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by murderfs 1y ago
Surely you can make cornstarch from it, and that problem only lasts a year.
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by murderfs 1y ago
A somewhat less (but still!) ambitious project is to retrofit C4 photosynthesis into rice. It's something like 50% more efficient, and has evolved independently dozens of times, so it's probably a lot more feasible.
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by murderfs 1y ago
They recommend against it for the traditional CC licenses (CC-BY-SA, etc.), but CC0 is perfectly fine for code, since it's basically a dedication to the public domain for jurisdictions that don't support that. The FAQ for CC0 says
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by murderfs 1y ago
You are overlooking location. The ideal place to place a datacenter is a place with cheap land, cheap electricity, good backbone connectivity, and close to users, but there aren't a lot of those.
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by murderfs 1y ago
> My point is, cough up a few bucks for a license you chiselers. You mean this one? https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/LICENSE
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by murderfs 1y ago
Denver does it because it was supposed to be an x86 CPU, but they couldn't get an agreement with Intel for patent licensing, so they pivoted into being the first available aarch64 CPU since decode was happening entirely in software.
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by murderfs 1y ago
The shilling is so blatantly transparent that I could almost believe that it's a false flag operation from a competitor.
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by murderfs 1y ago
It is very easy for zero-copy IPC using sealed memfd to be massively slower than just copying, because of the cost associated with doing a TLB shootdown on munmap. In order to see a benefit over just writing into a pipe, you'd likely n
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by murderfs 1y ago
Is the answer a good one? https://www.nber.org/papers/w34033
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by murderfs 1y ago
That's a good way of turning the poorest US workers into the poorest US unemployed. If you raise the minimum wage above the actual value of an employee, then they're just going to get fired. Even if they still provide more value t
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by murderfs 1y ago
Your response to a change that's motivated by performance improvements is to suggest switching to a scheme that'll have catastrophically worse performance?
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by murderfs 1y ago
Okay, then please reimplement the equivalent of the following code to work with both IPv4 and IPv6: int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); struct sockaddr_in addr = { .sin_family = AF_INET, .sin_port = htons(1234) }; addr.s
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by murderfs 1y ago
GPUs are not particularly hot for compute silicon, they just have ridiculously huge dies. Comparing the 5090 to a Core Ultra 285K, the GPU has a 750 mm^2 die compared to the CPU's 243 mm^2, but has a peak power of 575W compared to 250W
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by murderfs 1y ago
Yeah, well, if you've invested 135 million euros into repairing a sailboat, you might as well put it to use...
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by murderfs 1y ago
> In an age where all your significant opponents have nuclear ICBMs, anything which could look like a nuclear strike will be interpreted as such by your opponent in an open conflict and generate direct retaliation. This has happened befo
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by murderfs 1y ago
You're probably thinking of power factor, which is usually not a big deal for datacenters. All of your power supplies are going to have active PFC, and anything behind a double conversion UPS is going to get PFC from the UPS. The bigge
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by murderfs 1y ago
Yes, and the cost to reimplement the USPS so that you can get your order in a day is also significant.
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by murderfs 1y ago
That's gross margin, not net margin. It's not free to do the logistics to actually get you your order, either keeping warehouses and paying for shipping and handling, or physically maintaining and staffing a storefront to sell the
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by murderfs 1y ago
Where exactly do you think Amazon's profits are coming from? Over half of their profit comes from AWS, and the retail side does not appear to have substantially different margins than brick and mortar retailers (~3% net margin).
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by murderfs 1y ago
> Many of the best co-workers that I remember had physics degrees. In fact, it was so pronounced I personally consider a physics degree to be a top tier signal of programming ability, but that's my own personal prejudice. You'r
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by murderfs 1y ago
A good example of this is the natural numbers. Algebraists usually consider zero to be a natural number because otherwise, it's not a monoid and set theorists want zero because it's the size of the empty set. My number theory text
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by murderfs 1y ago
Everyone uses a forked version of the mainline Linux.
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by murderfs 2y ago
> As an American I will say that prepared food served from a vending machine is going to be associated with low quality and possible poor hygiene. The grandparent post is talking about canned food/drink that's heated in the mac
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by murderfs 2y ago
> Weird US tricks like getting paid in stock and taking loans with that stock as collateral, with the resulting liability cancelling out remaining tax also don't work there. That's not how the U.S. trick works, it's taking
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by murderfs 2y ago
The British Empire didn't collapse due to military conquest by the Germans, it fell due to economic conquest by the United States (see the Atlantic Charter and U.S. intervention in the Suez Crisis).
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by murderfs 2y ago
Something like a third of traffic fatalities are due to one of the drivers being drunk.
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by murderfs 2y ago
This is way too expensive for something like a microcontroller. AMD calls this 3D V-Cache and uses it on their top end SKUs.
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by murderfs 2y ago
You are completely wrong.
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by murderfs 2y ago
You just need to use a sufficiently large storage system. One of the proposals of Project Plowshare was to use underground detonation of thermonuclear weapons as a geothermal energy sources.
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by murderfs 2y ago
I remember reading the fuchsia slide deck and being absolutely flabbergasted at the levels of architecture astronautics going on in it. It kept flipping back and forth between some generic PM desire ("users should be able to see notifi

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