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by ehvatum 6y ago
Could mass production conceivably reduce the cost of such full wafer chips below $100k? Interesting to note that at nvidia “professional-purpose” GPU extortion racket prices, this would be a $60m chip. (Every single day, it pisses me off th
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by ehvatum 6y ago
A few years ago, I was astounded to find that I can write modern C++ code for arduino. It’s pretty great; rvalue && parameters, classes, even STL string manipulation all works perfectly. C++11 and later added all kinds of useful syn
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by ehvatum 6y ago
There are steel mills down the road from my manufacturing business that were shuttered for decades and reopened when the tariffs came into effect. They were not competitive with Chinese government sponsored steel, that much is true. It’s ex
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by ehvatum 6y ago
“If you’re a strong writer and you can consume information in written formats really well, you’ll probably have an easier time transitioning to a remote team than someone who prefers face-to-face communication.” Inspiring young employees to
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by ehvatum 6y ago
That was also my experience until I mixed in THC and heroic amounts of mountain biking and racquetball. For me, the conditioning had to be broken. I knew that other people enjoy working out. It didn’t make sense that I couldn’t. I came to f
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Replacing the dried out thermal paste and pads interfacing the main board chips with their heat sinks cured this issue on my ancient core2 black macbook, which remains a perfectly good gentoo laptop. The latest Intel chips don’t seem to be
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by ehvatum 6y ago
The implications about non-local physics are interesting. There is true weirdness to do with locality, space, time, and propagation of information that crops up again and again, providing lots of cracks to pick at. https://news.y
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Mechatronic archeological velociraptors with 10,000x redundant fly-eyes, running tamper-proof signed binaries on Apple silicon, linked directly to all social networks via 5G, could rapidly respond to digital fingerprints suggesting potentia
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> As is almost common knowledge today, most of the music heard on recordings by the Beach Boys, the Monkees, and other LA-based pop groups was actually played by a handful of ace session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. That’s inter
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Jesus Christ, as a student, I am absolutely positive that I would spend 100% of my effort fucking with this software. This is “The lessons being taught are not the ones being learned” in extremis. Do we really want our best and brightest to
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Red light cameras are ostensibly for safety, but the incentives are bad. What should save lives is compromised by the profit motivation to increase citation issuance. My feeling is that Apple’s behavior is analogous to reducing yellow light
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Double precision FP, cl_khr_fp64, could not be supported by intel’s GPU silicon until Xeon phi / larabee was inevitably cancelled. That finally did happen. I would love to add more double precision compute capacity without being robbed
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by ehvatum 6y ago
The George W Bush time change was the epitome of this, for me. Oh yeah, I’m updating TZ files because W CARES ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING!!!
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by ehvatum 6y ago
By that time, there may even be another threat that proves far more deadly, particularly to young people. For example, car accidents.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Some might wonder why ultracommodification and financialization include food, air, and the human body. The concept strikes many as an affront. As long as humans have existed, so have food, air, and human bodies. Were Adam and Eve broken up
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Copyright convergence is mathematically divergent: some nation extends copyright by a positive integer value, so must all the others. An infinite series of positive integer values cannot converge to an integer value. However, comfort may be
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> She enumerates quite a few incorrect predictions You make a good point - without the expensive accelerator data, we’d have no idea that these omg ridiculous stupid waaaa predictions are true or false!!!
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by ehvatum 6y ago
But we wouldn’t know what the things explored by those undertakings are made of.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Car in Mars orbit. worth ninety-seven billion. his tweets hurt my butt.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
The absolute state of Twitter says everything about the cogitation required to type: none at all. Yet, the spray-painted vandalism seen in public spaces is only marginally more informed. Cuneiform is far more engaging of the faculties and d
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Sir, the answer to your query is available via the internal, massive Java web application. Unfortunately, the web application is down. Everyone responsible has moved on to Google. So, in answer, nobody knows and nobody can ever know.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
I dread the day Siemens inevitably buys Qt (it will happen) and the license structure changes to $65k/per-seat buy-in to the “base” toolkit which includes QObject and nothing else. Also, a $7k/year per-seat maintenance fee for “ba
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by ehvatum 6y ago
120Hz is incredible for gaming. Unity and Unreal Engine dynamically scale tessellation and many other things to accommodate hardware performance, so as to maintain FPS on high-refresh screens. The polygon counts, texture detail, AI complexi
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by ehvatum 6y ago
It’s all become too much. I’m deprecating Apple support at my company. Current company-owned Apple devices may continue to be used, and any BYOD is fine if it doesn’t run an Oracle DB instance, but we will no longer pay for repairs to Apple
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by ehvatum 6y ago
The situation in the US is exceptional. To put it mildly, US big corporate media would prefer that the current government executive be someone else, and their reporting is guided by that animus. This creates an appetite for alternative sour
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Amen to that! In another life, SoftImage 3D was my favorite tool. Then Microsoft bought it. Then Autodesk, the software graveyard tar pit, bought it and petrified it for all eternity. There will never be any more SoftImage development. Can’
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Trade vape tobacco juice with your teenagers for pirate downloads, and give them an MBA when they cut you out.
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> To keep hierarchies flat, Mr Brin and Mr Page briefly went so far as to abolish managers altogether, though the experiment had to be dialled back. A compromise was to give managers a minimum of seven direct reports to limit the time th
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Note that Portland Police deployed CS gas against protesters attempting to set fire to the courthouse on May 30th . That night, Portland Police arrested 51 people.
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I watch protest live-streams on one of my monitors every evening as I code and design. It’s not the absolute focus of my attention, but I have done this for months, and there is something very wrong with the impression I receive from this N

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