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691.
by modeless 1y ago
Hmm, Intel specs the max memory bandwidth as 89.6 GB/s. DDR5-8000 would be out of spec. But I guess it's pretty common to run higher specced memory, while you can't overclock PCIe (AFAIK?). Even so I guess my math was wrong,
692.
by modeless 1y ago
Wait, PCIe bandwidth is higher than memory bandwidth now? That's bonkers, when did that happen? I haven't been keeping up. Just looked at the i9-14900k and I guess it's true, but only if you add all the PCIe lanes together. I
693.
by modeless 1y ago
Hmm, but how likely are clicks on random squares to reveal more safe clicks? Seems likely that even if you hit a safe square you might still not have any safe moves. The goal ought to be to create more safe moves for the next turn, to reduc
694.
by modeless 1y ago
Only tangentially related, but Dragonsweeper is an interesting extension of minesweeper where you have hit points and the "mines" have attack values. I got a better appreciation for the mechanics of minesweeper by playing it; it&#
695.
by modeless 1y ago
This does worry me. If it goes through I may switch to iPhone. The freedom to install native code on my own device without a gatekeeper is the reason I put up with inferior hardware. If I can't have that then I might as well have the b
696.
by modeless 1y ago
That's what lockdown mode is for.
697.
by modeless 1y ago
Coming from a Pixel 7 Pro the single biggest upgrade is the fingerprint sensor. Dramatic improvement. I turned it off before; it actually works now. Magnetic charging is nice. The first party charger stand is just OK. I find it slightly les
698.
by modeless 1y ago
Zapcc speeds up incremental builds of a single translation unit. And it speeds up clean-cache builds that include the same headers in multiple translation units. Ccache does not. Yes, this is a huge advantage in real situations. Frankly you
699.
by modeless 1y ago
OK but you haven't provided any trustworthy evidence, just a personal anecdote. This is not convincing, especially since some anaesthetics have known long term psychological effects. There's no reason to believe that a person expe
700.
by modeless 1y ago
These sound like anaesthetic side effects.
701.
by modeless 1y ago
It won't ever be 1x the runtime, but if you think better than 2x is an insurmountable challenge then we will have to agree to disagree on that one. And for high-end performance engineering, I expect code that is aware of Fil-C could do
702.
by modeless 1y ago
Zapcc can, and frequently does, speed up the compilation of single files by 20x or more in the incremental case. CCache can't do that. And it's by far the common case when compiling iteratively during development. A speedup that l
703.
by modeless 1y ago
I'm not asking the standards committees to develop them for free. They were already developed! I'm saying that the committees should acknowledge their existence, and the fact that they solve some of C/C++'s biggest probl
704.
by modeless 1y ago
Both zapcc and Fil-C could benefit from the involvement of the standards committee. While both are very compatible, there are certain things that they can't fully support and it would be useful to standardize small language changes for
705.
by modeless 1y ago
There are a whole lot of C/C++ libraries and utilities that would be great to use in a memory safe context without rewriting them. And it's not exactly easy to reach 2x C's runtime in most other languages. But again, I think
706.
by modeless 1y ago
The catch is performance. It's not 200x slower though! 2x-4x is the actual range you can expect. There are many applications where that could be an acceptable tradeoff for achieving absolute memory safety of unmodified C/C++ cod
707.
by modeless 1y ago
The sensible way to speed up compilation 5x was implemented almost 10 years ago, worked amazingly well, and was completely ignored. I don't expect progress from the standards committees. Here it is if you're interested: https:&#x
708.
by modeless 1y ago
Singularity was cool. I'm sad that it was abandoned. The concept of using software isolation instead of hardware memory protection was really interesting.
709.
by modeless 1y ago
"Quite well" by what metric? It shipped on one device. That's pretty much the lowest bar you can imagine! Did it provide any tangible benefit to anyone? Let alone a benefit commensurate with the enormous cost of developing it
710.
by modeless 1y ago
Also Thor is actually getting sent out to robotics companies already. Did anyone outside Nvidia get a DGX Spark yet?
711.
by modeless 1y ago
Yeah I'm not sure about some of these. Some are duplicates too, is that accurate?
712.
by modeless 1y ago
In Japan house numbers are based on construction date rather than position along the street.
713.
by modeless 1y ago
I don't want a "balance" where we have half r/singularity slop and half luddite rage. Those aren't the only choices. I want interesting apolitical technical content, as encouraged by the guidelines, written and comm
714.
by modeless 1y ago
I didn't make up that stuff about what HN is for. It's straight from the official HN guidelines. They're linked at the bottom of every page. There is nothing illusory about the lack of appropriateness of this content. An inte
715.
by modeless 1y ago
Real crab bucket mentality here. We live in an age of wonders, literally the best time in human history to be alive, sci-fi turning to reality as we are on the brink of huge advances in space exploration, computation, robotics, biology, you
716.
by modeless 1y ago
9.1% word error rate on a 50-word vocabulary is not that great either.
717.
by modeless 1y ago
Classic HN middlebrow dismissal, only upvoted because people dislike Musk. Word error rate of 25% is unusable. Also it needs extensive retraining every few days. They used four fixed electrode arrays, like pushing a miniature bed of nails i
718.
by modeless 1y ago
This model is very impressive. Yesterday (as nano-banana) I gave it a photo of an indoor scene with a picture hanging on a wall, and asked it the picture on a wall with a copy of the whole photo. It worked perfectly the first time. It didn&
719.
by modeless 1y ago
> "we will continue to accept letters, postcards, printed matter, EMS (documents), and postal items (small packets, parcels, and EMS (goods)) containing gifts between individuals with a value of less than US$100." So no, "
720.
by modeless 1y ago
And "Worse is Better" was published here too? I don't know how anyone decided it was a good idea to make this, but I'm glad they did.

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