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by sifar 6y ago
>> Don’t blame those that build the software they use. To me that makes every open source project a potential ethical minefield since they could all be getting used to do immoral acts without even knowing about it. This is a slippery
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>> If you really want a laugh, read up on how banks are competing to acquire physical currency because cash is cheaper to store in a guarded vault than a database entry with the ECB. Hahaha, so as the governments the world over propag
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by sifar 6y ago
That is a sweeping (and incorrect) generalization. Except the credit part, all the other things are optional. And even for credit, I am not sure interest is needed. That leads to the world devouring growth that we have. Just because we inhe
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For the NN architectures, you'll have to factor in there production, design, the energy of the humans involved and so on and on. This doesn't take you anywhere.
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The issue is not whether SW can work around optional extensions. The point is that if you want a general purpose performant cpu (like ARM/x86) targeting a wide swath of applications, you will end up with these optional extensions as de
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by sifar 6y ago
I think more than the technical merits of RISC-V, the appeal lies in the fact that you are not locked in to a core vendor and the software tools ecosystem. RISC-V has commoditized the cpu. It doesn't need to be orders of magnitude bett
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>> There are no such other options on the market. ARM isn't highly customizable, since it has over 1000 instructions you must implement. RISC-V only has 47 instruction you must implement. All fairly simple ones. I think this is a
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by sifar 6y ago
>> Perhaps RISC-V's worst choice was the coarse-grained extensions architecture that locks up the most useful instructions with dozens of marginal ones, making them unusable in portable compiled code. Yes, this is the unintended
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>> If we can make the world work without wolves, that is the new natural and there is no particular reason to believe there is some sort of cosmic doom awaiting us for our hubris. Perhaps we can stake a claim to this when the modern c
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by sifar 6y ago
You are not wrong. I came across this poem in the Chinese Book of Songs. It is an acknowledgement of everything wrong happening around us, and over which we have no control; a way to keep your sanity and function. Something akin to rational
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>> Profiles is a way to manage that and to find configuration of extentions that often work together for desktop, embeeded or something like that In theory yes, what happens in practice is for your application, you only need a few ope
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by sifar 6y ago
It is a bug not a feature. It leads to hardware bloat which will lead to people developing custom instructions which leads to incompatibility and now you don't have a generic universal isa that you wanted.
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by sifar 6y ago
Develop an internal barometer for a good book, instead of an external one. Simple - if you enjoyed it, if it made you think, gave a different perspective, if you found something profound, if you keep returning to it, if it is a topic you ar
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by sifar 6y ago
>> Those who make the crowd must not cry that they are being crushed Nice. Can be said about the social media/tech companies/leaders.
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Ellul, I would like to think, is someone who came back from the Abyss without losing himself. Preserving once sanity while reading him is difficult enough, imagine what you would have to go through while you think through these things for y
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>> I choose to have “that choice” taken away from me, that’s still choice This is a great example of Orwellian doublethink.
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>> This logic breaks down when you get an unexpected medical bill, or the car you rely to get to your job breaks down and you get fired, etc There seems to be some logical disconnect here. Saving diligently will help you tide over t
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>> What you call unnecessary spending is what actually floats the entire economy I get tired how this argument is used to justify so much BS. I think this pandemic has debunked this. You forget the other part that is saving is what ge
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by sifar 6y ago
One of my favorite Marcus Aurelius quote is "Leave the harm done by other where it started." Excluding self defense, I wonder if this can be applied to nations too.
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Not to judge somebody who is long gone, but to learn from their lives, their beliefs, their failings and their way of seeing things. Far too often, we spend a lot of time judging people of the past, forgetting how the future will judge us.
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>> we are starting to see a great pace of reform, small govt and less of the congress. I think you are mistaken there. Different people, same set of policies, ostensibly marketed as reform for the people.
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no tracking :)
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Prior to this year, shutting down the world economy for months was an anathema. Even saving the planet stuff could not achieve that. Leverage points and priorities. Prior to this year, the US society devolving into a third-world developing
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Thank you for the comment. >>In a certain, Cayce Pollard / William Gibson “CPU” aesthetic, there is cachet and delight in signalling contextlessness - and a small cult has grown around these objects. They collectively call object
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more communication != free speech
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>> I think I want to explore something related to morality - what is the end game of humans Such hubris. So the heads of two powerful nations are to decide the fate of humanity - where is the morality in that ? And why does there have
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>> If there's a 0.000001 chance of the vaccine causing problems vs a 0.0001 The problem is how do I trust these numbers. That the vaccine risks aren't underestimated and the disease damage over-estimated. Something that can
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>> Have we really not learned anything by these inventions? Not really, and that is the problem. We can create something that sort of works - but we don't understand it. The only thing we have learned is that we don't need
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"I am told by reliable sources within my own family that some of these parents are even pressuring their neighbours to do likewise, and are shaming dissenters on social media as bad parents. It’s lockdown by mob. To some extent, I find
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They are crowdsourced if only in the sense because that is how the crowd has been trained to think. The peoples reaction to isolate, stay indoors was not spontaneous and though prudent, certainly not individual. There was a lot of group thi

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