convolvatron

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by convolvatron 2mo ago
its not really a question of will, its a question of difficulty. if it were easy and cheap to build EUV processes, no amount of complaining and posturing would prevent someone from reproducing that.
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
this one may actually be solvable, but I kinda timed out on it. okay, so I'm doing distributed systems, and my primary abstraction is a large stream that I'm using to connect components across machines. its kind of mandatory that
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
this is an unfortunate take. btrees do not imply bags. in fact extreme bagginess can be a problem when all the keys in your page are the same. lets take this from the point of view of the user, we can certainly understand that some domain m
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
I've had that moment in Rust too, where there was no composition that effected what I wanted, because supporting that model would have meant a very different backing data structure. However in that case I actually didn't care abou
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
focussing on the messaging is a particularly weak way to steer the conversation away from the real issue. just as in your story, that glacier may take an additional decade or two to disappear completely, but it will surely be gone. we can&#
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
a single person can't set up a fine-grained nationwide network of cameras with a unified search interface that lets one track everyones daily movements.
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
no one, including me, actually believes in democracy. its just an eternal fight between the libertarian and the authoritarian. pick your side and fight as you can. thanks for disabusing me of my illusions, you know me better than I know mys
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
that's strictly not true. at least one person doesn't believe in absolute presidential power. a lot of us believe that the president should really be an administrative head, and very limited ability to effect policy directly at al
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
intrinsics are nicer in every way, assuming they exist. but some instructions are inherently non-portable. performance instruction like my popcnt example are good candidates since they can be implemented at varying costs on other architectu
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
that's kind of not true. inline asm lets me refer to the register that the compiler placed a value in. lets say I really want to use popcnt in my inner loop. with inline assembly I can just shove it in there. external linkage forces a
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
one thing that largely undermines even the notion of US whiteness is that 50 years ago the definition of white was very different. Italians were swarthy and not properly white. Irish, while ostensibly white in color, were a degenerate race.
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
you can't fault people for being confused. just because some people in the US have latched on 'cultural integrity' as their new favorite racist dogwhistle doesn't mean that it makes sense at all to anyone else. its reall
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
every single time taxes for the wealthy were cut, it was argued that the laffler curve would make up for the loss in federal tax receipts, thus leaving us with the same level of services and a larger economy. every single time its resulted
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
or, if you upped the pin diameter, you could thread a hole through the pin and throw a washer on top
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
I got tricked into doing this once, for Mercor. didn't have much else going on, and I'd never actually talked to an AI before. what struck me as very odd is that instead of being obsequious, the AI would ask me an involved questio
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
not exactly right. the first is an abrasive disc. that's the right guy for steel, but doesn't work great in aluminum because its very sticky and melty. the third is a metal skill saw blade. I really wouldn't use this with ste
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
I've run 30w led modules for 10+ years by - using real power conversion components, making sure they have sufficient cooling and running them at 75% of their rated current. they still seem plenty bright.
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure that's some stock output from CAIDA, looks like a traceroute graph from the inset
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
there's some great stuff in here, particularly the direct-to-binary codegen, threads instead of processes and sync batching. you must have some intuitive notion about where the performance gains come from.
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
general enforcement of federal law as a special exception of the 4th amendment doesn't seem to be in the charter passed by congress in https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/6/211 no judge thought there
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
in autistic-land, doesn't it seem like the power to perform searches by border police should be directed related and limited to their function - that is the inspection of material goods to insure that (a) illegal smuggling isn't t
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by convolvatron 2mo ago
that's some real anti-truth you've got going on there. because we shouldn't assume that others are acting in our best interest, that any random assertion that there is collusion against us should be by default accepted as the
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
under what circumstances as user would I want to explicitly agree to have my browsing history sent to tens or hundreds of third party tracking aggregators?
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
I guess I am mildly discomfited by the red flower. if the program is going to tell me every time I fail to think through things properly, then my role here is kinda limited to driving the mouse.
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
don't forget 'actually making decisions'
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
if 5% of the work that I'm reading to keep up is slop, that's a shame. that's time I spent puzzling over connections that weren't real, trying to impose some kind of logic on the arguments, and wondering why the data doe
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
some guy left a few hundred pounds of steel in the loading area of my workshop for stupid reasons. maybe about $80 worth in scrap. he kept coming by and claiming someone was going to pick up it up, and getting really threatening about us st
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
also no real mention of body construction or bed dimensions. nice to see a 2 door though I guess
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
I agree that something like *lisp would be a welcome relief from the hairball that is CUDA. while the lisp part was actually compiled, the parallel part reduced pretty 1:1 onto Paris, (the 'assembly language' designed by Steele).
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
yes. Calton Pu. is that really such a problem? JITs seem to work pretty well, I'm pretty sure synthesis was more about creating custom paths than being strictly self-modifying, but it's been a long time. update: oh, I just remembe

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