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by gary_0 3y ago
Lots of fun facts on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Link > Annual transmission capacity of 12.3 TWh. > The actual cable is made of copper, steel, paper and plastic and weighs about 40 kg
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by gary_0 3y ago
Is it abandoned or is it just done? Before Barrier I was just using an ancient version of Synergy from before they went proprietary, and I only switched because `apt install synergy` stopped working. Either way, keyboard/mouse inputs w
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by gary_0 3y ago
It should be noted that the two-uterus hack is not acceptable as a "no major glitches" run. This can also soft-lock the universe if your children reach age 18 and have inheritances in trust.
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by gary_0 3y ago
It is dead and has been replaced by Gelsinger's Law.
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by gary_0 3y ago
And then https://brr.fyi/ breaks the Internet!
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by gary_0 3y ago
Communication protocols and interactive 3D software applications are not at all equivalent.
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by gary_0 3y ago
I'll respond to your question with a question: Why don't you have to pay to send e-mail to GMail users from a non-GMail host?
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by gary_0 3y ago
The project is quite exciting! It gives me hope that people are working on new things to get us out of this period of Web stagnation.
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by gary_0 3y ago
This looks like it might be the GitHub repo: https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-view-as-html If the HTML conversion code is open source, they should make that more public! Their GitHub account link is pretty buried on thei
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by gary_0 3y ago
Cynical thoughts along these lines occurred to me after I posted my comment, so no, I'm not surprised, just disappointed. Especially not after watching Intel slowly rot from the inside (good luck with your renovations, Mr. Gelsinger).
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by gary_0 3y ago
Yes, and companies like TSMC and Intel probably have vast internal documentation about where and how their processes can improve yield as they run their newest fabs. The research required to implement a new process can take decades to get t
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by gary_0 3y ago
Historically, maybe, but otherwise that's not how it works. Nowadays, when a new process enters risk production, yields are expected to be sub-optimal (I think I read that some of the recent stuff TSMC was making for Apple was below 50
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by gary_0 3y ago
I recall reading that a brand new cutting-edge process node might get 60% yield, but a completely mature node is circa 90% (if memory serves). Yields for a new process usually go up over time as manufacturing bugs are worked out.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Hacker News doesn't use a CDN as far as I can see; news.ycombinator.com resolves straight to the single box HN lives on. You're right about caching, though.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Does HN ever require CAPTCHAs? It seems to do pretty well with its basic but battle-tested moderation/antispam tools, and rate-limiting that seems to repel all but the most concerted DDoS attacks. I don't think HN has any unreason
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by gary_0 3y ago
Thanks to the Intellectual Property provisions of various international trade agreements I'm pretty sure that's not accurate.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> Another subtlety: the ecosystem. See also: The Raspberry Pi.
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by gary_0 3y ago
I wonder how many of the "best movies of all time" were shot on film, weren't edited with computers, and had an inflation-adjusted budget of under $50 million.
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1734993768980402467
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by gary_0 3y ago
Both of the uses in the article seem to be deprecated, though, and not used to imply "impairment". Kind of a dumb joke. What's next, "HTTP 69: Loop Detected Between Input And Output"?
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by gary_0 3y ago
With shifts, you can multiply and divide by any number you want, as long as it's a power of two. ;)
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by gary_0 3y ago
Yes, that's how I understand it; you can't mangle one syscall into another, but you can still mangle the syscall's other argument values.
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by gary_0 3y ago
You're looking at the wrong company. TSMC has a margin of 40%.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> Code reuse techniques (ROP, JOP, etc.) aren’t impacted, right? Unless I'm mistaken, this should restrict what you can do with ROP gadgets that contain syscalls. You will only be able to use the gadget with its intended arguments,
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by gary_0 3y ago
> I cannot see why a superintelligence wouldn't be able to put together Stuxnet^10 How will this Stuxnet^10 be able to do orders of magnitude more damage, though? Shut down power plants? Launch ze nukes? The "shut down power pl
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by gary_0 3y ago
> they required intense iteration, not simply the absorption of book knowledge I watched your talk, and I think this can be elaborated on even more to really drive it home. Because the big question is: how is your AI going to have agency
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by gary_0 3y ago
A poor kid who can't participate in culture arguably endures more harm than whatever harm might be caused by copyright infringement.
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by gary_0 3y ago
It is indeed a question of "either/or". Any capture solution that made a difference (on a gigaton scale) would require a massive industrial effort, and those limited resources should first tackle implementing renewables and e
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by gary_0 3y ago
The most efficient way to take carbon out of the air is not put it there in the first place. The energy required to affect a significant amount of the atmosphere (5.148×10^18 kg of air, 0.04% of which is CO2), not to mention build out whate
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by gary_0 3y ago
That's the goal of the project, and they're already close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT-60 So far the NIF in California is the only reactor I'm aware of that has achieved ignition: https:/&#x2F

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