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by drdrey 2y ago
for 0.25-6h per day… that’s a weird benchmark
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by drdrey 3y ago
if there is an OSS project that you have your eye on, you can easily get noticed by engaging with them and starting to fix/address small issues or convenience features. I know a handful of people who got hired this way.
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by drdrey 3y ago
they have only one side and no volume!
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by drdrey 3y ago
his Kowloon Walled City is incredibly well made
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A deep dive into the paranoid world of extreme privacy(joinreboot.org)
3 points by drdrey 3y ago|0 comments
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by drdrey 3y ago
> Finally, researchers would take a look under the hoods of the machines to determine whether the neural networks are built to simulate human cognition. This doesn’t make any sense. We don’t inspect boats to see if they simulate human sw
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by drdrey 3y ago
Source code is not for the machine to read, it’s for your fellow humans
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by drdrey 3y ago
What about on macOS? Is OpenCL viable?
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by drdrey 3y ago
That's right, look at this thread for example: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20... The Global Value Numbering pass in LLVM was iterating over `DenseMap<BasicBlock*, ...>`, so
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by drdrey 3y ago
a very common one is pointer values being different from run to run and across different operating systems. Any code that intentionally or accidentally relies on pointer values will be non-deterministic
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by drdrey 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
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by drdrey 3y ago
plus out of order execution, hyperthreading, SIMD, better and bigger memory caches, more cores, more power efficiency
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by drdrey 3y ago
That works because polarization sells too
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by drdrey 3y ago
Still would be better to keep the carbon solid than released into the atmosphere, no?
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by drdrey 3y ago
What happened with methane in 1995?
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by drdrey 3y ago
Great write-up! I was one of the Apple engineers who implemented some of these obfuscations. Fun to see an outside perspective on your work.
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by drdrey 3y ago
> And while at $0.078 a kilowatt, Phoenix's power isn't as cheap as Washington State, which is closer to $0.04 a kilowatt, but it's still competitive, Howard said. what kind of writing is that? It’s unreadable, in addition
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by drdrey 3y ago
there is no branchness bit, if there's an endbranch you can jump to it
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by drdrey 3y ago
The context for the joke is that some job listings have inflated requirements, like N years of experience from framework/language X that realistically nobody has (or in this case, can have)
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by drdrey 3y ago
Would have been nice to see how their approach (GPU based fuzzing of SMT formulas) compares to traditional CPU solvers, did I miss it? Was this a one-off or is there a follow up?
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Relieving your Python packaging pain(bitecode.dev)
4 points by drdrey 3y ago|1 comments
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by drdrey 3y ago
In the US, butter is sold in sticks with 1/8 cup markings on the wrapper
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by drdrey 3y ago
How about grit?
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by drdrey 3y ago
you still trust that the hardware will use the seed you provided and not one of the pre-generated ones
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by drdrey 3y ago
And I am reminded of this weird Apple patent where a macbook docks into a display: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/01/apple-patents-idiosy...
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by drdrey 3y ago
Notion's editor is great for this, publishing not so much
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by drdrey 3y ago
That's because optimizing for battery life is a stated goal of the Safari team, it's actively benchmarked
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by drdrey 4y ago
what about a bank where you can get a loan?
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by drdrey 4y ago
There is nothing boring about this quine, that is the general approach that works in any language
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by drdrey 4y ago
> the cryptocurrency bubble took a bit over a decade to implode, but back in 2011 I prediced its demise within, yeah, 1-3 years In 2011 crypto was only Bitcoin and the market cap was likely under $1B Today the market cap hovers around $1

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