adrian_b

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by adrian_b 5mo ago
What you say is ridiculous. The only reason why the "Linux community" cannot create adequate FPGA design tools is that the vendors like AMD refuse to document the necessary details of their products. A few old AMD FPGAs have been
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
In APL, the fact that the truth values are also numbers is exploited by eliminating the need to create a new notation for various kinds of masked array operations, like those implemented in GPUs and in Intel/AMD AVX-512 for providing p
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The Chinese memory makers have been sabotaged by USA, otherwise they would have already "flooded the market" and reduced the prices. Even so, the production of cheaper Chinese DDR5 memory is increasing despite not being able to im
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Not being an US citizen, I have not been affected by any action of Elon Musk, even if I despise many of the things done by him in USA, like the results of DOGE. On the other hand, I have much more reasons to hate Sam Altman, who has stolen
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
It is an extremely common thing to see 2 liars accusing each other of lying, thus telling the truth in this special occasion.
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The fine print at the end, with "Advice/Other notes", is the most interesting.
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Nitpick: TFA discusses binary logic, i.e. logic with only 2 truth values, not Boolean logic, which is a particular form of binary logic, and which does not match the description from TFA. The innovation brought by George Boole to logic was
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
For the kind of things needed by Firefox, the Linux APIs have been stable for decades. The problem is not stability, but the fact that there are multiple APIs, and it is unknown which of them will be available on the user system, so a brows
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I do not think that I have ever seen on the Internet a helpful ad. When I want to buy something, I search what I want or I go directly to online shops that I have used before or to price comparison sites. Nonetheless, mostly before the appe
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Perhaps you use Firefox on Windows. Firefox on Linux has much more problems than Firefox on Windows, mostly because it does not support many GPUs, so it frequently disables WebGL or it cannot use hardware support for playing videos, even no
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
With Firefox, especially with Firefox on Linux, which always had and still has poor GPU support, I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all. So I must keep a backup browser, which is normally Vivaldi, beca
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The results of some experiments done with mice on the ISS have been published recently and they cast doubt about the possibility of living for a long time on the Moon. For mice, at least a third of the Earth gravity was required to prevent
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
It is a very bad choice of words to say that "bipedalism" is a cause for hand specialization. For hands, it is completely irrelevant how many legs a human has, regardless if a human had used 2, 4, 8, 14 or any other number of legs
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
From the point of view of exploitable resources, Venus is the opposite of Mars. On Mars, metals are very abundant and easy to extract, and also minerals suitable for making glass or ceramic materials are abundant, but the raw materials for
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Why buy a switch when almost all monitors have multiple video inputs and they can switch them internally. The only difficulty is that as said in TFA, the DDC commands are typically very poorly documented by the monitor manufacturers, so mos
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
For the same reason why in English 12 = twelve, but 14 = fourteen. Not all numerals are formed by the same rule. The correspondents of the -teen numbers in Greek were formed similarly with English, after the model of 14 = four and ten = &qu
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Ancient Greeks did not say "dekatetra" for 14, i.e. ten-four, but as it is correctly written in TFA, they said "tetrakaideka" for 14, i.e. "four-and-ten", which is actually close to English "fourteen"
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
While it is true that C/C++ are prone to bugs when used by careless programmers, Cloudflare also said: "We saw consistently more false positives from projects written in memory-unsafe languages." So while there may be a great
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I do not know to which Wikipedia entries you have looked, but these give enough examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic_tiling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal https:/&#x
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
That works perfectly fine for an embedded computer, which is where systems like SeL4 are used. On the other hand, I cannot see how this approach can be scaled to something like a personal computer. For some programs that I run, e.g. for an
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Fortunately, unlike with the AMD GPUs, using one of the cheaper NVIDIA GPUs is sufficient for learning CUDA, because CUDA works similarly on all models. An expensive NVIDIA GPU is required only if your purpose is not just to learn, but to a
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I think that it is more likely that an LLM has been used for translation into English than for actual writing. The parallels between present and the Maoist actions are very good and they are not the kind of things that an LLM would find out
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
That argument assumes that the delegation of a capability to another process must happen through a path of interprocess communication that can be established only by the operating system, if the processes that want to communicate have the c
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I doubt this, because for example in this interview with Arthur Whitney from 2009, his languages are named "K" and "Q": https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1515964.1531242 The same
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
This is also said at the end of TFA, where it says that "North America is currently building out about $12 billion of dairy-processing capacity. Projections suggest that the current shortage will be short-lived and that the dairy indus
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Yes, this has always been the major advantage of online shopping for me, since its very appearance. When Amazon was launched, I immediately started to use it to get books that were impossible to find at bookstores near me. Similarly for var
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Neither the press release nor the research paper abstract provide the only number that matters: the energy efficiency. The energy stored per mass has little importance for a stationary system. What matters is the energy loss when the solar
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
While TFA is not bad, some of the links contained in it are even more interesting, for example: https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-... https://github.com/0xdeadbe
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Besides hidden cameras, you can also put a visible, possibly fake, camera, for deterrence.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Intel has been forced to reintroduce 512-bit vectors in the mainstream, because of the competition from AMD. Starting with the Intel Nova Lake CPUs, around the end of this year, all future AMD and Intel CPUs will provide 512-bit vectors, li

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