drob518

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by drob518 6mo ago
You’re starting to sound like Qwen.
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by drob518 6mo ago
If you think your AI “confessed,” that’s your problem right there.
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by drob518 6mo ago
How do you know what the probability is?
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by drob518 6mo ago
I’ve been a tech guy for 45 years and I still can’t figure out USB and Thunderbolt and what goes with what and how fast it’s supposed to run.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Seems like you’re lashing out with nonsense.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. I was reacting to the word “waste” I guess. Surely, as you say, it consumes that opcode encoding space. Whether that’s a waste or not depends on a lot of other things, I suppose. I wasn’t necessarily thinking
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by drob518 6mo ago
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “waste 8 opcodes.”
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by drob518 6mo ago
Right, like a “set reg to zero” instruction. One byte. Just encodes the operation and the reg to zero. I’m surprised we didn’t have it on those old processors. Maybe the thinking was that it was already there: xor reg,reg.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yea, that’s what immediately went through my head, too. XOR is ALWAYS going to be single cycle because it’s bit-parallel.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Read the indictment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl
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by drob518 6mo ago
Here’s the indictment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl
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by drob518 6mo ago
Here’s the indictment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl
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by drob518 6mo ago
I didn’t say they were paying criminals. I said they were paying KKK and Nazis. I made an analogy to firemen and arsonists to make the point that they were fraudulently creating demand for their services, not to suggest that who they were p
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by drob518 6mo ago
Private non-profits don’t do that. Police do that.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Naw, in another five minutes it’ll be something different. But it will be about crypto.
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by drob518 6mo ago
They were paying KKK members and Nazis. The scam was roughly the same as firemen paying arsonists to justify their salaries.
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by drob518 6mo ago
When the AI bubble pops, we’re all going back to talking crypto.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yes, I was around then. It felt exactly the same. That’s how you know it’s a bubble. Because everyone starts acting stupid and conjuring up all these ridiculous explanations for why it makes sense when it plainly doesn’t. In 1999, everythin
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by drob518 6mo ago
Right behind you.
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Transducers: Middleware for Reducing Functions(dgr.github.io)
3 points by drob518 6mo ago|0 comments
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by drob518 6mo ago
Transducers work even better with a Clojure library called Injest. It has macros similar to the standard Clojure threading macros except Injest’s macros will recognize when you’re using transducers and automatically compose them correctly.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Salt Lake City is a perfect grid, better than Manhattan. An address in SLC tells you EXACTLY where it is. It was GPS before GPS.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Indeed. I remember flying to Atlanta and arriving at midnight. I rented a car and had to try to find my hotel in the dark with one of those one-page maps the rental car company had. So, yea, we’ve come a long way for the better.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yep, that’s sometimes true as well.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yep, they all have flaws. I just fine that when I want to drive somewhere, Google does better for me than Apple, though certainly Apple has improved a lot recently.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Cook did a great job. I was hesitant when Steve Jobs died and Cook took over. Jobs was so visionary and it wasn’t clear that a finance guy would be a good fit. He clearly learned what he needed to and he trusted those people around him in t
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by drob518 6mo ago
In many cases, yes, but it really depends a lot on the person. I have a computer hardware degree but have led both software and UX teams. If you have a hardware background, you’re going to have to acquire a software background before you ca
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by drob518 6mo ago
It’s gotten a lot better, but I still find the address database better in Google Maps, which helps when you have only a fragment of an address. I also find that the Apple Maps database has a lot of roads that read the same. For instance, in
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yea, the article struck me immediately as a lot of spin in that it’s hyping the growth rate of solar versus the growth rate of other tech. Solar is newer and is still a relatively small slice of the overall pie compared to oil and gas. It’s
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by drob518 6mo ago
I was at some of those IETF meetings in the mid-1990s and attended some early IPv6 working group sessions. We knew the conversion would take time, but I don’t think any of us thought it would be this slow. I was involved with multiple L3 sw

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