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by smolder 3y ago
That's true, but the standard (here at least) 20 years seems a ridiculously strong incentive for just that.
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by smolder 3y ago
I get what you mean. I was stretching the idea a lot. What I described might be more aptly called "iterative development", and is really basic. There is an even further extreme than that from TDD, though. It's of course possi
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by smolder 3y ago
I don't think you understood me. If I ask GPT5 to "write a patent application for a method to optimize a program that does X, which is not currently patented", and it produces something that would be accepted as patentable, w
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by smolder 3y ago
Maybe this is a good test for what isn't novel. If an LLM trained on our existing creative output can be prompted invent some patentable solution to a problem, then maybe that shouldn't be patentable . Tada, a much less stupid pa
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by smolder 3y ago
I genuinely appreciate the link, but not so much the campaigning for the FDA or USA more broadly, which, my stance aside, feels like a trap leading to a fruitless discussion.
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by smolder 3y ago
In a sense, even the way I use print statements and other outputs to validate the behavior of a non-TDD program at each iteration could be called test assisted or something. It's just in that case, the test is the whole program at each
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by smolder 3y ago
As has been pointed out by others, putting stuff like climate controls or volume controls that commonly need to be accessed while driving on a touch display is dangerous, since you need to look at a touch display to find the thing you'
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by smolder 3y ago
It's impressively immersive, but at least when I tried it, not something I would categorize as an absolute blast. The PvP aspect seemed to take a back seat to creating a beautiful and expansive spaceflight simulator. (Which it is!) Min
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by smolder 3y ago
I actually have my desktop AMD iGPU enabled despite using a discrete Nvidia card. I use the iGPU to do AI noise reduction for my mic in voice and video calls. I'm not sure if this is really an ideal setup, having both GPUs enabled with
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by smolder 3y ago
I wanted to make a dry joke about renderers supporting the double slit experiment, but in a sense you beat me to it.
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by smolder 3y ago
Considering this for kicks: People probably wouldn't like their fuel economy being tanked by the extra weight and aerodynamic drag of your spiders. So, as a driver, I might try to make my car slippery or otherwise ungrabbable. Alternat
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by smolder 3y ago
As sibling points out, it's about a specific way of optimizing an ECS style program. That's typical corporate software patent stuff - building a moat with patents that aren't inventive. It's like firing a shotgun into th
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by smolder 3y ago
You make a good point. To clarify mine, though: The treacherous thing about phones is not so much the phones capabilities, it's that the software deeply (but often subtly) disrespects end users. It's a normalized part of the indus
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by smolder 3y ago
Yes, there is something special about cars. Design mistakes result in death. It's not a race to get the most features out, it's a race to get the most features into proven, quality-assured, heavily-tested products. The software de
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by smolder 3y ago
This doesn't make a lot of sense given hyperthreading has been a standard feature for AMD for almost as long...
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by smolder 3y ago
> Intel fans will have their field day It irks me that anyone is a "fan" of any such company. I have my favorite products from Intel and AMD over the years, but that's based on their merit as products, not on some allegia
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by smolder 3y ago
Blaming phones isn't arbitrary. The attention grabbing [/destroying] nuisance UIs that dangle dopamine hits in reach at all times are having an effect on people, adults that grew up w/ no smartphones included. Speaking from p
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by smolder 3y ago
If you actually have a great new idea, you can put it in the next model of car. Updating cars shouldn't go beyond navigation data.
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by smolder 3y ago
Maybe you didn't know, but on the vast majority of cars there is a physical link so if power assist fails, you are still turning the tires. But as someone who drove a Toyota pickup around with completely manual steering, I'd say i
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by smolder 3y ago
Fair point. I think for comparison it's interesting that Intel spent most of a decade on a single process.
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by smolder 3y ago
No, they've been made, just not via scaled-up commercial production process.
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by smolder 3y ago
That's only if you needed a signal to cross the whole chip in one cycle. There's no such limitation preventing a 1 foot wide chip from being filled with 5ghz cores on an appropriate ring bus.
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by smolder 3y ago
Yes, it matters. Is it unsurmountable? No, that's different.
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by smolder 3y ago
It is true that Intel was ahead of TSMC for transistor density relative to the "nm" labelling of their nodes, which is exactly why the naming was changed. Intel 10nm was roughly equivalent to TSMC 7nm in density. They aren't
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by smolder 3y ago
For one thing, the memory on GPUs is generally much faster, with a wider bus than what typical CPUs have. The die sizes can be quite large, too. Putting a full sized CPU in the same package as the accelerator means making some sacrifices.
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by smolder 3y ago
Humor is prevalent in the internets various forums. It's well appreciated generally - easy upvotes on Reddit and elsewhere. But that also means that a serious forum with higher signal-to-noise ratio is something uniquely valuable.
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by smolder 3y ago
Both camps have coexisted for some time. Really there's more like a spectrum of opinions. Different opinions get varying levels of traction in media over time in a way that's somewhat noisy. The trends show up longer term. I don&#
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by smolder 3y ago
Kind of interesting that they didn't include it given python is there. (JS is not even mentioned in the document.) I guess they don't class it as a general purpose programming language? It's not as if we have other options in
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by smolder 3y ago
Well, fortunately this was obviously a good idea already, and we don't really need to wonder much about their intent.
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by smolder 3y ago
No, you have MAD: moderately angry disorder. Just take a breather and come out when you're ready.

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