holy_city

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by holy_city 7y ago
Interestingly enough, the published work [1] has two self-citations. So maybe there's something to that phrase, “the next work cannot be carried on without referring to previous work.” [1] https://journals.plos.org/plos
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by holy_city 7y ago
Maybe "non-redistributable" instead of "non-copyable." I don't disagree with your assessment, except I'd say DRM doesn't exist to restrict the machine - the goal is to restrict the user. Which is necessary
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by holy_city 7y ago
Say you want to send data to an untrusted destination and want the data to be read-only and non-copyable. DRM is the solution. That's not malware, it's part of the threat/loss prevention model for certain kinds of data. There
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by holy_city 7y ago
I feel like DRM is basically the prisoner's dilemma at this point where it's in everyone's interest to give it up, but no one wants to be the first person to do it. But honestly it's weird for GNU to fault the person bei
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by holy_city 7y ago
Imo this is just good old fashioned quality control. When you can't trust your wholesaler you randomly sample the shipment and test it, rejecting the whole shipment (or exact penalties) for product outside an acceptable threshold. The
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by holy_city 7y ago
I think Amazon would have benefited from better UI for particular parts of their platform and achieved better growth. They're great for point of sale, terrible for product discovery as a direct result of the UI. That's fine for mo
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by holy_city 7y ago
I feel like this is one of those stories like "Condoleeza Rice on short-list for Browns HC" that's just trying to flush out someone leaking information to the press.
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by holy_city 7y ago
If taking orders in that volume require significant investment, wouldn't you make sure they commit to the order volume over the next N years until the capital investment is paid off?
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by holy_city 7y ago
I'm not sure how useful that would be. Pi might be represented more precisely, but the result of every operation you do with it is still going to have the issue of varying precision (except for powers of your base/ratio for the re
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by holy_city 7y ago
I think for $1700 with the memory/storage capacity that's a great deal, but those benchmarks can be topped by the higher-tier consumer CPUs today. The point on people being happy with slower CPU cores is kind of weird to bring up
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by holy_city 7y ago
There are a bunch of dubious journals and conferences around the world, and researching a topic without filtering down to a handful of journals can turn up a lot of crap. There's been a number of times where I've been researching
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by holy_city 7y ago
I don't think the foresight is in a particular manufacturer but in the fact that each successive fab generation was becoming more prohibitively expensive and more dominated by economies of scale. I kind of want to see an analysis of th
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by holy_city 7y ago
(disclaimer without details, I have a horse in this race) This is a really good deal, frankly. Tons of content on demand on virtually every platform, good quality streaming, and with decent UI/UX. I know a lot of folks are put off by t
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by holy_city 7y ago
I'm no expert in the field, but it's my understanding that those features are why modern devices allow people to hear in noisy environments. Feedback reduction especially, which is not easy to deal with (tl;dr, the mic/speake
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by holy_city 7y ago
This is a really cool project. The one issue I see is that the Teensy isn't what you'd call power efficient (compared to some more domain-specific DSPs, that is). >That seemed incredibly expensive. I haven’t done much electroni
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by holy_city 7y ago
True. That. I've spent a fair amount of weekend time over the last couple months working on a non-standard COM API port to Rust, and the one thing that's stuck me the most is how batshit crazy relying on virtual base classes is fo
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by holy_city 7y ago
Personally, COM gives me the heebie-jeebies. I get why it exists and think it's a cool idea. Under the hood it's just RTTI across shared library boundaries, and it's cool that it "just works" with the way that compi
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by holy_city 7y ago
>the "good code is self documenting" nonsense Man I hate dogma like that. My "common sense" comment style is always, "code tells me how, comments tell me why." The only exception is in hand optimized code wh
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by holy_city 7y ago
Honestly? Because no software is free from bugs and there will always be a need for support. The difference between single sale and subscription can be life or death for a company, its products, and its support. But if you don't feel t
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by holy_city 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, but it's still not perfect. Introducing new revenue models into old industries where people are used to "owning" their software can be dicey. A decent middle ground is permanent fallback versions. But
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by holy_city 7y ago
Based on benchmarks (take them at face value) [1], Apple's A12/A12x processors are roughly 80% the performance of current-gen desktop CPUs (and on par with some mobile ones) in single threaded performance. I think a bit of that is
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by holy_city 7y ago
>The gist of it is this: if your samples are quantized to say 8-bit fixed point after every step, it seems plausible that you should be able to get away with slightly above unit gain at some frequencies I'm a 1D DSP guy so I could b
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by holy_city 7y ago
Am I crazy for using email to send memos? Those serve as reference documents too, while creating a papertrail.
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by holy_city 7y ago
>Interesting. I assumed they displayed those for everyone They did. Epstein's argument is this: 1. Google is run by liberals 2. Higher voter turnout is better for Democrats than Republicans. 3. The liberals that run Google used thei
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by holy_city 7y ago
MATLAB has had this for years. But it costs $1,000 on top of the existing license cost. And it's lumped together with their GPGPU/cluster tools.
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by holy_city 7y ago
I'm holding out for cities on the carbon neutral push to offer subsidies for full remote work. Cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions is to get cars off the road, cheapest way to do that is to remove the need to travel.
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by holy_city 7y ago
You could pipe the requests into a FIFO without back pressure so excessive requests are dropped by default.
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by holy_city 7y ago
Volatile is a hacky way to avoid optimizations and plays hell with normal language semantics. For example, you can't memcpy or memset volatile pointers or pointers to volatiles. Imo if you don't want the compiler to optimize somet
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by holy_city 7y ago
I kind of disagree with your take here. This is just the segmentation of the market into aggregators and channels, just like what happened with cable and like is happening with OTT services today. Netflix/Hulu are good examples of aggr
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by holy_city 7y ago
Not really. There are plenty of chips out there without even a C compiler. Some don't even support Turing Completeness. There's even more that were designed and installed before manufacturers started slapping C compilers together

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