slabtickler

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by slabtickler 4mo ago
creative industry/enterprise. similar to Asus ProArt line and high end ThinkPad workstations
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by slabtickler 5mo ago
putting aside the lack of quality of most LLM-written code (even the big scary tech demo-y stuff), there is more to life than this pragmatism of "value adds." you can just write code because you want to. this sentiment is also ver
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by slabtickler 5mo ago
all art has lineage, but all art is not simply reducible to mimicry. the act of creative endeavor is not to just be a parrot
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by slabtickler 5mo ago
coffee was mid. it's right next to pike place, you can get actually decent coffee down the street. not talking about starbucks either
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by slabtickler 5mo ago
a lot of people on here are going to instantly defend any AI use in spite of the specifics but the over-abundance of blatant diffusion model art in cost-cutting nowadays, in places where it isn’t even expected, is ridiculous. marketing is b
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by slabtickler 5mo ago
deanonymization via automated stylometry is not a new idea, e.g. from 2015: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
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by slabtickler 6mo ago
Fails to mention any TBDR-based GPU at all. Do PowerVR and Qualcomm not exist? Or hell, Apple?
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by slabtickler 9mo ago
imo the fragmentation argument is very flaky. this is not like, e.g. the old ARM big endian mode which accidentally created a separate ISA for really dubious reasons. the only thing that really have a need for alternate store orders on ARM
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by slabtickler 9mo ago
just speaking honestly i would not consider I$ snooping as part of the definition of TSO. it is part of the x86 memory model yes but “TSO” does not define the full story here
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by slabtickler 3y ago
That was mostly IBM's doing and goes well beyond the purview of the ISA specifically. x86 doesn't really define that you "must use a BIOS/UEFI/etc." You can't boot, for instance, a standard copy Windows or