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by fmajid 3mo ago
> Democracy and Liberalism are offshoots of Christian culture That would be news to the pagan ancient Athenians who invented democracy (although the Indus Valley Civilization may have beaten them to it). The Athenians were clear-eyed abo
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by fmajid 3mo ago
My nephew's wife died in that crash. Only 26, and already a widower. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/husband-pa...
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Similarly, COST, configuration that outperforms a single thread: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Anthropic is careful about buying capacity, and too conservative given their explosive growth. That compares favorably with OpenAI and its Monopoly money Ponzi scheme approach, which will blow up sooner or later.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
You believe status pages are accurate and not another marketing page? That's adorable .
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by fmajid 3mo ago
How are Gödel's incompleteness theorem relevant to the working programmer?
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by fmajid 3mo ago
We don't have to imagine his scenario, that's what happened to Évariste Galois. But then again any university professor gets dozens of crank letters a year claiming to have solved the trisection of angles or such.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
And its transition to post-quantum cryptography is going to be a migration challenge.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Memory safety cosplayers, more like.
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I take it she lives in a blessedly DST-free jurisdiction, then?
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Ensemble Methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning
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by fmajid 3mo ago
And this is exactly why Germany is not serious about its obligations to fight Global Warming. Always choosing the easy or demagogic way out, whether it was running on cheap Russian gas, or mothballing nuclear and restarting lignite coal pow
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Usually software wins over hardware, but the voracious appetite of LLMs has inverted the usual balance of power.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
The Soviets are a more likely culprit, as then just like now most of their revenues came from oil and gas exports. They secretly supported the Rote Armee Fraktion (Baader-Meinhof) terrorists via the Stasi, so funding the Greens to stymie in
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by fmajid 3mo ago
I have a bronze replica of the equation of time cam, Levenger sold it as a limited edition item in 02009.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Jensen Huang is just trying to commoditize the complements to his GPUs.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Good PMs are more than ICs, they are also a force multiplier for the engineers they work with.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Sales engineers are pre-sale, FDE are both pre- and post-sale. FDEs are also much more involved in the client implementation, often they are the ones actually doing all the work, specially in government bureaucracies or large ossified corpo
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by fmajid 3mo ago
It's a well-paying job, but probably poison to your future career development, much as SRE or QA roles are, because you are now pigeonholed.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
The rise in RAM and storage price means it's more costly and less viable to have a separate device from the PC or Mac you already have, dedicated to playing games.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
And since outside the EU, all alternative browsers on iOS/iPadOS are just rebadged Safari, this degrades the Web on those platforms. Not entirely coincidentally, Apple has a strong incentive to encourage native apps over web ones.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
While it makes sense for government to sponsor the humanities and arts, much as it does museums, many educational institutions, or more precisely specific departments, mislead students into applying for graduate programs with dim career pro
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Probably good enough for memcached type applications
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by fmajid 3mo ago
The Economist is to the City of London (the financial center masquerading as a local authority, not the metropolis) what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. Useless as a source of truth, but invaluable to find out who was going to be
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by fmajid 3mo ago
There was the Citibank headquarters https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine...
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by fmajid 3mo ago
Yes, that article has an email for TAOCP corrections, that are processed by his secretary.
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by fmajid 3mo ago
He doesn't have an inbox: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Replacing Aspirin with Acetaminophen/Paracetamol was absurd. Reyes’s syndrome was nowhere as prevalent as acetaminophen overdoses, which are a horrible way to go.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
In the UK as well.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Example: I only buy basic Logitech B110s wired mice. No vendor software needed to activate mostly useless extra functionality, compatible with every single OS, including OpenBSD which doesn't support Bluetooth. In this case, no (driver

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