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by mrob 2mo ago
A pure Harvard architecture machine has exactly that separation. Admittedly, there needs to be some mechanism for converting data to code so you can actually program it, but it doesn't have to be accessible by the device itself. E.g. p
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by mrob 2mo ago
"Downloadable" should be "weights available" by analogy to "source available". K3 is weights available because it includes usage restrictions. K2.6 is open weights, because the only restriction is a weaker vers
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by mrob 2mo ago
>Stable aerodynamics The F-16 is famously the first production aircraft with unstable aerodynamics, to increase maneuverability. It's not flyable without computer assistance. This is standard for all modern fighter jets.
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by mrob 3mo ago
There's a good article about this: https://www.datagubbe.se/stupidslow/ (previous discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40604972 The Amiga feels fast because its slowness is predictable
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by mrob 3mo ago
Even if you can reject the aesthetic argument for non-fiction works (although read some of Dijkstra's papers for a good counterargument), it is still a problem because it breaks an important quality signalling mechanism. Pre-LLMs, a pa
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by mrob 3mo ago
You can also spoof a keyboard and simulate keystrokes to open terminals and run arbitrary commands. I don't know about Windows, but on Linux it's possible to block USB connections by default and filter them in userspace: https:&#
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by mrob 3mo ago
That fact that you're posting on a web forum makes you an outlier. Most people only passively consume, and mobile devices are good enough for that.
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by mrob 3mo ago
>This is not coming to the Linux world. The moment this sort of thing happens, distros get forked. I installed Debian 13 recently. The first time I opened Firefox ESR (installed by default), I got something that looked like adverts on th
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by mrob 3mo ago
>they don't eat all the banannas before tomorrow, they will go bad This one specifically has a good solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bread
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by mrob 3mo ago
I have hundreds of CDs from the 80s and 90s, most of them bought used from charity shops. The vast majority play perfectly, despite some of them having obvious signs of poor storage/handling. I think it's more likely your CD playe
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by mrob 3mo ago
>no human being would ever refer to Michael Jordan as the "Space Jam guy." Maybe not in the USA, but globally I think it's likely that more people watched Space Jam than ever watched an NBA match. Professional basketball i
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by mrob 3mo ago
>every 3db is a doubling of sound power and intensity since its a logarithmic scale This is true, but the ear measures sound pressure, not sound intensity. Sound pressure requires a 6dB increase to double. See: https://en.wiki
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by mrob 3mo ago
Doesn't read like slop to me. The only sentence that could be argued to conflate the two is: >A new law taking effect this year will require manufacturers and importers to collect and recycle small portable batteries from the likes
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by mrob 3mo ago
High level languages are analogous to airbrushes or paint rollers, not assistants. They let you paint faster, at the cost of making some things impossible that you would be able to do with a fine paintbrush. Unlike the assistant/LLM, t
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by mrob 3mo ago
"High compression memory" is immersion-breaking magic. There are hard mathematical limits to how much you can compress things (Kolmogorov complexity), and every lossless compression algorithm necessarily increases the size of some
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by mrob 3mo ago
Latency is cumulative, so avoidable latency is never acceptable. Maybe the hardware will change. Maybe somebody will run your software in an emulator. That 5ms could be enough to push the total latency into the "annoying" level. A
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by mrob 3mo ago
>averaging the last 50 reads and wait till the majority is either off or on. This is a bad way to do it because it adds avoidable latency. A moving average is a low-pass filter. The switch bounce is better handled by hysteresis. Change s
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by mrob 3mo ago
I have an air purifier with built in particulate sensor. It doesn't provide numbers, but has a multi-color LED indicator to report PM2.5 level as good/mediocre/bad/terrible. Running a vacuum cleaner that supposedly has a
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by mrob 3mo ago
I correctly expected "wireless-free" to mean no support for wireless connections, which to me seems the simple and obvious interpretation. It doesn't necessarily mean it's wired (data transfer could be limited to removab
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by mrob 3mo ago
We should just automatically ban every new account with "AI" in the about field. I don't think we'd lose much.
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by mrob 3mo ago
I've heard it used that way in the UK too, but the first meaning is traditional. Wiktionary has some examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot I expect the US meaning will eventually become standard everywhere
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by mrob 3mo ago
>there's one exception: use of the word 'tabled'. Another exception: "moot", as in "moot point". In the UK it means "subject to debate", while in the US it means "inconsequential and ther
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by mrob 3mo ago
One big difference is the former doesn't "know" it's being experimented on. Gregor Mendel was able to grow large numbers of pea plants and identify patterns in their inheritance because the non-determinism followed consi
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by mrob 3mo ago
There's a big difference between "deterministic + noise" non-determinism and "intelligent agent" non-determinism. Only the former can be statistically modeled to characterize and work around the noise with any relia
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by mrob 3mo ago
>The point of the exercise is to demonstrate the student's understanding of the material, not their WPM. Testing for understanding requires the fastest WPM possible. Regardless of the method used, students don't all write at
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by mrob 3mo ago
Thanks for correcting. I haven't actually played an ocarina, so I was relying on reports from people saying they are quiet instruments. It's very difficult to find objective SPL comparisons for musical instruments. But lots of peo
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by mrob 3mo ago
I never want to evict pages to swap. If I loaded something, it's because I intend to run it, and I never want to wait. If there's not enough RAM, I'd rather have a userspace OOM killer kill the process early so I know I'
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by mrob 3mo ago
>"browser.cache.disk.enable: Set to false. This disables the disk cache, which is unnecessary if you have an SSD (RAM cache is fast enough) and actively harmful on old hard drives (constant small writes degrade performance)." T
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by mrob 3mo ago
Ocarinas have the great advantage over recorders that you can safely play them without hearing protection. I have personally measured the loud notes on both a soprano recorder and an alto recorder and the SPL meter measured over 100dB(A) at
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by mrob 3mo ago
States have a legitimate right to taxation. Taxes can be used to pay volunteers. While there are still people owning wealth above the poverty level, there is no excuse to force people into military slavery. And even if literally everybody h

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