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by blt 5y ago
The main argument against "performant" isn't linguistic, it's technical. "Performant" is vague. It can always be replaced by something more descriptive like "fast", "uses little memory", &qu
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by blt 5y ago
For some reason it reminded me of Simon Peyton Jones using Comic Sans in presentation slides. Is there a correlation between playful aesthetics and computer science expertise?
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by blt 5y ago
It's a pretty special machine. It can display a lot of colors and has PCM (sampled) sound, but is still simple enough that you can understand everything that's going on. The SNES is comparable but hard to program. The DOS PC is co
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by blt 5y ago
I wish there was a version of this for computer science. We don't have a broad flagship journal like Nature, so maybe it would need to be trained on a collection of IEEE and ACM venues.
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by blt 5y ago
I thought "division is slow" was one of the more widely-known performance heuristics. I genuinely wonder how much of the division load in typical programs is an essential part of the problem vs. programmers not knowing/caring
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by blt 5y ago
Wow, this is plausible and disgusting.
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by blt 5y ago
Yes, let's subsidize a domestic TSMC competitor and pay for it by increasing corporate tax rates / closing loopholes. This is not a snarky comment btw.
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by blt 5y ago
If you turn off personalized ads, that's basically what you'll see. Although for me, it's a 50/50 split between topic-related and ads that appear to target a generic male audience, which is a very good guess for some top
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by blt 5y ago
For us non-financial types: What is the motivation for avoiding a stock split?
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by blt 5y ago
Ellsworth Kelly?
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by blt 5y ago
If you have only seen color field paintings in books, seeing them in person at a museum might help resolve some of the mystery. They can have a powerful physical presence. Maybe still overpriced, but not worthless.
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by blt 5y ago
I think this workload is big enough to saturate a lot of machines. But I should have read the original paper instead of the article. The article says: > This latest Google-led research... defines the footprint of a model as a function of
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by blt 5y ago
It's absurd to make up formulae about energy consumption for something so complicated. Let's see the electricity bill for the data center. Yes, this will require some effort to kick out other tasks and make sure the machines are f
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by blt 5y ago
No Schitt's Creek mention? I wouldn't be surprised if that show inspired a few real-life motel renovation projects.
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by blt 5y ago
I don't understand where "mystified" in the title is coming from. This is a great work of art but what is mysterious about it?
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by blt 5y ago
> Conversely, the specter of governments operating broadband networks in competition with the private sector, or of state or local governments serving as both regulators and owners of competing broadband networks, could stifle investment
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by blt 6y ago
The initial posts seem mostly be either 1) reviews, 2) "wrapper articles" for auto manufacturers' press releases, or 3) articles about industry-relevant public policy. These are all appropriate for a HN-like community, but I
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by blt 6y ago
For podcasting yes, but it seems like an insignificant cost relative to the rent, talent, and transmission equipment in an analog radio station. Are $3000 mics actually rare in radio studios?
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by blt 6y ago
People who care a lot about protecting their data probably won't use it anyway. Even if your intentions are pure, your implementation could have a security vulnerability. It makes a nice bullet point feature but I'm not sure it ha
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by blt 6y ago
Halide ( https://halide-lang.org/ ) is one example, designed for implementing low-level image processing functions.
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by blt 6y ago
The statement > The impoverished of any race are more susceptible to police violence, and impoverished Black people even more so is true. But the statement > Black people of all economic classes are more susceptible to police vio
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by blt 6y ago
But the Black Lives Matter movement never proclaimed that police brutality only applies to Black people.
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by blt 6y ago
Thanks!
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by blt 6y ago
Can you explain this joke?
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by blt 6y ago
I implemented a minimal Build-style engine for fun once. Those glitch videos give me instant flashbacks.
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by blt 6y ago
Is it possible that this effect is due to a lot of "low-hanging fruit" articles being essentially complete? Back in '07 there were a lot more empty pages to fill on topics of broad interest.
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by blt 6y ago
Github. There are downsides to centralization, but it's still amazing that you can get a hosted and integrated bundle of version control, bug tracking, CI, patch submission, and Q&A (recent) for free.
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by blt 6y ago
The idea of the "mailbox" reminds me of Dispatcher.BeginInvoke in C# on Windows. It is very powerful, but can also lead to messy code where many threads are mutating shared state and failing to fully reason about all the other mut
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by blt 6y ago
1151 is too many teeth for a gear. The teeth would not be deep enough to transmit power effectively. You can't make this exact ratio using gears with fewer teeth because 1151 is prime (more generally, whenever the numerator and denomin
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by blt 6y ago
This is super interesting, thanks!

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