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by fnord77 1y ago
There is a perfectly good word for this. Simulation. Can we stop using the expression "Digital Twin" ?
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by fnord77 1y ago
I was able to charge my macbook from itself using that technique.
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by fnord77 1y ago
It says the design of the 3D printer is done. But on the 3D printer page, there's nothing, no design documents, just a picture.
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by fnord77 1y ago
Services should allow secondary email addresses.
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by fnord77 1y ago
So... what are FPGAs usually used for in this context?
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by fnord77 1y ago
My idea of self care is trolling reddit. Suggestion: rather than hard coded choices, allow free-form input and use an LLM to convert that into a metric
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by fnord77 1y ago
These people have diverged from reality.
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by fnord77 1y ago
> but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose th
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by fnord77 1y ago
There were chicken littles during the run up to 2008, too. Actually, I think most were a little bit premature. I take articles like these as an early sell signal.
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by fnord77 1y ago
A entire class of bugs, wiped out by a thing called a "compiler". Gigahours of downtime and bug fixing globally prevented by a modest extra step up front. Great stuff.
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by fnord77 1y ago
So in the beginning of the story, a google VP was mentioned, then no follow up. Why was that person there?
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by fnord77 1y ago
Is this real time? I don't see anything moving.
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by fnord77 1y ago
He doesn't mention the big advantage Rust has over C: memory safety.
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by fnord77 1y ago
I can see one bug just glancing at the code - feeding a stray '}' at the top level can result in depth becoming negative
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by fnord77 1y ago
I'm really impressed by Anker's 30w charger that's the size of Apple's original 5w charger.
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by fnord77 1y ago
> He uses the example of the dynamo, an old-fashioned term for a powerful electric motor. um, dynamo is a generator, it takes mechanical energy and turns into to electricity.
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by fnord77 1y ago
It's a damn shame that project Valhalla still isn't finished. This would fix so much and open up java for better matrix math support
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by fnord77 1y ago
I think Java is the best language for most medium to large projects or anything that requires threading or complicated/optimized IO Especially now that hardware architectures are getting fragmented again, I hope it becomes more relevan
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by fnord77 1y ago
tesla robotaxi is worse than waymo was 3 years ago when I was a tester
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by fnord77 1y ago
one of the waymo depots in SF is a multi level parking building
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by fnord77 1y ago
Too bad waymo is more expensive than uber most of the time
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by fnord77 1y ago
Disallowing non-tracked work isn't necessarily dysfunctional. Let's say you're working on spaceflight software where lives are at risk.
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by fnord77 1y ago
They cracked the APK to get the default password, but googling for it I see it is in a CVE from 2022 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37255
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by fnord77 1y ago
assuming this is IEEE 754
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by fnord77 1y ago
Marketing is misreading the room. I believe there's a bunch of people buying no video cards right now that would if there were high vram options available
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by fnord77 1y ago
be cool if the creator used semi-conducting threads and it actually worked
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by fnord77 1y ago
looking forward to the "LLM token horrors" version
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by fnord77 1y ago
Because 99% of the time queues don't need to be thread safe. If you need thread safety, use locks or specialized thread-safe versions. Java learned this lesson early.
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by fnord77 1y ago
nothing about vector calculus to minimize loss functions or needing to find Hessians to do Newton's method.
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by fnord77 1y ago
I always found Demoscene to be a curious phenomena. A combination of fascination and not understanding the point. Seems to be mostly a European thing, too.

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