ahartmetz

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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
Let's not be so naive about this, it happens all the time and humanity is not permanently lost. Example USA vs Indians: At first you come up with some justifications for the bad stuff you are doing, then you kind of forget about it ove
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
It's also useless if every tool lives in its own copy of the universe - there'd be little to no identical files. It also won't work for version control databases, assuming use of a distributed VCS.
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
>Maybe they have big customers that communicated to them that they will choose them over the competition if they open more of their software stack. I do remember reading that that is the case for AMD, maybe one of their open source devs
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
IMO screw that. It's maybe a good way to build software in exactly one environment for exactly one environment, deployment to a corporate server fleet. Consider a Linux desktop distro: if every little binary (out of order of magnitude
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
I'm disappointed that it's not waterloo.wc or water-loo.wc
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
I'm honestly relieved to see that I'm not the only one to test optimized/newer implementations against less optimized/older implementations. It's what I came up with after thinking about it for quite a while and I&#
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
That seems like a fantastic idea, I hope it goes through and gets widely imitated in other countries. I imagine that the usual villain gallery will launch a panicked lobbying initiative behind the scenes.
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
Not exactly that, but one thing that comes to mind: Germany was about to switch the phone network to fiber with data service in the late 80s(!), but then Helmut Kohl (CDU chancellor) decided to build TV cable instead. He wanted to promote p
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
The winning strategy seems to be actual capabilities plus cheating.
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
While TDP isn't the whole truth, a pretty solid rule of thumb is that a CPU will at most use about 2x TDP. That is still not that much here. That said, GPUs look like they mostly vent to outside the case, but that is largely untrue.
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
You don't even need to go there, just look at Japanese websites.
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by ahartmetz 1mo ago
That's a bit bullshit, isn't it? They basically redefined "needs more R&D" as "needs stronger AI". Maybe so - maybe AI won't help much with that problem.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
The, ahem, good thing here is that the ASI disaster scenario "everyone dies" includes AI executives.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
The funny thing is: They have plenty of more-or-less standard issue developers at MSFT, they'd just need to ask them.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Yeah, but my point is that it doesn't help current German space companies.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
The east has never been economically very strong, it used to be huge feudal-style farms and a bit of high-tech industry (planes, optics, trains, electronics in the 1930s). Not too different from now. Then there was the GDR which made things
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
>If any nation in Europe that can start a new space frontier, that would be the Germans If that is true, then only because the company doesn't immediately have to fight Arianespace. It is France that has the strongest existing know-
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Berb can do any jerb
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Source: Russia Today?
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
They don't glorify drugs, the image of stoners over there is at least as bad as in other European countries. The narco trouble is mostly because the country is a huge logistics hub.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Mentioning evil Soros is like a 100% reliable political crackpot indicator, even though this here is a quite original take. He is usually an evil Jewish globalist, i.e. a nefarious leftist. I think he seriously pissed off the right people i
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I would like to see your definition of fascism under which the German government is proto-fascist.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
You need to be a dumb fuck to trust them. Hey, Zuck's words, not mine.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
GP was possibly arguing against Herb Sutter's "almost always auto". C++ wasn't designed for auto and it shows. You can't rely on it always doing the right thing or at least a safe thing in C++, unlike in Rust - I&#x
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Don't forget probabilistic.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
In which case I redefine "pay" as "torrent it with a very respectable upload ratio".
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I don't know what you mean with family roadtrips being prohibited? Maybe too expensive, that's all I can think of. Cheap motels are rare and, obviously, fuel is much more expensive. All other necessities are easily available and l
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I'm more surprised how cheap it is in browsers because I know it's not that easy - they are really really good at it. Pure text rendering is therefore rarely an issue.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
My point is that many websites are using way too much technology for what they need to do, with correspondingly long load times and choppy runtime behavior.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Yeah, but if your website with, you know, text and stuff, doesn't do any stupid and unnecessary crap, it doesn't matter where the nonexistent unnecessary yet expensive code doesn't run.

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