markhahn

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by markhahn 3y ago
fast compression is way too slow. remember, we're talking TB/s these days.
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by markhahn 3y ago
we need to flip the conversation on this. journalists don't seem to grok the fact that breaches are totally the fault of the breached site. sure, the attackers are bad people, but that's a different crime. we need something close
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by markhahn 3y ago
the numeric experiment does not produce a line identical to what DK report. if DK's line where horizontal at 50%, it would indeed be nothing but autocorrelation.
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by markhahn 3y ago
Copyright is wildly abused, for sure. But let's not baby-bathwater this. I quite like the formulation in the American Constitution: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and
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by markhahn 3y ago
Once people get woke to the right-to-repair their devices, maybe we can have a discussion on how open-source is the software version of the same thing. Perhaps even broach the discussion of interoperability and standards (vs proprietary an
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by markhahn 3y ago
doesn't openssh controlmaster pretty much solve this?
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by markhahn 3y ago
kind of weird crack about gpu and ib failure rates. can anyone expand on that? (I'm familiar with several large HPC clusters that have low gpu and ib failures)
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by markhahn 3y ago
should have been called greenblue no?
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by markhahn 3y ago
Isn't the real message here that payment, app-delivery, and app validation should all be available unbundled? Sure, it's a convenience for them all to be handled by Play, but what are we really asking our lawmakers to do?
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by markhahn 3y ago
So? The implication here seems to be that there's something wrong with offering a client a deal. Is it assumed that Google Play is a monopoly, and thus subject to some rules of "fairness" from public policy? But Netflix is
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by markhahn 3y ago
Polishing a turd? Seriously, better reimplementations are great. But weren't you shocked to read about all those weird sudo features? I mean, the normal stuff is very weird, subtle, and therefore fragile. Anyone who uses sudo "d
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by markhahn 3y ago
Shockingly poor choices by CF. We should absolutely blame them, just as "victims" of ransomware should be blamed. Hardening against system failure is the same process as security hardening.
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by markhahn 3y ago
is reading level really a binary threshold? to me it's always seemed like a smooth gradient, so people have a comfort level mainly reflecting the amount of effort they're willing to put in. in that case, writing in the complex st
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by markhahn 3y ago
the healthcare-employment thing is mostly American. but about cannot work -> undeserving, I think it's mostly idle -> undeserving. Americans are terribly worried about idleness.
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by markhahn 3y ago
I know it's trendy, but how is capitalism/corporatism the cause of dissatisfaction with life? people were all satisfied a thousand years ago? honestly curious...
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by markhahn 3y ago
doesn't say "ancillary". but even if that's what the author meant, what's wrong with education being a necessary support for other goals? it's always quite hard to identify tangible skills that traditional educ
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by markhahn 3y ago
degrowth, to a poor person, is starvation.
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by markhahn 3y ago
right-wingers including, it is claimed, Putin.
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by markhahn 3y ago
it's old-fashioned, for sure. and therefore less clear to a modern reader. but it's not that far from the kind of "turgid" prose you find even today in some academic fields (where being difficult to read is desired becau
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by markhahn 3y ago
I wonder why you think PPM is not well-understood. if anything, for normies, temperature is far less well understood than concentration, especially WRT zero.
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by markhahn 3y ago
surely it's not just an energy problem - but a resource problem. I dislike the "overconsumption" mantra (and its degrowth kin). The problem is waste - fast fashion is a great example. just stop making stupid choices - peopl
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by markhahn 3y ago
isn't it more that people cleave to magical thinking, archaic though it is, because they have trouble dealing with the despair of poor health and final death? one big support for this is the gradual decline of religiosity in areas of t
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by markhahn 3y ago
unions are a bit like political parties: the basic ideas of collaboration and joint action are sound, but the unintended consequence of creating an organization is that the organization has a will of its own (blame "leaders"). it&
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by markhahn 3y ago
no offense, but do you understand how routing (done by routers) works? that's where the challenge is, not at the endpoints.
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by markhahn 3y ago
Bleah I guess I'm old because I don't even find it zoologically interesting.
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by markhahn 3y ago
have they? I haven't noticed it in recent years. it seems like everyone settles for ugly, barely usable interfaces like CUDA, OpenCL, and then scabs them over with a higher-level interface like tensorflow.
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by markhahn 3y ago
yes, I was thinking of HSA, but they don't seem to be working on it. I think it turned out to be hard, and therefore expensive, and they got distracted by staying alive by developing decent processors. I think we could argue that tens
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by markhahn 3y ago
you've got to pick up the basics of modern processor design (such as from H&P). without understanding basic pipelining, all the prediction, OoO, and superscalar stuff won't make any sense. and I think you probably need to tr
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by markhahn 3y ago
So little about chip success is down to just the core. Sure, some basic performance aspects, clock range, area and thus cores/chip. What about inter-core performance? Memory interface? There's still no real synergy between CPUs
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by markhahn 3y ago
more channels (and the fact that each ddr5 dimm is basically two channels) is a major win that doesn't depend on prefetching. it is perhaps underappreciated that CPU cores have gotten a lot more "thready" even in the absence

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