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by lynguist 4y ago
Your comment made me think about what is the principal point of evolution: New ideas/species/functions are not born from competition, they are formed by mixing up.
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by lynguist 4y ago
Why are all the other comments so negative and stuck up whether it constituted “cheating” or not? That wasn’t the point of this story. It was a beautifully well written account on luck and how sometimes the things align. The interviewee at
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by lynguist 4y ago
So what happened is the following: When JEDEC was standardizing DDR5 they mandated on-die ECC which checks for errors that happen while the data rests on RAM. This was done to increase reliability because of high memory density. This is goo
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by lynguist 4y ago
Does any brand at all sell ECC UDIMM DDR5 modules? I want to use it for an Alder Lake workstation, but can’t seem to find any except for Dell OEM memory. Is there none on the “open” market?
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by lynguist 4y ago
Big big nope. Argentina is in hyperinflation mode for over 30 years. It didn’t implode. Economists don’t know everything. Their analyses are too mechanical.
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by lynguist 4y ago
Funny thing is Türkiye is a French exonym for Turkey (la Turquie). It is not even a Turkish word or a word coined in Turkey. The suffix -iye, however, is also a suffix that is used in Turkish coined words of Persian and Arabic compounds whe
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by lynguist 4y ago
I just found ‘England’ and ‘King James II’ inside the redacted text, it’s way too hard for me. Can anyone share the solution?
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by lynguist 4y ago
Absolutely awesome.
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by lynguist 4y ago
I want to share Bob Cringely’s (yes, that Bob Cringely) article on this topic. It explains everything very concisely in very simple terms. https://www.cringely.com/2018/02/26/win-lose-wall-street-scr...
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by lynguist 4y ago
No, it’s an abbreviation of Tokyo. Even if To means East - in a compound To often stands for Tokyo. Same concept in these words: 来日 - Nichi means day, here it stands for Japan. Here’s an article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by lynguist 4y ago
https://jisho.org/search/onkyo Onkyo means sound. Also: Often when there’s To (actually Tō) in a company’s name, it refers to Tokyo’s To such as in Toshiba.
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by lynguist 4y ago
Bloody yes! But the bloody contract of society was shifted in 1980 from welfare of society to maximizing financial gains of CEOs and dividends of shareholders. And the economical performance dropped in result of it! The compounded rate of r
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by lynguist 4y ago
Some people care only about maximum absolute performance, others care for performance per Watt. I find the latter much more sensible. What performance Apple can reach in, say, 50W, Intel reaches in 150W. I have a list of instructions per cl
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by lynguist 4y ago
There is a massive design gap between all Apple designed chips and non Apple designed chips. Apple’s chips are ridiculously humongous. They’re built for extremely wide, high performance applications for the past 10 years. A single A14 core
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by lynguist 4y ago
In my analysis, only Gracemont (Atom 5th gen) is good and that’s for two reasons: 1. It has roughly the IPC of Skylake. 2. It’s the first Atom with AVX2. Even in 2021 Intel released brand new Atom cores without AVX2, which was introduced wi
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by lynguist 4y ago
She finished high school in 2019 and I assume she was 18 at that time. She would be 21 now. I am in awe with her. Here’s her CV: https://rosenzweig.io/resume.pdf
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by lynguist 4y ago
Could such a setup be used for streaming movies as well? If yes, could you explain how?
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by lynguist 4y ago
RPis don’t have batteries that can wreak havoc.
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by lynguist 4y ago
If anyone just cares for speed instead of compression I’d recommend lz4 [1]. I only recently started using it. Its speed is almost comparable to memcpy. [1] https://github.com/lz4/lz4
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by lynguist 4y ago
This is expected as people start moving money away from capital into consuming. If you have any longterm aspirations for using crypto to save money, this summer should be the time.
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by lynguist 4y ago
HEVC is in principle the same as VP9. AV1 is one generation newer. It was made by merging the projects for VP10, Thor, and Daala. AV1 is computationally better than HEVC/VP9 and more comparable to H.264. Visually it’s better than eithe
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by lynguist 4y ago
Thank you for the writeup.
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by lynguist 4y ago
But is the psychovisual output any good or do they only target, say, speed? Because back in the days, both Videolan projects x264 and x265 (especially x264) had much better psychovisual quality than commercial encoders. Back in those days,
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by lynguist 4y ago
Some years ago when H.264 was new and uncommon, I thought about archiving tapes in XviD so I could share more easily with friends and family. I tested it and found that the quality vs x264 was much too bad. I begrudgingly went ahead with us
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by lynguist 4y ago
> non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable According to its license which is very short and can be read here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/b
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by lynguist 4y ago
Does Team Videolan have anything like it on their roadmap?
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by lynguist 4y ago
See here for performance benchmarks on dav1d (av1 e̶n̶c̶o̶d̶e̶r̶): https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/dav1d#results Edit: It’s false! This is just a decoder, not an encoder! I just learned it. Here is the link
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by lynguist 4y ago
I love that show so, so much. It was the peak on top of a Nickelodeon that was already peaking (Spongebob etc).
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by lynguist 4y ago
Isn’t the takeaway message from this: just don’t buy the cheapest and worst product? It will always give you a bad experience. When filtering for products the cheapest one and most expensive one should not even be considered.
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by lynguist 4y ago
We don’t do that, but we did a lot of pair programming when I started and my productivity was through the roof. The equivalent in commercial settings should be pair programming. I was on the headset with another programmer who would realize

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