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541.
by jhgb 5y ago
> The former implies the latter. Isn't it the reverse? Patents are one of the several forms of IP that one can violate, so the latter should imply the former.
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by jhgb 5y ago
> You've got 50 different brands/sizes of honey available. ...and all of it is from three different companies?
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by jhgb 5y ago
"Principled" is a rather neutral designation. All it means you have strict rules. As to whether those rules are at all useful is not included in that designation.
544.
by jhgb 5y ago
Aren't edits of a huge file expected to be comparatively small? If you're editing an mmap'd file, I'd expect the editor to maintain a display combining the original mmap'd file with a list of changes that have been
545.
by jhgb 5y ago
In Czech Republic at least, "Vlčata" (Wolf pups) are young scouts. Not everything named after wolves necessarily has to be ominous.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Yours is a beautiful example of how to shoot yourself in the foot with reckless generalization. Addition of integers is commutative; concatenation of strings is not. That's not "a common idea". Compilers can transform a+b i
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by jhgb 5y ago
> When the robots finally turn on us they'll have a few hours of daylight to hunt and kill us before their power runs out. Perhaps a bit longer if you live in the desert. Have you by any chance read Stanisław Lem's The Invinci
548.
by jhgb 5y ago
Probably not if you can just jump to a single-file Firebird database, and open that one either in embedded (single-user) or server (multi-user) mode.
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by jhgb 5y ago
There's no need to "critically analyze the complex geopolitical situation" when one state is being invaded by another. That's like asking for "critically analyzing road safety" when someone is being rushed into
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Nothing to do with them If the description "QOI is simple. The reference en-/decoder fits in about 300 lines of C." is correct, then at the very least they share the same goals, so the "nothing" might be an exa
551.
by jhgb 5y ago
> We still don't have a pronoun to refer to nonbinary people How could you have one? You have inflected nouns and adjectives -- you'd have to come up with new endings for those if you could use neither masculine nor feminine
552.
by jhgb 5y ago
> There are three grammatical genders, but only two of them are used for sentient beings, to talk about someone in the neutral gender is derogatory af What about дитя? Isn't that a neuter in Russian? I know the equivalent "dítě
553.
by jhgb 5y ago
Why isn't it "the right thing to take away"? The fact that a computer is called "Rechner" in German and "ordinateur" in French and "počítač" in Czech shows that it's arbitrary and all three
554.
by jhgb 5y ago
It's neutral. As per de Saussure, just like pretty much any feature of the language besides onomatopoeia, they're arbitrary. You could call a computer 'a spedhlurf" and it would be neither better nor worse.
555.
by jhgb 5y ago
There's a very good chance that you're actually using third-party modern high-performance reimplementations of these libraries, like MKL or OpenBLAS. The original Netlib libraries are often a compatibility fallback. For example th
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Basically functions are not abstractions, the data structures that functions act on are the real abstractions That distinction sounds mildly problematic when one can turn a data structure into a function.
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by jhgb 5y ago
The thing is, price tags for cloud services are so much higher than what data center costs would be for hosting an equivalent service yourself that I doubt that the electricity rate difference would make a cloud service in Germany outright
558.
by jhgb 5y ago
In more regulated countries, the state limits what banks can do to their customers. In the EU that means a legal right to a basic bank account, among other things, so "terminating accounts for very little reason" is not going to h
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by jhgb 5y ago
It would be strange if AMD didn't offer this on Ryzens. First, they don't have a history of locking people out of instruction sets. Second, they need it for being competitive with Intel anyway. Third, they're using the same d
560.
by jhgb 5y ago
That may very well depend on how regulated the banking industry is in your country.
561.
by jhgb 5y ago
I was not talking about costs to the data center operator. I was talking about what the cloud customers pay . If you're insinuating that 40% of cloud service pricing is electricity, surely that must be a cloud service operating at a
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by jhgb 5y ago
What percentage of cloud service costs as paid for by customers is electricity cost? BTW what you're showing here is small consumer electricity rates. Large consumers of electricity in Germany have significant fee exemptions. It&#x27
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by jhgb 5y ago
> I compared several different methods of generating polynomials of different sizes for speed and precision (spoilers: taylor series were the worst and minimax polynomials (Remez algorithm) were the best). I would have expected at least
564.
by jhgb 5y ago
I thought that AWS was "a boring data center with some software on top of it"?
565.
by jhgb 5y ago
Fair enough, and I imagine there may even be some forwarding going on? There often is when a load follows a store, if I remember correctly. (Of course this will be microarchitecture-dependent.)
566.
by jhgb 5y ago
The question is if you wouldn't be better served with double-doubles today. You get ~100 bits of mantissa AND you can still vectorize your computations.
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by jhgb 5y ago
FSIN only works on x87 registers which you will rarely use on AMD64 systems -- you really want to use at least scalar SSE2 today (since that is whence you receive your inputs as per typical AMD64 calling conventions anyway). Moving data f
568.
by jhgb 5y ago
It's not obvious but that makes it a nice example in parameter optimization as well.
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by jhgb 5y ago
But am I correct in thinking that is at worst a 0.5 ulp error in this case? The lesser term in double-double can't be more than 0.5 ulp of the greater term and sensitivity of both sine and cosine to an error in the input will not be mo
570.
by jhgb 5y ago
Does it make sense to use a double-double input when you only have double output? Sine is Lispchitz-limited by 1 so I don't see how this makes a meaningful difference.

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