ahartmetz

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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Were you going to contribute to Debian otherwise?
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
There exist several microkernels that don't suffer much from overhead, it's not hypothetical but decades old technology, from oldest to newest: QNX, the L4 family, Fuchsia, RedoxOS.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Yeah, this is really messed up. I think our instincts ("tribal leader is powerful and has extra rights") are doing us a disservice. In democracies, all politicians are our employees: They are supposed to do our bidding, and if the
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Oh, sure
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Nah, we need to criticize what deserves it so that it stays a mostly positive thing.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Yeah. Bad choice.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I'm not sure if that is what she meant. In any case, it does sound very useful for code. The input becomes messy to represent as text, but prompts don't usually make it into version control, so not much is lost.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I like the ones you find boring (but not the corporate Memphis ones) - money is a serious matter, so it's IMO supposed to look serious and a little boring.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Or Adolf Hitler, who was clearly Austrian! He kinda made up being German by himself, so it doesn't count. (Edited "Germany" to German - "Germany" was an interesting typo and not entirely wrong: He said "One peo
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Paper cash is made from cotton fiber, it easily survives the washing machine.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
> I doubt there's actually millions of hardware vendors. Almost certainly correct because there are only 2^16 USB manufacturer IDs, of which (warning, Google AI quick result...) only 3400 are used. Tiny vendors of e.g. USB drives of
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Zen1 had 8 cores to Intel's 4 while only being 15% or so slower per core, at good energy efficiency. For embarrassingly parallel workloads, it was a major improvement right away.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I meant demand for running "external" AI workloads in their cloud.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
The AI demand is a lucky external event, but you only get exposed to these if you stick around. Lesson for Google not to kill products so quickly, maybe?
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Unless something changed recently (and things change all the time where LLMs are involved), deepl.com does the best translations. I have a sister who translates professionally; she said it's the only one where she can use the result an
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
* of about 5.6
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
With the current elites of SV, it doesn't seem to be very accidental to me neither.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Intel didn't do much to improve their CPUs while AMD was out of the competition with the Bulldozer disaster.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
"Fortunately", agent Poettering is on the case, implementing remote attestation for Linux so we can all be secure. Barf.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Even phones have screen settings these days (much less detailed than monitors). On my Motorola phone w/ OLED screen, I turned off "vibrant colors" or something like that. Maybe the people you saw didn't bother or liked i
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
This -4th power also makes stealth very difficult. Reducing the RCS by a factor of 1000 reduces detection range by a factor of 5.75.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
At least you could get some interesting ads. Do you want to participate in a longevity study?
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Most screens come with "showroom settings" out of the box. You need to configure them to something more neutral once and then it's fine.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
"I work in software. I have seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate..."
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Fine with Linux though :) LG's behavior isn't fine, but their monitors don't install crapware on Linux.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
It's common to call the instruction set just "architecture", or ISA (instruction set architecture) to be more precise. The implementation is commonly called "microarchitecture".
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I didn't play much at the time because of the lack of games on Linux, but I've played some Far Cry 3 (from 2012) recently where I did turn down SSAO in the settings.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Is this website called AI Faithful News?
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
SSAO is cheap, doesn't work that well and looks terrible if overdone, as many games did 10-15 years ago. The simple workaround is to dial down the SSAO so that it's maybe weaker than ambient occlusion in reality, but also not noti

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