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by marktangotango 3y ago
Adding on to this, and related somewhat, binary addition even with look ahead is a multi clock cycle process for non trivial word sizes. Arithmetic is not trivial by any means. We all just take it for granted.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. Can you talk about the business aspect? Like I assume up to now you're having trouble getting additional funding? What worked and didn't work? What's the current direction?
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Finally! My VP of engineering keeps saying I'm not making enough github commits, this is the solution I've been waiting for! This is sarcasm, but I did have a VP who tracked commit frequency for a while. And people heard about it
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by marktangotango 3y ago
The margins on the beer and appetizers must be insane.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
I would like to buy the same pre made meals and heat it up at my home, at a reduced cost. The quality isn't bad, I'd even say "good" in some cases and my kids like the chicken tenders. Kind of a Papa Murphy's take a
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Does this mean that instances that happen to have the popular communities gets hosed on hosting costs? Or stop submissions? Meanwhile "CommunityA" on other instances starve for content and subscribes. If that's true, communit
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by marktangotango 3y ago
I've been exploring the fediverse options like kbin and lemmy and I just don't see it. Maybe someone can explain. If one lemmy instance has a really popular community, say "Memes" how can that scale? There could be milli
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by marktangotango 3y ago
This one of the main things about cobol people don't understand; all memory is statically allocated, there is no dynamic memory allocation. Well there can be, but not generally. No call stack, no heap. In reality, cobol, the 85 standar
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Can you relate a specific example of commercial tech the "jaw dropped" some DoD officials? Like what was the tech and what was the venue?
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by marktangotango 3y ago
What is nbdev? > nbdev is an innovative software development framework for Python that embraces literate and exploratory programming. I worked on nbdev from 2020-2023 with Jeremy Howard and, later, Wasim Lorgat. I had the privilege and e
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by marktangotango 3y ago
How did that turn out? Were they acquitted? I've noticed in other cases that Italian prosecutors seem have an unusual amount of latitude, or is that normal?
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by marktangotango 3y ago
For those, like me, wondering what this is about; > Program obfuscation would enable a host of useful applications: For instance, you could use an obfuscated program to delegate particular tasks within your bank or email accounts to othe
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Not SoCs, but radio gear: > The multi-year agreement with Broadcom will see Apple use 5G radio frequency and wireless connectivity components, including FBAR filters, that are designed and manufactured in the U.S.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Whenever these things come up, I'm always grateful toward my past self who opted out of academia and pursued industry. The entire system of placing your fate in the hands of disinterested, self motivated, senior faculty and researchers
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by marktangotango 3y ago
I think this is more of a listicle for those not familiar with how utterly bizarre 70's scifi movies could be. Underrated by non-genre movie fans specifically. One curiosity not listed was "Capricorn One", one of OJ Simpsons
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by marktangotango 3y ago
It's an interesting idiom you see in hpc and scientific computing that can be jarring when first encountered. "Codes" can be read as program or library.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
As someone who's been commenting on various sites for 20 years, I consider my comment history to be the very clearest representation of self and who I am. Like if my progeny ever wanted to know about me they could go read what I'v
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Very nice, very satisfying. I was surprised the back button remembered history; not saying good or bad, just surprising.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Even that methodology is flawed. Walmart has a lot of store manager/assistant managers that do quite well with high school diplomas or GEDs. Smart motivated people also do well starting businesses or working in trades. The incessant na
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Very cool, asking as a layman, what parts would one use to implement hobby level microwave, two way, point to point communication?
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by marktangotango 3y ago
> I believe they've already started construction of upgraded launch facilities which include fire trenches and water deluge systems. Ah, so excavating the launch tower was intentional; demo tower 0.1 to make room for tower 0.2!
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by marktangotango 3y ago
In fact it was a really amazing "engine out" test. The thing appeared to been shedding engines all the way to RUD. I imagine these engines were all early generation, might as well fly them, units. It's easy to imagine a calcu
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Offtopic shoutout for solvespace, it is amazing! Is separating out the geometry code into a stand alone library on the roadmap at all? Or plans to incorporate the manifold library? https://github.com/elalish/manifold
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by marktangotango 4y ago
I'll post this here if anyone has noticed something similar. There's a state lotto game that I'm convinced uses at least two different sets of balls, and one set has a distinct weight imbalance such that draws using the set h
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by marktangotango 4y ago
But not using the client side gpu!
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by marktangotango 4y ago
So someone can put javascript in a page to compute equihash, autolykos, cuckoo cycle, etc? Is there a way to limit this?
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Sheesh, a linux phone can't come fast enough.
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by marktangotango 4y ago
And XML xsd's where fertile, fertile ground for architecture astronauts building Ivory Towers and Pristine Jewels. Oh, almost all the fields in the xsd are optional? No bother! Also the acronyms oh god the acronyms. Xsd; xml to define
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Some episodes of DS9 were truly joyous to watch because the actors you mention were clearly having so much fun with the roles. Adding to them; Gul Dukat, Damar, Worf, Weyoun, it was just so great. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by marktangotango 4y ago
IMO it highlights just what a commodity they weights are. If all one needs is the weights to reproduce the work, then where is the value? I mean there is very little moat here. Further, what does it say about consciousness and individuality

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