cogman10

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by cogman10 7mo ago
Fair enough. But I do still have to push back on the notion that it was just 5 people there. If that were the case, you could have expected one of the more lucid members to have done a quorum call.
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> Compacting reduces memory usage No, it reduces memory fragmentation, which is why it's called compacting and not compression. I do agree that the lack of value types is a big contributor to why Java uses so much memory. But it&#x
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by cogman10 7mo ago
Yeah, that's more the problem than anything else. And it's true that you would get cleaner food prep if you used gloves properly. However, that requires a lot of gloves getting thrown away.
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by cogman10 7mo ago
You make this sound like it was a democrat plot, it was not. Thune, the republican senate majority leader, was the one that put up the unanimous consent motion. There were more than just 5 people there. Though it was late at night. You can
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> To the contrary. You take off and throw out your gloves every time you finish doing something with raw meat. It's procedure. It's habit. You are supposed to. I've seen plenty of fast food places where the gloves stay on
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by cogman10 7mo ago
Funnily, I believe the glove mandates for food prep are actually anti-hygiene. Unlike bare skin, you can't really feel when your gloves are contaminated. So you are less likely to replace gloves when you should. With bare hands, you
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by cogman10 7mo ago
And it's important to note that ICE and CBP don't need additional funding. They were overfunded with the last spending bill by about 10x their actual needs. That's the reason why ICE and CBP agents are still collecting paych
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by cogman10 7mo ago
Not just bipartisan. That bill was unanimously passed in the Senate.
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by cogman10 7mo ago
You can basically do that today if you wanted to by buying consumer grade batteries and smart switches. A whole house battery would be better, but it's more expensive to install. For the tumble drier and dishwasher, those usually come
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by cogman10 7mo ago
Let's be serious, it's not like AI companies haven't fed into this misunderstanding. CEOs of these companies love to muse about the possibility that an LLM is conscious.
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> Why would an allocation require an atomic write for a reference count? It won't always require it, but it usually will because you have to ensure the memory containing the reference count is correctly set before handing off a poin
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by cogman10 7mo ago
There's a weird thing that happens with cancer drugs that I just experienced. When they are working with a pharmacy and your insurance, the price they'll charge you is $10,000 for enough pills to last a month. But when your insur
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by cogman10 7mo ago
There are 2 unavoidable atomic updates for RC, the allocation and the free event. That alone will significantly increase the amount of traffic per thread back to main memory. A lifetime system could possibly eliminate those, but it'd
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by cogman10 7mo ago
M&S also doesn't necessitate having a moving and compacting GC. That's the thing that actually makes the JVM's heap greedy. Go also does M&S and yet uses less memory. Why? Because go isn't compacting, it's
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by cogman10 7mo ago
Not only that, they write back to main memory. There's limited bandwidth between the CPU and main memory and with multithreading you are looking at pretty significantly increasing the amount of data transferred between the CPU and mem
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by cogman10 7mo ago
While cook books are modern, we do actually find thousand year old recipes [1]. [1] https://eatshistory.com/the-5-oldest-recipes-in-the-world/
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by cogman10 7mo ago
It makes more sense when you realize that insider trading laws came after it was a problem, not before. Before the insider trading laws, the stock market was much more volatile and was more akin to gambling for people out of the know. For
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by cogman10 7mo ago
IMO, copyright is something that should be shorter the bigger the media producer is. The reason we need a copyright in the first place is to stop someone like disney just vacuuming up popular works and republishing them because they have th
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> Would something like this even be financially feasible No. The entire reason they went after Cox is because cox has deep pockets and there was a possibility that Cox would just settle and work with them rather than fighting this all th
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by cogman10 7mo ago
What's horribly frustrating with the age ID stuff is that the issue at question with Meta wasn't that they didn't know what they were doing and that they were doing it to children. They did. This wasn't an issue of &qu
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by cogman10 7mo ago
The primary benefit of AC is it's really easy to change the voltage of AC up or down. The transmission efficiency of AC comes from the fact that you can pretty trivially make a 1 megavolt AC line. The higher the voltage, the lower the
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> the cables are quite expensive, harder to repair and somewhat fragile Nope, HVDC uses the same style of cable as AC. I'm not sure why you'd think they'd be different. The HVDC cables that can be expensive are meant to b
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> Start-up currents for larger consumers can be really high and you need a lot of inertia in your grid to overcome that. This is true of an AC grid as well. Big inductive loads will often have to buy special equipment before hooking up
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by cogman10 7mo ago
If we could change grids in one way, the best thing we could probably do is switch from HVAC for transmission to HVDC. I think the ideal grid would switch from DC to AC either at a substation at central location for a community. Why might s
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> I cannot understand how anyone treat this as something that can be objectively concluded Mostly because the room for the unexplained in physics is really small. It's possible that we end up finding some sort of big revelation abo
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> there's plenty of mainstream, accepted science that's plain, flat out, provably wrong. Yet, it is against good taste (read: job security, people's feelings, etc.) to point this out. I highly doubt that. There are a lot o
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by cogman10 7mo ago
cognition is just a special case of medicine which is a special case of biology which is a special case of chemistry which is a special case of physics. And the closer you get to physics, the less likely any sort of major paradigm shift wil
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by cogman10 7mo ago
> I don't think paradigm shifts have to be 'better' But they do. Paradigm shifts happen because the new paradigm explains the unexplained and importantly also covers the old model. If prior data is unexplained with a par
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by cogman10 7mo ago
The article presumes that the models we have today describing everything could still be subject to a major paradigm shift. Maybe they could be, but it seems pretty unlikely. The edges of a lot of scientific understanding are now past pract
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by cogman10 7mo ago
You're right, you can go in and reset that field. You can also patch systemd to ignore requests to update the field. Nothing stops you the individual from bypassing the law. The nasty part of the law isn't that a technically min

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