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by topspin 3y ago
Google also makes claims[1] corroborating this ratio in their own work. It's an endless ammo supply for the memory safety argument. (The linked story doesn't argue otherwise, despite the headline.) [1] https://www.chr
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by topspin 3y ago
I think it's a threat response. When you enter a different area your mind spikes for a moment as you (un)consciously scan around, and whatever thought you were tenuously holding is in jeopardy of getting pushed out. Watch a cat or do
723.
by topspin 3y ago
These local factories exist due to automotive manufacturing "domestic content" laws, as opposed to whatever JIT manufacturing philosophy Toyota might have. Pushed by the UAW and signed by Reagan in the 1980's, the US has man
724.
by topspin 3y ago
> Maybe... but you need to keep in mind most of these people are not really building a bubble. No, I'd don't need to keep anything of the sort in mind. I've lived through multiple real-estate and speculation bubbles and c
725.
by topspin 3y ago
> Sounds like that branch is compromised "Since 2015, the whistleblower concluded, more than 10 Toronto-area HSBC branches had issued at least $500-million" It's not a branch. It's the whole bank. And you can safe
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by topspin 3y ago
> if both the lender and borrower are willing participants Eventually this behavior goes overboard and everything crashes. In the meantime, law-abiding people are screwed by the bubble. Then they are made to pay for the clean up. Fraud
727.
by topspin 3y ago
The performance of ChatGPT (4) changes frequently. Lately it has been crazy good. I fed it a non-trivial but naïvely written (and thus slow) numerical algorithm written in Python yesterday. I then told it to vectorize, which worked and w
728.
by topspin 3y ago
Text puts the problem squarely into the sights of generative models.
729.
by topspin 3y ago
That seems like an insoluble problem: for every fault tolerant SPARC device someone slices off a wafer the ARM crowd ships a truck load of chips. SPARC will never have the mindshare necessary to polish the LLVM/Rust stack to parity.
730.
by topspin 3y ago
There are several safety critical Cortex implementations around, with features like multi-core lock-step operation that is largely transparent to the RTOS (or whatever) beyond fault handling. There isn't some vast gulf between the ATS
731.
by topspin 3y ago
> Is there any rationale to this? It's all ARM Cortex? The RTOS doesn't care.
732.
by topspin 3y ago
> that you are not receiving from the same direction as you are sending It's a thrill to think about that. Starlink is really out there. I bet this is lost on a lot of people. Not to patronize anyone, but what Tuna-Fish is pointin
733.
by topspin 3y ago
"Intel’s argument is that backside power will make chips much easier to design, since the power is separated from the communications layer, eliminating interference" That makes a lot of sense to me: that's how and why PCBs ar
734.
by topspin 3y ago
MCUs are all about peripherals. The ISA barely matters. The peripherals are frequently ported forward unchanged or enhanced in forward compatible ways from older MCUs with different ISAs because they are specialized, proprietary, carefull
735.
by topspin 3y ago
That paper describes using e-beam deposition: they're using an electron beam to fabricate individual components in the lab. That's fine for experiments. It has zero value for making devices with billions of components. Unless th
736.
by topspin 3y ago
Is it? What is the plan for depositing these materials with precision to implement logic? Doesn't seem like conventional lithography is applicable.
737.
by topspin 3y ago
This story is about not ignoring either sync or async... It's great that the work finally led to both being supported. The cynic in me wonders if it's also async runtime agnostic, and not just Tokio. If that's possible.
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by topspin 3y ago
> so this is a big find Plus it's far away from the environment, so recovery will be uncomplicated.
739.
by topspin 3y ago
I used ISDL, a related technology based on ISDN operating at the same bandwidth, for a few years in Colorado in the early 2000's. It was the only thing better than dialup at the time. The ISP was Megapath Networks. Still have the Ef
740.
by topspin 3y ago
Hard not to see these recent stories about backchannel deplatforming and social media accounts getting accidentally-ed and not recall the warnings that this behavior won't stop with just the people/views you prefer not to see.
741.
by topspin 3y ago
> Why has EW countermeasures not effectively EW is highly overrated. The EM spectrum is large, transceivers are agile and high gain antennas are inexpensive and easy to operate. Thus, any conceivable EW countermeasure you imagine has a
742.
by topspin 3y ago
> Thank goodness a person wasnt on the inside of that suction event. Thank goodness the plug didn't delete the horizontal stabilizer.
743.
by topspin 3y ago
There is a reason they are the most scrutinized.
744.
by topspin 3y ago
The most noble reason one might offer is that it measures popular new tools against a widely used legacy of work in C, exposing the subtle corner cases that lurk in Rust and its ecosystem. More likely it's enthusiasm and surplus energy
745.
by topspin 3y ago
Yes, it's old news. It's not solar/wind so it's not a priority for EIA et al. More recent news in nuclear power is commercial operation of a high temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed reactor in China. Their first HTR-PM r
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by topspin 3y ago
> Its much easier to program for than any embedded board. Indeed. I work in both MCUs and full-featured Linux environments and there is zero value to using the former for non-safety critical, non-power constrained, low precision applica
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by topspin 3y ago
> Aren’t we at the end of Moore’s law Three semi manufacturers are telling their investors they'll be at 2nm (or something) in late 2024 or 2025. So no, Moore's law has not seen its end, despite ~40 years of predictions to the
748.
by topspin 3y ago
You mentioned that SOS still has a niche. What examples of current RF devices are using SOS?
749.
by topspin 3y ago
Tools that are popular with developers tend to evolve into tools that end up in use by everyone. Your caution isn't wrong, but ultimately it may be futile.
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by topspin 3y ago
> What is a 'computation' exactly Execution of whatever one proposes to code in a time invariant manner. In this case: "RSA decryption and signing operations." > I imagine the complexity spirals Measuring things a

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