Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Winners write the history books. There's whether or not a system fails, and there's who it fails for. Because we can all see a heck of a lot of fail in today's system, but those failing or being failed don't tend to get
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It exists in the way it does for multiple reasons in tension with one another. If it was just trying to generate revenue for the police, it would be better at it. Ditto, if it were just trying to make roads safer, or if its main objective w
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Oh, and I neglected to mention the protracted development, and short, miserable life, of Cannon Lake itself. First announced in 2013, it eventually shipped five years later in only a single, crippled dual-core mobile SKU, which lasted just
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Sadly increasingly so re Borough. Used to be great. Have you found anything like what it was for meat and produce? Maltby is great for street food but I mean actual raw ingredients. Yes there are some great butchers but Borough was great fo
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Not much. Synchronisation of tasks is still a big overhead. If you've got tens to hundreds of microseconds worth of workload, sure, get the GPU to do it. But bear in mind 1000 clocks at 4GHz is 250ns, there's still a sizeable regi
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
std::experimental::simd is happening. It should be part of c++26.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The library approach does a pretty good job in conjunction with a good compiler, and sensible algorithm design. You're writing C++ code but as if it was shader code. I've seen impressive results with clang doing this sort of thing
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
And a few years later, Intel said we'd get AVX512 on everything by 2016, and that the instruction encoding supported a future extension to 1024. And then the Skylake and Cannon Lake debacle.. First they pulled it from the consumer chip
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Mostly agree, Londoners go to Borough if they're rich or the many local farmer's markets on the weekend. You'd have to admit, the not providing a new site thing is kind of shoddy though?
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Decent amount of manufactured goods, always enough food, no sign of a serf labouring class or any manufacturing to speak of. It's 18th(ish) century rural England, without all the stuff that made 18th century rural England a relatively
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Accurate. This romanticist nonsense also means that adequately lit and drained paths - for walking, cycling and wheeling at all hours - inevitably attract rural NIMBY ire. "Preserve the character of our rural village with its 5000 SUVs
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
In the modern context, /shrug/. When talking about history, absolutely, because we're talking about three or four different countries at the time, with different kings, governments, alliances, economies and so on.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That doesn't really make sense historically. "The UK" is a modern concept relatively speaking, the Act of Union didn't pass until long after the slaving and looting got going.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
We've seen how the enslaving and exploiting thing worked out. We're just hitting the Find Out stage of the running a world economy on fossil fuels thing. Oh well. 200 years ain't a bad run.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's not really digital quantisation that's the problem, but everything else that happens during mixing - which is a much more complicated process, especially for pop/rock/electronic etc., than just "sum all the sig
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The other elephant is that while everyone has analytics, only one in five companies pays someone with an actual clue how to interpret them to look at them regularly, and only one in five of those companies has a decision making structure
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Essentially because the people drafting the laws are ignorant about technology, and have a kind of weird snobbery towards it. They like the shiny, but don't try and engage them in a conversation about what actually makes it tick. Knowi
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Someone needs to put a stake in those stakeholders.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This, exactly. And possibly requiring browser vendors to implement Do Not Track in an accessible and user-friendly way. (Those whose business models are reliant on ads might need a firm nudge there.)
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The limits are engineering, not physics. Atoms need not be a barrier for a long time if you can go fully 3D, for example, but manufacturing challenges, power and heat get in the way long before that. Then you can go ultra-wide in terms of c
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's because MIDI doesn't contain all the information that was in a score. Scores are interpreted by musicians to create a performance, and MIDI is a capture of (some of) the data about that performance. Music engraving is full
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Stem separation refers to doing it with audio playback fidelity (or an attempt at that). So it should pull the bass part out at high enough fidelity to be reused as a bass part. This is a partly solved problem right now. Some tracks and sig
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
He's trying to solve a second (also hard ish) problem as well, deriving an accurate musical score from MIDI data. It's a "sounds easy but isn't" problem, especially when audio to MIDI transcribers are great at pitch
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I find it to be like long-distance driving on major freeways/motorways. The conflict is between on the one hand the need to stay alert, focused and in-the-moment, and a physical environment that lacks stimulating cues. Your body wants
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Depends on your role. When it exists _only_ online, it can be difficult to get a grasp of what the company IS. That may not be important if you're a developer with a tightly defined role, where "turn up and do as you're asked
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I think 15 bytes/sec refers to our ability to parse and process text, or spoken words "as if they were text" (i.e. ignoring emphasis, intonation and so on).
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This is already a thing among some minoritised groups. Specifically they feel a need to project a high standard of presentation at work, which is labour-intensive to accomplish, and - quite rightly - they don't want to feel forced to d
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Probably need on-orbit refueling to work for that to happen, but they're working on it.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Until you bring the online services side into the picture. A typical app depends on both OS APIs and remote service APIs. Keeping the latter stable and supported is harder. Especially when there are third party services and frameworks invol
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's a management culture which is almost colonial in nature, and seeks to differentiate itself from a "labor class" which is already highly educated. Never spook the horses. Never show the team, or the public, what's go

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