MobiusHorizons

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by MobiusHorizons 4mo ago
Is it really more of a hassle than going exercising or anything else with special gear? Hiking / skiing / swimming?
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by MobiusHorizons 4mo ago
We were talking about what these features were for when introduced. At the time there were no atomic instructions because there weren’t multiple concurrent execution paths or modern multi layer caching. At the time volatile on a scalar valu
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by MobiusHorizons 4mo ago
Are you suggesting opening every package to check for a CE? I think fining after the fact is how those laws are enforced.
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by MobiusHorizons 4mo ago
If you read the article it provides a good example. Fire truck businesses with a 4 year backlog and high margins. This is less competitive than the situation prior to PE consolidating it when it had much lower backlog and ~3% margins. Seems
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
How much does the node size matter for dram? My understanding was that it’s been marginal gains on sram since about 7nm TSMC. I would naively expect the capacitor size requirements not to shrink as well as logic, does the smaller transistor
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
The typical playbook for a VC funded startup is to race to a monopoly where the company can have higher margins. Prices continuing to go down for the consumer over time would require competition to stay high in the long term, and even then
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
> You're holding it wrong. Perhaps you've been holding it wrong for so long and so confidently that you've distorted the world around you -- indeed on MSVC on x86 or x86-64 that actually happened -- but, you're still
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
By MMIO semantics do you mean explicit load and store instructions? I’ve never felt that pointer reads or writes were lacking descriptiveness here. I would argue the only surprising thing is that they might be optimized out (which is what v
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
The UK also has much stricter training requirements prior to being granted a license, among other differences. I don't think we can pin all the differences on the yearly MOT.
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
Sounds very similar in its approach to magic or hiding as golang. Also the no libc approach is similar, although I believe go was forced to use libc on the BSDs and maybe osx due to the syscall interface not being a stable public interface
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
I get how running in a container or vm would help with that, but why would you want to cluster multiple of them? Are you isolating the agents from one another?
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
Does spelling it out help? From memory, it is a security competition where participants compete to gain certain objectives. I think capture the flag may explain how scoring is kept, but it wouldn’t help me find out what it is, given that ca
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
I’m not a fan of Apple’s monopoly, but is there really much innovation left on mobile? I dont seem to find huge innovations on android. What in your opinion is the App Store preventing?
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
Wouldn’t it be cheaper / less complex to scale vertically (eg a large workstation or medium size bare metal server) instead of using clusters? My understanding is that clusters are primarily useful when you want to share a resource fro
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
yep, that is what I meant by the DMCA, but I should probably have been more clear.
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
I tend to agree with you that allowing the community to keep games running would be a more desirable outcome, but I don't believe California could make such a law. As I understand it, reverse engineering is already illegal federally be
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
Authoritarian has nothing to do with elections, it has everything to do with the ability of people without positions of power to influence those in power without retribution. Most countries have elections, these days, but there is no lack o
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
Are you saying engineers and scientists don’t own companies? That’s an odd thing to say on a forum that’s basically dedicated to exactly that outcome.
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
I don’t believe they actually make the hardware. I know sytem76 always just rebadges Clevo hardware. You were basically paying for Linux to be preinstalled and for the Linux focused support. EDIT. Actually it looks like I was wrong about th
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by MobiusHorizons 5mo ago
I believe they are in opec+
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
My understanding is that the national science foundation supports scientific research presumably through grants. Academia is already having a lot of funding troubles, so this likely means things will get worse in the academic sciences.
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
The article claims the photo was shared in a private group chat. I think the image only became public because of the arrest and subsequent media interest. BDA from social media posts is a very real risk, but that is not what happened here.
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
If you actually mean offshore as in located in a different country or especially a different continent, then that is a terrible idea for latency for many forms of computation. There are acceptable use cases, eg when round trips are infreque
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
I mean yes, but that would require demand right? The demand is currently for building data centers, should you just wait around for better things to be in demand? It’s definitely a strategy, but it doesn’t seem like the obviously necessary
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
From the readme: > Note: This project is still heavily in development and is at an early stage. > Compiling and running simple shaders works, and a significant portion of the core library also compiles. > However, many things aren&
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
I think you are conflating microcode with micro-ops. The distinction into the fundamental workings of the CPU is very important. Microcode is an alternative to a completely hard coded instruction decoder. It allows tweaking the behavior in
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
That's not really how it works. There are only a few companies on the planet that are licensed to create their own cores that can run ARM instructions. This is an artificial constraint, though and at present China is (as far as I know)
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by MobiusHorizons 6mo ago
Compiling the code is not the issue. The hard part is the system integration. Most notably the boot process and peripherals. It's not actually hard to compile code for any given ARM or x86 target. Even much less open ecosystems like IB
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by MobiusHorizons 8mo ago
There will always be many gaps in peoples knowledge. You start with what you need to understand, and typically dive deeper only when it is necessary. Where it starts to be a problem in my mind is when people have no curiosity about what’s g
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by MobiusHorizons 8mo ago
I mean you can always make things slower. There are lots of non-optimizing or low optimizing compilers that are _MUCH_ faster than this. TCC is probably the most famous example, but hardly the only alternative C compiler with performance so

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