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by gary_0 3y ago
https://nitter.net/realGeorgeHotz/status/1690452184851435520
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by gary_0 3y ago
No mention of caching? If your database is getting hammered with SELECTs, isn't putting a cache in front of it something that should at least be considered?
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by gary_0 3y ago
Better late than never!
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip/status/1689476909208600576/
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by gary_0 3y ago
He doesn't mention yield, which I hear is currently pretty bad on 3nm. And "just route around the bad silicon" might be easier said than done; widespread defects might create too many roadblocks to efficiently move data aroun
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by gary_0 3y ago
> hoarded wealth and insular investing/cash outs destroys all other classes of labor until everyone gets fed up and start destroying each other Declining prosperity in the lower/middle classes is a recipe for social/politi
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by gary_0 3y ago
His description of the former vibrant economy of hundreds of different companies all consolidating into monoliths (in more sectors than just publishing) makes me think of Internet centralization as kind of an instance of Conway's Law w
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by gary_0 3y ago
What you're talking about is a real thing (I've seen its effect on women in my life) but I'd prefer to take Julia's post at face value, which shows her as someone with a quiet enthusiasm for tech who doesn't enjoy p
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by gary_0 3y ago
Julia's writing also just has nice-person energy (without any of the forced cutesy-ness that some blogs suffer from) and I think she's getting back what she puts out. She's clearly a skilled writer who knows how to set a tone
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by gary_0 3y ago
Whether it was a shadowy executive cabal or a couple of overzealous minions who proposed WEI is kind of immaterial. Google has too much power to decide the fate of the Web, and no incentive not to exploit that power, and something must be d
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by gary_0 3y ago
And some of the code is never called, but removing it causes weird crashes because the cell.exe compiler is finicky. And some of the code shouldn't be there, but it was left behind by a virus infection that wasn't completely clear
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by gary_0 3y ago
That's a reasonably skeptical take on the story so far. I've heard it said that the Fleischmann-Pons debacle in 1989 was detrimental to the entire field of fusion research during the 90's because of the effect it had on publi
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by gary_0 3y ago
Rust bindings are at the bottom of the readme: https://github.com/semio-ai/vkfft-rs Also Python: https://github.com/vincefn/pyvkfft
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by gary_0 3y ago
You're correct, I updated my comment. I'm having trouble keeping track of all the videos of floating specks of junk. At any rate, there are currently no "successful replications" of the superconductivity result.
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by gary_0 3y ago
The headline is misleading because this is not a "claimed successful replication" of the superconductivity experiment. All they're confirming is that they produced a diamagnetic substance: https://forums.spacebattl
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by gary_0 3y ago
Long-haul flights are the one possible exception, but they're not the saving grace the fossil fuel companies are trying to manufacture. Tanks of hydrogen at the airport are not a "hydrogen economy". And since it's lookin
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by gary_0 3y ago
I keep waiting for everyone to wake up to the hydrogen scam. Do you see any practical consumer hydrogen infrastructure going up? Has it even been invented yet? Electrical infrastructure is a solved problem, we need to scale it up anyways, a
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by gary_0 3y ago
They could block Snowflakes with IPs from networks in unsafe countries, but that is trivially bypassed by the attacker just buying VPSs (or botnet nodes) in a freer country. Skimming the Technical Overview[0], I don't see anything abou
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by gary_0 3y ago
They say they want no-gil to be the only build mode 5 years from when it becomes available. That is both too long and too short. That is too long for Python to have 2 modes. Half a decade is more than enough time for 2 modes to become the s
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by gary_0 3y ago
If you scroll past the 6 feet of regurgitated Musk condemnation, he has a good point: DRM and anti-right-to-repair laws make it easy for manufacturers to scam consumers and allow scummy rent-seeking behavior. I wish Doctorow eased off on th
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by gary_0 3y ago
That's not EE, that's basic math/physics. The largest Telsa Model S battery is 100kWh, which is 360MJ. Boiling 1L of water from room temperature takes 330kJ. 55 US gallons is about 200L water. 200 * 330kJ = 66MJ to boil the w
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by gary_0 3y ago
> Or crawlers, for that matter. Companies like Google love kicking down the ladder. You can bet that the Google crawler will have its own "attestation token" but if you want to crawl the Web with your own code you'll be SO
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by gary_0 3y ago
Now I kind of want to build one just for the challenge. Analyze what frequencies can get through, and reverse engineer the phone company's codec so I can send a pirate signal, like a phreaker of old. Fun fact: You can no longer do such
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by gary_0 3y ago
I suspect a lot of bad design comes from a myopic focus on The Analytics. Yes, there were a lot of failures in the bad old days due to Big Design Up Front and only iterating once a year after you ship 1.0, but we've gone to the opposit
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by gary_0 3y ago
There are few better ways to get me interested in something than to tell me it's boring and basic and just works.
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by gary_0 3y ago
If we're talking cyberpunk dystopias, we'd have to resort to hand-soldered audio couplers that use our locked-down phones as modems. Once the next Android/iOS update detects and blocks unauthorized binary carriers, we'll
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by gary_0 3y ago
The Web will cease to be an open system, and will become a glorified fax machine and cable TV network. Those few who care will turn to more esoteric, incomplete, user-unfriendly but open systems. Eventually one of those systems will gain p
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by gary_0 3y ago
Be Evil™
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by gary_0 3y ago
I can't tell if your comment is starry-eyed optimism or acid sarcasm. My mind has been rent in twain.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Yes, plenty of alternative energy technologies will emit too much carbon during the transition to make them viable. Right now, whenever we build something, we have GHG byproducts all over the place, so we have to really do the math first. A

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