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by archi42 7y ago
Hence the hobbyist . As a professional engineer I mostly care if the investment into expensive hardware (and developing/adapting a software stack) is worth the gains. And I can totally see that adding a $2k card to a bunch of $5k serv
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by archi42 7y ago
The hobbyist in me is disappointed: Even the ExaNIC X10 seems to come at 350US$ used, and forget about the four figure UltraScale boards :( Of course, the FPGA can do a lot of stuff in addition, so for HPC this might be really nice to offlo
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by archi42 7y ago
Reminds me of "DJ Double R The Loudness King" aka Rick Rubin, probably one of the most famous producers these days/the last 20-30 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin
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by archi42 7y ago
But those eventually break and the supply dries up. Not all panels are equal, so good luck finding a decent 2019 era 4k HDR monitor in 2029 or 2034. If the LCD and control board don't give up, you'll be swapping LEDs, caps and FET
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by archi42 7y ago
Actually, "voice over WiFi" is a thing. Seems like it uses the SIM for auth, but transmits the voice data via IP (similar to VoLTE). I think tin foil in the walls could do the trick, but I'd be wary of potential moisture buil
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by archi42 7y ago
"We'll have it figured out before we run out of resources" - every generation, forever
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by archi42 7y ago
My hybrid's auto actually does a pretty good job (2013 V60 D6; diesel front, electric rear axle). And it's a simple 6 gear box, not a fancy 8 or 11 gear twin clutch. Picks a good gear, no hysteresis and the overall control intelli
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by archi42 7y ago
The seat belt chime might be a requirement, depending on where you live. Also, the complicated ECU helps with fuel efficiency (and thus lessens environmental impact). How about ESP and similar safety tech? Matrix light (forbidden in the US?
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by archi42 7y ago
The technique described by GP kind of does, but you don't have to get the first part of the maneuver perfect - it just reduces your angle relative to the parking spot. The backward driving then then fixes bad alignment and having a non
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by archi42 7y ago
"Fully homomorphic encryption" and "Brainfuck" in one sentence. I guess now I've seen everything :P but nice idea (obviously the language doesn't matter that much if it's a VM). Did some fully homomorphic
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by archi42 7y ago
Actually, s/Slack/Tidal/ if you want to add insult to injury. Electron app for Windows and Mac (but well, nice features overall). However, no Linux build.
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by archi42 7y ago
You want to ask Hilbert ;-) Yes, there are. You/we can not programmatically derive all mathematical truths from ZFC ("the basic math axioms"). E.g. we recently had the Collatz Conjecture here on HN [1], and I strongly suspect
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by archi42 7y ago
If it only was that simple :) since we can not solve the halting problem, pure breadth first search doesn't help. We need to find another algorithm that makes use of the tree's structure. If bfsearch could be proven to be the best
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by archi42 7y ago
My initial idea is to go the other way around: We can count natural numbers using the successor function, starting at 1. E.g.: 1, s(1) = 2, s(s(1)) = s(2) = 3, and so on. So if we see a number n, we know it's s(n-1), which is s(s(n-2))
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by archi42 7y ago
Yeah, though cows are probably not completely dumb, either (maybe less intelligent than crows, but who am I to judge?). This one enjoys playing with a huge ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-CxuAeVPo Maybe they just s
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by archi42 7y ago
That's strength in numbers. I saw two crows trying this against an eagle,... I think they only survived that because the eagle was too lazy and figured it was easier to just grab some trainer-provided food after the show. Mind, the cro
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by archi42 7y ago
Oh heck, I would be okay waiting for a few hours, or even a day for huge files. Though I suppose electricity isn't a huge driver for costs, afaict from that thread, the disks are.
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by archi42 7y ago
Late reply, but nope, iirc automotive was one of the industries which were/are exempt from the whole lead-free stuff because the ECU are safety critical.
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by archi42 7y ago
Would be nice on the Pano G2 (100k/150k Spartan 6), which is a lot more affordable than this board ;-) Mentally adds the ZedRipper right after Leon and RiscV
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by archi42 7y ago
I am not fully aware how IPFS operates, but wouldn't it at least solve the back-end mirroring? Front-end servers would then "only" need to access IPFS for continuous syncing of metadata (for search) and fetching user-requeste
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by archi42 7y ago
ECUs aren't perfect. On my old 2003 Volvo a common problem was solder points in the instruments panel failing after 8 to 10 years, and for the central ECU the connectors could corrode due to moisture. Luckily I wasn't affected by
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by archi42 7y ago
Out of curiosity: Assume the answer is yes?
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by archi42 7y ago
"While it's true that running .org provided a relatively steady income stream, it effectively staked most of our revenue on a single business, and required a certain amount of our resources to be spent managing that business, dist
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by archi42 7y ago
I thought something similar: Pixel clock or some harmonic of it feeding back into the wifi chip via the power lines (image search says the chip is in a metal box, so should not be via over-the-air-RF). Thanks for doing the math. Forcing a d
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by archi42 7y ago
Personal opinion: I really don't care about "CUDA Toolkit Release Notes" or probably most other "$stuff Release Notes" on HN. I only opened the comments because others here seemed to upvote it more than I anticipate
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by archi42 7y ago
I have excellent results with a subdomain. Even though PDL probably has a lot of data on me, they have (not yet?) been able to glue it to my primary mail address. That one only has my name, gender, github, country and name of my employer. T
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by archi42 7y ago
Ad 1: Yeah, so what? There are just no ethical things we can do about this; if you have a good idea, I am open to suggestions. (And no, "war" is not a good idea). Ad 2: A lot of goods used by us are produced in China, so there are
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by archi42 7y ago
I didn't mean that literally, and I suppose/hope nobody things "hey, let's destroy the earth! Death to humans!". If developing countries aspire to an European life style this will come with more emissions (which you
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by archi42 7y ago
Yeah, I know: VAT and (similar taxes on daily goods/resources) affect poor people the most, since they invest most of their money in these. The cynical thing is: People with a lot of money make most of the profit from environmental des
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by archi42 7y ago
Add net-negative to the list then ;) I bet voters are keen on paying for that. Regarding Asia: I thought of this at a more global scale. Of course it's pointless cleaning up the pool if the other people at the party using it as a trash

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