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by sennight 4y ago
That "barrier to entry" line works for things that saturate broad markets... and that is definitely not the case with GPGPU. So when you try to use that line of thinking, given the incredibly well funded and hyper niche use cases
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by sennight 4y ago
They have a massive lead due to vendor locking any software written to depend on CUDA instead of an open standard... and that is a good thing? Okeydokey.
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by sennight 4y ago
Outside of actions that exclusively benefit the politician (generic abuse of power, bribery, etc), that would be an impossible threshold to clear in a representative democracy - given the whole prevention-of-majority-tyranny raison d'e
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by sennight 4y ago
Basic research is conducted without consideration to commercial exploitation. Think research in time reversal symmetry physics... try to making a buck off that. This article is the direct opposite of basic research, at least according to th
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by sennight 4y ago
A poor cope for being forced to use a media consumption format. In order to make full use of the ratio ill-suited to productive work, you are compelled to adopt a specific workflow involving two windows being open at all times. Great, that
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by sennight 4y ago
Obviously manufacturers haven't been eradicating useful screen ratios for no reason, I've just never seen anyone publicly admit to being the cause. Would you also like to take the blame for glossy screens, chicklet keyboards, and
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by sennight 4y ago
lol, yeah - Newsweek's claims about the Internet in the 90s had nothing to do with the short-term value... they'll likely be proven right in a thousand years! Take that, peanut-gallery - it was a fad after all.
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by sennight 4y ago
I know enough about the Madoff point to know that it can't be argued in good faith. Not unless you are willing to describe everyone who ever got looked into by the SEC, and then not prosecuted, as a scammer engaged in a scheme. Because
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by sennight 4y ago
You must not be paying attention then, because many detractors have made the claim repeatedly. It would be funny if it wasn't clearly the result of a predictable feedback loop. I'm really not interested in skylining one particular
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by sennight 4y ago
> ...vested interest in it succeeding. That has led to a lot of people who have annoyingly strong opinions about it. Cryptobro-splainer here. Having been involved from the beginning, I can tell you that detractors (especially vocal ones)
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by sennight 5y ago
heh, this was in 2005. But I agree with you about the role of the reserve being changed, though I'd characterize it as less "changed" and more "abused". My contract ended soon after yours... er, my active duty contr
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by sennight 5y ago
It was well deserved in my experience. Toward the end of my deployment, statistically the most dangerous period due to complacency setting in, we had to take over an AO that the Army had given to reservists for a year. They'd been repo
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by sennight 5y ago
This isn't used for bitfields (er, shouldn't really be), but you might find it useful for less granular parsing documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Diagrams
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by sennight 5y ago
> It's schadenfreude for the person making the pun. Nah, if it is a joke at their own expense then it is "self deprecating humor", something which is definitely designed to get a laugh. Humiliation fetish, maybe? Obviously
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by sennight 5y ago
I know that taste in comedy is seasonal (yes, there were a people in a time that thought vaudeville was the cat's pajamas), but has anyone ever greeted a pun with anything other than a pained sigh?
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by sennight 5y ago
I'd say so, from the perspective of utility and persistence. 4 (maybe 5 including spare) uniquely serialized radio beacons make a good target for dragnet surveillance with zero risk to abusers. I'm also more weary of scam extended
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by sennight 5y ago
> DO you think that there is actually a significant market for a secure open-source microcontroller? I don't think we'll ever know. It is kind of amazing how secretive chip makers are despite the absolutely massive moat they en
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by sennight 5y ago
Exactly right, this is why a market for assassination is unlikely to ever really emerge as a result of blockchain tech. People seem to forget that the only reason it works is because of the structured aligning of potentially competing objec
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by sennight 5y ago
Dunno enough about the situation in Australia to even pretend, but I imagine it could work if there is a coverage mandate plus taxpayer funding going to the carriers. In such a scenario it would be basically impossible to not massively over
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by sennight 5y ago
You download 18.51 megabits per second over a cellular connection for 24 hours straight? Do you really? Because somebody, either you or your service provider, is doing it wrong.
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by sennight 5y ago
Ironically the US is far less connected to the unspeakably offensive bla...not-white-listed word being cleansed here. "Slave" is derived from Slav - the people. What did the "master" look like? I hope you like surprise e
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by sennight 5y ago
So... Sony's rootkit was a-okay in your opinion? Or have you just not given any thought to your position at all? Because that seems to be pretty common among utilitarians who are somehow perpetually surprised by blowback and "unin
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by sennight 5y ago
ugh, more and more each day I hate the fact that Obama undid the last of the legal impediments to domestically targeted military counter-intelligence operations. It is no coincidence that there is a massive gap in military related UFO sight
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by sennight 5y ago
> ... a design decision was made in the game that actually shipped, so I don't think it makes any sense to talk about different intentions. >>> Final Fantasy 7: An oral history (2017) >> An oral history > history w
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by sennight 5y ago
Hmm, no mention of how they lopped off a huge chunk of the story to get the game out the door... that is the oral history that would be interesting. Actually, there are some recollections included that don't seem to make a lot of sense
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by sennight 5y ago
Newsflash: the fitness function still makes models more fit! Also, renowned scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson recently announced his latest and greatest discovery: photoshopped magazine covers sell better - finally giving purpose to what was pr
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by sennight 5y ago
> Its tool for doing that is consumer sentiment. That is the tool for basically doing anything productive as a business... it isn't as if they've done some about face at the emergence of genuine competition - they've alway
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by sennight 5y ago
Neither will brand diversification, where they can not only independently implement their own vision of what a data eating binary blob should look like - they can also converge onto a single controller source. Wanna run down that potential
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by sennight 5y ago
This is what lot numbers are for, the tracking (and in this case: leveraging) of variability between production runs. Spread multiple lots over more than one storage array and you're good to go.
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by sennight 5y ago
> Other than that, it’s impossible to equate. Well if you totally ignore the concept of scale, sure. It sounds like your "VP of Engineering" at a startup was actually a junior engineer not doing anything you'd expect a VP

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