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by danieldk 7y ago
But it should make the scientists more circumspect about public policy recommendations. From the article: Climate models have been doing a fine job projecting warming for a long time. A recent study compared models as old as 1970 with ob
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by danieldk 7y ago
We have installed ROCm on vanilla Ubuntu 18.04. Though I use the libraries through Nix with the nixos-rocm repo: https://github.com/nixos-rocm/nixos-rocm The last time we purchased GPUs, we bought two Radeon VIIs besid
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by danieldk 7y ago
AMD's rather old Radeon VII can really smash a 2080 Ti if you're doing relatively simple streaming computation, like say video processing. That 1TB/s HBM is no joke, and there's 16GB of it, at ~half the price of the 208
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by danieldk 7y ago
I think the "we're not doing it because it adds complexity in the type system and runtime" was something most developpers have a very hard time understanding, since generic programming exists in pratically every single PL cr
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Or hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells, and hydrogen-based engines. Hydrogen can be created with electrolysis using solar, wind, or nuclear power. Hydrogen-based vehicles have a much better range. Refueling a hydrogen vehicle quicker
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by danieldk 7y ago
They botched the original Windows Phone through a failure of management This. I had some Windows Phones besides my iPhones, because I liked very much what they were doing. Windows Phone 7, despite being technically weak (it was based on W
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by danieldk 7y ago
Early versions of OS X had user lands which were more BSD-like than they are now They still have a lot of userland BSD parts. Including the very broken grep from FreeBSD (which is fixed in FreeBSD now IIRC): $ echo "abcdef&quot
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by danieldk 7y ago
Could you explain this in more detail? It seems that the network stack, VFS, etc. from BSD are still heavily used? https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/tree/master/bsd Also, more recently they imported pf
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by danieldk 7y ago
...or are using your work without you or them knowing. E.g., just the other day I added the fst crate as a dependency to do longest prefix searches on a set of word/continuation pieces [1]. Similarly, we use fst in a word lemmatiza
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by danieldk 7y ago
And the AirPods. People will say 'they are just Bluetooth earbuds'. But they also said that the iPod is just an MP3 player. But like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad before, the Apple Watch and AirPods are defining the expectations for
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by danieldk 7y ago
"Old Amsterdam" is for tourists, and isn't old. [...] Next time you are in NL (anywhere will do), I have been born and raised in The Netherlands. I have eaten plenty of old Dutch cheeses during my lifetime. The thing is, Ol
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by danieldk 7y ago
I fully agree. It should be said that nixpkgs also provides the firefox-bin derivation, which is just want the grandparent suggested. But there is a lot of value in checking that software builds are actually reproducible from the sources.
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by danieldk 7y ago
I usually do not have much trouble cutting Old Amsterdam with a cheese slicer. But perhaps it's is not old enough ;). When we lived in Germany, the cheese counter people in the supermarket we terrified when I asked for Old Amsterdam, w
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by danieldk 7y ago
Pretty much any CPU released in the past decade should be capable of decoding 1080P video as well as a GPU (though yes, will use slightly more power). The point is that modern GPUs have hardware decoding for common codecs, and will use f
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by danieldk 7y ago
If the change is so small, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to backport the fix? Don't upgrade firefox (and any dependencies), just fix the bug. As far as I understand, you cannot call it Firefox anymore if you deviate
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by danieldk 7y ago
You may want to check out Nix. It's a package manager which isolates each program's dependencies; so you can have multiple versions of the same package. In principle true, yes. But it comes with a cost. Even the nixpkgs Firefox
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by danieldk 7y ago
Even with a dozen backup yubikeys and spare codes written down I’d still be much more likely to lock myself out than be attacked. I am not sure this is true. Most people regularly get phishing e-mails and apparently fall for it. SMS and T
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by danieldk 7y ago
I don't know Gluon (from a quick glance, it looks similar to Haskell and ML). But I do not think it will help much. Nix is a small, lazy, functional language. Being a lazy functional language, it will be more difficult for people witho
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by danieldk 7y ago
Somewhere between being merged in mainline and 2009.
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by danieldk 7y ago
In the 26 years or so I have used Linux, I have had corrupted filesystems with reiserfs, XFS, btrfs, and ext[23]. In the case of reiserfs and XFS it was practically impossible to recover the filesystem (IIRC reiserfs would reattach anything
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by danieldk 7y ago
Each approach I tried failed because of some limitation that made the whole thing awkward or pointless. Could you explain the limitations that you've run into? I have been using shell.nix + direnv + some caching for 1.5 years now and
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by danieldk 7y ago
The mentioned home-manager is more of an awkward hack than a good solution in my view. Tt's not actually immutable, but just dumps down files into $HOME, That's actually not true. Each home-manager generation is immutable and i
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by danieldk 7y ago
I vaguely remember it being in the box (bought R4, R4.5, and R5).
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by danieldk 7y ago
Besides that, it is also very likely that Apple would have remained stagnant (or worse) if Steve Jobs had not been brought into the fold. I am not into persona worshipping, but Jobs brought some well-needed focus to a sea of overpriced beig
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by danieldk 7y ago
High definition playback is still not as smooth as it could be in browsers on Linux (or if your CPU is fast enough, it will drain your battery more quickly), because most browsers only have experimental support for video acceleration. http
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To Microsoft's credit, the early Windows NT versions were multiplatform. I remember that my Windows NT 4.0 install CD had x86, Alpha, PowerPC, and MIPS support.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Sure, but at the time Windows 95 was released, they already had a couple of Windows NT releases (3.1, 3.5, and 3.51). Windows NT was a different, more modern operating system than the Windows 95/98/ME line. So, they did not have t
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by danieldk 7y ago
It's worth noting that TPUs are available for free on Google Colab. Yes, and you can also get a research grant, which gives you several TPUs for a month. But that does not mean that you can easily deploy TPUs in your own infrastructu
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by danieldk 7y ago
The summary is only wrong if you want to compare the categories. I am not sure why the category names are important, except for identifying individual models.
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by danieldk 7y ago
It's common knowledge not to bother running a deep model like ALBERT, BERT, or XLNet, etc without at least a GPU. Training and inference with models of this size on CPU's is typically considered to be intractable. I am not sure

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