jjtheblunt

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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
> It's hard to find a product that hasn't gotten worse or more expensive, even adjusted for inflation. computers i think are more affordable now than even 20 years ago, in bang for buck
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
(off topic, but cool domain name)
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
that's pretty much the first sentence of the linked article, no?
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
i thought it interesting how clearly the authors and their interests are described.
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
what i found interesting is that the authors are so clearly described, at the end of the article, which contrasts with most of the news sorts of articles i see online.
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
i never heard of Jacobin until today. I just thought it was interesting that they were open and clear about the authors, more so than is obvious in usual journalism online.
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
not at all...i thought it was great how it's clear
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
yeah i get what you mean, but it doesn't change what i said i immediately thought of when i read the quoted sentence.
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by jjtheblunt 2mo ago
> Can't make a neural interface worth a damn without cracking open a few skulls. I immediately thought, ironically, your neurology wrote that with a computer and HN humans' neurologies read it with computers.
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
> 2026 i4 is awesome. that's identical to my 2024 i4 xdrive40 (there's no i), _except_ the entire batch of i4 (i5,i7) built from late summer 2023 to early 2024 had faulty heat pump valve subsystems from Vitesco (subsidieary of
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
that's what i refer to by the marketing...and it carries indeed over into the pricing, and carries over into the insurance rates to repair at such pricings.
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
> At least in the USA, a new BMW is a high-end car. No they most definitely are not. They're marketed as high end, but their engineering is a tour de force of cost cutting behind the scenes. I just got rid of my 2024 BMW i4 xdrive40
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
coke etc will destroy your teeth, if not cleaned off regularly. ( don't "ask me how i know" ! )
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
hyperbole. a few years earlier, the story was every 6 months since that was the california dmv limit to get plates. i was there. his mercedes sl often just had the mercedes barcode that sits under where plates would be mounted, with no
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
sometimes i wonder if i'm the only person who sees Sudeikis or Jon Hamm and thinks "nope". not self aware enough to know why, either. random thought.
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
what monopoly did they create? it seems they have competitors in everything they do.
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
definitely increasingly over the last years from outsider folks, agreed. lots of obnoxious sniping nonsense over the last few years too. anyway, fun stuff for folks like us otherwise still
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
was just thinking the same: it's so refreshingly well written (!)
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
Is your thesis published and at a URL? Since I'm an old parallelizing compilers person, I'm curious what you did. (genuinely curious, not obnoxiously curious). You should know a serious fraction of folks commenting on these thre
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
Yeah it most definitely can. That said, you have a good point, in terms of how often it can.
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
Check the link above...it seems we're considering different topics. Most often these analyses were framed in terms of integer indices on multidimensional arrays in Fortran loops, though that was just the common format academics all kne
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
Yes, those are the ones we had. Wolfe had graduated before i was there.
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
One context in which diophantine equations arise is hidden within the innards of loop optimizing compilers, where loop carried dependencies are considered, as they constrain parallelization. I had (and donated to an engineering library in U
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
> Something like calculus was cutting edge when Newton and Leibnitz were around, now it's what people learn in high school. To your point, I had lots of such in (American public) high school in Chicago suburbia, but now decades late
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
That's interesting. They work ok in the US, but they also do mention that their major contracts are with hospital pathology groups and the consumer services are lower priority. Good to know the European customer experience, except th
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
In Europe Dante (an Italian company) is excellent at this.
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by jjtheblunt 3mo ago
interesting!
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by jjtheblunt 4mo ago
I've never heard that, like fireworks homeopathy or something? Where did you hear that?
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by jjtheblunt 4mo ago
they get all the worst and most inane tortures too
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by jjtheblunt 4mo ago
the elettrica motors are (obviously) electric, too, and for some models come in a couple versions. https://www.vespa.com/en_EN/electric-range/

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