deliciousturkey

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by deliciousturkey 15d ago
As a native speaker of a language without articles, I find the English article system by far the most intuitive and easiest to learn of all the languages I have studied. Most other Indo-European languages have articles that you simply need
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by deliciousturkey 1mo ago
One additional problem is that this reduces options as a consumer in smaller EU countries. Smaller ships no longer are willing to take on the risk and bureaucracy of selling to smaller markets, meaning only a few, large players remain. Like
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
I would classify GPU compute based rendering as software rendering though. My original comment was written with that in mind. This is a semantic discussion though which is IMO not super important. If you do GPU-based software rendering, I w
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
Sadly you can't access RT cores with CUDA, you need to use a graphics API like Vulkan or D3D12. You can make a fast ray tracing based renderer using pure GPU compute, but it'll still be slower than using RT cores. And even with GP
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
Games industry might suck on average, but I'd argue that graphics programming niche does not. There are lots more users of graphics than games, like visualization, simulation, etc. Coupled with the fact that good graphics programmers a
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
Sadly, Vulkan is really painful way of learning graphics programming. Doing almost anything requires large amounts of boilerplate. Almost everything you need to do, for example to make shadows, requires just 10x more code than the technique
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
At least personally, the point of graphics programming or making "engines" is not to make games. It is to make real-time graphics, implement interesting approaches etc. If you are making a game instead of an engine, you will proba
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
The term "garbage collection" does not mean that the language has some mechanism of automatically reclaiming some memory. If it did, C would be a garbage-collected language. The term is not used in such way. Now, of course referen
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
By that definition even C has garbage collection. Automatic storage duration types have compiler-determined lifetime and automatic deallocation. If the definition of a word/concept does not match how the word is used in real life, th
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
Window AC's don't really work with the styles of windows that are common here (at least in Finland). The windows typically swivel from the side, with multiple planes opening separately. They don't open vertically like in the
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by deliciousturkey 3mo ago
It's because there's a big heat wave in certain parts of Europe right now. I'm not American (I'm Finnish), but I have also thought how weird it is that in central/western europe AC is so rare. I has definitely been
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by deliciousturkey 4mo ago
I really wish Windows had a way to show what kernel callbacks are registered and execute on each call. Even better would be to have actual timing data on these callback. Using that one could much more easily to debug and potentially uninsta
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by deliciousturkey 4mo ago
I dislike the non-specificity of "models" here. Different models have different attention architectures, and can therefore have significant differences in long-context behavior. It's true that long context is an issue can mos
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by deliciousturkey 5mo ago
It's trivial to figure out that OP likely works for Google.
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by deliciousturkey 5mo ago
In Finland around 50% of new single-family homes use ground source heat pumps. So it's definitely popular here.
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by deliciousturkey 7mo ago
The comment I answered implied that all Europeans have a disdain for working hard. This is not the case. The point was to say that if work and achievement was discouraged like the commenter said, Europe would regress as a continent.
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by deliciousturkey 7mo ago
"Europe" is not a single entity with uniform opinions. As an European, I would much rather have hardworking people and """workaholic""" culture than regress to an underdeveloped culture fueled by lazi
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by deliciousturkey 7mo ago
As an European I really _do_ mind buses. I try to avoid riding them as much as possible. They are dirty, smelly, and really cramped with little legroom. I would really hate living somewhere where I was forced to use them, and would rather m
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Ionattention: Grace Hopper–Native Inference(cumulus.blog)
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by deliciousturkey 8mo ago
Thanks, I did not know about that pre-training bias. This does make sense.
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by deliciousturkey 8mo ago
I have a bit of a similar question (but significantly more difficult), involving transportation. To me it really seems that a lot of the models are trained to have a anti-car and anti-driving bias, to the point that it hinders the models a
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by deliciousturkey 9mo ago
Traditionally, economy are typically divided into three sectors: Agriculture, industry, and services. Service industry contains everything from nursing to software development and sales. The problem with this division is that there is an ex
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by deliciousturkey 9mo ago
The ship was asked to move to territorial waters by Finnish authorities before detaining.
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by deliciousturkey 9mo ago
Yes, the right of passage through the strait would still clearly remain. This is already the case with Denmark and Sweden as these ships need to cross Öresund or Great Belt strait to reach the Atlantic. However, this act would, in my unders
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by deliciousturkey 9mo ago
The fact that this area where the incident happened, Gulf of Finland, is not fully part Finnish/Estonian territorial waters, is only because of a bilateral Finnish-Estonian agreement. This was done in the 1990's purely for benevol
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by deliciousturkey 9mo ago
In my opinion, C++ syntax is pretty readable. Of course there are codebases that are difficult to read (heavily abstracted, templated codebases especially), but it's not really that different compared to most other languages. But this
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by deliciousturkey 10mo ago
This is true, and my example was a very rough metric. But the computation density per area is actually way, way higher on GPU's compared to CPU's. CPU's only spend a tiny fraction of their area doing actual computation.
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by deliciousturkey 10mo ago
The context was Only if you're ignoring mobile entirely. One of the things Vulkan did which would be a shame to lose is it unified desktop and mobile GPU APIs. In this context, both old Switch and Switch 2 have full desktop-class GPU
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by deliciousturkey 10mo ago
I'd say over 70% of all computing is already been non-CPU for years. If you look at your typical phone or laptop SoC, the CPU is only a small part. The GPU takes the majority of area, with other accelerators also taking significant spa
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by deliciousturkey 10mo ago
HN in general is quite clueless about topics like hardware, high performance computing, graphics, and AI performance. So you probably shouldn't care if you are downvoted, especially if you honestly know you are being correct. Also, I&#

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