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by ajross 10mo ago
> Linux has no concept of a base system, it's a stand-alone kernel with a hodgepodge of crap around it Good grief. How does this end up as the top comment on HN of all places? I'll bet anything that this author also thinks
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by ajross 10mo ago
No one's. Everyone sucks. Find a product and you'll find a population collating complaints about it. Whining about interface design is like the cheapest form of shared currency in our subculture. Fundamentally it's a bikes
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by ajross 10mo ago
I wouldn't say "failure". There are many, many IPv6 client devices out there, mostly on mobile networks. And it works great and they do well and the tools all support it very well. But IPv4 will never, ever die. The rise o
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by ajross 10mo ago
One probably important distinction is that the Voynich manuscript was deliberately obfuscated. Puzzling it out requires context that may not even exist anymore (consider discovering an intact TLS log a thousand years in the future, without
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by ajross 10mo ago
This is one of those bell curve memes. All your text sits in the middle. The Jedi and I are off on the ends screaming "Gold is just a bubble!"
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by ajross 10mo ago
People buying gold speculatively as an inflation hedge is exactly the opposite of gold being a source of stable value, though. Gold is "inflating" far, far faster than currency (edit to clarify: far faster than currency-valued
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by ajross 10mo ago
Taking your example in good faith: Gold is four times as expensive today as it was at this time in 2015. Has food seen a 4x increase? No, right? So gold is volatile on a level way beyond inflation. QED. Are CPI measurements difficult?
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by ajross 10mo ago
> history as a universally recognized store of value. History of what now? Gold is a volatile commodity. It has crashed , many times, often catastrophically, and had bear markets that dwarf anything you see in stocks.. A quick search
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by ajross 10mo ago
As a "measurement of value" they both suck. Gold is (extremely) volatile and currency inflates. Well, you can't do much to correct for the speculation noise in gold. But maybe we can attack from the other side. Maybe we cou
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by ajross 10mo ago
> The fact is nobody has any idea what OpenAI's cash burn is. Their investors surely do (absent outrageous fraud). > For all we know, they could be accumulating capital to weather an AI winter. If they were, their investors would
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by ajross 10mo ago
> ai overviews in search are super popular and staggeringly more used than any other ai-based product out there This really is the critical bit. A year ago, the spin was "ChatGPT AI results are better than search, why would you use
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by ajross 10mo ago
> what would it look like to directly sell EV batteries to consumers? what would have to happen? It looks like this: https://www.amazon.com/JESSY-3-7-Volt-Rechargeable-Battery/d... These cells aren't special, t
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by ajross 10mo ago
SDR valuations were tied to gold when the USD was still gold-based. Needless to say Bretton Woods didn't survive that transition at all. Again, it was a failed (!) experiment, not a recipe to try again. Believing otherwise is fan fi
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by ajross 10mo ago
> The replacement will probably be a multinational currency with strictly controlled quantity tied to [...] probably [...] gold. This is econolibertarian fan fiction. Literally no one wants that except people already involved in specula
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by ajross 10mo ago
Uh... the repo has literally been taken down by GitHub: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp Not sure what you're trying to say here. DMCA takedown enforcement is 100% the responsibility of the Online Service Pr
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by ajross 10mo ago
They didn't, though? The multiracial founding fathers thing was a side effect of what one assumes is pretty normal prompt engineering. Marketing departments everywhere have rules and standards designed to prevent racial discriminat
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by ajross 10mo ago
The contention is that the ffmpeg code was "cut and pasted" without attribution and without preserving the license (e.g. the LGPLv2 LICENSE file). Obviously I can't check this because I don't have a clone and the reposi
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by ajross 10mo ago
Whataboutist false equivalence alert: > Also, it's funny that Elon gets singled out for mandating changes on what the AI is allowed to say when all the other players in the field do the same thing. "All the other players"
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by ajross 10mo ago
That's not it. The LGPL doesn't require dynamic linking, just that any distributed artifacts be able to be used with derived versions of the LGPL code. Distributing buildable source under Apache 2.0 would surely qualify too. T
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by ajross 10mo ago
To be fair, Adam Smith and Marx would 100% agree on this point. It's not "capitalist" to confuse money with value, it's just a mistake.
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by ajross 10mo ago
Even limiting discussion to "routine consumer use": Mouse and keyboard dongles, USB sticks for copying things off the scanner or 3D printer or whatever. Joysticks and game controllers still live in drawers and come out every once
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by ajross 10mo ago
Given the context and the baldly political direction behind the redactions, it's not at all unlikely that this is the result of deliberate sabotage or malicious compliance. Bondi isn't blacking these things out herself, she'
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by ajross 10mo ago
It's absolutely amazing the degree to which Apple has recapitulated the Internet Explorer debacle of thirty years ago.
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by ajross 10mo ago
Your prior seems to be that the Trump administration is operating in good faith and that they would naturally be predisposed to allow the merger, being free market republicans and all. That's not the accusation at hand. The contention
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by ajross 10mo ago
That explanation is days late, though. It's attested that she didn't even take a call from the episode producer before killing it. I mean, sure, if you put a bunch of people in a room and ask them to retcon a reasonable-sounding
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by ajross 10mo ago
Yes, where practical. Though recognize that by their very nature web apps aren't part of the trust network. The browser and security stack can make a key for them to use, but it's not possible to be sure that the user of that ke
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by ajross 10mo ago
> So what is the overall chart giving me that I can use? "If you write in C or an analog, your math will autovectorize nicely" "If you use a runtime with a managed heap, you're likely to take a penalty even on math st
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by ajross 10mo ago
> So which one is the right time? You're acting like this is a gotcha, but the answer is obviously "all of them" and that indeed, this tells you interesting things about the behavior of your compiler. There are lots of
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by ajross 10mo ago
Somewhat disappointing. The tl;dr is that the author uses an off-the-shelf 6502 compression library and just de-interlaces the Hi-Res framebuffer to improve spacial locality. The reasoning behind the oddball framebuffer layout is handwaved
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by ajross 10mo ago
I think it's SIMD generation. Managed runtimes have a much harder time autovectorizing, because you can't do any static analysis about things like array sizes. Note that the true low-level tools are all clustered around 2-300ms,

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