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by pixelpoet 8mo ago
I would like to / am "supposed to" use Vulkan but it's a massive pain coming from OpenCL, with all kinds of issues that need safe handling which simply don't come from OpenCL workloads. Everyone keeps telling me Ope
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by pixelpoet 8mo ago
God this site is cancer on phone, I'm reading the article and suddenly the whole screen is full of some signup crap and the onscreen keyboard, so I try to bail and no fewer than 3 times does it prevent me from swiping back. Serves me
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by pixelpoet 8mo ago
4 in 5: https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adult-literacy-statistics-and-fac... > 21% of U.S. adults are classified as functionally illiterate, unable to complete basic reading tasks.
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by pixelpoet 8mo ago
Interesting article, but immediately ran into one of my pet peeves: > The work is published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. "Alcohol and drugs" is like saying "beef and meat".
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Aaaaand there it is! We all knew it was coming (with many cheering it on), and he still has plenty of time to call a national emergency or something to suspend the midterm elections in the "worst" case where too many people still
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Laptops are fundamentally a poor form factor for high performance computing.
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
These few-minutes-old accounts swooping in on hot button issues to try persuade people are such a goddamn scourge, I wish there were something that could be done about it. In the end I probably just need to leave HN for a while because it&#
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
What an odd account that is just created to try sway opinions on hot button topics. Where have I seen this before? Oh right, the entire site, for months now. Nothing suspicious about that at all, I'm sure a swarm of other brand new acc
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
> Europe is hitting the kills witch Everything about this site, right from the get go, screams useless amateur (average person on reddit level of writing). There doesn't seem to be anything new in this news article either, we'v
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
I run a Zulip server and it's pretty good. The way they organise channels is extremely convoluted unfortunately (I wish they would just use absolutely standard channels layout like every other chat, and have everyone able to see them o
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
That's a good boy, and I meant no disrespect to our furry family, just that they usually aren't known for their product management skills. I probably should have taken a leaf from UK politics and compared to a lettuce.
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
The Office brand is literally gone, they renamed it to "Microsoft Copilot 365 app". Check https://office.com
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
> The question Microsoft should ask themselves is why they built them in the first place It seems like everyone except MS themselves knows why: they got tunnel vision from Azure and AI, and completely forgot about what actually made them
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Including 8K of "RAM memory", brought to you by the DRD Department!
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
I especially love "Mr Handagote" from the soundtrack, absolute masterpiece which gives me goosebumps every time.
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
This is some top notch r/ShitAmericansSay material, especially Germany "running their mouth" and having bad food. Add in democrats "wining" and I'm pretty sure this post belongs on a Confederate cooking blog ra
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Kinda ironic username for this 1 day old account's comment :D
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Great article! I've never implemented surfel based GI but almost every other variant (even old school radiosity) and this article is making me want to try it out :)
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
One could say the error was [puts on shades]... unprompted .
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Ask the marketing department that destroyed one of the most famous brands on earth, MS Office, and renamed it to "Microsoft Copilot 365 app": https://office.com
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
GPUs aren't fast because they run standard CPU code with magic pixie dust, they're fast because they're specialised vector processors running specialised vector code. Cuda can also do C++ new, delete and virtual functions and
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Arm's Cortex A725 Ft. Dell's Pro Max with GB10(chipsandcheese.com)
61 points by pixelpoet 9mo ago|15 comments
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure the men aren't elated about getting squished by men either.
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
> Hmm... looks like it's taking longer than normal. Check back in a minute or two! Some simple wasm would work a treat here, no idea why this would be doing server side stuff. Ended up not waiting several minutes despite being prett
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
They referred me to the BBC
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
If you're European and reading the news at any point in the last year+, you understand how critical a weakness being dependent on US companies for your IT infra is. There are some things that are difficult to avoid, like CPUs and GPUs,
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Ah, so I should have replied with "Yeahhh bitch, science!", because that's a reference to the Breaking Bad meme? That's how we're discussing things now?
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
I wish humanity would get over this hyper fixation on short form everything, but I fear that ship has sailed.
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Stop trying to boss people around, and just make your point with some citations.
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by pixelpoet 9mo ago
Yep, nothing signals stability and genuine sentiment like a bunch of brand new accounts swooping in and touting the strength of the dollar. HN seems totally fine with this behaviour too, also super reassuring.

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