ahefner

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by ahefner 4y ago
This take is really not crediting the different threat models motivating SSH versus HTTPS. In both cases the network is considered untrusted, but beyond this the analogy largely fails - almost every application of telnet risks leaking authe
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by ahefner 4y ago
Considering how Nvidia uses GPU RAM to segment their products between high end consumer GPUs (where the 4090 hasn't progressed at all from the 3090 in still having 24 GB RAM) versus the crazy high end ML accelerators, I've recentl
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by ahefner 4y ago
And, from a US perspective, that sounds absurdly overly dramatic and worrisome. The server is there to serve you, and the amount of money on the line is so comically small as to be hardly of concern. Sending them off with your card in hand
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by ahefner 4y ago
Lisp was the Python of its day, but more so - one of very few high level, garbage collected languages that were reasonably widespread. In Lisp you could explore data representations and novel control flows (search algorithms, nondeterminism
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by ahefner 4y ago
We do need to get that figure down. The US can benefit greatly from mass incarceration, if only we can get the costs under control.
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by ahefner 4y ago
It became your GPU.
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by ahefner 4y ago
Fascinating read - Ted Hoff is a true engineer's engineer. I hadn't heard of him.
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by ahefner 4y ago
And how many Joules of energy are consumed by each of them?
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by ahefner 4y ago
Can you explain? Honest question.
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by ahefner 4y ago
I'm curious if anyone uses terminal XON and XOFF except by accident these days.
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by ahefner 4y ago
The fact that I have to wait for my TV to boot so that the 'input' button works in order to switch to the device I intended to use when I turned it on.
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by ahefner 4y ago
That just spoiled the thing that had been nagging me for years now - where was that photo with the horse statue taken? Good excuse to fire that game up again, though.
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by ahefner 4y ago
Shared mmap on top of tmpfs, maybe?
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by ahefner 4y ago
Nitpick: You probably mean DVB-S (and S2, S2X..) rather than DVB-C, and you're correct that they don't employ OFDM (they're just a straightforward single wideband channel mostly employing variations on phase-shift keying), an
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by ahefner 4y ago
Here's a trick to read the bird site without logging in - whenever that pops up, pick your choice of "Log in" or "Sign up" (I prefer the latter, I like to imagine it helps to scramble someone's analytics) then
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by ahefner 4y ago
Rational self interest? Isn't "not losing my job to a computer" reason enough?
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by ahefner 4y ago
How is that you even need 1700 people to run a domain registrar?
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by ahefner 4y ago
AMD got bailed out when they transferred IP to China for a paltry few hundred million dollars.
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by ahefner 4y ago
I've seen some interesting NES/Famicom conversions to PC Engine / TG16 in ROM collections. Apparently there are a lot more of them - here's a thread about how they were done: https://www.pcenginefans.com/
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by ahefner 4y ago
It's not hard to get into at all, if you're already comfortable thinking in terms of bits and digital logic.
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by ahefner 4y ago
I look at the __init__ and initialize methods in the examples here and remember why I don't want to use either of these languages. What useless boilerplate, just to define a simple type.
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by ahefner 4y ago
People keep saying this (especially here, lately) but it's a nonsense strawman argument. People can do stupid and sufficiently unreadable things in any language. Further, at sufficient scale - a large, long lived proprietary codebase -
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by ahefner 4y ago
More likely the high end ML accelerators become so specialized as to diverge from GPUs. Carry on trying to use your gaming GPU for ML, with the knowledge that professionals are using hardware 100x as powerful.
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by ahefner 4y ago
It's a good companion to the PC itself, also being the about crappiest hardware design you could somewhat get away with (but very expandable..).
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by ahefner 4y ago
Interesting. Never heard of that game. Looks interesting, but moreover it reminds me of another game I haven't thought about in years that hasn't come up in discussion yet: Spaceward Ho! Anyone remember that one?
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by ahefner 4y ago
The surprising thing to me is that 'char8_t' (a new C++ 20 thing I'd never heard of) is not just a typedef to char with all the same aliasing implications, but a new and distinct type to which the magic 'char' alias
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by ahefner 4y ago
Or terminals.
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by ahefner 4y ago
There's an opinion I'd never expected to see espoused publicly.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Can't imagine he was the first person to use this technique. I'd assume any game written from the point where it was reasonable to continually redraw the screen instead of using incremental repainting would've used such a tec
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by ahefner 5y ago
I read that as a very disrespectful and/or dismissive way to refer to someone. My context is first learning it as a term used to refer to strangers popping up out of nowhere replying to twitter posts or similar, to whose contribution y

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