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by atq2119 4y ago
" Some gratitude" sounds very different from "a lifetime of gratitude".
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by atq2119 4y ago
I agree we would be fine if all memory was nonvolatile, as long as all the other properties like latency were preserved. In terms of software robustness though, starting from scratch occasionally is a useful thing. Sure, ideally all our sof
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by atq2119 4y ago
Jumping on the nitpick train: SSDs are less randomly write -access memory because of the requirement to explicitly erase an entire block before you can rewrite it. RAM doesn't have this constraint. It has other constraints, like writi
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by atq2119 4y ago
Not to mention that enforcement has rapidly diminishing returns. Even if your only goal was to maximize tax revenue (minus cost of tax administration), and you didn't care at all about people being able to take advantage of deduction
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by atq2119 4y ago
You just picked your own idea of morality and decided to elevate it above others: you chose the "anarchist non-aggression principle" as somehow morally superior to other ideas about how crimes should be defined, and decided that w
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by atq2119 4y ago
Admittedly I hadn't considered routing. Do you have some reference, and how does it scale? Worse than linear but better than N log N is unusual...
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by atq2119 4y ago
So far, I prefer Foundation the series over the original Asimov book. The book has an interesting philosophical idea (psychohistory), but just doesn't work as a story. It feels too much like a disjointed sequence of deus ex machinas. (
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by atq2119 4y ago
It feels more like the 2016 Ghostbusters remake, to be honest. Immature men going nuts over a new entry in a franchise that they have fond childhood memories of, simply because the new entry is "same but different" in a way that t
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by atq2119 4y ago
You may know this, but the person you responded to almost certainly doesn't based on their question, so: Carry look-ahead adders are a thing. The number of logic levels for computing the highest carry bit is logarithmic in the width
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by atq2119 4y ago
This is sort of offtopic, but I wonder how the term CSAM appeared. It used to be just "child porn", and then fairly recently all of a sudden, over the course of at most a few months, everybody started to call it "CSAM" i
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by atq2119 4y ago
In the metaverse, the map is the territory. Think about how the word "map" is used in gaming.
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by atq2119 4y ago
It really feels like for 3D the better quality/compute trade-off would be to have the ML model generate 3D models and animations, and then use a more traditional 3D rendering pipeline (by then with ray tracing and denoising).
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That only applies to Nvidia GPUs.
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The two are quite different when you look at the cost/benefit ratio.
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Different functions scale differently. With the latest processes, logic scales best, while analog scales worse: SRAM (which is internally pretty analog) still scales decently, but less than logic; and I/O scales very little at all (thi
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by atq2119 4y ago
My cellphone is on silent most of the day. During work I only look at it for some 2FA things.
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As usual, different cultures. It's better to not jump to conclusions that somebody is trying to offend you.
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by atq2119 4y ago
His actual claim is that spending other people's money helps his focus because it makes him feel responsible. That's a plausible argument.
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The entire approach is misguided for single-threaded performance. It turns out that out-of-order execution is pretty important for a number is things, perhaps most importantly dealing with variable memory instruction latencies (cache hits a
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by atq2119 4y ago
There's a subtlety here, though. It should be obvious that too much deficit spending has negative second order effects overwhelming the first order ones. (An extreme form of this: imagine having the government trying to spend quintil
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by atq2119 4y ago
Ironically, a lot of economics sound-bites are all about ignoring first order effects in favor of questionable second order effects. I'm mostly thinking here about deficit spending discussions, where it's popular to inject worry a
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by atq2119 4y ago
Nvidia have recently done a source dump if their kernel module, and it is not at all fit for merging.
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by atq2119 4y ago
Don't forget: - People who are doing unpaid care work (e.g. for children, or sick relatives)
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I suspect it is in part the combination of academia being a somewhat "normatively standard" path for people to take but, unlike most other such paths, inherently requires a lot of self-discipline and self-motivation. The result is
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by atq2119 4y ago
Meanwhile France, a famously pro-nuclear country, has to shut down many of its nuclear power plants in summer because they can't cool them adequately. (Yes, I'm sure issues can be fixed. Point is, nuclear has an awful lot of pract
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by atq2119 4y ago
This doesn't read to me as dismissing the author's autism. It reads to me as observing that a non-autist could have written substantially the same article (minus making it about autism), and they then went off to observe that this
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I'd say the easiest way to remember the argument order is that it's conceptually the same as for mv and cp: ln -s x y is the closest possible symlink-analogue of cp x y.
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> I don't know anything about the birth genitals of most people I dine with. Unless you mostly participate in statistically unusual social circles, that's plain incorrect. The truth is that you can't know anything about th
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by atq2119 4y ago
I'm fairly certain that drug dealers' numbers indicate that people "want" more addictive drugs. Facebook and other social media isn't quite at that level, but the same logic applies to your argument: there are funda
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by atq2119 4y ago
> Facebook cares a great deal about its users--advertisers. You're confusing users with customers. The customers are advertisers. The users overwhelmingly aren't.

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