jasonwatkinspdx

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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
Ah I see.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
> Unless it's some sort of complete post-scarcity, it has to be understandable in market terms. No, it does not, and that's Graeber's whole point. "Markets" are not some sort of physical law of the universe. A si
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
You understanding is mistaken. Graeber's "everyday communism" is not a market, and his whole larger point is that contorting everything to the lens of markets is simply ahistorical and unempirical. I'd strongly suggest r
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
> even fruit based fermentations with significantly higher pectin concentrations only produce trace methanol Would using pectinase to break it down first reduce the risk?
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
Yeah, that's essentially what happened here in Oregon. And the 2nd chapter of it is after the ballot measure passed, the state liquor commission drug its heels for a couple years, because most of their executives are far more conservat
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
Please read David Graeber. What you describe is factually not how human society formed.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
I'd suggest reading some David Graeber. Viewing everything through the lens of game theory, as if it was some physical law, is very much off the mark.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
Dad found her through his church. My impression from talking with her is that this is a relatively new and uncommon concept in the industry, but one that is growing. Another big benefit is having someone who can help with the insurance comp
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
I'd never thought of it that way, and it's an interesting perspective.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
> By virtualization are you referring to virtual memory? No, I mean k8s style architecture, where you take physical boxes and slice them into smaller partitions, hence the dataset on each partition is smaller than the raw hardware capabi
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
Virtualization has pushed back the need for a while, but we are going to have to look at pointers larger than 64 bit at some point. It's also not just about the raw size of datasets, but how we get a lot of utility out of various memor
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
I'll just mention that when my mom was starting to deteriorate, my dad hired a healthcare advocate and set up legal authorities such that if he was incapacitated when mom needed medical decisions in hospice, or logistical details about
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
Yup. Here's slides from last year's HotChips on where AI racks are going: https://hc2025.hotchips.org/assets/program/tutorials/HC2025.... The racks rolling out now are in the 100s of KW each, target
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
I remember having conversations with my brother about Hashcash at the time. There were plenty of nerds that followed that mailing list that had similar technical and political ideas, so I think you'd find a high number of coincidences
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
Just a shot in the dark but any chance you grew up in an intensely religious household? I grew up evangelical and I've noticed this tendency in myself, and saw the connection to how the authorities at my school or church basically dema
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Also, I personally think framing it as a binary or quasi religious decision is counterproductive. I was vegetarian for some years, before ultimately deciding I just run better on an omnivore diet. But for environmental and ethical reasons I
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Yeah, any time something farming related comes up here there's a bunch of comments from tech bros who clearly think farmers are just idiots waiting around to be rescued by the tech bros' superior understanding of what farming is a
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
I think you misunderstood the article, or perhaps didn't read it? So the way the system works is each house has 4 physical fibers into it, that go into a central office without being aggregated up. Inside the central office any ISP can
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Not quite right. Iron oxide is anti-microbial. So a barn painted with it as a pigment will last longer vs mold and such. It's also why large ships all have that red paint color below the waterline. In that case it's copper oxide,
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
I can't speak on Quake, but I was a level designer on the failed effort to port Unreal to PSX. My understanding from talking to the coders at the time was that Unreal's software renderer was a huge advantage as a starting point. T
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
My perspective from being a teen doing lan party stuff at the time: Quake ran slow on them, but it was far from the only thing that ran slow. Cyrix was well understood to be the value brand for general office apps and such, but not up to it
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
A Zumwalt with 5 inch gun offers almost no mission capability above a simple coast guard cutter. They're putting hypersonics on it because they've got 3 hulls and might as well get some value out of them, but not because it's
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
> I would think Just do a youtube search and you'll find plenty of talking head explainer videos. Ignore the talking head and just look at the imagery and data they share.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Subs produce a surface level displacement wake that can be detected by SAR.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
ELINT and SAR. For the first one, just look at wikipedia lists of government says that fly as little triangular constellations, like Yaogan 9A, 9B, 9C on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaogan Those are ELINT
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
You can you just have to use a tiled architecture. And microprocessors already have far shorter wiring distances than the simple speed of light calculation because it takes time for the gates to make the transition as well. With processors
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
> Can someone shed light on why China still couldn't copy the Nvidia GPUs in some form? They have alternatives, like the Tian supercomputer was originally built with Xeon Phi chips that have been replaced with their own domestic alt
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Having grown up in rural Kansas and now being an urban tech worker, I think you have a derogatory and ignorant view on people who live rurally.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
The only way rural America got landline service was by the government forcing it. The market had no solution.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
That's very much the norm in the game dev world, especially for someone like Jonathan who's been doing this since the early era of PC gaming. You've got 16 ms to get that next frame rendered, so stuffing everything into fixed

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