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by convolvatron 3mo ago
it could also be a real advance, a valuable tool, lead to a bunch of great ideas and products, and still not be a good return on the trillions that have been dumped into it mindlessly.
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
I certainly see that the OS interface is limit to language innovation in that it assumes a lot the things I mentioned, and these tend to get shoehorned in and turn into a series layer violations to poke through all the needed flags and cont
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
that's really unlikely. in the 80s the US military had several AI labs and was working with academia...I worked with some. the focus was nearly exlucsively on logic programming and 'expert systems', a path which failed misera
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
that seems backwards to me. one of the primary constraints in language development is the OS api. programs that don't interact with the world are increasingly less interesting, and you really have to work hard and be clever to change t
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
just wait. the current gold rush has left any consideration of efficiency or price-performance at the side of the road. the entire enterprise is structured as a 'whoever can spend the most money wins the game for all time'. if we
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
that's still comes up far short of the total bill. the US never talks about the destruction to civilian infrastructure, the number of innocents killed, the loss of any ability to claim to be on the 'right side'. these are see
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
what would consider to be the essential characteristics of a third way?
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
I know a lot about kernel programming. and the last thing as I would ever suggest as being core to kernel programming is that is a specialized discipline that uses different rules and shouldn't be accessible to neophytes. its just code
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
sorry, I meant for a systems programmer the parts where there is a kind of dual correspondence developed between statements in a language and transistors on a board I think would probably open some mental doors for a systems programmer. but
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
addendum: actually I think the case for SICP in systems programming is stronger than that. There are several places in the material where the gap between 'high level programming' and 'construction of machines using gates&#x27
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
these talks distill out the core questions of topics like mutability and state management and abstraction. almost uniquely so. so I consider them deeply relevant to systems programming in as much that its primarily concerned with..state man
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
consider the alternatives. it could have been written in PL-1 and rapidly become dated. or it could have been written in a slightly higher level custom language and that would also have to be taught and would be less clear about what was go
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
we completely fail to run a marathon by turning the notion of distance covered into completely fictional metric, and anathematize the idea of setting targets beyond that two weeks since that requires collaboration and forethought. by attemp
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
that sounds pretty related to Kolgomorov complexity, which is uncomputable in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity I too would be interested in approximations or heuristics if anyone has any
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
concurrent programs enable parallel evaluation. concurrency is necessary but not sufficient for parallelism.
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
or go up a diameter if that's feasible.
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
that seems very unlikely. margins are already quite thin, and the airlines are making most of their money with the higher fare tiers. if you remove some of those customers, then its entirely possible that the base fare will increase in resp
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
in CS we define a complexity class as a set of problems that have the same growth characteristic. that is for a problem size N, how long does it take in the worst case to find the solution for that problem. one such class is the Polynomial
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
eventual consistency as generally used doesn't guarantee that events are presented in the same order. I use 'monotonic consistency' for that, but idk how common that is.
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by convolvatron 3mo ago
or, we could just wait a hot second, get GPU and associated hardware over the 30% utilization mark, develop a fault tolerance strategy that recovers more useful work, and spend a bit more time researching how models actually converge. 50% s
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
no, they want a questionnaire, a coding sample, and an example of technical writing. there's a reasonable interpretation of that that doesn't involve writing a distributed unix.
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
I've gone through the same process, not so much that I don't think I would be worth considering, but serious code and documentation examples aren't something I can really give out given that they're proprietary. this las
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
as someone who actually worked at the NSA pointed out earlier in this thread, they have plenty of resources, but also plenty of politics and some execution problems. so I wouldn't put money on them making a great model, but to say that
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
NSA has had their own supercomputing program for decades. they design and produce their own large scale machines. chips, fabrics, arithmetic units, all of it. they also employ quite a number of hardcore mathematicians, computer scientists,
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
idk how old you are, but there there was a style in the 70s where goto was the only control flow operator used in a lot of codebases, and it was absolutely horrible.
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
or don't put the burden on the website at all, but let the parent choose whitelists of child-appropriate sites based on whatever criteria they want.
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
well, if you want to add an extra byte you kinda have a problem, since v4 is fixed format and is actually cooked into hardware in a lot of places. so if you want to keep v4 mostly untouched you have to use an option, which is going to be pr
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
this keeps coming up, if you add a byte to ipv4 you still have a transition problem. 5 byte machines can't talk to 4 byte machines. pretty much the only thing that solves is people not liking the :: syntax. the only other change is aut
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
I've seen several workalike kernels in various stages of completion. at least one of them was able to run some pretty substantial applications (Postgres, nginx, that kind of thing), and that is still I guess around 250kloc. but it only
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by convolvatron 4mo ago
and in the US we're having serious free speech issues with the right right now. sorry to be confusing, I just wonder why you think there's necessarily a direct equivalence between the left-right politics of two different countries

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