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by topspin 2y ago
Sometimes you read a post somewhere and the thoughts expressed stick with you for years. Decades even. Once case for me is a post someone wrote in the late 90's that was concerned about parallel ports going away and everything being s
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by topspin 2y ago
That's interesting. One wonders what their future looks like after Google divests Chrome. Good to see that the knowledge base isn't entirely confined within Google.
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by topspin 2y ago
Merging PREEMPT_RT (real-time) into the Linux kernel only occurred in Sept, 2024, after 20 years of work, in part due to a fundamental conflict with printk(), the traditional "printf" of Linux, widely used for kernel debugging. L
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by topspin 2y ago
It seems like a conceptionally simple problem to grade a repo given the vast number of metrics available. Especially considering the advanced code analysis tools available today. I want a top-level analysis of some sort, based on: usage b
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by topspin 2y ago
With the possible exception of art, all work is glue work. If you believe your work isn't glue work, you're indulging hubris.
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by topspin 2y ago
> fighting them That's amusing. I'll grant that US companies haven't outright surrendered, and are still at least permitted to engage in lip service on the issue. But actual "fighting"? That would mean a tech
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by topspin 2y ago
> Why would prosperity be a problem? Excellent question.
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by topspin 2y ago
Their ball is already rolling. They put a pair of high temperature gas cooled pebble bed reactors into operation a little more than a year ago. They're actively exploring every avenue of nuclear power without restraint, including tho
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by topspin 2y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. A librados based storage manager would be a game changer. The scalability and availability story of Postgres would be rewritten.
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by topspin 2y ago
> literally EVERYWHERE Chrome and youtube also support some of the common vi/vim navigation keys.
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by topspin 2y ago
> Wrong ? OpenAI's non-profit+for-profit structure is detailed at their own site: https://openai.com/our-structure/ It's a non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary. Please elaborate on "wrong."
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by topspin 2y ago
> Mind-boggling stuff. This and the recent advances in clock precision. In the last few years cryogenic sapphire clocks have achieved short-term stability on the order of 10s of attoseconds.
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by topspin 2y ago
A non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary... Legal, despite the stench.
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by topspin 2y ago
Osprey has a common power shaft between the engines for fault tolerance, constraining the structure's design, such as the lack of dihedral. This has a different set of design constraints and a different solution to propulsion failure.
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by topspin 2y ago
> Enforcement action is likely driven by That's speculation. I know what is written in the notices and orders. The orders do not cite either complaints or determinations about interference. The notices do. Some of these document
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by topspin 2y ago
Something actually patent-worthy.
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by topspin 2y ago
The FCC does hunt down illegal AM/FM broadcast transmitters in residences. They publish several forfeiture orders every month for pirate radio stations (often in residences,) whether their interfering or not. Hunting these is lucrati
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by topspin 2y ago
> Am I insane or is the world insane? I don't know. What I can see is that few people are paying attention. About four variants of this news has appeared in the last hour and yours is the only comment on any of them.
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by topspin 2y ago
It's a question, I suppose. Let's feed it in and see what happens. Grok in "fun mode": <enormous response full of typical AI speak elided> Let's whittle that output down a bit with bullshitremover:
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by topspin 2y ago
You may also buy a Raspberry Pi which comes with a Mathematica license.
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by topspin 2y ago
Jim Keller is working on a small fab design that is intended to make small runs economic. Atomic Semi. Hasn't yielded anything yet, but they only started in 2023. https://atomicsemi.com/
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by topspin 2y ago
That's not "strange" to me. Object storage has been a long time coming, and it's still being figured out: the entirely typical process of discovering useful and feasible primitives that expand applicability to more soph
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by topspin 2y ago
> Sliger CX4712 One of the few legit attempts at a "homelab" friendly design, with ATX PS and 120mm fans. The 2.5" SSD "cage", USB ports and power switch are all on the wrong (right-hand) side. Headers for all t
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by topspin 2y ago
> 90+% pass rate It's multiple choice. Probably 90% of the people reading this could pass the tech examine using only common sense. A couple hours on hamstudy.org and you can ace it. There is no reason for intimidation. I passed
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by topspin 2y ago
Oh, and make it open source, so that people that know more than I about all things math can contribute. If you hadn't noticed, SpeQ Math is not open source.
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by topspin 2y ago
I don't agree that this is surprising. To be "dominant" in this space means more than raw performance or value. One must also dominate the details. It has taken AMD a long time to iron out a large number of these details,
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by topspin 2y ago
I really do want to clone that thing, except cross platform, and enhanced with 64 bit native math. I want the same exact REPL calculator and function library running natively and starting instantly from a no-install binary on every platfor
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by topspin 2y ago
Yes. SpeQ math, is extremely small, starts instantly and stands alone with no complex runtime.
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by topspin 2y ago
> Seems like a really nice effort. Does it? Another powerful calculating engine trapped behind a skeuomorph interface? Here[1] is a really nice effort that, sadly, hasn't been updated in 14 years and only runs on Windows. It'
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by topspin 2y ago
Even with the problems, just the few seconds of playing before the crash+input hang got me hooked. So, off to GOG to get q3a for $15. Also, quake3e with all the quality, widescreen, aspect ratio and FPS tweaks... chatgpt 4o seems to know

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