groundlogic

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1. 61.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   By voting...
2. 62.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   It's a bit of separate issue, but as I wrote in a separate comment: It's on the governments (in this case the US government) to break up these companies into less powerful smaller parts.
3. 63.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   There's also no credible denial.
4. 64.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   A solution: break up the Alphabet companies and Amazon/AWS.
5. 65.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   Through the magic that is called legislation. (And if the megacorp is too big, break it up.)
6. 66.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   I feel like they are separate tasks. Companies should be apolitical. Governments should be political. Governments should actively set limits for what companies can and should/should not do.
7. 67.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   Google really wants to get back into China. I guess I don't really blame them. I also really want GCP to enter China. It would make it so much easier to launch truly global services. I hate that "World except China" and &quot
8. 68.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   I'd think that he'd say something if it was false.
9. 69.▲
   by groundlogic 7y ago

   Reminiscent of the Logitech Scanman handheld 2D scanner from 1988 ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Logitech_ScanMan... ), but now in 3D. (How is there not a Wikipedia article about this product? I bet deleti
10. 70.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    https://www.newsweek.com/cathay-ceo-refused-name-hong-kong-p... > The Taiwan News claimed that Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg's decision to resign last week came after he refused to name names to the Chinese governm
11. 71.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    This is an insane IPO. (Insane in a pretty bad way.)
12. 72.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    First: thanks, this was exactly the kind of historic knowledge I hoped would show up in this thread! Gene Amdahl ran this; geeze, no surprise they got funded. Do you happen to know how many "compute units" this chip was designed t
13. 73.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Right. This part of the work is left to the foreign-living chinese nationalistic diaspora. They get their directions from the CCP nonetheless. Again, for casual readers: Chinese people in the US who don't support squashing democracy
14. 74.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    I don't think HN is immune to these kinds of CCP ops.
15. 75.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    This area desperately does need terminology to be nailed down.. but.. I don't really like the proposed terminology. It's kinda hard to understand and follow. (The meat is in the table at the end of the article.)
16. 76.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Ah.. I can imagine all kinds of weird bottlenecks making it hard to deliver a high-res bitmap at a reasonable framerate, or at all, to a screen back then. Anyway, if you end up reading this: I really enjoyed so many of your dadhacker posts,
17. 77.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Sure, that makes sense. With this many cores it seems like the probability that a core dies during a multi-hour job (or in case it's used for inference, during a very long-lived realtime job) is pretty high, so the software in all laye
18. 78.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    I certainly agree on the benefits of curation. Using google was awesome before SEO. I never really used Encarta deeply - I bought my Misumi CD-ROM reader in like 1994, without a bundle.
19. 79.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Obviously this is pure nostalgia. Wikipedia + Google is superior in pretty much all imaginable ways. And available to people "in the developing world". (I don't really get why Scott included that part. The number of people wh
20. 80.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Sure, that practice is pretty wellknown. But at this scale?
21. 81.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    If you divide that giant piece of silicon into 400k processors, and then only use the ones that actually work... I wonder if they figure that out every time the CPU boots, or at the factory. At this scale, maybe it makes sense to do it all
22. 82.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    > The 46,225 square millimeters of silicon in the Cerebras WSE house 400,000 AI-optimized, no-cache, no-overhead, compute cores > But Cerebras has designed its chip to be redundant, so one impurity won’t disable the whole chip. This s
23. 83.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Relevant: "Plastic-bag ban led to hep A health crisis?" https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/sep/08/stringers-pl...
24. 84.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    That's probably the best/most succinct answer.
25. 85.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    There are of course many definitions. In my current small company, here's one definition of the "technical manager" role: Figure out what to do, figure out what not do (10x more work), handle hiring/firing (both are real
26. 86.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Thanks for the work, dude. It's an awesome collection. Edit: a suggestion: you should have an index somewhere with a year-by-year list of the games. Maybe create an index github repo with some static HTML/markdown?
27. 87.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    Note: This collection is the work of Simon Morgan, https://sjm.io/ .
28. 88.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    I just did some busywork picking out what I think were the impact-wise most important games out of these (roughly half of them - super subjective :)), and then sorted them by release year, for your browsing pleasure!: Robotron: 2084 (1986)
29. 89.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    I guess, if all else fails, mail them to the Internet Archive Physical Archive in Richmond California: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-... It should be a matter of time until someo
30. 90.▲
    by groundlogic 7y ago

    IKEA seem to be killing it in speaker area these days. Even as Swede, that's kind of unexpected. I guess they saw a market segment where a lot of wood is used (this one's plastic though), and there were high margins for the premiu