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by oivey 6y ago
I don’t think what you’re saying jives with the reality of what happened in Texas. The price of electric and natural gas skyrocketed during the shortage. A company that winterized their equipment stood to make a killing. And yet, despite th
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by oivey 6y ago
I don’t think the toilets would knock a nuclear power plant out of service.
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by oivey 6y ago
The legislature could have done something, but the private utility companies could have also decided to provide a quality, reliable product. In the old days they may have considered it their civic duty. This is just another example of why p
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by oivey 6y ago
Honestly probably better to store some water, run your pipes in a tiny stream, and then if you lose water at least your pipes will be drained.
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by oivey 6y ago
This isn’t theoretical. A nuclear plant was knocked out of service due to water freezing at the current temperatures.
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by oivey 6y ago
They aren’t that expensive, seeing as probably most states can operate their power grid at reasonable cost at these temperatures. They definitely aren’t expensive compared to the economic damage of an event like this every 15 years.
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by oivey 6y ago
The most bizarre part is people referring to this as a once in a century storm. It’s more like a once in a decade or 15 years storm, seeing as similar temperatures were seen in 2011 and 1989. Things that happen on that cadence shouldn’t res
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by oivey 6y ago
You can say, with your voice, “who won the Super Bowl last year?” to a device that fits in your pocket and it responds with its own voice with the correct answer. That’s pretty accessible.
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by oivey 6y ago
He names references in his post. I highly doubt he’s confused about the difference between is and ==. It’s a weird leak of interpreter details that could, in very narrow situations, cause a bug.
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by oivey 6y ago
From the point of view of a DL researcher, you’re able to easily implement your own custom layers. From the point of view of a framework developer, you get much faster development time. From the point of a more normal user, you hopefully ge
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by oivey 6y ago
Do a handful of posts on the tiny Stadia subreddit justify the massive investment Google has made to create yet another App Store? Is the market of people who use Apple Mail because they don’t know how to register a Gmail account large and
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by oivey 6y ago
The level of inconvenience is on the same level as having to log into Gmail on my iPhone. That doesn’t stop me from using Gmail or buying an iPhone. UX matters a lot, but not that much. Steam is free by the way, since I guess I didn’t point
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by oivey 6y ago
Can you elaborate? You don’t need to install Steam or the game to play that game on GeForce Now.
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by oivey 6y ago
It’s maybe a tiny bit worse, but describing it as terrible is a pretty extraordinary stretch. Google is fucked if the entire business model of Stadia, requiring massive investment in hardware, software, and content, depends on consumers bei
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by oivey 6y ago
Steam and Epic are literally app stores. I guess you have to link an extra account to use it with GeForce Now? For that minuscule amount of extra friction you get access to a much larger set of games on stores that won’t shut down when Goog
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by oivey 6y ago
Madden isn’t available on GeForce Now apparently, but besides that I don’t think you’ve explained why Stadia is better. On Stadia and GeForce Now, you pay a subscription fee and pay for the game. Is it something about the Stadia hardware th
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by oivey 6y ago
Are you talking about Half Life: Alyx? It works on basically any VR headset as far as I know. I think they just need to be SteamVR compatible which basically everything is.
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by oivey 6y ago
I’m unsure how Nvidia’s approach is worse. On GeForce now you can play games from Steam or Epic, right? Isn’t Stadia the same except you are locked into only Google’s store? That’s pretty significantly worse.
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by oivey 6y ago
The problem is a perception that the stock market continues to go up, yet the lot of the average person is either stagnant or getting worse. It isn’t an impossible double standard. The frustration is with the ever increasing wealth inequali
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by oivey 6y ago
Domain expertise is important, but I really struggle to see the 10s of millions of domain expertise at play here.
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by oivey 6y ago
But you see, something something, core business government isn’t tech, something something, private contractors are more efficient.
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by oivey 6y ago
OpenCL is basically dead at this point, too. The de facto standard is CUDA and there aren’t currently any real challengers. Maybe eventually AMD’s ROCm or Intel’s oneAPI will get traction.
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by oivey 6y ago
I’ve found that enforcing types users (including myself) can use with my code is a bad idea. Informal specifications are simpler and enable massive code reuse. Inheritance in OOP was meant to SRN able code reuse in static languages, but has
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by oivey 6y ago
Very few sites are broken with ad blocking. If you click on one, you just press the back button. No need for a mental blacklist.
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by oivey 6y ago
They’re not even close to the bottom. Their current product line up isn’t the best and the future is bleak, but the market needs their fab capacity. The bottom will occur as competitor production capacity relative to demand improves. Part o
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by oivey 6y ago
In the same way that I don’t think learning sklearn is the hard part of knowing ML, I don’t think 0 or 1 -based arrays is the hard part of any particular language. There are situations where both are appropriate. The choice of either as the
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by oivey 6y ago
Looks like vectorizing over NamedTuples is explicitly disallowed. Probably you can still vectorize things over the keys and values separately, along with some helper functions, but it is a bit annoying. Looks like the reason was due to ques
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by oivey 6y ago
For the last thing, is this what you want? https://github.com/JuliaArrays/PaddedViews.jl There may be other packages or methods for doing the other things you want. I’d think that broadcasting over a NamedTuple would i
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by oivey 6y ago
I don’t think that is true. As far as I know, Cython let’s you do function overloading and single dispatch via class inheritance. I think you also miss out on the type inference that lets you do things like pipe dual numbers through functio
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by oivey 6y ago
In practice the multiple dispatch overhead is elided by the compiler. If it can’t be you’re doing something truly dynamic, which is generally unavoidably slower. It’s still a better place to be than everything being a generic Object type.

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