batman-farts

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by batman-farts 2y ago
https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM is the main thing that comes up when trying to learn about this, and it hasn't been touched in over 10 years. I have also seen people working on spawning child VMs to handle paralle
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by batman-farts 2y ago
My initial burst of enthusiasm was dampened by the big gap between the entry-level introductions (ProfStef tutorial, the introductory MOOC) and the sheer complexity of everything the image includes. I'm not a big-time Java developer, I
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by batman-farts 3y ago
No, sorry, I don't buy this assertion when it comes up. Everything I've seen, even from the most advanced image generators, has struck me as a logical follow-on from the "big data" trends of the 2010s. If you've ing
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by batman-farts 3y ago
I could easily see him, or any other insider, setting themselves up administrating a recipient entity for contributions out of those “capped profits” the parent non-profit is supposed to distribute. (If, of course, the company ever becomes
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by batman-farts 3y ago
It's a bit sad that calculus remains the stereotypical example of difficulty in most curriculums. Throughout childhood, I remember it seeming like some sort of complex, inscrutable, untouchable phantom hanging in the distance at the fa
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by batman-farts 3y ago
Because the "AGI" pursuit is at least as much a faith movement as it is a rational engineering program. If you examine it more deeply, the faith object isn't even the conjectured inevitable AGI, it's exponential growth c
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by batman-farts 3y ago
I can agree on one point: if I want 3D acceleration to Just Work on Linux and I'm muting my inner Stallman, the Nvidia binary drivers have always enabled thtat for me. But on the gaming side, I definitely get the feeling that a bit of
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by batman-farts 3y ago
I say this as someone still driving a pre-emissions-control diesel VW: Volkswagen had long been positioning themselves as the market leader for diesel passenger cars in the US. Nobody else was doing as much to offer diesels across their lin
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by batman-farts 3y ago
Yeah, I think this can only be a criticism of "democracy" in an extremely narrow sense. Much of the situation is still determined through litigation, not legislation, whether in court or in front of the state water resources board
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by batman-farts 3y ago
I find that the main reason I come here is for information/background chatter about various open source projects and the trends behind them. In other words, fairly granular technical news interspersed with general interest science and
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by batman-farts 4y ago
It's not always people with industry jobs taking these part-time positions; there's a whole subculture of "freeway flyers" who are teaching at multiple community colleges, and sometimes lower-division classes at private
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by batman-farts 4y ago
As a Lisp neophyte, I've been watching the Clozure CL situation with some interest -- I really want to give it a try, especially the macOS/Cocoa bindings, but my only Mac at the moment is an M1. A couple of specific questions I&#x
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by batman-farts 4y ago
These days my 5950X can get through some of the big scary packages quite rapidly. Firefox is done in about 8 minutes, a new point release of Rust seems to take about 15. I still haven’t decided whether or not I should be embarrassed that I
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Well, this stinks. For a point of reference, I had it activated for about 2 years and directed the donations to Federation of American Scientists - not a huge name in the nonprofit space, but well-established and well-respected. According t
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Interesting that LIDAR is one of the sensors used to monitor the helium cells. One thing that isn't clear: is there any appreciable helium loss through their fancy triple-layer skin? Or can this just be filled once with helium from the
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by batman-farts 4y ago
I did not know, but am not surprised, that Palladium takes Thiel funding. That greatly clarifies this article’s purpose for me. It seemed odd to see another think piece about the NFT trend when it has already largely burned itself out, but
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Thank you for your advice! Might you have any idea when I will be able to use ShartGPT, so that I can restyle my written English to seem as though I am having a sudden, uncontrolled bowel movement while writing?
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by batman-farts 4y ago
For a certain sort of prospective law student, I’m sure this makes Stanford even more appealing. You’ll be able to learn from not one but two professors who helped their own son cop a federal plea deal!
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by batman-farts 4y ago
I always figured this had to be the case. OPENSTEP 4.2 ran just fine on x86, why give that up?
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by batman-farts 4y ago
“Tweets” and “blogs” sounded stupid, too, but they got bludgeoned into our collective consciousness. If you step back and think about it for a second, “blogging” sounds like something you might do in the bathroom.
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Yes, it’s been like this since the 10.0/public beta days at least. I remember wondering about it back then. I believe the command the system updater always runs is something like update_prebinding -root /
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by batman-farts 4y ago
He’s obviously angling for a national platform, picking silly sound-bite fights with people like DeSantis. My guess is that he runs for president, fails somewhat spectacularly due to just this issue, and then steps back into the position of
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by batman-farts 4y ago
“The NIMBYs basically lost” feels like it’s true in a lot of Northern California. Out in Tracy, a local lawyer (who had an office but not a residence within city limits) got a residential growth restriction on the ballot and passed circa 20
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by batman-farts 4y ago
A worthy successor to http://isgrudengoneyet.com/
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Reminds me of what Coast to Coast AM became under George Noory, too. Art Bell would occasionally offer some pushback or a sliver of skepticism towards his more out-there guests, but Noory typically let them barge ahead with their sales pitc
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Current technology reinforces and incentivizes this model. You, your friends, and the people whose thoughts you find interesting are placed in the same feed, on an equivalent level, with global brands that have astronomical marketing budget
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Forgive me, it looks like I had mis-remembered, and Transmeta’s translation layers were mainly software?
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by batman-farts 4y ago
> You can probably take the same set of execution units, forwarding paths, branch predictors, etc. and slap several different ISAs over it - I've seen CPU architects show experiments where (for x86 and ARM at least) two chips with t
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by batman-farts 4y ago
Despite their proclaimed support of open source, Intel wifi can be a mess on Linux too. Most distributions work well, but Gentoo for one loads the incorrect firmware blob and I am forced to try to create a custom installer image in a VM aft
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by batman-farts 4y ago
For me, this brings to mind two examples I can remember of superhero comics failing even their now-core audiences of adults, or adolescents developing towards adults. I quit reading Marvel comics towards the end of the first Civil War story

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