daniel-thompson

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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
> Pre-chip What's the story with the chip?
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
> If this is sincere then it's a heartbreaking moment of reflection and clarity for Microsoft Don't worry; it isn't.
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Teachers nationwide are flummoxed by students’ newfound chess obsession(washingtonpost.com)
46 points by daniel-thompson 3y ago|40 comments
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
I saw that as well and agree. This might be obvious to someone who's been following this more closely than I have, but why would Terraform Labs trigger their own collapse? Was it just an attempt to exfil the money and run?
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
I've turned all notifications (os, app, browser) off on all devices. They're just too distracting. It also helps me be more purposeful about how I interact with the machine.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
From the original article linked to by this CNBC story: > Altman also made an unusual decision for a tech boss: He would take no equity in the new for-profit entity, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman was already extrem
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
They're suing for among other things invasion of privacy, but is there a valid cause of action for that? IANAL but I thought it's been well-established that police officers have no expectation of privacy when performing their jobs
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
I thought I saw somewhere it did; I must have misread. Thanks for the clarification!
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
OpenMP starts with a serial model, the programmer tags the loop they want to run in parallel with a directive, and the compiler tries to vectorize the loop. This can always fail, since it relies on a computer program reasoning about an arbi
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned this, but it looks like it implements the render kernels in ISPC^, which is a tool that exposes a CUDA-like SPMD model that runs over the vector lanes in the CPU. ISPC is also used by Disney's Hyperion re
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> surely having exclusive access to a parallel renderer of this quality is a competitive advantage to other studios? The renderer is an important of the VFX toolkit, but there are more than a few production-quality renderers out there, s
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
There is a third option: they can get their ducks in a row and discreetly line up a solution _before_ announcing the problem. An executive making 7 figures p/a ought to know this.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> what's the purpose of saying "FDIC Insured up to $250k" The FDIC guarantees up to $250k, but if additional assets are available beyond that, then those will be paid out to depositors as well. It's a floor, not a cei
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> they conspired to perform a huge bank run Individual depositors don't need to conspire to reach the conclusion that in a bank run scenario, it is virtually always in each depositor's own best interest to withdraw their money.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> How far have we fallen if we don't even have enough dignity to walk away from garbage tier companies who can't even put any real effort into hiring. On the one hand I agree with you, on the other, you can't pay your mort
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
When I tried installing it via apt on ubuntu 2204, it wanted to install an entire 32-bit GPU driver chain. Couldn't ctrl-c fast enough
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> As a long term macOS / OS X user, it is amazing how bad font rendering has become on recent versions of macOS unless you have an HDPI display. [...] These days fonts are all blurry on regular displays [...] The way this is phrased
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Seems like there's a strong difference of opinion on this, the article's author also says > The thing is that DWARF unwinding (the only userspace option that doesn’t use frame pointers) is really unreliable. In fact it has such
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
It's just a PR stunt. The bill already died in committee.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> [...] PFAS, which have been linked to a range of serious health issues including liver damage, high cholesterol, reduced immune responses and several kinds of cancer
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Other comments rightfully address Jobs' extraordinary talent in presentation and persuasion. He was certainly right in the diagnosis about what ailed Apple at the time, and where it needed to get to (or get back to). Having said that,
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
I'm not a language designer and don't want to be one - I'm open to the idea that these new keywords are actually the simplest, most composable way to address these use cases - but good grief! The burden of complexity weighs s
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
https://archive.ph/D8HM6
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Gaming PCs can be much more powerful than dedicated consoles these days. For example, Zelda BOTW on Switch is limited to at most 1600x900, but folks running it on their own machines with Cemu can run it at 4k. Some folks also like to try ou
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
This reminds me of Chaoscope^. It reached EOL a long time ago and the binaries might have succumbed to bitrot by now, but it was a lot of fun back in the day and produced some beautiful visualizations based on strange attractors. ^ http:&#
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Exactly. Absent any consequences that affect him to the same degree that losing their jobs affects the laid off employees, this is just a meaningless attempt at virtue signalling.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Hopefully they can find that one last use-after-free that's the root of all of Twitter’s problems.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Very impressive! Few minor artifacts with shadows and the fps counter shows 63, but otherwise, works great on Firefox on my 2021 M1 MBP. On a sidenote, I unironically love the dialogue in this game - it's so bad it's good: Guy 1&g
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
When I was in my 20s, I drank socially from time to time and even occasionally by myself. As I've grown older, I pretty much stopped: - I've found that the pressures of "adult" responsibilities (kids, real career, etc) l
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Yes, this is called Advanced Chess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess

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