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by nine_k 7mo ago
I suppose that most HPC problems are embarrassingly parallel™, and have very little if any mutable shared state?
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Is Fortran 90 not flexible enough in defining data layout?
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by nine_k 7mo ago
I don't see any big trouble with the quoted text. The language is a bit nerdy, and a bit bureaucratic, but that's exactly what I'd expect from NASA.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Are these numbers adjusted for inflation? $19.2B in 20216 dollars would be $26.4B in 2026 dollars.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
If the product has any serious audience / traction, it becomes profitable to scan its EULA for illegal clauses, and sue the company for damages (and maybe extra punishment for breaking the law). The fact that 100% of its users, except
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by nine_k 7mo ago
As a side note: the scientist who first suggested that the Universe expands and thus must have an explicit beginning was also a Catholic priest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
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by nine_k 7mo ago
They (like many) are afraid to become svn as the world is apparently taken over by git. Well-maintained but irrelevant.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Whatever does not survive stops registering in later times; most of the time, what helps survival is retained, and what helps survival is what increases fitness.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
> essentially bug-free I would say that most software is going to have few easily exploitable bugs. Presence of such bugs will immediately cost more than having them discovered and fixed. Other bugs, those that do not lead to easy pw
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by nine_k 7mo ago
If you want to completely eschew shorts, consider adding https://www.youtube.com/shorts to your adblocker blocklist, and maybe use an extension like Stylus to hide the "Shorts" links on YT pages. I would rather ke
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by nine_k 7mo ago
In short, once you need reliability , your complexity necessarily grows due to the redundancy and failover you need to introduce. If your downtime does not cost much, you can host many things on a single tiny computer.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Japan's salaries are much lower than those in the US. Even adjusted to PPP, the median salary in Japan is still significantly lower that in the US. Few would be able to afford food at US price levels.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Napoleon somehow did not have very much trouble doing just that back in the day. But it's of course not limited to small arms distributed among the population. There are many more preparations done in advance, like rocks prepared to bl
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Maybe it doesn't need constant fixing? Are there many issues in the tracker?
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Is a proof of lack of insanity a proof of sanity?
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by nine_k 7mo ago
> And wtf do you need a gun for anyway? One of the reasons that Switzerland, a country te size of Bay Area, with 9M current population, has not been overrun by the many wars in Europe for last 200 years is that every citizen is expecte
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Can you get a driver's license if you're visibly insane? The same standard should apply to getting a gun. A gun is comparably lethal.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
They also sell a heatsink for mere $21 (on AliExpress), just in case you don't know how to fit a spare PC cooler onto it.
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by nine_k 7mo ago
A gun-free zone is not such a good idea, much like an encryption-free zone would be, or an alcohol-free zone (the latter has been tried). I would rather go for Swiss-stye mandatory gun training, and keeping a gun in (almost) every home. But
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by nine_k 7mo ago
> need to stop and reprogram to stop and start according to fluctuating rules Or just move to Texas. Or even Idaho or Dakotas. Which, under a certain angle, is good, it would lessen the wealth and expertise disbalance between states. I
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Anyway, there are a few model that are freely distributable, and that can reasonably run on consumer-grade local hardware. It changes a number of things. Not all tasks require very high intelligence, but a lot of data may be sensitive enoug
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by nine_k 7mo ago
In this regard, the release of open-weight Gemma models that can run on reasonable local hardware, and are not drastically worse than Anthropic flagships, is quite a punch. An M2 Mac Mini with 32GB is about 10 months worth of Claude Max s
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by nine_k 7mo ago
I can imagine a moderator, or a marketing person, wanting such a tool. "Respond to this post in a polite and friendly manner, thank the user for choosing our company, discovering a problem, and taking the time to report it. Promise to
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by nine_k 7mo ago
This. You should not try to backup your local cache of cloud files as if those were your local files. Use a tool that talks to the cloud storage directly. Use tools with straightforward, predictable semantics, like rclone, or synching, or
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Can these tools e.g. do per-commit review? I mean, it's not the UI what's the problem (though it's not ideal), it's the whole idea of commenting the entire PR at once, partly ignoring the fact that the code in it changes
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by nine_k 7mo ago
The Internet is quite fine at delivering packages over encrypted channels which I can trust. (Except where interdicted by governments, like in China, India, Russia, Turkyie,..) The Web is a rather different beast, but the question is not
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by nine_k 7mo ago
Nice! It looks essentially like userspace NAT, only active for particular ports. I'm contemplating a similar setup to handle access to my home machines: when I'm in my home network, some ports are forwarded to 127.x.y.z directly f
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by nine_k 7mo ago
> all of the other tech we have will have continued to progress These other techs also came from somewhere, often brewing slowly for decades until the conditions align for a commercial success. This one may be, or may not be, one of th
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by nine_k 7mo ago
What is HM here?
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by nine_k 7mo ago
To the opposite, I'm a heavy user of keyboard shortcuts everywhere they exist. OTOH taking over the browser shortcuts, and especially the search, is something that I very much dislike.

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