Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I mean if the checks are expensive and it's on hot path, then that's wasteful.It might also require then to use more nesting of IFs which isn't necessarily nicer.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I think this may be a person who is concerned a out being tainted by a license. Life if the code was source-available only and they saw it and then were accused to copying some functionality into another open source project. A bit paranoid,
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I mean maybe not many of us here, but my mom’s daily driver is a Chromebook. I SSH into my server using a Core 2 Dup laptop, that could be replaced.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
If they have a different username here, it feels wrong to out them. If they wanted, they could have said it themselves. You could have thanked them without tying the username together in a way that is Google-able.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I have a conspiracy theory that these parts were supposed to be faster at the same power level but after seeing what was happening with Intel they decided to turn down the power usage till they met the same performance of the previous gener
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> People who buck the silly social dynamics in office cultures will be perceived as less productive whether it's true or not and are frequently devalued. Younger, I would have agreed with your sentiment. Now, I appreciate good cowor
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> It was better before the insane amount of advertising. There was anything on it really before that. Wikipedia didn't start until 2001 and there were already pop-ups and banner ads everywhere. t was better before the insane amount
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism > Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. It is the idea that the majority of mental states
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
On my current project the way totals and taxes are applied different on two different screens leading to slightly different totals. No one knows which one is actually correct or used by the customers in practice. Thus, you could say there i
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I assume the point of Apple owning their own modem is not just not to pay Qualcomm, but also to integrate more deeply. I’m betting that they’ll be able to integrate it with their CPU and perhaps reuse the ALU so that there is efficiency the
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> Note that I vaguely remember having read somewhere that EPIC isn't "true" VLIW Well IIRC, the amount of execution units presented architecturally are not actually reflected to what is available internally. This was done
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Even with the Apache foundation therenis no guarantee they’ll be maintainers for support and active development. Only guarantee is a company that is profitable but doesn’t want more money…
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Something more like Better than Ezra is my guess.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Restoration is a completely valid motivation
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> Isn't there some body aggrieved parties could report this too for sanctions? Sorry, but what are they going to do if China refuses to pay those sanctions? And who will want to escalate those into tariffs etc? Once you are a super
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> The most common reason is a concept called “dark rent.” Pharmacy companies are seeking to cut their losses by shuttering unprofitable stores that have high labor costs, ... but in most cases they are obligated to continue paying the re
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I mean last year our town lost it's last custom suit tailor to retirement. In a Peruvian town I saw a cobbler making shoes by hand, cutting soles from foot tracings. Custom suits and shoes have been greatly impacted by factories pumpin
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Well, if it allows them to offer cheaper seats to people that don't care because now they can accommodate a party of six adults travelling for vacation together then I'm for it. They care to sit together, they can pay more, I can
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Hopefully this would get extended to all vulnerable persons such as the caretakers of special needs adults. Like the sibling of a severally autistic adult.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
So if you put one buggy whip maker out of work a year, it's okay. But if you put hundreds of over the course of a couple of years, now it's wrong? Cars must be illegal. When have we ever put the scope of the impact as part of the
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I cannot tell if that is a joke or not. I could see it both being said sincerely and sarcastically.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
"Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058791
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Well then you may want to make more time to watch PBS Eons on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qERdL8uHSgI?si=u58MApIHgGp9G60o https://youtu.be/mAkjETPM1s4?si=emy483-M4LYK0Jh5 It's more accessible than PBS Sp
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I had to check if that was a meme joke or that is actually what happened, and it seems that it actually was found by rewriting it in Rust: > 2024-04-23 - Discovery of SSL_select_next_proto memory unsafety while rewriting it in rust. [ h
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
At one start-up developers were expected to a do a shift in the warehouse and delivery. What is the worst is the director that hasn't touched code in 15-20 years, remembering with rose-tinted glasses and never experienced the organizat
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I’ve said before that the director of engineering should solve at least one ticket a month. Minor, but still one. Then they wouldn’t spout bullshit like “the documentation should be complete” and “how hard could it be?”
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I prefer "eka-radium" because it tells you that it's under "radium" in the table.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
These elements will never exist in any number for any meaningful amount of time for the human scale. That said, these extreme elements are great tests of the understanding of mechanics of atomic nuclei. Personally, I expect this improved un
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Why do chis degrade? Is this due to the whiskers I’ve heard about?
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
This is the most pressing question. If it was just a microcode issue a cooloff and power cycle ought to at least reset things but according to Wendel from Level 1 Tech, that doesn't seem to always be the case.

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