tasty_freeze

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by tasty_freeze 14d ago
JD Vance, VP of the USA, recently said that if Watergate happened today it wouldn't last a 24 hour news cycle. I don't know if his intent was to minimize the crime of the acting President ordering a break in of his opponent or if
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by tasty_freeze 16d ago
I'm a materialist and man your opinion is going to give materialists a bad name. It is easy to jump from "rabbits are not conscious" to "rabbits can't suffer" to "it is OK to skin rabbits alive". I be
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by tasty_freeze 16d ago
It probably means Apple spent the silicon to handle subnormals at full speed in hardware, rather than triggering a slow microcode handler for such numbers.
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by tasty_freeze 19d ago
no. IEEE splits the power of two exponent from the base 2 mantissa. Yes, the exponents are added during a multiply, but the mantissas do an ordinary multiply. The idea is rather than storing a number x as (exponent, mantissa), just store (l
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by tasty_freeze 1mo ago
It was more than one minute.
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
> her "rational objections" were not be-all and end-all of the situation. I hope this is not what you think my position is. If you want to change someone's mind, you need to understand it. If someone believes false informa
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
I got the covid shot and every booster. I have no qualms about mRNA messing me up, and I think it was a tremendous life saver. As stated, there was also a ton of misinformation floating around, and people believed that misinformation. The t
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
There is a legitimate discussion of what can be mandated you do to your body. However, that discussion was largely side-tracked by the massive amount of disinformation (eg, "Plandemic") that circulated online. There are people who
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
Which is worse, when people noun verbs, or when they verb nouns?
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
nvidia doesn't make chips -- nvidia designs chips and TSMC or Samsung or whatever foundry makes the chips. nvidia can't build either GPUs or ASICs.
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
I've experienced this recently. My wife has osteoporosis and her doctor told her to eat sardines with bones to get more calcium. She doesn't like eating them straight, so she makes hummus and blends in two cans of sardines. That b
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
First convince the DRAM suppliers to drop their prices for you and then maybe nvidia will drop the DGX price for you too.
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by tasty_freeze 2mo ago
It is really fast and ... really hallucinates. I asked "Does the Wang corporation still exist? If not, what happened to it?" and it replied (in part): "Yes, the Wang Corporation, the company that originally developed and mark
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by tasty_freeze 3mo ago
The article claims: > The Z80 is fully binary compatible with the 8080 instruction set. It wasn't in regards to the flag register. The parity flag behaved differently for some ops. And of course it would be possible to write an 8080
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by tasty_freeze 3mo ago
The sailing-around-the-world (and similar) market is obviously miniscule. The isolated communities probably tend to be on the less affluent part of the world, so it doesn't seem to justify a 100x expansion.
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by tasty_freeze 3mo ago
You are confidently incorrect. https://ethw.org/Nixie_Tubes
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by tasty_freeze 3mo ago
What suspicious link? The person is in their AI-powered page that google provides with pre-cooked suggested prompts. If the user clicks one of those and triggers the security explait, is that what you are calling suspicious? I don't.
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by tasty_freeze 3mo ago
I often embarrass my daughter when she has some new friend over. If the topic comes up, I give a demonstration. I'm 62 and I've never tried to get a tan and work indoors, and I haven't had a serious sunburn in close to 40 yea
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by tasty_freeze 3mo ago
My mistake -- what I wrote was from memory so I got the bit wrong about the multiplier ROM. I must have confused that detail with the design of the Wang 2200 computer, which had double precision BCD float math and did in fact have a 4b x 4b
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by tasty_freeze 3mo ago
Northstar made an S-100 card which did FP math, using BCD arithmetic. It had a ucode ROM and a 4b (single digit) ALU, and a few small RAMs to hold the digits. If I remember correctly you could program it to select how many digits you wanted
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
Recent Climate Town video on the move to trucks and SUVs: https://youtu.be/JPm4de6-eTg?si=Eu1y3uQIeCGnkR_2 If you don't know Rollie Williams, Climate Town videos are informative but suffused with a lot of humor to pr
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
Ages ago, my girlfriend at the time worked for a company that routinely got SIBR (small business innovation research) grants. Such grants made up part of her total workload. The crazy thing was that if she worked for 10 hours on SBIR stuff,
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
No kidding. When I zoom in on a few square miles around my house and ask to see restaurants, it shows only a few of them even though there is plenty of space -- it isn't like it has to prune some to make it readable. I zoom in and some
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
I just did. I had been using FUTO voice, but I see that FUTO keyboard also supports voice input, so I'm not sure if I should delete FUTO voice as being redundant now.
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
Thanks for your thoughts. I use FUTO voice usually, but there are situations where typing out a short message is better -- eg, in a restaurant or doctor's office or someplace where voice input might bother other people. I've found
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
I've been using Graphene on my Pixel 7a for about a year and I'm happy I made the switch. For sure it is a bit rougher than using Google's OS, but not enough to make me regret it. The main things I miss are (1) when I'm
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
How is this ethical? The ethics section of the summary simply asserts it was OK, but I don't see how this being done in a private practice excuses them from normal strictures. They say this wasn't an experimental protocol, nor res
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
You must be talking wet weight. 5g of dry mushrooms is about 50mg of psilocybin, which has been referred to as a "heroic dose" for decades.
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
Do you think that all the alarm had any effect on the blocking of the rule change? Is the right time to complain about a possible change is after it has been decided?
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by tasty_freeze 4mo ago
What frequency did it it cycle at? Any idea how many instructions per second it could process?

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