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by fooker 5d ago
Searching for "airpod" in settings brings up - Accessibility, "Headphones/AirPods/Beats", Conversation Boost, Noise Cancellation, Press and hold duration, Press speed, Transparency mode Not sure what went wro
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by fooker 5d ago
It's searchable
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by fooker 5d ago
> I can't wait until AI helps us remove multiple layers of middle men across Sales in general. Monkey's paw - now you have to deal with a layer of bots.
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by fooker 5d ago
Agreed. The "move the bottleneck back to compute" bit is changing rapidly though. The first time a major hardware company ships a PIM chip, you can push for a few orders of magnitude more data through without being compute bound.
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by fooker 5d ago
I am not sure if you replied in good faith, but here you go. The reason is that they have been trying again and again to do this in various forms, slightly modifying tactics so any opposition to it has to start from scratch. 2015 - https:&
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by fooker 5d ago
Exactly right. Chat control is merely their newest attempt at this, carefully navigating around the reasons it was opposed last year. They keep trying to legislate encryption backdoors by any means, and once they manage to get their foot in
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by fooker 6d ago
This will blow your mind, but it actually is pretty close to being unbounded. :) Consider the 'MMA N matrices' primitive modern CPUs are starting to support. For the current generation of CPUs, N is a constant like 16 or 32, but
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by fooker 6d ago
SIMD (and especially the modern matrix extensions) can use as much bandwidth you can throw at it.
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by fooker 6d ago
> Some outcomes can be annoying I'd classify mandatory encryption backdoors as an industry crisis rather than an annoyance.
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by fooker 6d ago
Often you don't move memory around as a programmer, but that's exactly what happens in the background. It's the address space that's unified, not always the physical hardware. The data movement (when needed) is handled t
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by fooker 6d ago
It is a real advantage. The reality distortion is that people seem to believe it's HBM, or somehow it gives you extraordinary amounts of vram. Neither are really true.
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by fooker 6d ago
Idle yes, but HBM energy consumption / memory operations seems to be a bit better than DRAM.
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by fooker 6d ago
Apple's "unified memory" marketing is so strong that even tech literate people seem to have this misconception! They have managed to pull this sort of thing off many many times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by fooker 6d ago
What's the main blocker (other than the current inflated cost) for using HBM instead of DRAM as the primary memory for consumer electronics?
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by fooker 7d ago
So, what we colloquially call 'reptile brain' turns out to be somewhat accurate.
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by fooker 7d ago
This is something the "eat the rich" crowd keeps missing. Sure, you could take wealth away from billionaires, and sometimes there are good reasons to, but it's weird to pretend that it will cover more than a tiny tiny fractio
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by fooker 8d ago
Because we want people to write simple idiomatic code that runs fast today and also in ten years on alien hardware. > Maybe I'm doing some rounding? Compilers won't do this optimization when it is illegal to. If you disagree wi
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by fooker 8d ago
This comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of what UB is. Think of this piece of code - `y * x / y`. Would you like to simplify it to just `x` ? You need to either lean on UB to do so or have some magical way to prove that y can no
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by fooker 8d ago
> business profits should rise It's the snake eating it's tail. For business profits to rise, people need to to have disposable income. If you replace enough people with AI, the average disposable income comes down to a point t
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by fooker 9d ago
The version of windows you get for software development at a company that needs windows for software development is pretty good, no sign of any adware or bloatware, no phoning home, no sus telemetry or updates forced by microsoft.
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by fooker 9d ago
Clearly the best place to put all your factories!
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by fooker 9d ago
What's □14 node?
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by fooker 10d ago
Ah yeah, the EU, a historically stable area.
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by fooker 11d ago
You should (probably) read the article
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A call for a pause – Vivek Srikumar(svivek.com)
6 points by fooker 11d ago|3 comments
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by fooker 11d ago
I think baking bread at scale will give everyone gluten issues.
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by fooker 11d ago
Clearly the answer is to announce that the baking frontier must slow down. ;) Bread baking factories could clearly destroy civilization as we know it, create incredible economic inequality, make a permanent underclass, etc etc.
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by fooker 11d ago
May I suggest 1984 for some fantastic examples of this? Also, Democratic Republic of {Congo, Korea}.
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by fooker 11d ago
In terms of politics, sure. In terms of cold war presidents itching to start wars, no.
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by fooker 12d ago
This is not mathematical logic. Of course you can't prove the causality of anything in history. The only way to do that would be to invent a time machine, delete the nukes and watch things play out. There are direct quotes from Nixon a

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