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by gary_0 2y ago
I consider simple HTML pages as a quality signal. Whereas if the content is posted on a large platform, I'll consider it likely to be rubbish (if I can read the content at all without demands to install the app, sign up, or subscribe).
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by gary_0 2y ago
I usually just hit the back button if I see the Substack layout, because I've wasted too much time reading a teaser and then hitting the obnoxious paywall at the bottom. (Paywalls on blogs ! What has the world come to?)
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by gary_0 2y ago
Yes, it will calm down, but: a) AI (formerly known as ML) was still a lucrative sector for hardware before LLMs were a big thing (nVidia has been well positioned for many years). b) It will continue to be a big deal after the bubble pops. T
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Stock buybacks and wage increases are not necessarily related issues. Workers (or their union representatives) asking for wage increases are usually told "sorry, there's no money". If the company then does a share buybac
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Why American automakers are failing in China [video](youtube.com)
3 points by gary_0 2y ago|0 comments
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by gary_0 2y ago
The AI boom has been going on for a couple years now, and Intel and AMD continue to be unwilling or unable to compete with nVidia head-to-head. Their level of incompetence borders on the implausible. Do they consider the AI developer GPU ma
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by gary_0 2y ago
I think it should be noted that talent/work (sometimes hard bloody work) is often essential to success--but without luck, the only output you get is failure at worst and mediocrity at best. And extreme outliers can get away with lots
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by gary_0 2y ago
Also because up until the mobile App Store walled gardens (and all the downsides they bring) arrived circa 2010, paying for software online was slow and awkward. And generally still is on desktop (except for games). Also because corporate s
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by gary_0 2y ago
Anyone remember IBM Watson Health? IBM started it almost 10 years ago(!) after they did the whole "AI plays Jeopardy" thing. There was much fanfare in the tech press. Then in 2018 IBM laid off about half of the Watson team. Eventu
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by gary_0 2y ago
Generally the data model of the API resembles the data model of the DB schema. IDs that are generic numbers could be considered an aspect of a "flat" data model, where the application code assigns semantics to lists of data that a
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by gary_0 2y ago
I think you could extend this argument to include the philosophy that databases should be glorified key-value stores, and semantics should only be handled by application code. I think a key point in the article is that "models become o
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by gary_0 2y ago
I feel like the new show covered lots of cultural ground, and would have risked bogging down if it went any deeper. Although I do think there has been an undercurrent of fascination with Japanese culture in the West for some decades now, so
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by gary_0 2y ago
A nitpick, maybe, but one thing that bothered me about Shōgun was that it wasn't filmed in Asia. The landscape, plant life, and climate was all wrong. All that effort spent on authenticity, and it was filmed in front of an inauthentic
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Cloudflare Announces Q1 2024 Financial Results(cloudflare.net)
6 points by gary_0 2y ago|0 comments
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by gary_0 2y ago
> it is hard to see how to make one line of Rust fit into all those millions of lines of C++ Good point. If Carbon/Cpp2front/etc ever get off the ground, they could supercede any C++-to-Rust transition if they can easily integr
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by gary_0 2y ago
"The future is a bunch of shit that's going to break." - Anonymous
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by gary_0 2y ago
Well, and almost no company or open source project is going to spend years rewriting their giant C++ code-base in Rust. And many people leading such C++ projects won't bother gaining expertise in Rust or care about hiring people who kn
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by gary_0 2y ago
In addition to the issues other comments raise, WARNING is useful separately because while INFO says "something happened", WARNING says "something weird/unlikely happened". I often use it for edge cases I don't
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by gary_0 2y ago
For Asian languages, UTF-8 is basically the same size as any other encoding when compressed[0] (and you should be using compression if you care about space) so in practice there is no data size advantage to using non-standard encodings. [0]
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by gary_0 2y ago
To help drive home the privacy angle, you might consider open-sourcing it and also making it available on F-Droid. Also, why does it say "in-app purchases"? If this is a simple calendar I don't see why any purchasable extras
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by gary_0 2y ago
The technology to make a broadly appealing product is a lot further away than 2 years. With the Vision Pro, they made the VR equivalent of the Apple Newton. The "iPhone moment" is a long way away (assuming VR will ever even have m
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World's biggest 3D printer whirs into action(bbc.com)
1 points by gary_0 2y ago|0 comments
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by gary_0 2y ago
Ah. I see. And then the kernel needs to bend over backwards to cover up the security holes and design flaws. :(
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by gary_0 2y ago
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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by gary_0 2y ago
Why would a hardware codec need the ability to arbitrarily read/write the entire address space, though? That seems like a needlessly dangerous design when it could easily have a register that restricts it to a kernel-designated address
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by gary_0 2y ago
I had the same question. If your chip can do, say, the DCT in hardware, why not just expose that unit directly to userspace? And if userspace sends invalid data to that unit, surely the kernel can just handle the fault and return an error?
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by gary_0 2y ago
I was recently algebra-ing down a complex 3D algorithm to speed it up, and it seemed peculiar how so many things can be boiled down into to a crap-ton of dot products. One of the recurring mathematical themes of the universe, I guess.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Hubris isn't a general-purpose OS, it runs on a low-level processor inside the Oxide server rack. I believe Hubris doesn't even allow new kinds of processes at runtime; all possible executables must be determined at compile time.
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by gary_0 3y ago
So far this just seems like politicians having no idea what an ISA is. China could have just rolled a variant of x86 (most of the patents are expired), or used MIPS which is open too. And anyways, designing the ISA isn't really the har
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by gary_0 3y ago
If all the parts had extremely solid Linux support, I wouldn't even be mad. They could have gaming-focused builds for Proton users, and partner with Valve so Steam gaming works out of the box with silky smooth frame rates. Something yo

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