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by phkahler 2y ago
Totally off topic, but after reading some comments here I got curious and went to Google and typed "population" and autocomplete offered "of Canada" with an answer of 40.1 Million already there. Of course that's wha
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by phkahler 2y ago
So I'll just float an idea again that always gets rejected here. This is yet another problem that could be solved completely by... Eliminating anonymity by default on the internet. To be clear, you could still have anonymous spaces lik
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by phkahler 2y ago
Zen 5 beats Arrow Lake without AVX512. For workloads that use it you then get another huge performance jump with Zen 5, but Arrow Lake doesn't even have the instructions.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> that has been a pain point for recommending Fedora to newbies. I've been running Fedora for 20 years and I still can't navigate that part of the install process. The combination of partitions and LLVM - which I don't
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by phkahler 2y ago
Can we have private matches? I've been playing usdoku with a friend and we could use a new game. That one allows private matches as well as public.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Yeah, everybody wants to be the Karate Kid who binged karate studies in one montage and then won the tournament instead of training in the dojo for years and still having to cheat to come close to winning (and still failing) like t
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by phkahler 2y ago
Agreed, although this is the smallest I've seen: https://github.com/phkahler/mellori_ITX/blob/master/images/m... It's currently got a 5700G - Zen 3 in it and 64GB RAM. I'd like the n
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Are we going to see more these supposedly laptop APUs finding their way into desktops, and essentially a bifurcation of desktops into APUs and discrete CPU/GPUs? I sure hope so. We could use a new board form factor that omits
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by phkahler 2y ago
For those who don't want to apply firmware updates like this, you might want to use Linux. No printer company is going to work with your distro to automatically install their firmware updates. If your printer works today it's goin
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> This tale brings up many “what ifs.” What if 3dfx had gotten the SEGA Dreamcast contract? Would both companies have been better off? What if 3dfx had continued simply doing chips and not gotten into the board business? Would 3dfx t
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by phkahler 2y ago
A pure political statement. Don't those guys have better things to do?
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Why do we need to close the borders at all? Because those people need a place to live and they don't bring a home with them. It's added stress on the market. I will also be costly for any program that subsidizes housing i
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by phkahler 2y ago
Short term no. Langer term they would use it to leverage other things like Google does. Maybe not advertising, although they do seem to be leaning on that now with ads in software.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> No SQL, no UI framework, no MVC architecture - yet it solves the actual problem perfectly. No SQL but in it's place is some code. The point of SQL was to standardize a language for querying data. This is just using a language
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by phkahler 2y ago
Microsoft has a customized version of Chrome. Don't they already pay for it?
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by phkahler 2y ago
I played around with a related problem - find the shortest string containing every binary number of length n. There are 2^n substrings, and I seem to recall being able to to do it in 2^n + n - 1 bits. In other words, perfect overlap was pos
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Maybe solving for housing first is a way to eliminate some of the suffering in the world. That's probably true, but the ability to do it strongly depends (I'm thinking US centric here) on keeping the borders closed to ill
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Instead of multiplying by 7, you add 8 times the number and subtract the number, ending up with 7 times the number. You might think this requires two steps, but the trick is to multiply by one more in the digit to the left, so you
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Not exactly one cycle for a multiply it sounds like. That 5 mips would be eaten up quickly. Sure taking 8 instructions for a multiply is a lot, but microprocessors at that time didn't even have multiply and ran below 1MIPS. I
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by phkahler 2y ago
The Cinematronics arcade game processor has two 12-bit accumulators. The multiply instruction shifts them right as a single 24-bit value and adds the contents of memory if a 1 came out the LSB. So you clear the upper half, load one value in
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by phkahler 2y ago
Thank you so much for that comment. How you see solvespace is why I started contributing to it. I saw it as fundamentally different and very cool, but it had a lot of shortcomings that I felt capable of addressing. Unfortunately I haven&#x2
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by phkahler 2y ago
And here I thought it was redneck for "get" like that's where ya git yer code from.
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>> Will geometry kernels ever be fully robust, or is there still a holy grail to be discovered here? WRT robustness maybe not. Even the commercial ones tend to fail in certain situations. I'm not sure if there's a widely des
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Solvespace only seems to have simple STEP export... And it will probably stay that way. STEP is a huge specification and solvespace only supports a small subset of the features of it. In particular it doesn't do complex NURBS
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by phkahler 2y ago
In the open source world there are 2 (maybe 3) geometry kernels that handle NURBS and can produce STEP files. Open Cascade, which is GPL now but had a commercial origin. It's quite good and is used in FreeCAD, Salome, KiCAD (EDA), Hor
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by phkahler 2y ago
Question on paper writing... There is only one author listed, but the wording keeps using "we" as in "we show that..." Is it considered poor practice to use "I" in a one-person paper? Or is "we" incl
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by phkahler 2y ago
More importantly for open source projects with a lot of users, don't advertise a bunch of techno mumbo-jumbo on your website. That either means nothing to users, or may even put them off. Sure, have a link for developers that goes in t
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> That an aggressor nation can walk into another country's sovereign territory and annex it with the blessing of a sitting US president is a disgrace. They did that first in 2014 under Obama, and again under Biden. The current s
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> The real problems with the DNC campaigns are complex. They have a poor model for how to run national campaigns, clearly. The DNC didn't even have a primary last election. They just propped up Kamala and said "here's
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> The good way is to inspect the code :) The best way is to profile the code. Time is what we are after, so measure that .

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