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by mandevil 2y ago
If you are going to the trouble to take apart and redesign the system, it would be far easier and less dramatic to just replace the possibly out of spec transistors.
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by mandevil 2y ago
Water tanks are the most likely source of radiation shielding: propellant tanks get used up and go empty, while for any lengthy mission, water is either going to be recycled back into the tanks or you will have to take blue water tanks and
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by mandevil 2y ago
Speaking for myself, I don't have any real solutions, but I think it is an important part of our humanity to at least occasionally contemplate all the suffering that our society is built upon, because each of us has to have a line at w
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by mandevil 2y ago
So a couple of things are happening here: most important is that the budget for multiple launches and physical spacecraft to do the same mission just isn't there, hasn't been there since the 1970's. Viking and Voyager each go
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by mandevil 2y ago
CUDA is a programming language with libraries (cuBLAS, cuSPARSE, etc.) that are constantly having things added and try to maintain backwards compatibility. It's not as big and hefty as all of Win32 sure, but it's still far more di
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by mandevil 2y ago
I think the key is that CUDA is much more like the Microsoft Windows software part of the duopoly than the Intel x86 hardware part of the old Wintel duopoly. At best back in the glory days of that era, you could have weird hackish things li
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by mandevil 2y ago
I think AMD's concern is that x86 might not be much of a market in 10 years. Between Apple, Amazon Graviton, and Nvidia Grace Hopper's ARM CPU we are seeing a sustained successful attack on x86 the likes of which we haven't s
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by mandevil 2y ago
LLM's have a "temperature" value which defines how much randomness to allow in their answer. Like with everything LLM, this is basically a kludge that makes the performance better, even if it has little theoretical basis. So
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by mandevil 2y ago
This prevalence is true in the US (and most Western countries I think, though not as certain), is definitely not true in Sub-Saharan Africa (where 75% of the world's HIV+ population lives). Women and girls are more likely to have it in
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by mandevil 2y ago
Slides have two distinct purposes: as a part of a presentation, and separately as a way to learn or review material outside of the presentation. Unfortunately they are at cross-purposes. For accompanying an oral presentation you don't
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by mandevil 2y ago
This piece, about a Lawyer with a Ph.D in economics who bounced back and forth between (and often working at the same time) for the Government directly, as a professor at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, and as a
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by mandevil 2y ago
“The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”- Donald Knuth,
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by mandevil 2y ago
Every third person who comes in has their router hacked, that's the problem. We know that Sam is good at what he does and to not be wrong about this, but Cox can't rely on everyone being that good, nor on their very poorly paid fr
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by mandevil 2y ago
Will it be a AI accelerator chip or just a regular CPU, which after X number of years of Moore's Law development will be as powerful as a H100 is today? Can you charge that much extra for it in X years, if you are NVidia? At a certain
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by mandevil 2y ago
I think it is quite possible that NVidia's customers[1] are the ones selling hot air. If those customers go away then it turns out that NVidia made legitimately huge profits today, but it was still based on hot air, and their future pr
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by mandevil 2y ago
I just love the sound of goalposts moving in the morning! First it was "Sam will never be charged with it because of his donations!" then it was "Sam will never be convicted because of his donations!" now its "A con
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by mandevil 2y ago
Half a dozen years ago in a conference talk, Joel Spolsky claimed credit for inventing these sorts of whiteboard interviews (with his Guerilla Guide to Interviewing), and that it had broken software engineering hiring. https://th
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by mandevil 2y ago
Insurance is a minor issue for vets, essentially none of the population has animal insurance. It's also not a super big deal for dentists, as I understand it, though I don't know as much about the back-end of dental practices (wif
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by mandevil 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, at least two of the five founders of Anduril came from Palantir and several of the investors are the same across both companies (probably including Peter Thiel? It's not exactly clear from skimming the wiki). So
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by mandevil 2y ago
Sister-in-law is a vet tech at a place that sold out to PE a few years ago. Wife is a pharmacist who worked at a small chain of pharmacies and had it taken over by one of the national ones. Both industries are seeing massive consolidation.
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by mandevil 2y ago
While it is probably a waste of resources, dictatorships are famous for having wasteful duplicated efforts: dictators need their people to constantly be competing with each other, and to split favor so that no one ever becomes strong enough
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by mandevil 2y ago
Reuters, way back in 2018- reacting to the Skripal poisoning and Fancy Bear accusations, wrote a explainer piece about the GRU. ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-russia-gru-factbo... ) From that: `According to
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by mandevil 3y ago
No, but it does mean that AMZN almost certainly won't get any taxpayer money for this checkpoint(the payments are spread out, but for the jobs of several years ago- they can be paid until late 2026 based off their paperwork filed in ba
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by mandevil 3y ago
Those articles for sure, but my memory is that it came up an awful lot in most linux slashdot discussions: Munich was cited the proof that this now was finally the time that normies would use desktop Linux, it was just turning the corner, t
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by mandevil 3y ago
According to wiki here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_cities_by_GDP ) Munich in 2021 had a per capita GDP of 86k euro. According to wiki here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ge
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by mandevil 3y ago
I'm sorry, what year is it? Am I posting on Slashdot still? Is this year finally going to be the year where Linux desktops become something for normies? When Munich did this it never got to a majority of their desktops, is my recollect
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by mandevil 3y ago
It feels to me more like it's the power of the comprehensive background scanning (I've seen it called 'internet background radiation') that is constantly taking place: anything you forget about, anything you misconfigure
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by mandevil 3y ago
As a resident of a nearby state whose real estate market keeps rising because of the steady flow of people forced to leave California because they can't afford it, my favorite of the dumb propositions that is destroying California is P
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by mandevil 3y ago
Slashdot->HN
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by mandevil 3y ago
STS definitely encrypted all comms- voice, data, telemetry, and printer for the classified portions of all missions (that would be STS-51C, STS-51J, STS-27, STS-28, STS-33, STS-36, and STS-38 along with parts of STS-39 and STS-53). My assum

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