dmayle

8 ms·

31.
by dmayle 1y ago
I think your math is a little off (or maybe mine is). I'll take a short cut and imagine that you have an 8x8 square with no margins (68% of a borderless 8.5x11), then you have a grid of 600x600 bitmaps, which is 3.6e5. if each pixel is
32.
by dmayle 2y ago
I answered my own question! It's called Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budry, and was in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two
33.
by dmayle 2y ago
On the vein of similar books, in the late 80s, early 90's a read a science fiction anthology that had more or less the same exact story as Mickey7. Humans discover a place (I think on Mars), built by Aliens, but it's a deathtrap.
34.
by dmayle 2y ago
There's no incompetence involved. If you read the story, none of the more expensive, "legacy publishing houses", like Elsevier, had their contracts cancelled. All of the publication access to university presses and open acces
35.
by dmayle 2y ago
It's the scope. Executive orders only apply to the execution/actions of the federal government. Laws apply to the general public. The creation of laws is a legislative power, and reserved to the legislative branch of the gove
36.
by dmayle 2y ago
An official language isn't a mandate that enforces the use of English (take as an example India, which is probably the most multi-lingual country there is, but has Hindi as the "official language of the government". It'
37.
by dmayle 2y ago
There's an effect to be sure. I am, however, talking about legal status. As one of the other commenters pointed out, the actual text of the executive action is about rolling back a previous executive action designed to prevent Title
38.
by dmayle 2y ago
> I guess it depends on what that means. A quick Google suggests that about 22% of Americans are multi-lingual, and roughly 8% of Americans do not have English as their dominant language (though I suspect that entirely non-English speaki
39.
by dmayle 2y ago
Is it just me, or is what OpenAI is really lacking is a billing API/platform? As an engineer, I have to manage the cost/service ratio manually, making sure I charge enough to handle my traffic, while enforcing/managing/p
40.
by dmayle 2y ago
One of the starting points of this article is that the current president has signed an executive order "making English the country's official language". I think it's important to remind people what executive orders can
41.
by dmayle 2y ago
So the story originally started with the cacheless 266 Mhz Celeron. CPUs were delivered as AICs (add-in-cards) at the time, with separate cache chips, so to deliver a budget processor, they shipped the same silicon, but without the cache c
42.
by dmayle 2y ago
It's called nominative determinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
43.
by dmayle 2y ago
This is why H1-B visas should have a minimum salary requirement equal to 20% over whichever is greater, median salary for the role in the industry, or median salary for the role in the company (and whichever is greater, US-wide, or local pa
44.
by dmayle 2y ago
You actually have it backwards. Your claim is that legacy admissions bias in favor of the predominant race might be true for a school that had race-blind admittance criteria. In the opposite case, however, legacy admissions bias against
45.
by dmayle 2y ago
It's not a bribe, because the government claimed that Google owed this amount of money, and Google paid it. If this was a check to prevent Government action, you might consider it a bribe. If it had been paid to an individual, you mi
46.
by dmayle 2y ago
Except Isreal isn't a signatory nation, and all of the land in question is part of Israel. That's not a judgement either way, there have been some attempts to change that, but the ICC doesn't actually have any jurisdiction h
47.
by dmayle 2y ago
From personal experience as far back as the 80's (and from my understanding going back before that as well), OS has never meant kernel. An Operating System is the collection of software that allows you to operate a computer, so that me
48.
by dmayle 2y ago
I started reading this, and the article is very approachable, but it’s flawed from almost the very beginning. He uses the angle addition formulas to derive the Pythagorean theorem, but this derivation only works because he predefined sine a
49.
by dmayle 3y ago
That's actually not true. It can do nothing about M of N cryptography. (That's when a key is broken up such that there are N parts, and at least M (less than N) are required to decrypt. It doesn't matter how many rubber ho
50.
by dmayle 3y ago
I've just started down that route. I've got the nitro key hsm2 in the mail, have heard the advice on using two levels (first root in the Key, and intermediary on the Device for easier revoking). I mainly want to issue client cer
51.
by dmayle 3y ago
Are there are books on the topic, or at least good tutorials? I know the underlying concepts (have even read most of the specs), and the documentation has gotten better since I last looked at it, but I'd love to have a more comprehens
52.
Steam Deck vs. Asus ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance(phoronix.com)
2 points by dmayle 3y ago|0 comments
53.
by dmayle 3y ago
I wish that Framework would respond officially as to whether or not they will support ECC on the AMD boards. I make it a point to buy AMD processors and AMD motherboards that support ECC. I've seen the bitflips (not often), I know th
54.
by dmayle 3y ago
This is the most ridiculous take on this that I've ever seen. Next you're going to say that newspaper stands need to pay a charge to the newspaper each time someone walks by their stall (or buys gum, for example). They have seen
55.
by dmayle 3y ago
The paper has a fundamental flaw, which can be seen if trying to reverse the reasoning to look at the past, rather than trying to predict the future. If you used today's level of computation with 2012 era models, then you wouldn't
56.
by dmayle 3y ago
When I originally brought it up, no one was interested in the idea. It looks like this was introduced about six months after I left (which is about 18 months after I first brought it up), so it looks like they changed their minds.
57.
by dmayle 3y ago
I am not an Apple fanboy (I run Nix on x86 mostly, some Arm), but I actually think they've managed to get it completely right on this. There are a few key pieces that I see as signs that this will eventually hit it out of the park.
58.
by dmayle 3y ago
"If your badge has been hit by ransomware, see how to enter Safe mode." What a world we live in...
59.
by dmayle 3y ago
There might be another way to look at it that could be really useful in this scenario. Rather than saying that you don't want it to happen, instead, ask yourself what changes would make it so that you would be okay with the change? F
60.
by dmayle 3y ago
Fun talk... In my mind, I've always seen Don't Repeat Yourself, and thought the opposite was Write Every Time.

More ›