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by atq2119 6mo ago
Gamedev dev is a good example actually. True, handwritten assembly has gone out of style. But knowing how caches work, and how to lay out data to improve performance is important. And stuff like vector intrinsics also gets used.
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by atq2119 6mo ago
Yes, that is indeed O(N^2). Which, by the way, is not exponential. Also by the way, caching does not make LLM inference linear. It's still quadratic, but the constant in front of the quadratic term becomes a lot smaller.
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by atq2119 6mo ago
Permanent public ownership of (very large stakes in) these companies doesn't seem like such a bad idea anymore, does it? It's what we used to have for most of the 20th century at least in Europe.
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by atq2119 6mo ago
It does make sense. Police are absolutely not beyond reproach, and there's screwups all the time. They need to be held to a high standard. It's also easy to imagine reasonable compromises, like a time delay where they only have to
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by atq2119 6mo ago
People have been building stacked PR workflows on top of GitHub for a while now. It's great to see that the message seems to have finally landed at GitHub, but what is actually new here in GitHub itself (i.e., not counting the gh CLI t
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by atq2119 6mo ago
It's a fairly weak level of control, though. Compare with the governing structures of public universities in (most of?) Germany where there is a "senate" composed of elected representatives of professors, students, and admini
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by atq2119 6mo ago
It's sort of explained in the article, actually. Upscaling and related applications are already supported by cooperate matrix ops. Those shaders/kernels run in workgroups that operate on a tile of pixels at a time, so you natura
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by atq2119 6mo ago
The problem is in your premise: Software usually does not end up finished.
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by atq2119 7mo ago
> if Hitler had grok, would it really get any worse for the Jew Not grok specifically, but yes. The holocaust in the Netherlands was remarkably bad in large part because the Dutch administration was so well-organized and had kept a regis
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by atq2119 7mo ago
AFAIUI, elections in the US are not run by the federal government but by the states. Trying to cancel elections seems like it'd be a lot harder than in other countries.
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by atq2119 7mo ago
I find it interesting that the S-curve is much steeper for AMD than it is for the others. AMD maintains perfect prediction for much larger sizes than the others, but it also reaches essentially random behaviour earlier. Are they really keep
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by atq2119 7mo ago
These providers do not run models on CPUs, x86 vs. Arm is irrelevant.
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by atq2119 8mo ago
> DEI -- along with hiring quotas -- tended to bring new "officials" at companies and government orgs ("head of diversity") which is another great way of "creating" more elites. If anything, it's a way
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by atq2119 8mo ago
Looks like it, yes. It's encouraging given that so many discussions of these topics online are wrong. The explanation of constraints on bank lending in particular is something many people should read.
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by atq2119 8mo ago
Comment threads certainly work better through email than on GitHub PRs, at least when you can use a good email client (i.e., running locally, and not Outlook). The challenge is integration with CI and other automatic work flows.
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by atq2119 8mo ago
There may be an is/ought confusion in your exchange. It is probably true that California has no such law today. It's also true that regulation always takes a while to catch up to technological advances, and so there is a useful,
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by atq2119 8mo ago
Don't forget the literal deus ex machina in the form of the computer that coordinates everything.
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by atq2119 9mo ago
If you read it carefully, you'll notice that the blog post misrepresents the AMD response. The blog post title is "AMD won't fix", but the actual response that is quoted in the post doesn't actually say that! It doe
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by atq2119 9mo ago
The challenge is that this doesn't really work for community-developed software. Let's say somebody uses this scheme for software they wrote. Would anybody else ever contribute significantly if the original author would benefit fi
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by atq2119 9mo ago
It does. And it works best if you elect politicians who are willing to listen.
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by atq2119 9mo ago
Was that Jane Street? I remember watching a presentation from someone there about such a system. If not, any chance this tooling is openly available?
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by atq2119 9mo ago
In the large, ideas can have a massive influence on what happens. This inevitability that you're expressing is itself one of those ideas. Shifts of dominant ideas can only come about through discussions. And sure, individuals can'
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by atq2119 9mo ago
Having used Claude Code in anger for a while now, I agree that given the state of these agents, we can't stop writing code by hand. They're just not good enough. But that also doesn't mean they're useless. Giving compara
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by atq2119 9mo ago
My personal reason for switching some years ago was the excellent remote session support via ssh. I haven't reevaluated that choice in a while, but that plus LSP support (and to a lesser extent ML Auto-complete) are must-haves for me n
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by atq2119 9mo ago
Datacenter GPU dies cannot be binned for Geforce because they lack fixed function graphics features. Raytracing acceleration in particular must be non-trivial area that you wouldn't want to spend on a datacenter die. Not to mention the
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by atq2119 9mo ago
> once you open the door, the situation resets That's the root cause error of your thinking. The prizes aren't reshuffled and the host's choice of doors depends on both the player's choice and on information that is h
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by atq2119 10mo ago
> HPC platforms GPUs don't reorder instructions at all.
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by atq2119 10mo ago
You don't really want or need classical unit tests for compilers. You need a harness that you can feed a program representation into and get a transformed one out, then check the result -- ideally mostly just by running it, or alternat
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by atq2119 10mo ago
A lot of this is personal preference, but I still feel like the most memorable shows tend to be the ones that have a bit of both. Season-long stories, but also episodes that can stand on their own. In a show like Stranger Things, almost non
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by atq2119 10mo ago
As usual, the problem is: how fast does this happen?

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