) flag. I'm not sure about whether an L2ARC vdev can offload
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
This is what I recommend too, but for those who want something prepackaged, there's also XigmaNAS, basically a lightweight UI layer and basic configuration on top of FreeBSD. Some of the original FreeNAS developers have been working on
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
There are a couple recent developments in ZFS dedup that help to partially mitigate the memory issue: fast dedup and the ability to use a special vdev to hold the dedup table if it spills out of RAM. But yes, there's almost no instance

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