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by m0zg 5y ago
We are in uncharted waters here. Never before has so much money been printed so quickly in a major economy (China printed _even more_ money by the way). So no, you can't "research" this, and your historical stuff and definiti
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by m0zg 5y ago
It's less useful for individual components - I can already represent those with pads without affecting readability of the schematic too much. But I sometimes would like to carve out a chunk of stuff onto a separate board, and connect i
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by m0zg 5y ago
Most people have never dealt with large resilient systems, and do not understand what "distributed consensus" even means, and what it enables. Hence the derisive comments on this important result.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Two features I miss: 1. Ability to produce several PCB layouts from the same schematic (e.g. right-to-left and left-to-right, I needed this a couple of times to accommodate different chassis) 2. Ability to have "outboard" circuit
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by m0zg 5y ago
Actually, no, that's exactly what causes hyperinflation, _by definition_ - a drastic increase in money supply, done to mask the fact that the economy is contracting. You don't go from this [1] to this [2] without the use of a prin
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by m0zg 5y ago
As an asset not really subject to inflation (AKA tax on the poor), it could be helpful for those of moderate means to protect themselves against losing what little they have. I've experienced hyperinflation first hand some 25 years ago
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by m0zg 5y ago
Might as well try Arrow Feather, there's an R binding for it. This Flatbuffers-based format can be memory mapped and it requires very little decoding. Super fast and light on resources. Also, Parquet supports different encodings, some
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by m0zg 5y ago
You do you, man, no one is stopping you if that's what you believe. Just don't be surprised when hundred trillion dollar notes enter circulation. https://www.thehoopsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/
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by m0zg 5y ago
It would affect its value wrt USD for sure, by driving it higher. Bitcoin is, at this point, the new "gold standard", and that is by design. You can increase the supply some, but it's exponentially hard to do so, just like wi
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by m0zg 5y ago
Thing is, though, USD is controlled by an even smaller group. Between BTC and fiat, BTC seems like a safer choice at the moment - at the very minimum you can't just go ahead and double the supply. Obvs, not financial advice and all tha
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by m0zg 5y ago
Recent AI stuff from major labs on Arxiv is pretty good, but yeah, anything that's AI+some other field is usually pretty bad. It's usually written by someone in that other field who might be an expert in their own domain, but who
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by m0zg 5y ago
Scihub has been a life saver for me once I started working on some of the more obscure areas of AI such as signal/time series processing. Anything off the beaten path is locked up behind paywalls, and I'm sorry I ain't paying
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by m0zg 5y ago
We're also about to discover what happens when people don't exercise their immune systems for 2 years. There's a "super cold" of some sort going around in the UK [1] which, while not COVID (and therefore is probably
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by m0zg 5y ago
I'm sure that's what Intel would like you to believe. But if you benchmark this stuff (which I have) you will see that real world single core perf hasn't moved much in a decade, and memory bandwidth is never "94GB/s
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by m0zg 5y ago
It means they bet on vertical integration, and they make product decisions no other manufacturer has the balls to make, and win because of it. Observe how _nobody_ can make a laptop that's better than MBP in spite of having several _de
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by m0zg 5y ago
This line of reasoning reminds me the time when Android came out and people were predicting the imminent death of then-newborn iOS. Tesla is Apple of car manufacturing. That much is pretty obvious if you drive one of their cars. They seemin
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by m0zg 5y ago
That's the thing most people don't get about Intel: nothing has really changed perf-wise since Haswell, which is older than that. If your old Haswell / Skylake machines still work (and if you don't need Windows 11 which
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by m0zg 5y ago
Actually, I was wrong when I said "it won't be as compact". It's even more compact: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/ . $73, 2 hard drives.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Pricing is on the nutty side. You can do a lot better than that for $250 nowadays, though it won't be as compact. That said, I'm looking for something like this but able to take 3.5" hard drives (2 of them) and at half the pr
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by m0zg 5y ago
The dollars can keep going up through collusion with Google, to give just one example. Or by smothering existing uses with even more ads. Or by charging more for ads. Or all of the above at the same time. Dollars and users are not directly
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by m0zg 5y ago
Now _this_ is a federal agency badly in need of "abolishing", not the inner city police.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Probably creative accounting. Nobody really knows what their "users" actually mean anymore. There's no way to really grow users from their particular baseline.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Do you? Or will you continue to argue that disarming police is an absolutely moronic idea outside upper middle class wealthy neigborhoods?
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by m0zg 5y ago
I'm not sure how they do it exactly, but I imagine you could, as a first approximation, infer something like that from how hard the driver brakes and how reliably they keep distance from other cars, both of which Tesla's telemetry
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by m0zg 5y ago
Reduce in favor of what though? I have also been trying to diversify where I buy stuff. It's difficult. Some things you can only find in other giant chains like WalMart. I did diversify a number of my larger purchases, but I'm not
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by m0zg 5y ago
Protocol Buffers and other similar formats can already be serialized to/from text, and are also schema-first. This is solution in search of a problem.
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by m0zg 5y ago
> Start by disarming the police. Do it in _your own_ neighborhood though, not somewhere else. Something is telling me that this is not what you had in mind when writing that comment.
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by m0zg 5y ago
That's the difference between people who read, and those who don't. On the flip side, I don't know how to pronounce some of the words that I know how to spell, so when I read I sub-vocalize them incorrectly. There's no n
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by m0zg 5y ago
Also it's interesting that they now canary it on drivers with "high" safety rating. I wonder if that introduces bias into the data they collect and "bad" drivers and driving environments become "out of domain&q
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by m0zg 5y ago
TL;DR: reason number one million why you should be using Free software whenever you can: you don't feel helpless about bugs.

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