summa_tech

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   by summa_tech 1y ago

   In fact, the Lytro Illum (the big one) had a really nice, very flexible, bright super-zoom lens. If you ever wondered how that was achieved: having the microlens array and a light field sensor (1) allows relaxing so many aberration constrai
2. 92.▲
   by summa_tech 1y ago

   You may be thinking of Andrew Carnegie. Who was a steel industry tycoon, probably the #2 most polluting industry today. Back then - probably #1.
3. 93.▲
   by summa_tech 1y ago

   > Look at a modern CPU die. See those frame pointer registers? That stack management hardware? That’s real estate. Silicon. Transistor budget. You don't. What you see is caches, lots of caches. Huge vector register files. Massive TL
4. 94.▲
   by summa_tech 1y ago

   Can tell you first hand that while the specs are useful, they do not cover APFS as it is deployed by Apple today.
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   by summa_tech 1y ago

   A distant relative, no doubt, of Stanislaw Lem's "Automatthew's Friend" (1964). A perfectly rational, indestructible, selfless, well-meaning in-ear AI assistant. In the end, out of nothing but the deepest care for its o
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   by summa_tech 1y ago

   It's not as irrational as all that. Subway system here has an amazing propensity to send random trains on express tracks, especially during peak traffic. I understand that this is done to alleviate congestion, but the net effect is tha