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by pjc50 5mo ago
There's $32trn of them: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL594090005Q Who do you think is buying .. everything? They're holding substantial fractions of both the whole stockmarket and national debt.
812.
by pjc50 5mo ago
.. now. Five years ago that was more like 2%.
813.
by pjc50 5mo ago
And in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , they don't even manage to do any motorcycle maintenance! (I think people have misunderstood the appeal of the book, probably because the psychological conditions of the mid-20th centu
814.
by pjc50 5mo ago
This is also a hazard of renting, because the landlord will deal with it on their own schedule and as cheaply as possible.
815.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Military insiders can also buy oil futures...
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by pjc50 5mo ago
A fab is not a small business! Part of the delay is really just commercial. Fabs are optimized for utilization - throughput, not latency. A fab operator will prefer to queue up a load of work with as few gaps as possible, and your shuttle s
817.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Yes, but that still costs significant money in a way that software deployment doesn't. IME most chips get maybe one or two metal layer revisions then a rev B consolidated bugfix - and then get left alone.
818.
by pjc50 5mo ago
To add to this: the downstream customers also hate change, just as much as people hate Windows updates. They much prefer being able to buy the same chip for 10 years. (here at Medium-Size-Fabless-Semi-Inc, I'm in the middle of revving
819.
by pjc50 5mo ago
As with compute hardware, someone will have a chart keeping track of "additional electricity cost per unit of compute versus state-of-the-art hardware", to determine when it's cheaper to just turn it off and replace with newe
820.
by pjc50 5mo ago
.. however, isn't that almost entirely from people known to the child? Authority figures, teachers, priests, step-parents? "Stranger danger" was in some ways a recoil from recognizing how bad the "system" was in sec
821.
by pjc50 5mo ago
> then from economic point of view it makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume And, for exactly the same reasons as Europeans need to have sovereign compute to protect against economic imperia
822.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Oddly enough, my wife was recently involved in a project to translate historical crime novels from Norwegian; since all the available late 20th century Scandinavian crime novels have already been translated and turned into popular TV series
823.
by pjc50 5mo ago
> The squeeze on workers creates two separate worries for policymakers. One is that households will rein in spending, worsening the hit from the war to economic growth and forcing companies to cut jobs as demand slows. Well, yes, there&#
824.
by pjc50 5mo ago
No, they only allow one corporation to be involved, which is not necessarily an improvement.
825.
by pjc50 5mo ago
No search engines are uncensored, not even Yandex. Partly because they have to exist in a country somewhere, and partly because really nobody wants to index CSAM.
826.
by pjc50 5mo ago
The results are kind of weird, but it does have one advantage: either nobody bothers to DMCA them, or they ignore it, or both.
827.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Windows Phone let you do this with Continuum ten years ago: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/14/conti... Like the rest of the WP ecosystem, never really took off enough.
828.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Kind of language-dependent since regexes are normally specified as strings and most languages are pretty weak at "run this code at compile time". One of the things Rust users are fond of. C# is in the middle on this one, where spe
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by pjc50 5mo ago
VM for obfuscation is a whole thing. Denuvo has a particularly complicated one https://connorjaydunn.github.io/blog/posts/denuvo-analysis/ Other game examples using VMs not for obfuscation: Z-machine and SCUM
830.
by pjc50 5mo ago
All regular expressions are deterministic final automata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton (finally, a use for my CS course); the extent to which that counts as a virtual machine varies. Some
831.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Humans have definitely had some understanding of selective breeding for a long time, but only partial understanding of recessive genes and the risks of inbreeding (almost all societies have incest taboos, but that didn't stop the Habsb
832.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Isn't it just that they're in the Republican misinformation ecosystem? This because extreme over COVID. A particular low point was Herman Cain's Twitter account doing COVID denial while, and after, the man died of COVID.
833.
by pjc50 5mo ago
This tier of the tool is free on Windows. It might be a fair criticism that Linux users don't pay for software, but being a dick about it isn't going to get you anywhere. (It's weird to see people on HN shilling for AMD again
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> Whitehouse really really hates the idea that the EU can decide, not them, what is allowed .. in the Netherlands. Where the EU and the Dutch government get to decide what happens. That's what national sovereignty means.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Quite often in these cases the mother is an abused minor themselves.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Rather like pre 2022 Russia, governments get warnings that something bad is going to happen that it would be expensive to prepare for, and put off preparing because you don't get political rewards for that.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
There's an important difference between tax (predictable, evenly applied) and corruption (uneven, unpredictable, and doesn't go to the government but individuals)
838.
by pjc50 5mo ago
PC games tend to be the reverse: they demand control over the machine, in order to try to detect or prevent being run alongside various forms of cheating software. They also need low-latency access to the GPU, which I suspect is a fertile v
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> But now we can’t even get them excited about technology? > What have we done? Arguably this transition happened a lot earlier; the first half of the 20th century was the time for pure techno-optimism, then somewhere between nuclear
840.
by pjc50 5mo ago
This is making me feel a lot better about my plan to lease a $25k EV simply because it's available at a massive discount. I'll probably end up using less electricity, too.

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