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by burfog 7y ago
It's proper. This is exactly how you do things with life-critical embedded software. You detect when things are crazy, which of course shouldn't happen but nevertheless does, and you react in a way that is hopefully not disastrous
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by burfog 7y ago
I'm not loving this, but there are far bigger problems. Unless we're preparing to undo the mergers that made Verizon and AT&T huge, it wouldn't be fair to stop a couple piddly little companies from merging. Maybe they nee
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by burfog 7y ago
To each their own I guess, but I'm struggling to wrap my head around your QoL judgement. You're lacking fresh air and open space, and the selection of wild animals is really limited. Burn rate, and the fear that it generates, prob
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by burfog 7y ago
It's two bits, DAZ and FTZ. (seems like "denormals are zero" and "flush to zero") Bfloat16 obviously can handle denormals. The encoding is possible. There would be no need to handle the issue if the encoding did not
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by burfog 7y ago
I mean the bit to toggle denormals, not the one to identify support for the opcodes. Denormals are far more important than bitwise compatibility. To be clear, you would still be able to load a Nervana-produced number into a processor that s
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by burfog 7y ago
Intel did add a global state bit. It just isn't useful because you can't modify it. Nervana is discontinued, isn't it? Compatibility doesn't matter. It's pretty compatible anyway, as long as you aren't demandin
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by burfog 7y ago
Sure, I can see that being the case. My point is that the Xeon should support denormals. The Bfloat16 format does allow for denormals. Intel's implementation mangles them, changing them to 0.0 on both input and output.
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by burfog 7y ago
Please take my bug report: Dropping denormals is a huge mistake. This is easy to see if you draw out a number line for a very tiny floating-point format, for example with a 2-bit exponent and a 2-bit fraction. (do this on a sheet of graph p
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by burfog 7y ago
I lived in that kind of place. I also had my one nearby friend. We would ride our bicycles more than 5 miles along US-44. It has 2 lanes each side for a total of 4 lanes, 2-foot shoulders, and traffic that often got to a decent highway spee
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by burfog 7y ago
The comment about "affluent childless" singles supports his earlier comment about cost of living. The cost is high because those "affluent childless" singles are willing and able to pay more.
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by burfog 7y ago
The traditional loop around a switch has some advantages. That "break" or "continue" is an unconditional branch, so it is a small piece of code and is always correctly predicted. It's almost free. By doing this, you
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by burfog 7y ago
Possibly, but there's this part of the 14th amendment: "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" The child of a foreign ambassador is thus not a US citizen. The situation seems similar for an unauthorized person, if not more
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by burfog 7y ago
This features a shocking dependence on the C compiler doing tail-call optimization. This, I've never seen before. The code probably blows through the stack if it isn't optimized.
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by burfog 7y ago
The fact that you can't "do any sort of reliable or trustworthy background check on every account through the app" is what justifies charging money. Something that can be done purely in software by the app should be free. Tha
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by burfog 7y ago
Fixing the notation would be great, saving numerous future generations from confusion. Getting agreement to do this is difficult. Short of laying it down in the law as part of a treaty (throw it in with WTO or Berne copyright?) there doesn&
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by burfog 7y ago
It sure would be better if the business model were based on optional paid verification and background checks. You could pay to have it verified that you are 6'2" or that you have a physics degree or that you don't have HIV or
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by burfog 7y ago
You have a lot of power over this. Simply act as if we live in a world without vaccines. For most diseases, we do in fact live in that world. By the way, we've found viruses that cause heart disease and obesity. There are no vaccines f
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by burfog 7y ago
I don't see how NAT could be removed. It was never added to IPv4, but we use it anyway. The addressing standard gets no say in this.
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by burfog 7y ago
To put it mildly, there are enormous problems with unelected people having the power to cause boom and bust at will. Worse, the elected people generally get blame or credit, so these unelected people have a very tempting power lever to infl
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by burfog 7y ago
Updating this for the modern era, I suggest the Airbus 380. Crash a fully fueled pair going full speed at about 800 feet up, with the crowd back 2000 feet.
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by burfog 7y ago
Disagreement is not ignorance. The fact that a Linguistics 101 book contains a politically motivated viewpoint is unsurprising. That viewpoint is not factual. I have a relative who drops the R. He was raised around people (family and city)
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by burfog 7y ago
At 2:55 it is a normal g. There is just one. Maybe an extra is generated in your mind, as would be needed to correct the error of dropping it, and then you hear it properly pronounced and count that as a second one. At 6:55 there is somethi
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by burfog 7y ago
I was still really impressed by the 12,000km (7,455 mile) trip... until I saw they made 6 stops. Getting that distance in a little plane would be impressive. Somebody even went around the world, so it can be done. One ends up flying a wing-
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by burfog 7y ago
The "kids who have been taught outside of the standard educational system" seem to be behind for at least two reasons: 1. You have a biased sample. You're getting the failures. If homeschooling doesn't work, parents give
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by burfog 7y ago
Schools with worse equipment and worse teachers can sometimes do very well. They might have far less classroom disruption because the rules are different and the families are different. In a school that is free for all to attend, the most i
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Fungi drug cicadas with psilocybin or amphetamine to make them mate(sciencenews.org)
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by burfog 7y ago
You teach Russian or Spanish with phonics. You teach Chinese with whole-word. English needs a bit of both, since it is mostly phonetic. An on-demand approach to phonics works very well. The rules and exceptions are pointed out as mistakes a
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by burfog 7y ago
They sure could make an MCAS-free 797 low to the ground with those engines. There are lots of ways. The popular way is with a T-tail and podded engines off the sides of the rear of the body. Boeing has produced such an aircraft. https:&#x2
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by burfog 7y ago
The space shuttle design is decently efficient if you actually use the huge payload bay to bring back something bulky or fragile. Nothing else even has that capability. If you won't use that capability, then providing it is a huge wast
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by burfog 7y ago
I've been assuming that it's a pre-determined initial message, but that a real human in a low-cost country would immediately be involved if I bothered to respond. What portion of the chat pop up windows do you think are purely bot

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