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by bane 3y ago
> The constitutional prohibitions should be applied to all government actions no matter where they are in the world I don't disagree with you, but what is the philosophical reason why? I know the reason, but I'd really like peo
512.
by bane 3y ago
But your justification is that the U.S. Constitution has global reach. ergo, U.S. law has global reach.
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by bane 3y ago
Why doesn't it?
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by bane 3y ago
As a matter of ethics and morality you're probably not wrong. As a matter of law it's important that there is a distinction because it would cut both ways. Saying U.S. law that restricts the behavior of the United States Governmen
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Edge of Emulation: Nintendo Play-Yan – Part 1(shonumi.github.io)
2 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
Factorio-like diagrams of the ripening process would be great to put in your book and likely resonate well with your readership.
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by bane 3y ago
One thing that years and years of looking at CR has attuned me to is that car electronics break all the time and are the reason why many brands have poor reliability scores even though the engines run, the lights turn on, and the doors open
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by bane 3y ago
I think it's interesting that reliability seems to have two common semantic meanings: 1) Doesn't break 2) Easy to repair I've had this discussion numerous times over the years and the second meaning, while surprising, seems t
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The Transputer: A Parallel Future(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
As depicted in the long-dropped Star Trek plotline: https://youtu.be/FEoz5PS6ohg
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by bane 3y ago
Most digital audio workstations (DAWs) support instrument and effect plugins. The industry has largely settled on the VST interface for this [1]. On Macs it's a bit more complicated [2], I believe you can use VSTs, but there's als
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by bane 3y ago
Another very powerful (but now old) free softsynth is Synth1 by Daichi Laboratory[1][4]. If you look around a bit you can find literally tens of thousands of presets for it[2], which then spawned the excellent Synth1 Librarian which helps b
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by bane 3y ago
I posted this as part of the extended discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872774 It's a very interesting and surprisingly well researched look at the future for a kids book. It was available to me at m
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A Kid's Whole Future Catalog(archive.org)
8 points by bane 3y ago|4 comments
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by bane 3y ago
tbh, I'm not entirely informed on what the requirements are for LLM training, but I've noticed that nearly all of the teams don't use unified memory (what makes a super computer "super"). I believe I read somewher
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by bane 3y ago
I get what this post is saying, and I feel it too, deep in my bones. But technical work, especially in software, is being commoditized. If you view commoditization as a process, the end point of it is "free" (as in beer). I&#x27
527.
by bane 3y ago
yes, I can't imagine the architecture of a supercomputer is the right one for LLM training. But maybe? If not, spending years to design and build a system for weather and nuke simulations and ending up doing something that's total
528.
by bane 3y ago
This wasn't obvious to me a while ago, but I've come around to it. To me the important thing is that it's not only compression, it's lossy compression. Models (any kind) are basically an imperfect approximation of some
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by bane 3y ago
Microsoft under Balmer did great financially IIR.
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by bane 3y ago
Android also runs all kinds of devices way outside of the mobile space. It turns out a relatively open touch screen OS can drive toasters, washing machines and handheld TVs pretty well.
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by bane 3y ago
I'm not CMU connected either and can confirm the party organizers, volunteers, and attendees have been great the few times I've made it in person. They really just want to do cool stuff and have fun with computing equipment.
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by bane 3y ago
I really second this. Even if your participation is virtual. The party organizers are really accommodating of just about anything that's entered, which means the barrier to entry isn't super high, and there's multiple categ
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ZArchive – a file archive format for random-access reads(github.com)
3 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
As Donald Rumsfeld famously said when working his way through the permutations in a confusion matrix: "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; ther
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by bane 3y ago
I don't really disagree with the concept in the post, other than to say that it's always assuming that there's some information (observations) coming in on any given topic. The nuance I'm arguing for is that truly partis
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by bane 3y ago
With the advent of these models my head cannon now insists that when Star Trek characters say they "programmed" something, they really mean that they have a log of all of their iterative prompts and that there's some optimiza
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by bane 3y ago
The problem with this analysis is that it assumes that all inputs from partisan news sources are providing a consistent set of observations with differing levels of accuracy. This is demonstrably not the case. Partisan news[1] typically act
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Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64(accentual.com)
135 points by bane 3y ago|68 comments
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by bane 3y ago
1. Unclaimed real estate. The amount of money that a sizable and well funded group of people spend to get away from literally every other human on the planet and away from the government would easily fill a few rockets. 2. Martian Water. Im
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by bane 3y ago
It's really striking in action, how the two things (the screen geometry and the bezel reflections) really make it feel like you're looking at a television. At times I completely forget the rest of the giant flat panel even exist

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