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by hx8 3y ago
I haven't touched CUDA or OpenCL in a decade, but here we go. These are actually pretty low level languages. The GPU has layers of memory caching. The primary challenge of SIMD programming (single instruction multiple data) is breaki
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by hx8 3y ago
> there's little difference between a good wood frame and masonry house, today The wood frame will do better in an earthquake. The masonry will do better in a flood or high winds. Consider the natural disaster risks of your local
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by hx8 3y ago
I don't think there is a consensus among developers of front-end FOSS that becoming the market leader is a high priority. Non-power users will never submit a PR, and rarely even write a useful bug report. They effectively give very l
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by hx8 3y ago
OpenAI was a 501C3. This meant donors could give money to it and receive tax benefits. The advantage is in the unique way it can reduce the funders tax bill.
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by hx8 3y ago
> Nintendo has published like 1 phone game? There current lineup of mobile games are Mario Kart Tour, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, Fire Emblem Heroes, Super Mario Run, and Pikmin Bloom. These have brought in over $1B in revenue, mostly
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by hx8 3y ago
I think the problem is more likely the models just parrot back based on data we feed it, and we don't like what we see in the mirror.
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by hx8 3y ago
I don't think this is likely. There is a convincible future where Nintendo publishes more and more games outside of their hardware platforms, so Valve needs to keep good business relations with Nintendo.
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by hx8 3y ago
I think there are a couple of pitfalls in looking at healthcare as a free market. * People often have to make uninformed decisions or have decisions made for them in an emergency. This naturally puts them at an economic disadvantage in the
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by hx8 3y ago
Video Games are one of the most potent attractions for peoples attention. In 2008 the whole industry was worth $12B. In 2010 it grew to $25B. It would have been easy to sell continued growth in 2016 because the industry actually did cont
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by hx8 3y ago
Microsoft SQL Server is closed source. They take open sourcing in a case by case basis, and the primary motivator seems to be money.
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by hx8 3y ago
How is this very different than applying for and accepting a scholarship? Wouldn't this have approximately the same downsides as people that get full ride scholarships to University? I trust the medical school admission process to sele
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by hx8 3y ago
I give it closer to 20 years, but I agree.
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by hx8 3y ago
Living on 30kUSD/yr is a lot different in London than it is in Buenos Aires. To set a universal safety net ensuring everyone had adequate food, shelter, education, medical care, transportation etc would be a lot cheaper than 60tUSD&#x
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by hx8 3y ago
> To trace the importation of seafood from factories that appear to be using North Korean labor, my team reviewed trade data, shipping contracts, and the codes that are stamped on seafood packages to monitor food safety. We found that, s
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by hx8 3y ago
If we take the story at face value I think this is unethical and antisocial behavior. The person was dishonest, claiming to be working on a problem but actually was avoiding the best solution. The person was wasting resources, taking sign
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by hx8 3y ago
Could plausibly be incompetence. It would have limited spying capabilities. Could plausibly be denial to reduce backlash. I'd be interested in how widespread those coffee machines are. If I worked in a warehouse job with a strong an
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by hx8 3y ago
GeForce Now does not support Firefox. GamePass also works on ChromeOS.
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by hx8 3y ago
In 2023 I looked into these options. The Game Pass games are not compatible with proton and they did not support streaming to Firefox running on Linux. It wasn't exactly an open ecosystem.
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by hx8 3y ago
> I mean seriously, do you expect Google to read your mind somehow? If there is any ambiguity Google defaults to commerce. I think the front page for such general queries should have room for science, history, art, culture. Google&#x27
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by hx8 3y ago
This was a plot point in the 2019 Neal Stephenson novel Fall; or, Dodge In Hell. In an effort to prove information on the internet was unreliable a massive spam/defamation campaign was launched on a person -- to the point that the inf
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by hx8 3y ago
> robocalls should just be illegal I would pay extra to be part of a phone network that guaranteed humans only and displayed First + Last Name & Organization (if any) of the caller.
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by hx8 3y ago
Another bad aspect is that it's becoming harder to google for general information without being hit with production recommendations. For example, if you google an ambiguous term like "Indoor light" the entire front page is p
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by hx8 3y ago
> So I guess I am surprised it even comes in a battery option. If you're going to a job site with limited electricity and don't know the exact cut of wood you need before arriving, I can see value. This option isn't for me
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by hx8 3y ago
The west's ability to embrace cultural change is one of its greatest strengths. The article discusses that in 1940s and 1950s America being homosexual/bisexual was opening oneself up to blackmail. It was a secret that needed to b
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by hx8 3y ago
Access to this game is now limited to the second hand market. This generates artificial scarcity and reduces its potential audience. Luckily Spec Ops: The Line sold physical discs and was not too bogged down with DRM so it's still pos
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by hx8 3y ago
It all started in a few years earlier. Google had determined that there was a strong correlation between understanding fundamental computer science and being a strong software engineer, so they began testing for computer science fundamenta
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by hx8 3y ago
Body-weight exercises are very good for population health. They can produce muscle growth sufficient to look muscular, much less the sort of maintain-mobility goal that should exist for almost everyone. Losing muscle mass is one of the la
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by hx8 3y ago
President of The United States has a reputation of being a low-tech job. The level of security around him means all electronic devices he uses have gone through the wringer of best in class "cyber security." While '98 feels
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by hx8 3y ago
If the footage is not released to the public I'm going to assume it makes Waymo look bad.
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by hx8 3y ago
As in outsider of the auto industry this sounds like a classic blame-the-customer attitude that exists in many industries. The auto industry attributes the increase of severity and frequency of auto accidents to an external party so they s

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