runeks

24 ms·

211.
by runeks 3y ago
You can build the fastest semiconductor yet
212.
by runeks 3y ago
> All of it is heavily contended for various applications like gas turbine blades […] Then why does it only cost $1 per gram? [1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-rhenium.pd...
213.
by runeks 3y ago
> Rhenium price seems to be $2k/kg Based on what?
214.
by runeks 3y ago
You seem to be reversing cause and effect. Sure, assuming (1) we can actually produce a rhenium CPU, and (2) we are unable to increase the production of rhenium then, yes, the price of rhenium will increase. But it will increase precisely b
215.
by runeks 3y ago
I’m not convinced that’s a problem, since chip fabs require people to wear cleanroom suits anyway.
216.
by runeks 3y ago
> I want to chalk this up to hubris, but it's probably just laziness. You may be able to chalk it up to some “senior” reviewer who asks a junior developer to remove the parens because “they aren’t needed”, and the junior developer d
217.
by runeks 3y ago
> I often find myself at totally random moments thinking about problems related to work. It is often at times that I have been away from the laptop, that solutions pop-up in my mind, for a nasty problem. Often it is form of attacking a p
218.
by runeks 3y ago
Direct comparison: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/3443230?baselin...
219.
by runeks 3y ago
> 7945HX3D is a M2 competitor though. Right now it’s competing with M3.
220.
by runeks 3y ago
> It's neck and neck. It’s clearly not. The M3 Max SoC: 1. Uses half the power (unclear whether this includes GPU power usage) 2. Has +10% single core performance 3. Has +30% multi core performance [1] https://browser.gee
221.
by runeks 3y ago
> Has there been any evidence that the long period of ultra-low interest rates we enjoyed resulted in additional productive capacity? I’d say that the comparatively low inflation rate from 2010 to 2020 [1] qualifies as evidence of this.
222.
by runeks 3y ago
> I'd say gains from M2 Max to M3 Max are pretty reasonable. How are they reasonable to you? As I see it, they just added 50% more (performance) cores to the M3 Max compared to the M2 Max (12 versus 8, respectively) and achieved 50%
223.
by runeks 3y ago
Yet another way of phrasing: The six performance cores in the M3 Pro are on par with the eight performance cores in the M2 Max. That’s a per-core performance increase of 1/(6/8)=+33% (ignoring the efficiency cores because I have n
224.
by runeks 3y ago
And we would also need an options that does CLI argument parsing only, and either returns an error related to parsing one or more options or "ok". This could be used to do "form validation" of CLI args as they're ty
225.
by runeks 3y ago
> The world would have been a much better place if CLIs themselves defined strict interfaces using standard data structures. Well it's not too late just yet. How about if all CLI exes had an option, say --dump-cli-options, that wrot
226.
by runeks 3y ago
> Somehow somewhere along the way we as a society decided we were ok with criminalizing the types of transactions that can be used to hide crime. It’s not criminalized. If it were, you’d go to jail instead of just having your account clo
227.
by runeks 3y ago
> I'm surprised that Google Sheets hasn't been throttled on that url yet. It is for me. I get a banner saying some features are disabled due to high traffic.
228.
by runeks 3y ago
Why should they care whether it’s nice to look at? Hacker News isn’t exactly pretty, and I hope it never will be.
229.
by runeks 3y ago
Maybe they got tired of paying some web dev money every time they needed to update their page. With Google Sheets they can do that themselves.
230.
by runeks 3y ago
Fissile material is not information. Controlling information is nothing like controlling the sale and distribution of toxic substances.
231.
by runeks 3y ago
Did you account for the M3 Max having four extra performance cores (12 versus 8 for the M2 Max)?
232.
by runeks 3y ago
I chose the M1 Max over the M1 Pro only to get 32GB RAM. I couldn’t care less about the GPU (which makes it annoying to have to pay for it).
233.
by runeks 3y ago
Good point. However, when they’re that close in performance, I think power usage should be taken into account. It’s a laptop CPU after all. Maybe I’d rather have 80% of the performance at 4x the battery life
234.
by runeks 3y ago
That’s not what it says. Actual quote: > The 12-core CPU design has six performance cores and six efficiency cores, offering single-threaded performance that is up to 30 percent faster than M1 Pro.
235.
by runeks 3y ago
Because it's more readable and easier to write
236.
by runeks 3y ago
> Succinct alternative clause patterns using | This is brilliant. I wish Haskell had this too. > Only case statement, no if I don't quite understand the arguments here. How is that verbose "case" example any better than
237.
by runeks 3y ago
The most hacked software is on-prem Wordpress. Running the same software as everyone else on-prem doesn’t make it more secure — it might even do the opposite unless you’re quick to do security updates.
238.
by runeks 3y ago
> I keep yearning for a modern take, but it feels like we are stuck in a local optimum from which there is no escape. New platform has to fight with the decades of accumulated inertia and packages which exist in Tex. I believe the issue
239.
by runeks 3y ago
> 2. Why Nota? > Existing document tools like LaTeX, Pandoc, Markdown, and Scribble can (for the most part) only generate static web pages. I feel like Nota is underselling itself here, or at least not properly arguing for why a new l
240.
by runeks 3y ago
If everyone were laid off before the company was acquired, why wouldn’t the new owner get to choose who to employ?

More ›