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by K0balt 11mo ago
lol 8x in 2026 hahahahahahaha that is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard of coming from a semiconductor manufacturer. Maybe 8x as many of something they weren’t selling beforehand, but increasing production on full fabs by 8x? I’d l
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by K0balt 11mo ago
I think we can dispense with the strawman Soviet Russia alternative lmfao. In a reasonably well regulated market, deception at that scale (that utterly destroys competitive buildouts by externalizing the costs that normally would be borne b
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by K0balt 11mo ago
I think the price increases we are seeing are a direct result of the skepticism about AI scale viability. The big dram houses aren’t increasing capacity, due to the risks you mention. So demand from other sources has to be suppressed throug
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by K0balt 11mo ago
I must be wrong, but can’t help but harbor a mild suspicion that your use of sight metaphors is not coincidental.
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Frankly, I am pleasantly surprised to see that being a relatively close number two seems to be both practical and is turning out to be enormously beneficial to humanity. I am concerned that deep secrecy on OAIs part could change that, but i
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by K0balt 11mo ago
All of that said, if we don’t provide a solid foundational high school education that covers basic science, math through fundamental calculus, a decent overview of world history, literature, art and culture, then we are not only wasting the
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by K0balt 11mo ago
It’s unpopular to say, but a disproportionate amount of value is of course derived from people who are both educated and have immediate access to resources to fully exploit that education as well as the risk tolerance to innovate in the pro
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by K0balt 11mo ago
It’s likely that automation is about to turn the world on its ear vis-a-vis low skilled employment. The cost of human sustenance and care is surprisingly high compared to electricity, steel, carbon fiber, and silicon.
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Ok so, turns out there are a lot of MCUs like this, including a riscV triple core lockstep with ECC lol. No super cheap ones, but microchip makes the AVR-SD which leverages a pair of their AVR8 cores in lockstep with ECC flash and RAM. It’s
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by K0balt 11mo ago
I think this would come down to team selection. At airbus they have the advantage of cultural diversity to lean on, I have no doubt that implementations would differ not only in implementation but in design philosophy, compromises, and prio
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Fail safe/fail soft I still design this into many of the things I work on, especially if I’m working close to the metal on controller systems. At some point it becomes ridiculous / impossible but I’m often thinking about how a sys
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by K0balt 11mo ago
That’s just wild to think about. We should all strive to build solutions that plague our descendants with their persistent utility.
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by K0balt 11mo ago
EDAC is the concept, ECC is a family of algorithmic solutions in the service of the concept. Specific implementations of ECC are the engineering solution that implement the specific form of ECC in specific devices at the hardware or softwar
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by K0balt 11mo ago
The idea was to build three completely different systems to produce the same data, so that an error or problem in one could not be reasonably replicated in the others. In a case such as this, even ideas about algorithms could result in und
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by K0balt 11mo ago
To be fair, I switched when apple silicon cut my compile time by 75 percent even using x86 emulation, dollar for dollar, and I got 2x battery life out of the deal for free. I run Linux most of the time in a VM these days, but I also really
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by K0balt 11mo ago
I think I read things into your comment you did not intend, and for that I apologize. I confess I have been pretty sensitized from the barrage of accusations I recieve—mostly from em dashes and using “ai words” whatever that means lol. It
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Why do I feel like this is kinda like the hipster carrying his typewriter on the bus? It seems like stuff like this is more about presenting an “identity “ instead of actually doing anything real. My immediate assumption from seeing someone
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Argh. It’s so strange to be ridiculed and have your ideas devalued just because you know how to use punctuation marks. I have 20 year old blog posts with hundreds of comments accusing me of using AI. I understand people being suspicious,
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by K0balt 11mo ago
So, are you telling me that we actually-don’t- know how magnets work lol?
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Very unique and cool image. I was curious at first if this was planned, or if it was a bizzare coincidence… I’m not sure whether to be enthralled or disappointed. On one side is the wonderful creation of chaos, on the other is a marvel of p
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by K0balt 11mo ago
You might not be understanding what is annoying to people, or you might understand it quite well and are using that adopted identity as a shield. You can’t lose what you don’t have. Either way, if you aren’t content with your situation in t
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Excellent point, especially since most people “aiming to come across as authentic” are anything but.
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by K0balt 11mo ago
I think many of the “manipulations” are actually more like dances; both people engage in a consensual proxy display of willingness to cooperate. Any “manipulation” occurs only when one person is unaware that the “dance” exists and mistakes
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by K0balt 11mo ago
While I certainly agree that it is an example of poor judgment and perhaps weak character to be broadly judgy about cosmetic efforts in general, I can understand the theoretical plight of someone who might be taken in by a deceptive person
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by K0balt 11mo ago
Seems like the focus is on orbital dynamics, so I’m guessing it is reacting against the magnetic field of the planet or the particulates in the solosphere. It would be cool, though, if it were actually interacting with the zero point field
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by K0balt 1y ago
Rrrrgh. Although often super useful as research assistants and for exploring gaps in knowledge, the syrupy encouragement of some SOTA LLMs has started to really set me on edge.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Nice execution, I think you nailed the vibe. Nice find on that display, it’s awesome! If you wanted to get rid of your middleware and maybe pick up some insight, one of the things that SOTA LLMs are really good at is translating code from o
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by K0balt 1y ago
I love FORTH, and wrote a good bit of forth software back in the day. The main problem with FORTH is that FORTH developers are writing FORTH instead of programs. I mean, that’s kind of also how writing programs in FORTH works, TBF. The pr
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by K0balt 1y ago
Ooooh yeah! They’d have to work right at the antenna, but maybe some kind of metamaterial process could make more efficient solar panels that way? Hard To imaging that they would be cheap Though.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I actually prefer ascii art diagrams as a benchmark for visual thinking, since it requires 2 stages, Like svg, and also can test imaginative repurposing of text elements.

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