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by davemp 2y ago
> When you point out that, for example, health insurance profits are low single digit percentage of overall healthcare costs they just don’t believe it. When you consider that single digit percentages of trillions of dollars is still an
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by davemp 2y ago
> if we can re-generate apps on the go with some sort of automated testing mechanism? Ahh so once we solve the oracle problem and programming will become obsolete…
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by davemp 2y ago
> According to the Census Bureau, 80% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas. The remaining 20% lives in areas classified as rural. *There isn’t a specific category for suburban areas* Sounds like the suburbs are counted as urban wr
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by davemp 2y ago
> Do you imagine Microsoft or Apple would've created better search, email, news, etc., or that the mom & pop shop down the store would've done that? Yes, enthusiastically yes. With the exception of maybe search, products li
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by davemp 2y ago
There is no requirement for stamped designs for digital systems as far as I know.
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by davemp 2y ago
It’s probably necessary for something along the lines of requiring a licensed engineer to sign off on these systems if private companies are going to manage critical infrastructure.
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by davemp 2y ago
I’ve been on ddg for years too, but I’d say their results quality has dropped as well. I haven’t really been happy with either recently.
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by davemp 2y ago
Not breaking the law is just about the lowest bar you can set for an organization.
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by davemp 2y ago
The last parts Ive ordered from JD have been made in China. I’d be surprised if their contributions to American manufacturing was much more than assembly to avoid import taxes.
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by davemp 2y ago
> On the other hand, if computing settled on a three-valued logic (e.g. 0/1/«something» where «something» has been proposed as -1, «undefined»/«unknown/undecided» or a «shade of grey»), we would have had 9 bit bytes (
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by davemp 2y ago
Many circuits have ceil(log_2(N_bits)) scaling wrt to propagation delay/other dimensions so you’re just leaving efficiency on the table if you aren’t using a power of 2 for your bit size.
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by davemp 2y ago
Unfortunately FPGA fabric is ~2x less power efficient than equivalent ASIC logic at the same clock speeds last time I checked. So implementing general purpose logic on an FPGA is not usually the right option even if you don’t care about FMA
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by davemp 2y ago
Semantics/pedantry. I’m sure you’re capable of inferring what the OP means.
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by davemp 2y ago
It’s worth pointing out that Zig also just straight up gives you wrapping and saturating adds with ‘+%’ and ‘+|’ operations and same for other arithmetic operations.
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by davemp 2y ago
They will still take way too long to boot android on their underpowered MCU
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by davemp 2y ago
> And plumbing codes in America require an entire network of ventilation piping that has been deemed largely unnecessary in much of the world. There’s a lot of surprising info in that article. This one section that I actually have passin
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by davemp 2y ago
The article even talks about using it with an API I’d never heard of: WebSerial, https://hackaday.com/2022/03/21/web-serial-terminal-means-it... I guess that’s the inexorable trend in tech—add more and more s
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by davemp 2y ago
I’ve basically landed on the following form: ‘Short description. [foo={}, bar={}]’ Which will give you grepability and in theory parsability so you can automatically bisect for a value change or something along those lines.
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by davemp 2y ago
You have to wrangle a bunch of complex structs into rendering pipelines before you can really do anything at all: https://vkguide.dev/docs/new_chapter_3/building_pipeline/
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by davemp 2y ago
# Attendance ## Khronos Neil Trevett ## Apple Dean Jackson Myles C. Maxfield Robin Morisset Maciej Stachowiak Saam Barati ## Google Austin Eng Corentin Wallez Dan Sinclair David Neto James Darpinian Kai Ninomiya Ken Russell Shrek Shao Ryan
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by davemp 2y ago
> The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reports a tragic consequence of the failure to localize cell phones. . . only to be attacked by his wife, her father, and two sisters. He was stabbed in the chest but succeeded in grabbing a knife, stabbi
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by davemp 2y ago
One of the big problems with tipping at the moment is that menu prices have increased and % gratuity expectations have also increased making gratuity dramatically outstrip inflation. Say that twenty years ago the norm was to tip 15% on your
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by davemp 2y ago
That’s about as well founded of a statement as the idea that polygraphs are lie detectors.
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by davemp 2y ago
> they just want to make a profit I think the “just” is the key word here. No one is going to get up in arms over modest profits. It’s the chasing growth at all costs even when it means sacrificing what should be the core value(s) of t
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by davemp 2y ago
> Go listen to a highway and see if you can hear the engines over the wooshing. I regularly walk a trail ~0.5mi from a highway and the main sound I notice is from straight piped WRX-esque cars gunning it.
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by davemp 2y ago
> The answer is simply that it's too impractical to catch and penalize people who get a petty sadistic power thrill out of their consequence-free enshittification the ambient public space. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that hard to hook u
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by davemp 2y ago
I’m no expert in tort law but that really sounds like it could be libel. Afaik proving reckless disregard for the truth is one of the ways you can build a case.
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by davemp 2y ago
> Not much you can do to hide, for example, a land value tax. Unfortunately I’m not sure this is entirely true: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/opinion/sunday/property-t...
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by davemp 2y ago
> I can drop a cluster bomb filled with drones into a city, army base, factory and they kill everyone with precision and are collectively almost unstoppable. Citation needed.
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by davemp 3y ago
How about a nasty nick that mostly heals in a couple months?

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