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by nicebyte 8d ago
under what conditions would the infinite loop be scheduled over something else after it has run out of its time slice?
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by nicebyte 8d ago
arguably there are already several places in the language where things like this can happen. for example, initializing a static function variable has certain thread safety guarantees (two threads entering the function won't step on eac
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by nicebyte 8d ago
> How To Write With An LLM Simply don't.
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by nicebyte 9d ago
"need to"? why?
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by nicebyte 9d ago
> However, math problems are really there to solve a real world problem. this is ABSOLUTELY not how actual mathematicians see their field. A problem in mathematics is just that: its interest to a pure mathematician is not related to any
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by nicebyte 10d ago
what this article tells me is that no one at Nvidia actually cares about this project whatsoever. otherwise, they would have had a person actually write the announcement.
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by nicebyte 11d ago
I'm sorry, this is simply not true. this https://codeberg.org/lrvick/nit/src/branch/main/src/system/r... is textbook definition of boilerplate. you need to be patient to cross-referen
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by nicebyte 11d ago
> It would be too annoying for a human to ever write code to standards this high, These are standards of a normal university operating systems course (assuming a university worth its salt anyway). Ridiculous to present it as some kind of
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by nicebyte 1mo ago
I don't know what's worse, people dying of a disease because there is no cure, or people dying of a disease because they can't afford a cure? not having a vaccine for a deadly disease, or having a vaccine AND a monstrous medi
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by nicebyte 1mo ago
Sure yeah. propaganda has to be subtle sometimes.
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by nicebyte 2mo ago
reader mode helps.
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by nicebyte 2mo ago
are you implying that text is impure bits?
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
2015 called
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
No, that is exactly the reason I am bringing up physics. There used to be a time when a singular person could make an outsized impact. In the recent past though, this has not been the case: significant breakthroughs are usually the result o
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
now, if you said "don't get into it because your primary employment prospects would be games or film industry, which are known to be less than stellar towards their workers" - that would be a different story.
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
My only additions to the article would be to study your probability/statistics (can't do efficient path tracing without it) and get comfortable with integrals, especially integrals on a sphere (physically based rendering will be a
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
Ridiculous justification. "Where is todays Jon Carmack?" Where is the "John Carmack" of ML? Where is the John Carmack of physics? This hero worship crap needs to be left in the past. There isn't a singular active re
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
"Github Repo" "Find Us on GitHub" ????
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
general rule of thumb is that you never want gamma-corrected values if you intend to be doing any sort of math with them. the only exception is when you want to match the behavior of softwares that actually do all the math with pixel values
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
there isn't much that is "arcane" about gamma correction itself (as in, the math itself is really simple). at the fundamental level, if a surface is illuminated with one lightbulb and we add another light bulb, the difference
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
that just sounds like DNS but more centralized and not super human-friendly...
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
but dynamic DNS is a thing. I've had setups for it since god knows how long, though admittedly not on my phone.
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
I am confused why this is needed. > IP addresses can break, without warning, and it's outside of your device's control. We have DNS? > Keys, however, are created & controlled by you. They stay the same as your device mov
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by nicebyte 4mo ago
If done right, this is more like a monthly bus pass
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by nicebyte 4mo ago
when you re-crop a photo or use the perspective tool, you are literally distorting the image. not to mention, all of the processing that happens in modern cameras before you even see the image. in the case of a modern smartphone in particul
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by nicebyte 4mo ago
they're technically not wrong. C is literally an "abstraction" of the machine. As we know, the whole point of an abstraction is to ignore the multitude of details :-)
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by nicebyte 4mo ago
250k for base pay is about in line with median I'd say. If 250k was the total comp (taking into account bonus/stocks/what have you) then yeah, you definitely should have negotiated.
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by nicebyte 4mo ago
"outgroup"? what outgroup? we're talking about inanimate objects here. by your own logic, you treat your home appliances as an outgroup so you must be secretly a dangerous psychopath. or do you thank your microwave after heat
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by nicebyte 5mo ago
it's a neat experiment but I think it's ultimately flawed because color is usually perceived in context, and depending on context I could easily see anyone reinterpreting the hues they labeled "green" in this test as blu
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by nicebyte 5mo ago
> There is no consequence for choosing blue there are consequences in both cases.

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