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by Someone 3mo ago
Differences, I think, may be that - running a forge isn’t something you can do alone (even if lighting a forge and doing the blacksmithing is doable for a single person, you still have to get the fuel for the forge, which typically is charc
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by Someone 3mo ago
This wasn’t only underarm, but also rolling the ball over the ground. Imagine that, in baseball, rolling the ball over the plate were considered a strike. If so, wouldn’t pitchers go for it if, at some time, all they need to do is prevent a
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Overview of new contracts, pay and transfers in the Ukrainian army(mod.gov.ua)
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by Someone 3mo ago
> if you lift an object to some height, and then you repeat that action (lifting it from there to twice the height), you've done twice the work, and doing twice the work requires twice the caloric intake. You’re introducing two new
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by Someone 3mo ago
So, what’s the effect on memory usage? And for decompression, the effect on memory usage and timings?
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by Someone 4mo ago
> What is happening here is that leading AI labs are charging not only for inference but also for research in model architecture, training data collection and curation, model training cost (which can be tens or even hundreds of millions
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by Someone 4mo ago
> Our reality has already vastly surpassed main stream sci fi of only fifty years ago. Definitely not in every aspect. Star Trek is almost 60 years old and featured interstellar space travel and the Tricorder ( https://en.wikip
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by Someone 4mo ago
FTA: “Nature deviated from the normal practice of merely slapping the word RETRACTED across the digital version of the paper while still allowing scholars to read the text. Instead, the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic
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by Someone 4mo ago
FTA: “Under the new semantics, because we only care about logical bit representation (which is endian-agnostic), the operation behaves identically on every target: the first array element becomes the 8 least significant bits” I wouldn’t c
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by Someone 4mo ago
> Or a military drone which needs to be jamming proof. That, if used in war, I would think, would need the ability to be updated frequently. For example, your enemy might find out (say by running tests on hardware they captured from you)
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by Someone 4mo ago
No, but correlations there aren’t large, either, if they exist. Einstein’s brain reportedly was below average size. That’s a n = 1 example, but there also is a 50/50 example: man vs women. on average, the brains of males are about 10
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by Someone 4mo ago
> I think they mean any symptoms. I think so, too. The referenced article ( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... ) says: “Every year, in the USA, about 25 million people visit the
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by Someone 4mo ago
The correlation between brain volume and intelligence is fairly weak. Neanderthals had larger brains than humans, for example. Looking outside the hominids, we have fairly smart corvids with relatively tiny brains. That means the chain of t
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Engine No. 1000: Destinus reaches industrial-scale turbojet production in Europe(destinus.com)
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by Someone 4mo ago
> They’re digging one mile (1.6 km) holes dropping low enriched nuclear fuel to the bottom, and filling them with water. > When the fuel is used up, they can leave it where it is since it’s below the water table. To do both, they’ll h
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by Someone 4mo ago
> A hardware cursor is basically a small bitmap that can be positioned anywhere on the screen and moved around by simply updating position registers (which is normally done per mouse interrupt); the hardware draws it automatically Do mod
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by Someone 4mo ago
Not entirely self-evidently. Position independent code was slower at the time and avoiding having to patching function addresses at load time is a net win. More importantly, there’s backwards compatibility. By the time the 8086 came out, pe
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by Someone 4mo ago
> and while banking could be annoying, I never saw it as a particularly difficult model to follow and use Segments aren’t conceptually difficult, either, but definitely could be annoying, and certainly were, if you had to access data str
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by Someone 4mo ago
> There are so many use cases where a local, purpose-built model that's dependably good at one thing would really make a difference. But no one is going to throw a billion dollars to give us amazing dust removal, flawless scene segm
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by Someone 4mo ago
I am sure writing a self-hosted Fortran compiler is possible, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for writing a Fortran compiler, even given the Fortran of today. In the 1970s, it would have been really low on my list, likely below using a m
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by Someone 4mo ago
Not a metallurgist, but reading https://www.science.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.112... , table S4, page 36, they don’t primarily claim this is extraordinary. They list 20 other “alphabet soup” alloys of, ballpa
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by Someone 4mo ago
I think significant improvements are - not writing compilers in assembly - not requiring overlays - knowing how previous compilers produced fast code (Web search doesn’t give me conclusive answers, but that Fortran compiler may have been th
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by Someone 4mo ago
> Web devs are used to their target being evergreen I would think/hope web developers are used to “just give me what you got”. Any other mindset leads to “you must install <browser> to see this site”. It’s Electron devs that a
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by Someone 4mo ago
It still is pricey, but you can already buy such a minimal one; it’s a smartwatch.
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by Someone 4mo ago
_If_ you start out with an optional, and even then only once in the code path.
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by Someone 4mo ago
The Mac arrived one year and five days after the Lisa. Vision Pro is over two years old now. It got a speed bump, but not a price decrease. I think the Vision Pro will be more like the Newton vs current iPads. Something will eventually repl
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by Someone 4mo ago
> Telugu (a language of southern India) has an interesting traditional numeric system: base ten for integers, and base four for fractions. If they do consistently that is not too bad. Compare that with imperial units, which, depending on
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by Someone 4mo ago
…and got the answer anybody somewhat experienced with this would expect: “With every software release across every single one of our platforms, we always want to ensure that you have the best experience, so we make power and performance a
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by Someone 4mo ago
Small error in the last sentence of the 20260617 addendum: in “To do 21×23 they would expand 19=16+4+1” that 19 should be 21.
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by Someone 4mo ago
> Choosing a programming language is not a business requirement; it's a technical one. Not solely. The business will have reasons to stay on a mainstream language, for example because - it offers better guarantees for hiring maintai

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