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That was a surprisingly common occurrence on SO even before. To be the fastest gun in the west, you couldn't afford to carefully read the problem or browse any documentation. High-rep users that should have known better would sometimes
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> the correct standard for judging an AI on writing is not beating the “best” humans [...], but achieving indistinguishability from mediocre humans Det. Spooner: Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful ma
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The Economist favours legalization. No, they are not against non-carceral drug policy.
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> I propose that C++ initialize all stack variables to zero, preventing ~10% of CVEs. This can be done by compilers without any change to the language standard.
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That clause appears to violate Item #6 of the OSI's open source definition: > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from bei
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by slavik81 4y ago
It uses a cryptographic hash of the _inputs_ to the compiler, but there is no way to verify that the cached artifact matches the _output_ of the compiler without actually compiling it yourself.
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All rules inherently depend on the Makefile they are defined in. The second you touch the Makefile rules, you have potentially invalidated all the object files. So, ccache is great when working on the build rules. Using ccache is also nice
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This sounds suspiciously like the story of Duke Devlin.
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The reason why you need to open the start menu is often on screen, then you hit the Windows key and the context that should be driving your next action is hidden. All it takes is a brief moment of distraction and — if you're like me —
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I forgot that OpenMP is broken with llvm-amdgpu in Spack at the moment. I hope it will be fixed soon, because OpenMP is used in some of the tests. In the meantime, you may have to remove `--test root` from that install command.
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The RX 5700 is gfx1010. You can find some of the mappings on https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html The driver and compiler work, but the math libraries were never updated to add gfx1010, aside from rocBLAS and rocSOLV
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None of the consumer Navi 2x cards are 'officially' supported. Nevertheless, you can use the ROCm libraries anyway by setting: export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 That will make your gfx1031 card pretend to be gfx1030,
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If you want to keep UTC matching the solar rotation, why do you specifically require leap seconds? Why not leap minutes? Or leap milliseconds? The choice of ±1 s as the acceptable error seems arbitrary.
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I never got over the fact that a scooter rental was about the same price as a car rental. Though, perhaps that's why Car2Go didn't survive.
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The CO2 that it absorbs has to be stored. Measure the change in weight.
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> they are free to ignore your bug report That is true of any open source project.
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Did I miss the announcement of Half-Life 3? AFAIK, the last game that was ever announced was Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
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That's how it used to be. In the past, "autopilot" was used by laymen to describe a vehicle control system that could safely drive itself (in contrast to cruise control, which was more limited). For example, in the punchline
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> Isn't Canada in an international news story for euthanising people to save money? No. The medically assisted dying legislation was expected to have a negligible impact on healthcare costs. Its introduction was driven by the Suprem
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Germany was a bunch of seperate states until 1871 when Prussia finished conquering its neighbours. I don't understand how that could be a high-trust monocultural society in the 1800s.
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Ian Hubert's Lazy Tutorials would be an excellent supplementary series once you know some of the basics. They're not a general guide to Blender, but they're great resources. He has his own style of working and he's shock
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This seems to be the approach that Android takes. If you try to connect to a WiFi network and it fails, it just gives up. It won't tell you why it failed. This makes it very frustrating to figure out what's wrong. Maybe I wouldn&#
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One of the things I appreciate about HN is that I can still read the posts that are removed (with showdead enabled). I don't care much about my freedom to speak. My voice will never be a significant influence on the world anyway. What
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Unfortunately, the firmware-amd-graphics package in the Debian non-free archive has not been updated since October 2021. My understanding is that to use AMD GPU hardware released after that point, either the package maintainer will need to
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It can be tough even without the impact of the memory hierarchy. I've seen code where adding an extra instruction to the calculation made it faster. The extra instruction implicitly eliminated denormals, thus resulting in faster execut
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I've used Compiler Explorer for many years as a C++ developer. When I started working in HIP, I really missed having Compiler Explorer in my toolbox. I've been on leave for the past couple months and I took the opportunity to make
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It continued all the way into the 2000s. A particularly stupid episode was the outcry around Mass Effect, which was thankfully short-lived due to Geoff Keighley's excellent response [1]. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, bu
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You were quite fortunate. I was making $6.50/hr in 2004.
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The war on drugs has been incredibly expensive, demanding enormous investments in police services and prisons. Yet it has also been shockingly ineffective at safeguarding public health. We've waged this war for decades, and yet illegal
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The Economist has been consistently in favour of drug legalization for decades. For one example of many, see "The Case for Legalization" from July 2001. https://archive.ph/bVsdn

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