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by qayxc 7y ago
Just disable javascript - solves my readability problems with 9/10 websites.
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That's a tremendously short-sighted view. Luxembourg recently made public transport free to use in an attempt to reduce traffic. Privately owned cars and private transport will become a relic of the past soon enough. Claims like "
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> Do you have any? Excellent question! Personally, I'd argue that a language cannot be viewed in isolation from the problems it's trying to solve. 5 years ago I maintained decades old HLASM programs for IBM mainframes during a
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There's no good (or bad) choices for mapping abstract concepts like ranges, mapping, reducing, or combining to common (ASCII-) symbols. Every choice is inherently arbitrary and carries no meaning whatsoever (besides maybe ergonomics).
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by qayxc 7y ago
> So if in any given codebase you still have to know the specific meaning of every word, how is it different from having to know specific meaning of every K symbol? So you never encountered namespaces then? Because that's why you us
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by qayxc 7y ago
> I've been looking at K code for more than five years at this point, and I don't have any problems reading code written by K programmers a decade ago or more. I think you're completely missing the point here. The assumpti
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by qayxc 7y ago
Since the article doesn't specify how power draw was measured, I assume that they measured _total system_ power consumption. This is not to be confused with the CPU power requirements as it includes the entire platform and all losses (
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by qayxc 7y ago
I don't think so. Keep in mind that DL training is only a minuscule part of GPGPU applications. HPC is still a huge market with a strong demand for compute accelerator cards. In practice, TPUs and SoCs with inference extensions are a m
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by qayxc 7y ago
It's not pure speculation at all - it's a very active field of research that currently points to the fact that consciousness is a spectrum. There are animals that recognise themselves in the mirror and have a clear concept of self
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>The Flu has a mortality rate of 2 per 100k Nope, it doesn't. Mortality rate is not the same as annual deaths per capita. The number you quoted refers to the same context as traffic-related deaths per 100,000 population, which is 3.