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by pradn 6y ago
The first Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine used "... breakthrough techniques in cross-reticle patterning, but with the level of redundancy built into the design, ensured a yield of 100%, every time." I'm unsure what to think of th
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by pradn 6y ago
Perhaps make something small for yourself or a loved one in your life? It feels great to finish something, however small! And people who aren't programmers are super happy you made a game for them.
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by pradn 6y ago
Moreover, I can only imagine how much grief the Armagnacs went through. It would make for a good opera. (I'm not trying to minimize the grief of the others, but just imagine if a ton of people from one family died - the grief must be d
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by pradn 6y ago
I see, thank you!
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by pradn 6y ago
I think you do make a good point. The Armagnacs really were decimated and their prospects dimmed. But the country still had enough of a competent elite that they were able to resist English conquest. That it took another 30 years speaks to
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by pradn 6y ago
> the first streaming player to be both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos certified Is this true? Through my `ChromeCast with Google TV`, I can get Dolby Vision (as my TV tells me) and Dolby Atmos (as my speakers tell me). I am reliably able
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by pradn 6y ago
The FLoC debate is pretty binary - you're either for it or against it. I think it's better to frame the debate as "how much tracking entropy should browsers provide?" Tracking entropy is log(cohort you're in). So if
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by pradn 6y ago
What a perfect song to pick for this experiment. It's extremely listenable. Jai Paul is a genius and my biggest problem with him is that he doesn't produce enough songs. His story is an interesting one, if you are interested. His
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by pradn 6y ago
The French still win the Hundred Years' War even after the Battle of Agincourt, and are clearly the dominant force in Western Europe until the advent of industrialization.
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by pradn 6y ago
I didn't say it would be at the system level. I'd expect this to happen per app. It's similar to how photo manipulation software can detect currency. I doubt every such app complies, and certainly the system screenshot tool d
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by pradn 6y ago
Yes, exactly. That's why I said "sans the restrictions the article talks about." He didn't seem to think about the issues of access that have arisen since then. He might have primarily meant these materials to be availab
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by pradn 6y ago
The article criticizes the linguist for 1) Being a cranky, arrogant academic - supposing his study of the language trumped elders' pronunciations of those words, assuming there was a "standard" version of the language that co
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by pradn 6y ago
Bio 101 at UT gets like 500 students per class, with 3-4 sections for the fall semester. If students fail then, is it because they are not capable of learning the material, or is it because they've been thrown into a totally new enviro
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by pradn 6y ago
Yes, it would have to be a perceptual hash. False positives will occur, so there needs to be a way to appeal or remediate the algorithmic decision. We already apply this approach in a bunch of places. I believe the major personal cloud stor
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by pradn 6y ago
It's ironic how the very expertise that makes us technologists able to solve these problem for laypeople, can blind us to the issues that come with having this technical world-view. We shouldn't expect computing to be at the top o
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by pradn 6y ago
What if hashes of known-bad content are stored locally on the device, and sending content that matches against those hashes is not allowed. Or, the user could appeal if they think there's a false positive. This can be used for CP but a
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by pradn 6y ago
I looked up "half in the bag". It apparently means "slightly drunk." TIL!
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by pradn 6y ago
That was before bookmark and passwords sync, which now act as significant moats. You used to be able to import bookmarks from another browser, but you can't do that with passwords.
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by pradn 6y ago
So the points are are "Iran started the enmity" and "Iran is worse than the other countries." I have a hard time buying either. Wouldn't the nakba be the original source of enmity created by the state of Israel betw
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by pradn 6y ago
I'll turn the tables here: 1) Why should Iran come to the negotiating table if the previous deal was scuttled so quickly? What even makes American treaties reliable any more? To put it another way, why should they even trust any treaty
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by pradn 6y ago
His constant defense of high-risk startups also acts as a defense of his own wealth. If you can do it, and deserve wealth for succeeding, I must deserve my wealth for the companies I've founded. I'm not saying one shouldn't b
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by pradn 6y ago
I liked the article, but it's mistaken in its use of named centuries. It says "In the 12th century, the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan consolidated the largest empire in human history", but instead means the 1200s, which is the 13
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by pradn 6y ago
It's one thing to voice your opinion online or through a protest or writing letters, and another to get a print shop to print your snarky comment and then post it on your window. Note that this was in response to litigation against him
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by pradn 6y ago
I was walking around my neighborhood and saw that someone posted a printed sign making a snarky remark about the Matt Gaetz news. I could not believe someone would care enough about a random politician's demise. Please get off Twitter.
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To add: these were regnal names, taken after their ascension to the throne. For example, Jahangir was known as Salim before becoming emperor.
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by pradn 6y ago
A few more notable Indo-Persian miniatures: A page from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, one of the most magnificent and fully-realized illustrated manuscripts in the tradition. Made in the workshops of the Iranian Savafids, contemporaries of
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by pradn 6y ago
If you take a look at the top storage providers, there's dozens who are providing 10 PB+. These are folks that have invested millions to earn FileCoin. https://stats.filecoin.io/d/z6FtI92Zz/filecoin-chain-stat
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by pradn 6y ago
You hit the hammer on the nail. IPFS urls point to content-addressable data. These URLs can be pinned by anyone running an IPFS node. However, what's missing is an easy way to "seed" lists of IPFS files with whatever storage
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by pradn 6y ago
From what I understand, Filecoin contracts are fixed-term. This means you need to read data back from the Filecoin network at the end of the term and negotiate another fixed-term contract to store those files again. Though Filecoin storage
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by pradn 6y ago
You're absolutely right. Poets play with words, sounds, and ideas. And extracting the meaning shouldn't be your first aim - perhaps it should be enjoying the sound and the cadence and the imagery. Consider the first stanza of Keat

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