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by KK7NIL 1y ago
> x86 doesn't have magical backwards compatibility powers. I never said it did; other ISAs have similar if not longer periods of backwards compatability (IBM's Z systems architecture is backwards compatible with the System&#x2F
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Drivers make up a tiny portion of the software on our computer by any measure (memory or compute time) and they're far longer lasting than your average GUI app.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
This is a total red herring, x86 has over 30 years of backwards compatability and the same goes for the basic peripherals. The real reason for software churn isn't hardware churn, but hardware expansion. It's well known that softw
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
> You cannot tenuki in Chess. You absolutely can! If it's during a tactical sequence we might call it an intermezzo. If it's not during a tactical sequence we don't usually have a name for it in chess but it happens all th
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
> ferrous shield would warp magnetic flux lines It wouldn't, the only way to "shield" from magnetic fields is to get them to induce Eddy currents and but that requires more and more length and as the wavelength gets longe
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
A compass is not blocked by a Faraday cage as low frequency magnetic fields still get through.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
> This is an unintuitive aspect of go because it is different from virtually every other strategy game. No, it isn't. As a decent chess and go player I can tell you that they're both just tactics until you approach the master&
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
The black pawns are on white's side of the board.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
The Iberian peninsula uses its own track gauge.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Crypto trading takes place on exchanges, not the blockchain though?
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
> Intel has just said that unless a miracle will bring them serious external customers for their 14A CMOS process, they will stop developing it Here's the actual quote: > This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements that in
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
I think I found it (thanks reddit): https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship#event=ccc2... Indeed a good showcase of the horizon effect between an a/b and a MCTS engine, thanks for sharing!
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
I'm aware the Nakamura example is old, but the core issue (the horizon effect) is still there in any alpha/beta pruning engine, including the newest SF. But I will certainly grant you that it has become much harder to execute sinc
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
> My understanding is that they did, but don't any more; it's no longer true that humans understand enough things about chess better than computers for the human/computer collaboration to contribute anything over just usin
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
No, at Intel Foundry we have plenty of non-citizens working on sub 2 nm technology (me included). I haven't seen any ITAR restrictions on logic nodes, only on 70+ GHz RF and adjacent work that obviously has a direct application to rada
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Firefox mobile, I only get hijacked after scrolling down a bit.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Can we blacklist websites that hijack the back button like this? Makes it very frustrating to browse on mobile.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Gilbert was a legend of analog design. Here's a lecture by him on the translinear principle: https://youtu.be/LQNJVtcFrCc And here's some history of his work at Tektronix (where he discovered the translinear princ
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
I wasn't trying to make an appeal to authority due 100 years having passed, that was tangential to my point that almost all modern math now sits on formalized axioms, which it did not do before the foundational crisis in math was resol
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
We went through this over a 100 years ago, math now sits on very solid axioms (look up ZFC), they're not questioning that.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
They use LLMs to help write formal proofs (in languages like Coq) that are then checked by traditional programs; they're not using AI as the checker. https://youtu.be/e049IoFBnLA
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Rad labs volume 2 has a great description of the radio navigation/positioning systems in use at the time: https://archive.org/details/mitradiationlabo0002john/mode/1u... I believe several of these were a
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
> investment is literally future labor expectations. and a risk. This is simply Marxist crap and outright untrue. > in case of crisis the gov routinely starts bailouts and save the financial markets with interest rate operations or op
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
This is simply not true, my investments make money from profitable business operating today, not "labor of the future". Maybe you should stop reading Marxist economists.
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
> declining birthrates also hurt private markets, which rely on a growing workforce just as public pensions do. Right, it's well known that the US' demographics are the foundation for its strong economy, not advancements in pro
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
Public pension schemes always end up being turned into Ponzi schemes for short term political gain, especially as birthrates keep dropping. US social security and Medicare are a great example of this but you'll find similar examples th
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
The FAA looks down on people shooting at flying objects they can barely recognize, as this guy learned the hard way: https://www.yahoo.com/news/retiree-shot-walmart-delivery-dro...
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
EIRP adjusts the total radiated power for the antenna gain. So if you're transmitting 1 W and your antenna has a gain of 30 dBi (1000x), that's equivalent (from the perspective of whatever it's pointed at) to an isotropic ant
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
I understood that. My point is that they aren't irrelevant, they help drive the new theory forward. Galileo's initial results could not predict many things that the old geo-centric models could predict for centuries. This is almo
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by KK7NIL 2y ago
No theory can stand on steady ground without the critics checking its foundations. It's a shame we cast their role in the history of science in such a negative light, as if science was a game to be won or lost instead of a collective p

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