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by inkyoto 5y ago
There are two Moderna boosters that have been announced, the mRNA-1273.211 and mRNA-1273.214, ones. The .211 candidate is based on the Beta variant spike proteins the trial of which has already been completed, whereas the trial of the .214
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Yes, zsh – which has been my daily driver for more than two decades – offers the best of both worlds, long and short names for most of the useful variables, but those do not affect the [expected] core shell functionality. I suppose, I shoul
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by inkyoto 5y ago
With a varying frequency but I do use them in interactive sessions: $ grep -c '\$\?' ~/.history 137 $ grep -c '\$\$' ~/.history 30 $ grep -c '\$!' ~/.history 6 $ grep -c '\$#
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by inkyoto 5y ago
From the fush documentation: Special variables Some bash variables and their closest fish equivalent: $*, $@, $1 and so on: $argv $?: $status $$: $fish_pid $#: No variable, instead use count $argv $!: $last_pid
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> Russia has no domestic capability to manufacture them. They do and have had it since 1960's, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikron_Group The process is not as advanced as the TSMC's one, but they seem
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by inkyoto 5y ago
M1 Ultra is 64Gb extra, not 32. > keep in mind that a 1x32GB DIMM sells for less than 150$ Keep in mind that M1 Pro/Max/Ultra is LPDDR5 6400 ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-perform
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> The performance of x86 has been a leader for a while mostly because of the sheer amount of optimization work that has gone into them Without denying some good work and engineering having gone into some x86 chips, they are not the r
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by inkyoto 5y ago
FP16 is supported in M1 GPU's and Neural Engines through the CoreML framework. From https://coremltools.readme.io/docs/typed-execution : > The Core ML runtime dynamically partitions the network graph into secti
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by inkyoto 5y ago
I don't know anything about his personal circumstances, but it is not inconceivable that he, or his spouse, or both have relatives in Ukraine who are potentially being shelled at this very moment or hiding it out, and that Grischuk and
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by inkyoto 5y ago
You do realise that Grischuk is a Ukranian surname, don't you? As well as the fact that Grischuk's first wife was Ukranian and his current wife is of the half-Russian, half-Ukranian descent?
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> […] an order of magnitude lower number of instructions (equivalent but simpler, i.e. better) […] I am not sure how to parse the «simpler, i.e. better» part; simplicity vs betterness is orthogonal at best and is contradictory at worst.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
No, I am asking about attempts of earlier talks. Last minute attempts were not going to succeed, yet they were worth trying. > You realise that Russian Federation is not a member of NATO and therefore has no say in any NATO memberships?
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Which attempts of the dialogue are you referring to, specifically? Examples of such a dialogue would include NATO and Putin officials discussing new NATO memberships, future roadmaps to the regional stability and/or compromises. I don&
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by inkyoto 5y ago
This is a very myopic view of the situation. Russia has been preparing and strategically planning exactly for such a scenario to unfold for over a decade. They have created their own domestic equivalent of SWIFT (called SPFS) which went liv
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by inkyoto 5y ago
6502 and Z80 had not existed yet when C was begot for the PDP-11 architecture. Yes – historically – C has never been a perfect fit for 8-bit architectures as it had been conceived for a 16-bit architecture. So what? There are C compilers fo
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> C and C++ are not a very thin abstraction over assembly language We can argue the thinkness (or the thinness) of the abstraction until cows come home, but while (*dst++ = *src++) ; is a direct abstraction over L1: movb @
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Algol 60 pales and laughs nervously in the shadow of the Algol 68 giant and its type system towering over it.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> RISC-V seems to me to have two major opportunities. > - Where a free ISA allows innovation and experimentation in a way that Arm would not permit. I would say that the two major innovations of RISC-V are: - Composability. - Extensib
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> For the same sized single-core chip (x mm squared), running at the same voltage and same clock speed, on the same manufacturing process node, is there a (significant) difference between ARM and Risk-V? Very many. And they are at the
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> Second, my sense--this isn't something I have data for--is that the code that is output by compilers can be further optimized much much more than for x64. One example is library routines not using all of the available hardware al
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> I'm sad that we forgot the value of core dumping. The value of the core dumping has greatly diminished once commercial vendors have started stripping symbol tables from binaries they would ship (IP protection! trade secrets! know-
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Discussing needs of an average Macbook user is a moot point as they would not purchase a maxed out M1 Max. I was referring to specific use cases of a specific target group of users with specific examples who can benefit from specific
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> I struggle to imagine a regular workload that benefits from 32gbps of bandwidth, much less a scenario where the average layman could saturate a 200gbps or 400gbps bus. Since this is HN, many of us like… compiling, you know, stuff. It i
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Service restart has been a solved problem in UNIX for over 40 years. It is called inetd. It is not perfect, and it was originally created for a slightly different operating model, but it does restart crashed «services». They are, in fact, c
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> I had an online discussion some years back where I suggested that C nail the size of char to 8 bits. He responded that there was a CPU that had chars be 32 bits, and wasn't that great that a C compiler for it would be Standard com
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> I personally don't find JavaScript specific benchmarks to be a good indicator of general computing power. Many of us spend substantial periods of time writing up the technical documentation in Confluence or use JIRA. Confluence al
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by inkyoto 5y ago
I can't comment on the real world value of a $4k pair of professional scissors, but the price is not infathomable if it is hand made, made to order Japanese scissors made out of the Japanese Damascus steel. They are likely to take a mo
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Yup. Something a grown-up could safely say around the family or relatives. «На хую вертел» is one of the multiple creative ways to express «don't give a flying fig about something».
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by inkyoto 5y ago
The chain of reasoning: people are trying to protect themselves from the purported 5G irradiation -> they start wearing pendants that emit the ionising radiation -> when worn 24x7, the amount of the radiation absorbed from the pendant
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by inkyoto 5y ago
You do realise that there is such a thing called sarcasm? That is the whole reason the Darwin Award exists in the first place.

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