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by conradev 4y ago
> With IPv6 support and adoption a whole network could be set up independent of any other authority besides BGP. Private individuals have access to IPv4 blocks and maintain their own soverign networks. That fact doesn't change the r
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The earliest mandate is California's, which takes effect 12 years from now and only applies to new cars sold. The poor generally do not buy new cars. Other than the possibility of fuel price increases as time goes on (which, as a net e
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by conradev 4y ago
Nope – the kernel currently requires LLVM to compile any Rust code GCC 13.1 will bring the first LLVM-free Rust kernel builds
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by conradev 4y ago
Rust support was merged into GCC in December: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-13-Rust-Merged
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by conradev 4y ago
> I wonder how much effort it is combine the iOS UI layer and the non-iOS blink layer. These browsers all compile and work on macOS. Getting them to work on iOS involves lots of fiddly details like forcing the browsers into single-proces
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> Is it more efficient resource and time-wise to rewrite everything in [Language of choice], or to comb through the currently existing code manually and with special tools to find bugs and fix them? This is for the NVK project, which is
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It's a little strong to say it "literally does not" when I cannot break L1 Widevine, which uses the W3C's APIs You might be able to torrent any show or movie in high quality with a private tracker, but it's hard t
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I've been using Bitwise for quite some time now and it is my favorite tool for this
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My APFS container corrupted itself while working at Apple and Dominic was able to manually repair it enough for me to be able to mount it He lives in Maine, though, so he did it over SSH!
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WebObjects is actually still alive and kicking, but only inside of Apple A lot of the web services that Apple provides still use that implementation of Foundation :)
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> V8 has pretty decent isolation, but honestly, for a product like this, WebAssembly is your friend — it was quite literally designed for this type of product. The big thing that WebAssembly allows you to do security-wise is to execute m
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by conradev 4y ago
This unfortunately won’t be the last you will hear about them, either The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last year in the US, has rebates to pay for 50% or 100% of the cost to convert a gas stove to an electric one That means that there ar
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It’s just a matter of cost. Cost savings will come from improved efficiency and manufacturing innovation. You can make a lot of electrofuels in a distributed way: Hydrogen (Water + Electricity): There are many containerized electrolysers Am
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by conradev 4y ago
Google has orders of magnitude more page views than OpenAI and is a top 10 brand in the world in terms of marketing. I feel like operating the largest search engine in the world, the largest email service in the world, a top 5 cloud computi
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by conradev 4y ago
The grandparent comment is trying to emphasize that there just isn’t a technology gap between Google and OpenAI. Google is not sitting on their hands. They are perfectly capable of training large language models and already have. Google is
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Maxeon extended their warranty this year in select markets to 40 years, which is pretty cool: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/04/maxeon-40-year-solar-...
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What is cool is that there are also lots of niche markets between now and that future that can use cheaper, shorter-lived, high efficiency panels. High altitude drones or EVs are much easier to service than satellites: https://sp
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by conradev 4y ago
It's definitely great to support Valve in their efforts, but you all might be interested in GPD's lineup of small computers, because many of them have built-in keyboards: https://gpd.hk/product
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It’s also important to emphasize that this is still _net metering_ That is, if your solar production for the year equals your energy consumption for the year, you pay $0 in energy costs[1]. You are still offsetting retail electricity rates
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Direct energy conversion is not as pie in the sky as you might think. Several startups are working on aneutronic fusion[1]. This is a great video explaining (and showing) what Helion is up to at the moment: https://www.youtube.co
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by conradev 4y ago
CATL is working on sodium batteries as a lithium replacement shipping in 2023 Form Energy is working on iron air batteries as a new class of multi-day energy storage, launching its first test installation in 2023 The US passed a tax credit
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by conradev 4y ago
You are correct, in that those are the four My understanding is that the AMX is more tightly wound with the CPU, ultimately being accessible via an instruction set ( https://github.com/corsix/amx ), and it is useful if y
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by conradev 4y ago
This is really cool, and I have been meaning to get my hands dirty with Whisper I looks like you’ve definitely maximized the parallelization on the CPU/AMX here, but have you tried getting it to run on the GPU or the Neural Engine? I l
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Yeah, in the case of an acquisition, the acquirer can acquire all sorts of unsavory things – liability, debt, contractual obligations, lawsuits, etc that could potentially harm the acquirer. In the case of funding, the worst possible outcom
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Onshoring in this case is a logical result of improved tax incentives. Almost every cost is higher in the US – not just labor. Improved automation does reduce costs, but those cost reductions are even better in places where manufacturing is
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Chips primarily require silicon, which is not a rare-earth metal (it is rather abundant), but it takes a lot of expensive equipment and energy to purify it and slice it into wafers. TSMC currently sources their wafers from Taiwan, Japan, Si
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by conradev 4y ago
This thread might be helpful: https://twitter.com/LuozhuZhang/status/1538171370814570497 Essentially, zkEVMs map EVM bytecode to equivalent zero-knowledge circuits (containing the logic of what is and isn't v
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Boycotting is not a practical solution for so many reasons for so much of the technology we use every day. It represents a black-and-white way of thinking about the problem when the entire point I am trying to make is that everything is gra
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I don't consider UEFI Secure Boot to be on the same level as these other secure boot technologies because it doesn't help in the face of physical access to the machine. The process of being able to use your own keys is certainly c
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I think it’s important to understand why these trends are happening if you want any hope of reversing them. It’s not just some incipient evil spreading its shadow over computing that we need to address. These technologies represent an advan

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