tachyonbeam

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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I guess my point was, Windows should have just as much of a reputation, given Microsoft has shipped release builds with absolutely horrible and blatant bugs (does anyone remember windows millennium?). I did do some research before I bought
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I switched to Linux around the same time as you. Before that I was a Windows user from 1997 until ~2008. In the late 1990s and early 2000s people just accepted that Windows crashing everyday was a normal feature of that software, and they b
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
The difficulty in banning it is very much political. You would get massive backlash from Jewish groups, you'd probably get accused of being anti-semitic. Also, not to get too cynical, but my perception is that issues affecting men&#x2F
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Should also be pointed out that there are probably two or three orders of magnitude more men at the bottom than there are men at the top. It's asymmetric. Your odds of failure are much higher than your odds of incredible success.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
When it comes to nature vs nurture, the answer seems to always be that it's a combination of both. Unfortunately, this is a heavily politicized topic.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
One aspect that maybe deserves to be more explicitly outlined because people tend to assume that talking about gender differences means that we're pointing to one as being better than the other, is that "more extreme" doesn&#
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Memory protection isn't just used to protect processes against one another, you can also use it to implement write barriers for a garbage collector, or to map files to memory, for example. I think you'd be hard pressed, with any k
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I don't know of any platform that offers that in my country.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
> You can't expect women to work on having more of a penis. That's a bit simplistic, isn't it? Not to mention, maybe it's not just the penis. Maybe you can teach women how to copy the kinds of attitudes (eg: assertive
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I think this is the right way to look at it. This is why I gave myself as an example. I was raised by a mentally ill single parent in poverty. I wasn't taught how to socialize with others in a healthy way. As a result, I wasn't eq
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
That's one bitter truth about life: (almost) everyone needs some amount of physical intimacy to be happy, but it's not something anyone is entitled to. Those of us who have access to that are privileged. I agree with the author th
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Are they already pulling out the rug? Seems like the investment they made so far in terms of time, money, hiring must have been massive. If they are killing stadia, that does maybe show that Google lacks "grit". The way they kille
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
If you work for a competitor, you are clearly biased. Show us some evidence, some uncut videos of GM's Cruise or whoever besides Waymo you believe is ahead of Tesla.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Are TPUs designed for low-power applications? You don't want to burn lots of power in an electric car.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
The pandemic is a bit different from what was before because we're not really given a choice. That being said, I agree, and I think it's not just hobbies. If you think about music, Spotify exposes people to much wider array of cho
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
This is also a silicon valley problem. Lots of people move there to get the big job and make money. It attracts a certain kind of people. People who prioritize their career and income above other things. You also have the challenge that a l
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
That's not the only goal though, the more immediate goal is to restore mobility/communication/freedom for disabled people. Neuralink can be a huge success even if it doesn't bring about a cyberpunk future (which, honestl
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I think Karpathy at Tesla has basically unlimited funding, Tesla is developing custom hardware. They've already deployed said hardware in the wild, and they're probably about as close to Waymo to true full self driving. We also do
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
The micro-op cache is very small, on the order of ~1.5K uops AFAIK. It can also be repopulated quite fast. So yes, the performance hit should be quite small. You should presumably also be able to reduce the performance hit if you reduce the
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Good for you. You don't have to install Linux on your phone, but it would be better for the planet (eg: recycling) if we all could.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I don't think Apple or Google have to open source every part of their software. They just have to make it possible for us to install alternative operating systems on their computing platforms. That would allow giving older devices new
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I mean there were vacuum tubes and relay machines before that :) IMO relays are a bit easier to understand than transistors because it's a bit easier to understand how to implement various logic gates with them with only very basic kno
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
27" monitor on Chrome here. Looks pretty far to the right.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Noise, maintenance, added cost and complexity. Then you also have the issue that you need an inverter and some kind of scheme to communicate with the mini wind turbines so they don't drive the voltage too high or some other kind of sch
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Why do you say that WASI misses the point? (genuinely curious)
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I'm not sure where this is going. Doesn't the computational cost to mine ether bitcoin or ether change over time? And also, we already have units for quantifying computation. We can talk about millions/trillions of floating-p
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
There's no way you can run all these companies, be an international celebrity, and not be busy.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
People with amphetamine habits typically look very skinny and unhealthy because amphetamines suppress appetite. Same for cocaine, ritalin and all other dopaminergic stimulants. They can also have facial scabs because of obsessive picking&#x
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Well, this is supposed to be a professional desktop machine. I don't want to run my work machine off of wifi that could randomly disconnect in the middle of meetings though. I know I'm not the only one. They could have spent the 3
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
What's losing my interest more and more is that their music recommendations are terrible, rarely match my taste... And, uh, I wish there was an easier way for me to just browse music by category. I just want to see all the new releases

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