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by tagrun 5y ago
Insects feel pain though, can even have chronic pain, so I don't see how it is consistent logically: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/insects-can-experi...
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by tagrun 5y ago
Not trying to argue it's OK to subject animals to unnecessary pain (it shouldn't be!), but from a pure logical consistency standpoint, are there many non-sentient animals? Why is it OK to not recognize mosquitos, rats, termites, d
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by tagrun 5y ago
The motherboard price situation was similar when Zen 3 CPUs came out. In a few more months, B- and H- series motherboards should come out with more reasonable prices. At the moment, if you're living a US city with a Microcenter, you ca
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by tagrun 5y ago
That's not really a container though, Firefox by default has a wide-range access. As someone who has to use Zoom, I use firejail, which is a true container, super easy to use and comes with a profile for Zoom out-of-the-box. To set it
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by tagrun 5y ago
There is USB4 but it's limited to higher end motherboards for now.
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by tagrun 5y ago
Strongly disagree. - I would never spend $400 for a 24" display, nor $400 for keyboard + mouse + cooling $400. I mainly use computers for HPC, so that's a totally unnecessary spending to me, you can get all those for just around $
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by tagrun 5y ago
That would be an entirely separate issue related to licensing (which historically led to the creation of GNU and free software foundation BTW).
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by tagrun 5y ago
What do you mean by "kernel with no stable APIs"? Linux developers, as a policy, don't break user space. And since when Google became the representative of stable APIs? During 90s, the de facto desktop OS used a monolithic ke
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by tagrun 5y ago
US moral standard? What was that exactly? The firebombing of Japanese urban areas during WW2, or the dropping of 2 atomic bombs that killed and poisoned hundreds of thousands of civilians?
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by tagrun 5y ago
To find out what kind of symmetry a field (as described by a Lagrangian) admits. It's called gauge symmetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory It's a complex number for QED but in general, it's
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by tagrun 5y ago
From the wikipedia article on Mediterranean Lingua Franca > Based mostly on Northern Italian languages (mainly Venetian and Genoese dialects) and secondarily from Occitano-Romance languages... So it's not the "language of Frank
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by tagrun 5y ago
No, because "lingua franca" derives from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca which has nothing to do with French, apart from people who didn't understand it mistook it for "Fre
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by tagrun 6y ago
You're arguing that it happened 5 years and 7 months ago, which is more than 5 years, so all is well with ext4. Seriously? The point is, ext4 isn't a monument of reliability like you delude yourself with, and it had, and will cont
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by tagrun 6y ago
I'll give you that it's a rather long passing, but title and the overall news article is actually about Palmer's work, and Childs paper is "in passing" in the sense that it's a relevant recent work that paralle
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by tagrun 6y ago
H can depend on Ψ, which is why Bose-Einstein condensates referred in the new article are nonlinear.
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by tagrun 6y ago
Physicists here. I'm having a hard time believing that you read it carefully, because that's the Childs preprint, which is only mentioned "in passing", and the true focus of this new article is the Palmer (MIT) preprint,
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by tagrun 6y ago
Yes, it did. Here's the fix for one of the ext4 corruption bugs: https://lwn.net/Articles/645722/ (see also https://lwn.net/Articles/645720/ ). The one you're referring to is h
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by tagrun 6y ago
Back to ext4 because btrfs had crazy bugs? ext4 had at least two critical data corruption bugs in the past 5 years in stable kernels (personal anecdote: one ruined the root filesystem on a server that I used, after which I stopped using ext
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by tagrun 6y ago
That's totally on them and is plainly wrong. They can simply use OpenH264 to load H.264 videos, but they choose not to. Cisco paid for all H.264 royalties on any platform (under the condition that you use their binaries) https:/&
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by tagrun 6y ago
We aren't having a coherent conversation here. I mentioned two things: (1) the bigger issue, h264 decoder , Cisco already paid royalties for OpenH264 (when linked to their binary) so they simply have no real excuse for not having H264
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by tagrun 6y ago
I take that you've never actually tried using it on Linux. The free version is pretty much the worst free video editor on Linux. Both the free and premium versions are heavily crippled with virtually all common encoders and decoders ei
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by tagrun 6y ago
1. CineForm is lossy 2. This requires ~2x time and disk space, given that most end-user cameras record H.264/H.265 By the way, they chose to cripple it by making these codecs premium-only features on Linux only: https://docu
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by tagrun 6y ago
> I realize that these articles are well intentioned, but I really wish the authors would take a more measured approach. My general advice prior to switching to Linux is: use open source applications under your existing operating system
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by tagrun 6y ago
When you're actually a part of conversations on purchasing a cluster (which I gather from the way you talk, you haven't been a part of) which cost $400k ~ $1M for a smallish/mid-sized, arguments like "I don't rememb
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by tagrun 6y ago
Of course it doesn't matter for home consumers because real target audience for MKL isn't desktop user applications or games. Try using VASP or COMSOL or Mathematica on an AMD CPU. Both MKL and CUDA are major "issues" in
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by tagrun 6y ago
MKL is a real problem in HPC, and it does play a significant role in decisions when purchasing clusters. In addition, software like Mathematica/Matlab which use only MKL can affect decisions even for office workstations.
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by tagrun 6y ago
Video encoding/decoding circuitry (which the post is about) is not a part of the GPU, so that's a bit tangential.
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by tagrun 6y ago
That's not GPGPU/compute though and Gen 12+ does have hardware accelerated decoding for AV1: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/blob/master/README.md#... "AV1 hardware decoding is sup
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by tagrun 6y ago
That's a false dichotomy because LINE does end-to-end encryption.
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by tagrun 6y ago
I haven't checked the context, but that indicates a flaw in either their framework or the way they draw this conclusion. We know for a provable fact that some problems (not necessarily interesting or useful ones) can be solved exponent

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