romesmoke

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   by romesmoke 2y ago

   Not working. The other day I uninstalled Skype from my cell because some group chat notifications had gotten past tolerable. August is a sanctuary. It's the only thing I can hold every day of the rest of the year against Tech's me
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   by romesmoke 2y ago

   Had a chat with a pharmaceutical company whistleblower recently. They told me that FDA has nothing to do with actual product testing, e.g., human trials. What the "approval" guarantees is proper facilities and other second-order c
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   MiniMalloc: A Lightweight Memory Allocator for Hardware-Accelerated ML(github.com)

   2 points by romesmoke 3y ago|0 comments
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   by romesmoke 3y ago

   Unfortunately, digital dreams are real. That's how I decided to quit social media cold turkey, actually; I was dreamscrolling my FB homepage every other night. ...of course, this tale may be conveying more about me than about our time.
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   by romesmoke 3y ago

   How about doing stuff outside consuming Internet content? Then you are forced to interact with the real world, where taking action is the default. Take it from somebody very recently recovered from the digital loop: I have lost tons of ti
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   by romesmoke 3y ago

   Thank you for your response. We'd need a podcast to unpack everything, but I appreciate your willingness to be constructive--thus I'll try to give my 2 cents and call it a day. > [...] Faith only has anything to do with succes
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   by romesmoke 3y ago

   Can someone please explain to me why this comment has been downvoted? Because to my eyes it is 100% relevant to the post, well-written, does not insult anyone, is elaborate, and potentially helpful for others. The only answer I can buy righ
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   by romesmoke 3y ago

   I'd prefer a "going beyond 100%" formulation. The concrete deliverables are the end goal. Anything extra is welcome, of course, but modern life doesn't leave room for anything extra. Aspire towards what the author fram
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   by romesmoke 3y ago

   Clicked, and happy to have done so. Getting offended enough by titles to miss out on such content is a pity. I wholeheartedly encourage you to reconsider.
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    by romesmoke 3y ago

    If Earth balances entropy received from the Sun with radiating entropy back, does the greenhouse effect mean that lately we've been a bit overloaded with extra entropy? Probably not. However, what if that was actually the case? What wo
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    by romesmoke 4y ago

    I cannot. Earlier replies to this thread note ChatGPT's lack of reliability, but fail to mention the much scarier aspect of producing unnervingly natural content especially after, not that hard to pull off if the money is there, task
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    by romesmoke 4y ago

    The Matter with Things, by Iain McGilchrist. To be precise it taught me how to un-think. There are several podcasts with him available on YouTube, to get a first taste.
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    by romesmoke 4y ago

    Was expecting to see Covid among the Big Things since WWII is deemed the "great-grandfather" of such stuff in our age. Honest question: am I overestimating the pandemic's impact on the future, and why? Isn't it another t
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    The Impact of Dynamic Memory Allocation on CPython's Performance [pdf](samos-conference.com)

    2 points by romesmoke 4y ago|0 comments
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    by romesmoke 4y ago

    I am less than well-informed on the subject, but isn't NVM in general already part of the memory hierarchy? For example, I saw many NVM options available for the Framework laptop. How is Optane specifically different than such options?
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    Understanding and optimizing persistent memory allocation (2020) [pdf](cs.rochester.edu)

    30 points by romesmoke 4y ago|2 comments
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    by romesmoke 4y ago

    Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death . In many books I have tried to find answers and failed. TSUD stresses the importance of who is asking the questions.
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    Way of the Ascetics, by Tito Colliander [pdf](stjohndc.org)

    1 points by romesmoke 5y ago|0 comments
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    Dynamic storage allocation (DSA) from the fragmentation perspective. DSA is as important for programming as control flow statements. Yet we keep ignoring the fact that it is not understood--see Wilson et al's "DSA: A Survey and Cr
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    While in high school, I had one or two professors give kudos to my writing. Joined a sci-fi/fantasy forum with active writing competitions, reading clubs and the likes. Got some kudos from there as well. Wrote first, totally unpublisha
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    Was it always the case that, on a weekly basis (if not more often), new languages would sprout? It seems to me like considerable amounts of energy are invested on re-inventing-the-wheel instead of solving real problems with existing tools.
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    It is heart-warming, to say the least, when a man of Knuth's stature hints at God as his answer to the meaning of life.
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    The author discourages "micro-optimizing" memory instead of "thinking in pages". But the page transactions between an OS and an application do comprise a series of micro-transactions (malloc). I see no reason why key dec
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    I took a compiler construction course this year, and successfully passed it. We implemented an imperative/functional hybrid, with dozens of the implied (the Prof had warned us) swearing/cursing/regretting/all-nightering
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    Reminds me of a David Graeber article on the violence of bureaucracy. It was the first time in my life that I was convinced of the existence of such invisible threads of brutality. As then, it's also now very hard for me to remain non-
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    Shock-doctrinizing all this fear and--at this point internalized--reluctance towards human contact is a bigger threat. I'm with England on this one, and afraid of the implications that such headlines carry for our fate as a species. P.
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    Who computer scientists of today could, in your opinion, be considered Dijkstra's spiritual successors?
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    To be precise, the article says that apps like Signal are to be the target of a follow-up regulation scheduled for coming September. It also emphasizes citizens' strong opposition to this prospect. Fingers crossed, but is it enough? Wh
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    This is the best piece of information I have come across this year. From the depths of my heart, thank you.
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    by romesmoke 5y ago

    Not sure about what you mean with 'oblivious' here, but Jobs' opening email is indeed flawless--taking into consideration that Apple's CEO allocated some time amidst the frenzy to write it: no trivialities, no redundanci