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Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log(stylewarning.com)
146 points by mmastrac 6mo ago|118 comments
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
Serious question - there's a lot of fluff talking about Gas Town, but has Gas Town shipping something in public that can be evaluated without all of this surrounding hype and blogposting? At this point it should be clear that Gas Town
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
sccache is pretty easy to set up and you can back it with S3, memcache, redis, etc.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
Do you have a link for this one? Would love to see it.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
Can you (err... buildcache) cache Rust proc-macros? I've been battling this with sccache and I'm now maintaining a 10-patch deep stack for the next.js build CI. Windows builds were ridiculously poor on cache hits rates too because
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
I couldn't find any information on this, but is it possible that given how nicely exponentiation and logarithms differentiate and integrate, is it possible that this operator may be useful to simplify the process of finding symbolic so
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PCI Express over Fiber [video](youtube.com)
109 points by mmastrac 6mo ago|39 comments
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
Dead already, sadly. Archive.org link is.. not quite working? https://web.archive.org/web/20260404214455/https://blazeligh...
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
The mostly likely quantum attack on Bitcoin will be a catastrophic transfer of large wallets to burn addresses along with a massive short position. No need to worry about washing stolen coins when you can just enjoy your "well timed&qu
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
If you're installing Samsung Magician for firmware updates, keep in mind that you can always update your firmware without using it and it's just as safe.
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
I wonder if https://crates.io/crates/apple-codesign is sufficient to codesign these. Apple usually re-uses these sort of things.
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
Can you rewrite the emarker chips?
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
I definitely agree with the need for this. There's just too much to put into the agents file to keep from killing your context window right off the bat. Knowledge compression is going to be key. I saw this a couple of days ago and I&#x
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
This is a cool project, but the author should note that they _are_ likely creating a derivative version of Civ1 here. It might look somewhat different, but that's clearly just 16-bit (?) intel opcodes in a slightly spicier form. It&#x2
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
> It’s hard to imagine a smug article like this dissecting a product of some other administration Did the other administration put a "fake news" and "report to ICE" and grifting link to their own social network in the
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
You omitted these items immediately above that line: Injects JavaScript into every website you open through its in-app browser to hide cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, signup walls, upsell prompts, and paywalls. Has a full
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
Is this a tradeoff between GPU-computation-expense vs accuracy? ie: you could quantize into segments or grids on the unit circle/sphere/etc, but that's too expensive so it's better to just quantize to a Cartesian grid be
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'(theverge.com)
20 points by mmastrac 7mo ago|33 comments
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
I've been playing around with type mapping like this in a highly experimental crate. The ability to map, filter and reduce types is insanely powerful but it's tough to get ergonomic syntax. https://docs.rs/tuplemag
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
After three months of seeing what agentic engineering produces first-hand, I think there's going to be a pretty big correction. Not saying that AI doesn't have a place, and that models aren't getting better, but there is a se
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Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe(gitlab.com)
463 points by mmastrac 7mo ago|136 comments
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by mmastrac 7mo ago
Please don't dump AI-generated comments into HN. The signal is already pretty hard to find around all the noise.
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
A significant number of consumer electronic devices (especially reduced-cost ones) already do this. I have yet to see an alarm clock that isn't at least matrixed...
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
FWIW I started reverse engineering the WSL2 API -- it's not terribly complicated to do most tasks without the CLI (which is clunky IMO, as it had a number of times where it changed in backwards/forwards incompatible ways) https:&
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
Has anyone felt like the news out of this war has been more tightly controlled than other recent conflicts by multiple orders of magnitude? Russia/Ukraine news is everywhere, Israel/Lebanon, etc, but this one is zipped up tightly.
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
"we're all trying to find the guy who did this!" But seriously, antagonizing all of your trading partners and visitors so that tourism dies, your booze industry gets severely wounded, and making things expensive so the world&
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
I really can't tell if this is snark or not.
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
This could be useful as a remote-access device for something that has a decent amount of RAM, I suppose, but how can anyone do anything outside of light-duty work with 8GB? At some point a Pi + battery/screen case is legitimately bette
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
"best file API" and the man page for the O_ flags disagree.
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by mmastrac 8mo ago
I'm on mobile so I can't check but damn the Univers font really calls back to the pleasant reading experiences of 70s technical documentation.

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