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by phkahler 10mo ago
Put OS calls on the bus. IMHO we need to add permissions to most user-space APIs so apps don't need to be sandboxed in a VM for security. Is this what SE Linux is? But I sometimes want permission to be granted by the user. For example,
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Isn't the majority of SaaS in ERP systems?
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People are fsc#ing insane. And I love it !!!
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by phkahler 10mo ago
We use GNU Unifont in Solvespace for the text window/property browser. It's built right into the executable. This turned out to be amazingly useful. Some people have CJK stuff in their designs and it "just works" on all
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by phkahler 10mo ago
Right or wrong, who owns the trademark?
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by phkahler 10mo ago
I've often said OSes and DEs have stagnated, so web browsers started innovating in areas they shouldn't have needed to. Tabs is one such area. And now with Cosmic: Stacks, snapping, and sticky windows ◦ Stack windows to combine th
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> Waymo data shows a significant injury reduction rate. If it's true and not manipulated data, it's natural for the car companies to want to capture some of this upside. If you can insure the car for less, the car company c
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> To my surprise, she doesn’t mix words from the different languages in the same sentence I knew two brothers that would mix words from different languages while speaking to each other because they shared the same set of languages
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> GP's assertion of population collapse in five years is a bit extreme for me! Check the population pyramid for the US. the baby boomers are moving into the top part (I call the grinder) where they will die out over the next 20
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by phkahler 10mo ago
EDIT: Nevermind. Perhaps it was an ad that I clicked on. Lots of comments here indicating they don't see it, and some that did. My Original comment here (too late to delete): Beware. When you reach the end there is a "more project
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by phkahler 10mo ago
I'm starting to believe "economic growth" is fiction. Just because an item has a higher price does not mean it's higher output. If we measure the value of things based on say the energy + labor cost to produce it, econom
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> Not to be pedantic, but this would make you not so "pro capitalism as it comes". The ability to develop and sell houses, but not hold them (in service of rent-seeking) runs contradictory to the very core tenant of capital
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> If these corporations can't invest in housing, they'd direct their money elsewhere. I think that's why they're buying residential - there aren't any other traditional investments that aren't in a bubbl
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> If medical professionals hold a legal monopoly on providing diagnostic care, then decide it's better to just not diagnose things They said detecting. Diagnosing is "hey, somethings wrong or odd, what is going on." D
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by phkahler 10mo ago
>> Gnome has stagnated significantly. GTK is still alive. It seems like Cosmic desktop with GTK apps will be a reasonable path forward. Of course there's KDE and QT, but I mean as an alternative to those.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> Material was CF-ABS With a glass transition temp of 105C. And yet "Two samples from the air induction elbow were subjected to testing, using a heat-flux differential scanning calorimeter, to determine their glass transition te
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> This part could have likely been fine if it used a different material such as Ultem. Maybe, but FDM printed parts are still much weaker than molded parts. We tried printing some coolant pump housings once during development. They w
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by phkahler 11mo ago
Called it! About a year ago (or more?) I thought nVidia was overpriced and if AI was coming to PCs RAM would be important and it might be good to invest in DRAM makers. As usual I didn't do anything with my insight, and here we are. Mi
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by phkahler 11mo ago
One large thing missing. Where is the flow to insurance company profit, and provider profit?
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by phkahler 11mo ago
That doesn't explain why persons in leadership positions outperform other members of congress. Presumably they all talk to each other and could share trading strategies. There's no reason not to unless your strategy involves insid
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by phkahler 11mo ago
Let's pay down the debt before increasing social programs. You know, save the country first. If a penny saved is a penny earned then everyone -rich or poor- is looking for a handout.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> > "if". Where the condition is a predicate for the following instruction >> This is just a forward skip, which is optimized to a predicated insn already in some implementations. True, but make it a 16bit prefix a
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> If Intel becomes the leading foundry, even if their x86 chips are a little behind Apple, they'll still be ahead of AMD. Apple start shipping 3nm back in 2023. It's looking like AMD will get there in another year. No? AMD
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by phkahler 11mo ago
"Worth it" would mean someone is willing to pay huge fees for the extension. An exponential scale ensures that nobody can afford it for long.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> Any instruction that can be similarly rephrased as a composition of more restricted elementary instructions is also a candidate for this macro-insn approach. I really like the idea of composition or standard prefixes. My favorite i
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by phkahler 11mo ago
At that point Intel would be a highly successful foundry business! Then they could make very high performance RISC-V cores and offer them to foundry customers who need CPU. No need for legacy x86 at that point.
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> The zero register helps RISC-V (and MIPS before it) really cut down on the number of instructions, and hardware complexity. Which if funny because IMHO RISC-V instruction encoding is garbage. It was all optimized around the idea of
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by phkahler 11mo ago
>> Non-AI workloads prefer vector units and not matrix units FEA and other "scientific" workloads are all matrix math. This is why super computers have been benchmarked using BLAS and LAPACK for the past 40 years. OTOH are t
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by phkahler 11mo ago
No, not that congruence. I mean a row in the big matrix. A residue r = x^2 mod m factored over the factor base. When you get enough of these you can derive a^2 - b^2 = 0 mod m. What does each factored r provide prior to having enough of the
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by phkahler 11mo ago
So from CDNA3 to 4 they doubled fp16 and fp8 performance but cut fp32 and fp64 by half? Wonder why the regression on non-AI workloads?

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