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by stncls 4y ago
This looks like a timeout. - same request with "s" removed from "emojis": works, but in 5.03 seconds (!) - "how many emoji symbols on ios": 1.37 seconds Other modifications further decrease the request time.
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by stncls 4y ago
Your gut instinct is correct. That's because, in this example, you are scaling the mass of the object (giving it huge inertia), while keeping its size constant, hence leaving unchanged the magnitude of the forces exerted on it by air f
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by stncls 4y ago
> 9. Transposing a matrix ... if you only use the transpose once. If instead it is going to be used multiple times, explicitly computing the transpose can be a huge performance boost. For dense matrices, it is typically used to exploit m
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by stncls 4y ago
I like the explanation and video illustration of simulated annealing. Simulated annealing has varied and numerous applications. But calling it "The Only Algorithm for Hard Problems" is really giving it a lot of credit: 1. The an
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by stncls 4y ago
Re: title ("lowest since 1999"): It's actually since December 2002. 1999 is the first time the EUR reached parity with (then dipped below) the USD. https://www.google.com/search?q=1+eur+in+usd
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by stncls 4y ago
They mention the OP in passing at the very end of the thread (OP is dated November 18, 2020 [1]; tweet is from July 9, 2022). Indeed, down in that thread, they even include an image from OP with attribution cropped! Btw, the first image in
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by stncls 4y ago
No no no, she is legit, no doubt here. She was a star way before the current events. She solved a long-standing open problem in fundamental maths. This is the holy grail in maths research. The main resulting paper is single-author, so there
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by stncls 4y ago
> If your concern is the lack of transparency, then I agree. This needs to be open technology. Yes, exactly. My understanding is that openness is not really in Thales' culture. > I have extremely low expectations of an EU in-hous
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by stncls 4y ago
If you want a horrifying overview of this technology in 3 minutes, see this video advertisement by the makers themselves: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvNzzgoJX8 For context, the French company Thales Group is "the 8
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by stncls 4y ago
> There's something inherently unsettling about government having so much control over people. The article is way worse than that. It's about outsourcing government surveillance to military hardware maker Thales, who is proud
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by stncls 4y ago
> expect him to announce one in the next few years. 9 months ago: https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/11/visurf-announcement.html
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by stncls 4y ago
Also, using SIMD registers is (generally) forbidden in kernel code, which heavily narrows down the competitors to "rep stosb".
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by stncls 4y ago
As betrayed by the reference to Google+, this needs a (2013).
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by stncls 4y ago
What was the impetus behind El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin? The bill seems to have been introduced by President Nayib Bukele, whose background is law. This recent story [1] about bitcoin being pushed by fishy operatives in Catalonia
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by stncls 4y ago
For modelling libraries in general-purpose languages, Gurobi's python bindings have the best reputation. But of course Gurobi is very expensive (I have heard about $50k for a fully unrestricted license, plus $10k yearly for support).
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by stncls 4y ago
For linear programming (i.e. all variables are continuous): Geometrically in R^n, the set of all points that satisfy the constraints is a high-dimensional polyhedron. The best points, the ones that minimize or maximize the linear objective
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by stncls 4y ago
> I hoped to learn a couple good RL algorithms and then never have to actually learn the concrete details of optimization I think that you can use optimization without having to learn anything about its algorithms (learning the basics
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by stncls 4y ago
The feature is currently an "origin trial" in Chrome 101 Android [1]. Expected to debut in Chrome 102 desktop, and ship in Chrome 105 [2]. Discussion here at the time of standardization [3]. [1] https://blog.chromium.or
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Federated Credential Management (new in Chrome 101)(github.com)
2 points by stncls 4y ago|1 comments
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by stncls 4y ago
Wolfire Games is a tiny studio. Wikipedia says 4 employees. Development of Overgrowth is mostly one person, who documented the whole process in fascinating weekly videos: https://m.youtube.com/c/WolfireGames/videos
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by stncls 4y ago
Chromium, like Firefox, uses toolkits only for basic desktop bootstrapping and integration. This addition only concerns Linux, on which the current default for that is gtk3. The only user-visible effect of switching toolkit should be the &q
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by stncls 4y ago
The startup builds a terminal for MacOS, written in Rust. They are planning Windows and Linux ports, and want to open-source the client-side in the future (license unspecified) while the server-side (the terminal has connected features) rem
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Bill Hart steps down as maintainer of Flint and leaves academia(groups.google.com)
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by stncls 4y ago
Also probably excusable because 2010, but from that same part of the article: void swap(int& x, int& y); void swap(float& x, float& y) { swap((int&)x, (int&)y); } This is UB and may explode.
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by stncls 4y ago
The article gives two reasons for the choice: > 1. Accessibility Here I agree with you that it feels like a workaround. Well, technically, it is not the browsers that need fixing, but rather Dragon Naturally Speaking and the NVDA screen
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by stncls 5y ago
This needs a (2019) given current events.
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by stncls 5y ago
This is an AMD/GPUOpen project. MIT-licensed code here: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Orochi
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Orochi – dynamic loading of HIP/CUDA from a single binary(gpuopen.com)
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by stncls 5y ago
If you deal with computationally hard problems, I think there's a whole toolbox of utilities with unbelievable performance, in which millions of PhD-holder-hours have been poured, but that get ignored more often than not. - SAT modelin
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by stncls 5y ago
Yes of course the cache thrashing takes a lot longer. But I modified the code to time only the cos() functions (see diff), using the rdtsc instruction. That's why it had to be every 500 iterations: If it was after each iteration, then

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