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by mnau 4y ago
Maybe competition? x86 has only 2 competitors left. ARM has more diverse ecosystem of competitors and the environments ha been different. ARM design had to be adjusted/developed for a cell phones often cost 10% of a normal computers (m
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by mnau 4y ago
ChatpGPT already can lie to achieve a goal, I am not sure intentionally train it to say one thing and think another is a good idea.
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by mnau 4y ago
SMEE won't be making EUV, it has it's hands full of DUV. Chinese Academy of Sciences will (a spinoff company for commercialization), they publish research papers on EUV and so on. Multiple project are being developed in parallel.
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by mnau 4y ago
I get that images costs money to host, but they could instead add a new feature that would spread out the costs (~bittorrent), while the hub would be the seed of last resort. VC capital wants its money back I guess.
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by mnau 4y ago
Only in English. For other languages, Bing was and continues to be garbage.
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by mnau 4y ago
XML files in a zip file (plus images and other things). There are many individual xml files in a single zip file, each file (part) is generally responsible for different area, e.g. one file for one sheet cells, one file for style definition
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by mnau 4y ago
It's responsibility of the CEO/BoD to ensure compliance. At that size and in that market, compliance departments are huge. We get regular audits of our work by an outside company. The exact auditing company rotate to ensure no inc
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by mnau 4y ago
> We love our customers. ~Robotica
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by mnau 4y ago
James Watt and his patents on steam engine are also an interesting case. Efficiency gains basically stopped for duration of the main patent patent and exploded later. On the other hand it is also case for more innovation due to necessity, e
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by mnau 4y ago
Yeah, I hoped MS would be more supportive of .NET Standard 2.0 during transition period. I am stuck on .NET48 at least for another two years (because of webforms frontend) and the last version of EF Core that supports .NET Standard 2.0 is 3
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by mnau 4y ago
Increase in price would increase amount of mineable U. Nobody even prospected it in last 50 years. There is enough of of known deposits, why trying to find new ones? That is like peak oil stories. Increase price twice or thrice and suddenly
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by mnau 4y ago
Computer science may be stagnant, but practical applications of topics researched decades ago has flourished from small seeds into large forests. I am pretty sure that all research on stuff we are since the horizontal scaling has taken over
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by mnau 4y ago
Incredible amount of goods or services I consume pay $2/hour, if they are lucky. Bangladesh, India, take your pick. I certainly take advatage fo that. Why should I pay more? It's not my job to fix laws and it's not my job to
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by mnau 4y ago
That was rather depressing reading. It seems that paper-based system was a superior system. Changing it back is probably impossible though.
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by mnau 4y ago
> Here's 50 gigabytes of neural net weights. .. from few months ago. Weights change daily, most likely updated by another NN. I guess it's nice that lawmakers understand that at some point these companies used algorithms to sea
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by mnau 5y ago
Trust me, most of former eastern block hasn’t been much better. Mine country certainly lacked it. There were no laws against most of the stuff that happened. You took a loan and had no collateral? Perfectly fine. 90s was the second biggest
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by mnau 5y ago
Fun fact, China has greater gdp per capita than Russia(nominal, Russia is still ahead in in ppp). Russia gdp per capita for 2020 was $10,127 China gdp per capita for 2020 was $10,500 Their descend into mineral rich vassal state of china see
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by mnau 5y ago
You are missing key benefit: when Google locks you out of your account, you don't lose access to significant part of your digital life (your email, all these sign with google ect). Google is using law of algorithm, not a rule of law. T
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by mnau 5y ago
I guess we are stuck at disagreement. I did see the text. If it bothered me that much, I would write a proxy that passed HTML through iconv tool before serving it to user (with a dictionary to remember setting for each site). But more likel
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by mnau 5y ago
I view it as a firefox fixing incorrectly written pages. It's nice that FF has a "fix-it" option, but ultimately, the author shoudl fix her site. The single-byte Latin scripts are semi legible, so that is enough for me. When
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by mnau 5y ago
Seems like clickbait title. I have seen this issue few times over the years and it was always a game of "Which encoding should I choose?" Having an automated way to solve this seems pretty good to me. Especially if the solution wo