phkahler

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by phkahler 11mo ago
25M dollars? Buy a truck and something to load it. Pay one guy to spend the next few years moving it to a landfill as a full time job instead of contracting out the big cleanup.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
Imagine if the debt were 1 trillion dollars instead of 38! How hard is it to say "no budget increases this year"? And that wouldn't even eliminate the deficit and they can do it.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> I think they want to reboot the program to try to remove the corruption. A reasonable thing to do - in principle. In practice that many people applying at once is going to cause all kinds of problems and delays for people. No big
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by phkahler 11mo ago
It's a diffusion model, not autocomplete.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> This is maybe the first dataset I've seen that clearly illustrates how margin (profit) is inversely correlated with value to humanity. 9th from the bottom is EV charging. You might think that's going to improve quality of
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> The new Nano Banana 2 that has been briefly teased around the internet can solve incredibly complicated differential equations on chalk boards with full proof of work. That's great, but I bet it can't tie it's own sh
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> They didn’t “establish” abstract expressionist art. They helped promote it just as they helped promote jazz music and other US culture. I've heard it claimed that they generally don't try to start movements because it&#x2
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by phkahler 11mo ago
Pixar contributed OpenSubdiv and may have helped with integration?
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> I’m afraid that this steam machine is so underpowered that it is no better if not much significantly slower than a MacBook Pro with a M4 Max. Isn't that one of the fastest laptops money can buy?
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing This is so interesting. I wonder if no human prompted for the article to be written either. I could see some kind of algorithm figuring out what to "
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by phkahler 11mo ago
Are you interpreting that as "if we violate the license, they can revoke our right to use the software" ?? And they use it in 3 products so that would be really bad. That would make sense to have a compliance person.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
From TFA this was telling: Thus, as Mark Atwood, an open source policy expert, pointed out on Twitter, he had to keep telling Amazon to not do things that would mess up FFmpeg because, he had to keep explaining to his bosses that “They are
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> Honestly, my favorite places aren't the place I'd want to take a first date. They're casual and cheap and wouldn't convey that I was trying very hard. Unless you're talking about fast food, what's the
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by phkahler 1y ago
No, "physical harm".
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Using a compositor fixes screen tearing, no need to use Wayland for that. Right, and that abandons the whole X drawing API in favor of passing around client drawn bitmaps. That was one of the big points of Wayland too - X has a who
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> How long before China develops indigenous EUV capability? Oh, they absolutely will. I meant the tech world though, not the geopolitical one. Other node will also linger since there are cost differences, but EUV is going to remain
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> > attempts by some incumbent ISAs to lobby the US government to curb the uptake of RISC-V >> Is this real? Or FUD? https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/20/risc-v-dese... Somebo
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by phkahler 1y ago
The world is probably going to be split between EUV and non-EUV lithography for a long time. I'd like to see things like the Raspberry Pi stay on the older nodes and just wring out the performance. For reference the Zen1 CPUs were on 1
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by phkahler 1y ago
These are also good noise sources and were use in several early video arcade games for producing explosion and spaceship thrust sounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_generator
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> This looks like an open source alternative to Mathematica/MathLab/Maple running in the browser. Yes. If you're on Linux try out wxMaxima as a local app. I'm not sure how to get the Windows version of wxMaxima si
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Each layer of that strip has a different cut in it, so its much more complicated to make. You can roll a spool of that material and then machine the shape out of it. I've seen this done for axial flux motors. There are other a
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Wayland compositors are still not as full-featured as X11 desktop environments It depends what features you care about. X11 doesn't have tear-free video playback, HDR, or as good a security model as Wayland.
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by phkahler 1y ago
IMHO they should be the best one and use that to draw people to FB. They don't need to keep people in the dating app since its not the primary business.
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by phkahler 1y ago
HTML tables are cognitively if not officially deprecated these days. I made my 1996 resume in HTML using a table for layout and it was indistinguishable from the Word version when printed. Made by editing the HTML by hand too! Tables are gr
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> It could as well be that focusing in K12 would have delayed Zen, maybe delaying it enough that it could have become irrelevant by the time it got to market. Agree. AMD stock was under $2 prior to Zen. Buying was a bet that Zen woul
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Seems completely uncorrelated with what is discussed especially considering Intel didn’t enter the ARM market either. I don't think AMD should be following Intel in markets outside x86. I want to see them go RISC-V with a wide
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by phkahler 1y ago
The latest version seems to be Sonic Boom: https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom But this project seems to have stagnated with one significant commit in the last year.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Does it support app development in other languages?
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by phkahler 1y ago
How about a few large dependencies and no little ones?
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by phkahler 1y ago
No. On Wayland all of that should be in the compositor. Window sizing and positioning can not be done by the apps, so it makes sense that the controls for that are drawn and handled by the WM. But Gnomes gotta gnome...

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