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by fnands 7mo ago
Apparently that's kinda where the name comes from. It's named after a Serbian musician who was known as Bora Čorba, who played for a band called Riblja Čorba (fish stew).
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Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024)(arxiv.org)
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by fnands 7mo ago
News to me, but a guy named Sam Russell came up with a new software only CRC32 algorithm that is competitive with hardware accelerated implementations. It's a surprisingly elegant solution.
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by fnands 7mo ago
Yeah, I think it's a tough one for some people. Case in point: my parents. My father has always had a million hobbies, and his work was what was preventing him from fully exploring them. He's taken to retirement like a fish to wat
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by fnands 7mo ago
Pi day is coming up (it's a Saturday), so surprise your friends and or coworkers by making a pie for Pi day
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by fnands 7mo ago
I really like the idea. I sometimes get the idea some people just start raging at the world in general when they get their comments rejected/banned, and start to develop some sort of persecution complex. Will this fix the problem? I am
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by fnands 8mo ago
In case you didn't read it: It's about Somali speaking gig-workers in Kenya transcribing and translating audio for a company called Appen, that then gets passed on to the US military to train translation systems for the US militar
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by fnands 8mo ago
The dishwasher at my office has WiFi. Why do companies insist on connecting every single device to the internet? Fortunately it's mostly an optional feature, so still works just fine without it, but in general it's a pretty stron
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by fnands 8mo ago
Another similar story: My aunt passed away last year, and an acquaintance of my cousin sent her one of those "hug in a box" care packages you can buy off Amazon. Except when it was delivered, this one said "hug in a boy&quo
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by fnands 8mo ago
Oh no, looks like my 8700k will have to hold out a little longer.
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by fnands 8mo ago
First they came for the GPUs, but I did not speak out, for I was not a gamer. Then they came for the RAM, but I did not speak out, for I had already closed Firefox. Then they came for the hard drives, but I did not speak out, for I had the
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by fnands 8mo ago
Damn. First GPUs, then RAM, now hard drives? What's next, the great CPU shortage of 2026?
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by fnands 9mo ago
Very cool! I was having a conversation with my colleagues yesterday about building something to detect when you get scanned by a SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite (we're in earth observation), but you'd have to get a direct
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by fnands 9mo ago
> Classic private equity move dressed up as a tech company. Kinda, more like a tech company using private equity tactics. Say what you want about them, but they do actually employ decent engineers, and the founders are all engineers.
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by fnands 9mo ago
What value does an accurate prediction market bring? I.e. how can this information be used to improve lives (other than the person winning the bet)? I.e. even if it is sorta accurate, is this valuable to anyone? As I see it it seems to be a
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by fnands 9mo ago
> They are powerful tools for forecasting complex events that can help enrich and empower folks from across a range of backgrounds. gross. This sounds like a press release. It's gambling dressed-up as forecasting.
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by fnands 9mo ago
Damn, I love finding some hyper-specific forums like this one. Sooo much jargon.
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by fnands 9mo ago
Also, you mean the VAT that was introduced into (West) Germany in *checks-notes* 1968? I'm pretty sure someone has done an analysis on VAT since it was introduced 58 years ago... It's a really destabilising policy as you can see.
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by fnands 9mo ago
All of it? There's no question about who pays VAT, and there never has been. You can have whatever opinion you want on VAT, but there's never been any messaging that anyone else will be paying for VAT.
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by fnands 9mo ago
US Americans is usually used outside the US to differentiate inhabitants of the US from citizens of other countries in the Americas (e.g. Mexico, Canada, and all of central and South America). E.g. in Germany, inhabitants of the US are usua
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by fnands 9mo ago
Funny, but I think you're missing the point here. This is not meant to be an efficient, every day messaging platform. It's for people who are afraid of the government turning off the internet/cell network (kinda justified if
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by fnands 9mo ago
https://fnands.com/ I write about whatever I find interesting, averaging around 4-5 posts a year. Quarto page, so mostly write in Jupyter notebooks or markdown files.
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by fnands 10mo ago
A friend of mine is working for a small-ish startup (11 people) and he gets to work and sees the CTO push 10k loc changes straight to main at 3 am. Probs fine when you are still in the exploration phase of a startup, scary once you get to s
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by fnands 10mo ago
ArXiv doesn't give your paper any credibility either. If you want credibility, submit it to a journal. Journals don't require that the paper be on ArXiv. The reason I submitted our paper to ArXiv was that it was accepted at a wor
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by fnands 10mo ago
Recently went through this. Not exactly an independent researcher, but my current field (ML) is different from my educational field (physics), so needed to get someone to endorse me so I could upload a paper to cs.CV I asked someone who org
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by fnands 10mo ago
Man, you're living some crazy CyberPunk fever-dream. Nice find, and I admire your courage for even attempting this!
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by fnands 10mo ago
Same. Not Wordpress, but Cloudflare tells me my main traffic (by far) is from Singapore and the US, and in numbers that are clearly bots.
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by fnands 10mo ago
Eh, I think the Lada is more of a "you can't polish a turd" situation.
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by fnands 10mo ago
How many people do you know with RISC-V computers?
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by fnands 10mo ago
On your first point: It doesn't read like that to me. It seems like they built one of their key products (Claude Code) on top of Bun, and want to have a say in it's development.

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