markhahn

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by markhahn 3y ago
nicely done - props to the vendor (which is one of the best), but not gross. excellent level of information, explanation, experimentation, teardown.
422.
by markhahn 3y ago
really unfortunate how easy it is to channel fud. for instance, the "can release" weasel words here - technically correct, but also misleading. it is not the case that all changes you see in plastics are because they're relea
423.
by markhahn 3y ago
cost. not just purchase cost either - it would decrease efficiency.
424.
by markhahn 3y ago
I have a charge 5 and it's fine - in particular, it would suit the OP. I also would love to tinker with the fw and be able to service parts. But providing each of those features is a tradeoff. The fw is primarily a cultural issue, bu
425.
by markhahn 3y ago
very droll!
426.
by markhahn 3y ago
/proc pseudofiles could have a mode (perhaps on open) that determines whether the protocol is ascii or packed/binary. there could even be a side-band interface that provides the packed schema (assuming not everything is exploded
427.
by markhahn 3y ago
Task energy is a more reasonable argument than whinging about how some people care so much about power. Everyone cares about power, at a fairly similar level - maybe 2-4x differences, but not 10x. And most of the ones who care underestimat
428.
by markhahn 3y ago
you've got it backwards: Earth is not a zero-sum game. "we'd be better off with fewer than 8G people" is not advocating murder, either.
429.
by markhahn 3y ago
you're overestimating what "intelligence" means, as well as what the median human does.
430.
by markhahn 3y ago
prosocial evolution is a lot better term than "self-domestication". of course, it's also completely unexceptional, so perhaps not favored in the academic (publishing) ecosystem.
431.
by markhahn 3y ago
worsening?
432.
by markhahn 3y ago
it's hilarious that you think Doctorow is a pawn of "mainstream" media.
433.
by markhahn 3y ago
how many of us had never even heard of sudoedit? I rarely see anyone using sudo features other than "run this with root". given that sudo's security history has mostly non-memory-corruption/overflow faults, the big wi
434.
by markhahn 3y ago
overclocking is like a carnival geek saying he loves the taste of lightbulbs.
435.
by markhahn 4y ago
if it's actually "reborn", we can't know, so the question is invalid. Penrose seems to be claiming that there is falsifiable evidence that this "incarnation" is not the only one. that's totally fringe (sp
436.
by markhahn 4y ago
you might be disappointed if there are no valid (falsifiable) theories. lots of people seem to think there should be an answer to every question, but what if "just because" is good enough? that answer is more about the question.
437.
by markhahn 4y ago
the problem is epistemology, not aesthetics. why are you comfortable believing in things that are nonfalsifiable? that you find them comforting is not much of an argument.
438.
by markhahn 4y ago
it's fringe because it's almost certainly nonfalsifiable
439.
by markhahn 4y ago
what happened before this universe is not cosmology, but religion, and that's not Penrose's field. neither is neuroscience, where he's giving air to similarly unsupported ideas.
440.
by markhahn 4y ago
medium isn't the point, and duh, torus networks are distributed-switching.
441.
by markhahn 4y ago
blast from the past eh? since then, it's become obvious that the 99% of the ML world is using high-level interfaces, blissfully unaware of MPI. if you want to make a lasting contribution, work on PIM, not MPI ;)
442.
by markhahn 4y ago
ICI is basically nvlink, not like IB.
443.
by markhahn 4y ago
VLIW was really marooned in time: driven by overconfidence in the compiler (which had shown that you could actually expose pipeline hazards), and underestimates of the coming abundance of transistors (which make superscalar OoO really take
444.
by markhahn 4y ago
Ada was the CISC of languages - high-concept the same way. And it lost to C, surely the RISC of languages. Never bet against low-tech.
445.
by markhahn 4y ago
timing is interesting: ia432 listed as "late 1981" (wikipedia), and 286 (protected mode 16:16 segmentation) in Feb 1982. of course, the 432 had been going on for some time...
446.
by markhahn 4y ago
432 was a pretty interesting flop, but surely the ia64 has to rank up there. it would be interesting to try to chart some of the features that show up in various chips. for instance, 64k segments in both 432 and 286+, or VLIW in 860 and ia
447.
by markhahn 4y ago
it is still a single factor - and private-key compromises are not unheard of. (but ssh itself has plenty of ways to harden, not to mention the sk stuff)
448.
by markhahn 4y ago
gross. performative IT like this is just saying "I'm willing to waste exceptional amounts of money because it implies I'm important". conspicuous consumption via Rolls Royce arguably gives you actual, tangible difference
449.
by markhahn 4y ago
it's fairly easy to resist lateral movement in Linux...
450.
by markhahn 4y ago
calling home or exfiltration is indeed a serious threat. otoh, it's fairly straightforward to partition / reduce / sandbox environments in Linux. do you need to touch AWS infrastructure from the same account, host, vm as yo

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