hencoappel

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by hencoappel 5y ago
Transcrypt is a tool to compile a fairly extensive subset of Python into compact, readable JavaScript. It has the following characteristics: It’s lightweight, in accordance Pareto’s rule adapted for IT: 99% of the result can be achiev
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by hencoappel 5y ago
From their GitHub: Crystal is a programming language with the following goals: Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal) Statically type-checked but without having to specify the type of variables or
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by hencoappel 5y ago
As far as I'm aware, efficiency is key for datacenters. It can lower direct electricity costs, but also the cost of cooling. I've always been under the impression that the cost of running is much more than the cost of the hardware
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by hencoappel 5y ago
Isn't what you describe what all upscaling does? You're trying to add information that isn't there.
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by hencoappel 5y ago
Could be more efficient than BF16?
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by hencoappel 5y ago
I mean, the simplest solution to the reverse problem is generating random sequences and then predicting their structure to see if they fit the desired structure.
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by hencoappel 5y ago
I'm not endorsing Apple Pay, but I also don't carry cash, so how am I supposed to pay? Sure I can pay by card, but now the credit card company knows what I'm buying. Also that involves another person who has to come accept th
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by hencoappel 6y ago
Google has been experimenting with Fuscia and I believe doing some interesting stuff, but I'm by no means an expert.
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by hencoappel 6y ago
If you took humans off the road and made the roads suitable for only automated cars it would be so much easier to automate, its only hard because we have to make it drive with the signals/lines and such that humans require rather than
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by hencoappel 7y ago
As already stated, the idea is that you have an object that represents your DOM. When your code makes changes to the DOM, it actually affects the virtual DOM, this allows for lots of quick changes to the vDOM without much overhead, then at
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by hencoappel 7y ago
> too big and heavy for Europe You do realise that a battery is very heavy? Also, just because you don't want a bigger car, doesn't mean that others don't, there are still lost of smaller cars around.
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by hencoappel 7y ago
> restricting all browsers to use safari is the single killer feature "killer" is right, "feature" is not. It's very anti-competitive and for those who don't want to use Safari it means iOS is just not an op
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by hencoappel 7y ago
I wonder if you could store them as a trie, I feel like that would give you quite good savings given the commonality of openings. Or at least use a trie for the openings and then apply the Huffman coding to the rest of the game and store th
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by hencoappel 7y ago
This is barely worth reading. I thought there would be more in it, but just read the TLDR in the comments.
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by hencoappel 7y ago
If memory serves me correctly, ever since dicts became ordered the OrderedDict simply became a subclass of dict, so it will have exactly the same performance characteristics.
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by hencoappel 7y ago
This is sort of what Flutter claims to be.
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by hencoappel 7y ago
Only slightly, like 5% between the 3900x and 9900k. And if you're not gaming with a 2080ti you're likely to not even notice the difference between a similarly priced Intel/AMD chips. If you do anything else other than gaming
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by hencoappel 8y ago
Does that mean they block every single website where you can upload data? Dropbox, Gmail, etc? What's even the point given how easy it would be to find some way to send stuff over the Internet?
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by hencoappel 8y ago
> perfectly fine Python 2.7 Not sure how you see a system being deprecated in 2020 as perfectly fine.
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by hencoappel 8y ago
I didn't know this didn't work in Firefox!
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by hencoappel 8y ago
> all languages I've worked with will handle a "small" line width of 80 character just fine most of the time Guessing you don't write Java? While you could do it, you'd have so much line wrapping that I imagine i
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by hencoappel 8y ago
Main discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206038
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by hencoappel 8y ago
A reference to the article about helium breaking iPhones?
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by hencoappel 8y ago
I'm going to have to be that guy and say, did you try googling it? Here's one guide: https://hackernoon.com/compiling-rust-to-webassembly-guide-4...
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by hencoappel 8y ago
Since you're talking about the Chrome GC I'm going to assume that you're writing code in JS. If that is the case and you have to need such performance that you're having to worry about GC and tacking references then you
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by hencoappel 8y ago
I believe people are working on making this work, also getting it to work in browsers.
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by hencoappel 8y ago
Think you mean Snapdragon 805
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by hencoappel 8y ago
What language do you use for GPGPU?
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by hencoappel 8y ago
If that 2x price/performance scales for all of Google's inferencing then it is definitely not a loss for them. If they can halve their running costs for inferencing then they are saving themselves a ton of money. Their TPUv2 was a
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by hencoappel 8y ago
Then test against 2 EPYC 7451s as well for a fairer comparison.

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