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by derefr 2y ago
> I think at least the last bit is incorrect: DRM protected video is still often decoded by a hardware decoder built into GPU. I misspoke, sorry — the last paragraph is meant to say that the CPU "decrypts", not "decodes&qu
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by derefr 2y ago
It is my understanding that many E2EE chat systems won't actually E2EE your initial message to someone you aren't already mutual in-app contacts with. Either E2EE is something you "upgrade" an existing conversation into
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by derefr 2y ago
The design of Azure's blob-store abstraction is great progress toward the ideal form of an object-store: a serverless managed store for all types of data buffers, where handles can be efficiently transformed/exchanged between be
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by derefr 2y ago
A bonus tangent: > there's never a point under normal rendering where your entire screen-contents are flattened into a single (externally-addressable) VRAM texture. ...although there used to be, back at the dawn of GPUs. The first
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by derefr 2y ago
When you play a video, you're (usually) sending the encoded video to the GPU for hardware-accelerated decode. The resulting decoded frames then live purely on the GPU. However, rather than each video frame being decoded into a distinct
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by derefr 2y ago
I think, in a lot of cases when people still complain about "the slow startup time of the JVM", they're really just talking about how the big JVM GUI apps (like IDEs) struggle to get started on heavily-loaded systems. And thi
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by derefr 2y ago
Also speaking from direct personal experience. I have an API SaaS (which, yes, I realize, as a B2B product, has a much smaller audience than a B2C platform, and so probably much lower reads per second... but I want to just talk about writ
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by derefr 2y ago
You're misunderstanding what I was trying to describe. I wasn't talking about the direct use-case at hand (iTerm), because iTerm communicates directly with ML APIs. But such a "request processing constraint" would not be
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by derefr 2y ago
> Instead, a legal solution like the GDPR offers better means of protection. I mean, yes, that was my point — that there'd need to be some legal thing like GDPR. But that thing would very likely need some kind of explicit user-dri
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by derefr 2y ago
I dunno about "do not access the network" — sounds like the wrong granularity. I want an app like e.g. Evernote or Calendly, to sync to its own cloud backend (or better, to my configured server.) I just don't want them se
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by derefr 2y ago
> From reading that issue, it sounds like some people are worried about compliance with security policies (whether personal or corporate) The right thing to do, then, would be for the OS to have a group policy setting like: "Disable
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by derefr 2y ago
Your point does not address the thing the person you're replying to said. After you buy (really, lease) some dark fiber, and run traffic through it yourself, now that fiber can no longer be sold to anyone else as dark, because it&#x2
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by derefr 2y ago
Swinging type-bars in general weren't a problem; it was the kind of swinging type bars used in (later) "manual" mechanical typewriters that were. (And also, that's not what I mean by "buffered.") The oldest
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by derefr 2y ago
The algorithms themselves aren’t expensive, no. Having extra entire complete copies of the relationship-plus-posts graph, denormalized in various ways (incl. in ways that inherently prevent use of easily map-reducible algorithms, and so req
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by derefr 2y ago
> A social network has to make money somehow because it has bills to pay. Hosts aren't free. Servers aren't free. Sure, but probably a FOSS social network would need far fewer of these than a paid one, because 99% of the server
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by derefr 2y ago
The throughput of the PCIe link between the CPU and GPU, is far less than the aggregate throughput of the internal interconnects between neighbouring tensor cores. Matrix operations might flow a lot of data around — but that data flow is
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by derefr 2y ago
But why does a social network have to make money directly? Why not start a centralized social-network service as a non-profit / benefit corporation, paid for by donation?
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by derefr 2y ago
> And that typed text is way, way cleaner than any typewriter I’ve seen. Pedantic point: electric typewriters (which have existed since the 1960s) do type in a way that looks exactly like this. (In fact, note that the text on the real
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by derefr 2y ago
That's a really good point. Google has likely decided that some query categories are unprofitable-enough already that they can just drop the rest of the expected revenue from them, and instead use them as loss-leaders — aiming to give
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by derefr 2y ago
This isn't even about "happy users", though; it's about money. Where does Google's ad revenue come from if users give up on waiting for their searches to complete before they're ever shown any revenue-generatin
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by derefr 2y ago
As a Canadian (so possibly biased here), my own hypothesis for what would happen if a sufficiently-large long-tail power vacuum emerged in the US cellular data market — either back then or today — is that one of the major Canadian carriers
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by derefr 2y ago
> You want to read everything off the SSD or HDD once. I mean, no, not really. You want to read everything off at least once. Because a "corrupt sector" is actually often in a non-deterministic state, reading differently wi
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by derefr 2y ago
> You can't get "ROMs" officially. You have to extract them from the cartridge with specialized equipment, or maybe in some other way, but it is not as simple as reading from a CD. Nintendo has, in fact, sold the public RO
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by derefr 2y ago
Or how about the opposite? Give me a CLI tool to pipe implicitly-tabular space-padded text into — a smart cut(1) — where I can say "give me column 3" and it understands how to analyze the document as a whole (or at least a running
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by derefr 2y ago
> the fixed list for “field of study”, which doesn’t include my field of study or an “other” option If it's anything like the "employment sector" options that banks ask you to pick from, then they're not trying to col
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by derefr 2y ago
I feel like, if some organization like the Internet Archive were to offer a "software source-code time-delayed-publication escrow service" (with real boilerplate legal contracts punishing early leaks), a lot of companies would tak
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by derefr 2y ago
> So you say having a decoupled arrangement in software (which happens to be a de facto open standard) is a "terrible awful idea" and that instead you should just rely on whatever your proprietary hardware graphics vendor propo
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by derefr 2y ago
The selection they have pre-cut and on display is a subset. But unlike a supermarket, you can just ask a local butcher to save you some of whatever off-cut the next time they're trimming it. Normally they'd just throw it away.
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by derefr 2y ago
That's not out of any spatial analogy, but rather because many apps interpret mouse-wheel movement (perhaps chorded with some modifier key) as controlling some number, where up means "make number go up" and down means "m
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by derefr 2y ago
> Zooming in is similar to making the view go forward. Consider a timeline or history, which is usually thought of in terms of having an axis with endpoints "beginning" and "end", and navigation directions "backw

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