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by jcarrano 2y ago
Runs perfect on my iGPU, no idea how many FPS but surely enough.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
From my experience in Germany exclusively (after being half a year in the US). I can't speak for other countries, which may have friendlier visas for contractors working for foreign companies (like Portugal). - The salary issue you are
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Older people have their USDs in hard cash and will wait hours at the bank each month to withdraw their pension in cash (i.e. not even use the ATM).
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by jcarrano 2y ago
No, it's not OK, but I also don't think a president has any responsibility towards gamblers in the US or China. Also, "I invested because the president of a random country told me so" is a pretty bad excuse for losing mo
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Let's see it another way: there's absolutely no way that in the 2-3 hours the post was up a person not familiar with the gamblecoin ecosystem could purchase $LIBRA, let alone pour thousands of dollars in. The people who lost money
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by jcarrano 2y ago
GCC, at least, allows you to get stack usage (after compilation), and caller-callee relationships (-fstack-usage, -fcallgraph-info, etc). From this one can infer maximum stack size. It will not work with recursion or function pointers, unle
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I only used it once for modeling some procedural decorations in the shape of flowers. I did it on a long train ride and managed to both learn the language and do the models, so there's something to be said about the simplicity. If I ha
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I understood that they want to used scoop up air to use as propellant. Only a fraction of the air it encounters will be able to be sucked in by the rocket.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
In my rather limited experience, private research was way more productive and enjoyable and I was able to do it and get things working without a PhD. In fact, during my short stay a iRobot I was quite surprised to find that none of the PhD
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I was referring to the 1958 moratorium I'd be surprised if they could simulate weapons with the computers of the time. Here [1] is the clip from Teller's interview. In another clips he says that he believes it was inevitable that
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by jcarrano 2y ago
When you are the dominant world power, you just don't let others determine your strategy, as simple as that. Attempts at curbing AI will come from those who are losing the race. There's this interview where Edward Teller recalls h
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by jcarrano 2y ago
What if we face the scenario of a Dr. Manhattan type AGI, that's just fed up with people's problems and decides to leave us for the stars?
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by jcarrano 2y ago
The mass of propellant being expelled is many times higher than the mass of air colliding with the rocket.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Exactly. The recent DRM issue was about who's time would be wasted. Rust is either happening, and they are wasting time by not having proper bindings, or it is not, and all the drivers written were a waste of time. In either case, the
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Either he failed at communicating, or he does not care. Reading the recent thread/flamewar on R4L and DRM I wonder if he was somewhat pressured to accept Rust but does not actually care. If you were the leader of a project and explicit
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Last year I was doing a livestream for a band. The NVidia encoder on my friend's computer (running Windows) just wouldn't work. We tried in vain to install drivers and random stuff from Nvidia. I pulled out my own machine with Lin
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by jcarrano 2y ago
If PG&E could be undercut by 25%, then why are there no private companies doing it? Either it is not as profitable as the author claims, or PG&E's monopoly is due to state regulations (I don't know enough about the specifi
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I feel that these kinds of statements are more effective at promoting AI than limiting it. It reinforces the assumption that such powerful AI is behind the corner. It hypes up AI and the result is likely more money and resources being put i
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by jcarrano 2y ago
You are missing the most important part: a culture in which these kinds od overreach are not tolerated. For sure resistance has waned over time, but it is still strong. The constitution is merely a piece of paper if people are not willing t
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I can't even describe how much frustration this caused me when I worked at the RIOT project. macOS was by far the most problematic development platform to support. Even Windows was far friendlier since it has WSL which is officially su
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by jcarrano 2y ago
The manual has everything and is not long. It is actually very concise, but with the caveat that within each page you have to read everything. Every sentence of the manual has important information.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
There are roughly two ways to learn programming: top down (start with abstract concept and go down to actual implementation, e.g. SICP) and bottom up (start with the concrete low-level code and let the abstractions naturally emerge). I stud
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Also, the power density of the sun is extremely low. A rotting orange produces more power per unit mass.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
If it is really an AGI it will have its own set of opinions. It would be quite ironic if the AGI ends up believing that humans are in the image of God, against its own "believers".
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Exactly. Mises explains, in the first part of Human Action, that the ultimate limiting factor of production is human labor. AI does not change this, or any other thesis of praxeology.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
That book, and the follow up "Pentagon of Power" blew my mind when I read them years ago. I can't even enumerate how many topics it discusses. 100% recommended reading.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I once read that the collapse of the Roman empire set back technological progress a few centuries. Maybe it was a good thing. Could you imagine having atomic bombs with a XV century mentality? I'm not saying that the 500 years ago the
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by jcarrano 2y ago
At some point "the rubber meets the road", i.e., you have to bridge the digital world and the physical one. Increase the probability that thugs are caught and increase the severity of the consequences. In the real world the ultima
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I don't know if it would be a good or a terrible idea to have, as a last resort, a law entitling researchers to a reward for vulnerabilities, similar to laws that give someone who finds a lost item a right to a reward. Hopefully, in mo
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by jcarrano 2y ago
We are talking about a sci-fi style force-field here! I'd be surprised if the military didn't secretly experiment with this.

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