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by gary_0 1y ago
Chips that old would be on a ~100nm process node, which is ancient. Anything using Flintstone transistors like those isn't going to hold up. > the pentium 4 engineers probably felt like the smartest people alive The P4's NetBur
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by gary_0 1y ago
Longer than that, for sure. They were deploying ML systems at least as far back as 2011.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeRank
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by gary_0 1y ago
Unfortunately a C compiler isn't going to know what to do with your probably-unaligned pointer to 5 floats that you're doing mostly horizontal arithmetic on. And SIMD instructions provide zero benefit if the data is spread out in
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by gary_0 1y ago
Not open source. "You will need internet connectivity to validate your AccessKey with Picovoice license servers ... If you wish to increase your limits, you can purchase a subscription plan." https://github.com/Pic
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by gary_0 1y ago
I almost get the feeling the only thing Intel thinks it has left in terms of value is the brand name itself; a blue sticker to put on consumer/business devices, nothing more. I also would have liked to see Intel continue to pursue its
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by gary_0 1y ago
No real mention of GPUs, instead they're "revitalizing the x86". Reading between the lines, my guess is that Arc is getting cancelled soon. (Don't spend it all in one place, NVDA shareholders.)
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by gary_0 1y ago
Apparently the treatment costs $3.2 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delandistrogene_moxeparvovec
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by gary_0 1y ago
Apache was quickly spun off from its NCSA roots to become its own thing. There's a lot of history here that you're twisting around or ignoring. I'm not even American but, while lots of other countries made their own contribut
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by gary_0 1y ago
Not to mention almost all the breakthroughs on top of the initial Web happened in the US: Mosiac, Netscape, Apache, Yahoo, Google, etc. Many of them started out as "non-essential" research projects.
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by gary_0 1y ago
The Marginalia search engine or archive.org probably don't deserve such treatment--they're performing a public service that benefits everyone, for free. And it's generally not in one's best interests to serve a bunch of
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by gary_0 1y ago
Technically with lossy compression, the amount of information conveyed will likely change. It could even increase the amount of information of the decompressed image, for instance if you compress a cartoon with simple lines and colors, a
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by gary_0 1y ago
I'm really curious what year this webpage is from. My guess would be the mid to late 90's, but it would be interesting to know for sure.
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by gary_0 1y ago
Shor's algorithm suggests that a lot of encryption doesn't actually work, but of course it requires a quantum computer that hasn't yet been built, and may not be practical to build, so fingers crossed. At least there are qu
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by gary_0 1y ago
I think the blog post is arguing against a volley that happens all in one instant, requiring all the archers to synchronize perfectly. This seems pretty easy to argue against because while movies do it because it's dramatic and cool, i
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by gary_0 1y ago
Using 2024 numbers for ARM might not give a clear picture, because that was many years after major companies like nVidia and WD already switched all their major internal chips to RISC-V. ARM's lunch was already partly eaten; many billi
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by gary_0 1y ago
Their blog looks like it's integrated with Bluesky, where they have 15K followers, so that's where the activity is coming from. It's not uncommon for high-profile devs to get that much engagement there.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Apparently the FAA database that tracks accident investigations is down also, and probably a bunch of other systems that regular people aren't aware of that various organizations rely on. If this was a Chinese cyberattack, it would be
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by gary_0 2y ago
It is standard practice to translate software into many languages, whereas road signs cannot be.
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by gary_0 2y ago
The future has been here for a while but remains unevenly distributed.
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by gary_0 2y ago
> by not intervening he essentially endorses that getting rust into the kernel requires consensus from all subsystem maintainers And let's not be obtuse, some of those subsystem maintainers are staunchly opposed, so "it's
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by gary_0 2y ago
Positive, yes, but can you point to where he says R4L is here to stay and an integral part of the kernel? He needs to commit, or drama like this will continue to boil over. He also seems content to let the C-only old guard give the R4L guys
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by gary_0 2y ago
The Rust drama is an uncommon failure of leadership for Torvalds. Instead of decisively saying "no, never" or "yes, make it so," he has consistently equivocated on the Rust issue. Given the crisis of confidence among a s
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by gary_0 2y ago
> it shows me the source and I can click on the link to verify the source ... (search engine use case) To me, this is exactly a search engine. I type my query into 2005-2015 Google, I scan the page summaries under the links to see the an
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by gary_0 2y ago
The "what if you don't have the software" argument doesn't hold water for me. What if you don't have git? What if you don't have a text editor? What if you don't have a filesystem? Most programming languag
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/4uZ7z
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by gary_0 2y ago
That's 32.5 megabits/sec, not MB/s. It uses the 802.11ah standard. https://www.morsemicro.com/products/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
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by gary_0 2y ago
I remember vividly how unfun resistive touchscreens were. Especially on tablet computers, which existed long before the iPad, but never caught on. They also had terrible battery life, ugly TFT screens and backlights, unreliable wireless con
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Nobody said they wanted an iPod or iPhone or iPad or a Macbook Air before What do you mean? There were MP3 players before the iPod, Blackberries and PDAs before the iPhone, and tablet computers and lightweight laptops before Apple popu
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by gary_0 2y ago
Whenever anyone says "JavaScript" they actually mean "ECMAScript", which is the language browsers and scripting engines actually implement. The Web standard documents cannot use the term "JavaScript" because of
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by gary_0 2y ago
> hasn't it been dead and burried for decades? "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin, like 30 years ago. Just after he observed that "hard-working people of

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