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by docfort 3y ago
American here. The DMV (sometimes the BMV) is a state-based agency, where state is a regional authority, as opposed to federal, which is a national authority. California’s rules and requirements on when you need to visit the DMV are differe
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by docfort 3y ago
The article mixes a few things together. It essentially describes the von Neumann bottleneck, a consequence of the literal way many traditional computer architectures interpreted Turing’s vision. The thrust of the article is to warn perform
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by docfort 4y ago
There’s been a lot of ink spilled about the decline of Moore’s Law and how it hasn’t yet exactly fallen for all aspects of computer engineering. I think it’s fallen for customers, though. The economics of exponential speed improvement in tr
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by docfort 4y ago
This debug-first stepper, complete with workspace view, is now supported in JupyterLab for Python (not necessarily the app) using the xeus-python kernel.
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by docfort 4y ago
It’s definitely surprising that macOS does this, but it makes me also wonder if the authors considered just modifying the binary so that the dynamic linker could find the library: https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog&#x2F
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by docfort 4y ago
Schwarzenegger was famously interested in water, conservation and storage when he was governor of California [1]. There are cities in the desert which capture rainwater and store it underground, but the scale is fairly small for what the la
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by docfort 4y ago
Let me try. Let’s say you have some operator F = crazyweirdblackbox. Like, it exponentiates and does a bunch more complicated things. You can apply this operator to some input function and transform it into some output function. The program
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by docfort 4y ago
This is a long comment, but the summary is that this article tries to talk about externalities, but doesn't look at a big enough picture. Like complete lack of economic regulation (markets cannot accurately price all externalities), or
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by docfort 4y ago
The core of this argument is that dependency == child. But when you really think about it, even radical dependency is implied by civilization [1]. Do what distinguishes the parent-child relationship then? Dependency, yes, but a mutual depen
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by docfort 4y ago
I take your meaning, but just to nitpick one thing here in your argument: SystemVerilog is commonly used to model an abstract machine which is then synthesized into realizable circuits. Its selling point was compatibility and similarity to
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by docfort 4y ago
Perhaps the bigger deal here is the loss of Dennard scaling in the 2000s. This is due to heat density at any given point on the chip. After all, increased transistor density could lead you to using all those transistors, but the thermal con
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by docfort 4y ago
I especially liked Wil Wheaton’s rendition of “Fuzzy Nation.” Kaiju Preservation Society was pretty fun too.
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by docfort 4y ago
A little more color on ARM and its financial contribution ($800M) to keeping the lights on at Apple: https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/john-sculley-how-arm-saved-ap... . In 1996, money to keep things going was important:
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by docfort 4y ago
I don’t know. “Car” is short for carriage. Arguably, horse-drawn carriages had certain levels of autonomy. An “automobile” focuses on the automated, or mechanical, nature of the conveyance. These days, “auto” is usually focused on mechanica
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by docfort 4y ago
The feature is called Live Text, and it was released in macOS Monterey.
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by docfort 5y ago
Nope. That’s encoded in boundary conditions, initial conditions, and the forcing function. The wave equation just says how these things interact.
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by docfort 5y ago
The fun thing is that a PDE’s solution is emergent by definition: it is an interplay of the dynamics (specified by the the PDE), the boundary conditions, initial conditions, and maybe a forcing function (energy or information pump). Change
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by docfort 5y ago
I think it’s better to know that sometimes we only know how to describe something by relating rates of change to other states. And that’s ok. Maybe it has a closed form equation, or maybe can only be solved numerically. But if I see that a
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by docfort 5y ago
This argument is poorly constructed. I think there could be better ones, but here’s my problem. It goes through the three CDC studies and correctly observes that they fail to separate regions that have high vaccination rates from schools wi
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by docfort 5y ago
Chaos is useful because (1) the output depends heavily on the precise input, and (2) the output spectrum is unique for each input value, so the transmissions interfere with exceptionally low probability. Think of them as hashing functions,
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by docfort 5y ago
I think you meant to say “cheapest” developers. Forget about location. Cheapest in the world. Obviously, the managers need to be able to interact with them reasonably well, so this is a constraint that likely raises the costs. Using this ar
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by docfort 5y ago
R.W.P. King studied wire dipoles for years and supposedly produced over 100 PhD students doing the same. The details are really really hard to get right and absolutely require empirical work. There are two core problems. One is that while M
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by docfort 5y ago
In my experience, knowing what parts of a schematic can be ignored for understanding the core functionality is super important as a designer. Then I’m better able to compare two implementations that purportedly do the same thing on many dif
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by docfort 5y ago
I believe this is supposed to be the first in a series on moving from continuous to discrete optimization, but the EE in me can’t help but point out what I would do in this scenario. It also connects with other interesting aspects of physic
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by docfort 5y ago
Banksy on Advertising “People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from bus
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by docfort 5y ago
MATLAB has had a JIT at the function level for several years now that alleviates specifically that pain. But most guides still focus on vectorization for optimization.
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by docfort 5y ago
Fire sprinklers appear to be required. https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.as...
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by docfort 5y ago
You might be interested in this for your M1 MBA: https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos
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by docfort 6y ago
See also Jef Raskin’s Archy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy and Raskin for Mac http://www.raskinformac.com/
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by docfort 6y ago
Given this great summary, I’m sure you’re aware of the Casimir effect. I understand that it is controversial whether this generates usable negative energy or is merely apparent negative energy relative to surrounding vacuum, but Miguel Alcu

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