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by topspin 3y ago
> To get time invariance I have to To get time invariance all I need is a clock. Responses are normalized to some value greater than the slowest computation. Thus, I don't need exclusive, explicit and complete control of all layer
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by topspin 3y ago
Trying to recall where it was that Rust promised to fix all timing attacks.
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by topspin 3y ago
What replaces captchas? Are there any not excessively burdensome tests that a standard issue human can pass that a machine somehow cannot? I'm assuming the "find all the bicycles" tests are also obsolete.
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by topspin 3y ago
Nothing new here at all: trivializing the intellectual achievements of machines is SOP. This will continue until machines have surpassed every conceivable benchmark. At that point we'll be left with only our epic hubris.
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by topspin 3y ago
> I don't think larger single mirrors is going to be a thing. With regard to optical light space telescopes, one iteration of a single large mirror would be a great advancement. Hubble is only 2.4m. Back when NASA was developing A
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by topspin 3y ago
> upgradeable VRAM Consumer class GPUs don't have a lot of flexibility regarding VRAM size or type. GPUs have highly optimized, integrated memory controllers that are designed to use one or only a small number of distinct VRAM capa
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by topspin 3y ago
SQLite developers aren't in the habit of making poor technical choices. This choice certainly has precedent: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres and others have implemented some form of binary encoding for JSON. Perhaps they know someth
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by topspin 3y ago
I noted that and removed that bit prior to your reply. Points off for a.) inventing yet another binary JSON and/or b.) using the same name as an existing binary JSON.
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by topspin 3y ago
> JSON has been optimized to death; it seems like you could get the 2x gain and avoid a new format with normal optimization Either I'm experiencing a reading comprehension mishap or this is self contradictory. Where is a "2x g
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by topspin 3y ago
The woods. An hour away from where the lights stop in a satellite image. Literally on the last FCC broadband map hexagon. Pros: Quiet. Clean. Dark. Private. Land. Tractable government. Low costs. No landlord, no HOA. Paid for. Go
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by topspin 3y ago
> without a calibrated machine That's called a crimping tool. They grow on trees. They're designed to achieve the correct amount of force to make a gas tight, permanent connection without destroying the contacts. All you nee
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by topspin 3y ago
I don't know whether this particular article is bunk. I do know I've read many, many similar comments about how some complex task is beyond an conceivable model or system and then, years later, marveled at exactly that complex ta
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by topspin 3y ago
> Anybody have any insight at all as to how this ends? Lawsuits. Interminable lawsuits, making boring headlines into the 2040s.
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by topspin 3y ago
Been watching the OpenAI drama play out on X for three days now: media sites everywhere embedding X tweets.
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by topspin 3y ago
> In that reading Altman is head clown. That's a good bet. 10 months ago Microsoft's newest star employee figured he was on the way to "break capitalism." https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ceo
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by topspin 3y ago
diplospeak for lying
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by topspin 3y ago
X links abound throughout this 1700+ comment thread.
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by topspin 3y ago
> It's a minority of customers, but it turns out to be a very valuable minority. I've been saying this for years. The Ubuntu vision here is appealing: storage and live migration as first class things, because many high value s
769.
by topspin 3y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear. The bad one went to the manufacturer and they replaced it. Amazon just refunded the purchase. I'm left with 1.0 working generators I didn't pay for. Maybe it's all down to being Prime for I don
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by topspin 3y ago
I had a similar experience. Bad antilock manifold on a new model Nissan. Took three weeks for the part to appear. I suspect there was a design defect that Nissan had to figure out. Meanwhile I drove a dealer loaner for free. All warran
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by topspin 3y ago
Hmm. A $1200 generator I bought on Amazon was a lemon; the control board somehow didn't work properly and it wouldn't start reliably. After a local rep attempted repairs the manufacturer told me to obtain a refund from Amazon an
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by topspin 3y ago
Yes, it's clearly the weight; every time the tires have to climb they slip. Both EVs have this problem because they're both very heavy; the CT was just the worse of the two. The ICE trucks climb with next to no slip because thei
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by topspin 3y ago
That was in the context of a question about whether external crates may be used. Rust is clearly implied.
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by topspin 3y ago
A used pair of (24c/48t 2.8GHz) 7402s are ~$700. A single new 7643P (48c/96t 2.3GHz) is $2722. That's a big difference for 48 cores if you're paying for it yourself. The old ones are circa 2019, so not ancient by any
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by topspin 3y ago
> pretty much everyone can see that Google's only interested in pushing their own devices. Then why are Fitbit adds appearing on YouTube every few minutes?
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by topspin 3y ago
> That also depends on GC, and the language, and the implementations of the GC. Nothing depends on no GC. I'm not anti-GC. I earn most of my living using GC languages. But there comes a time when the cost of power and hardware out
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by topspin 3y ago
We're at a point where the places that monospace prevails (code editors, obviously) have been festooned with so many other visual intrusions while typing that that additional jank the jiggling adds will be lost in the noise.
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by topspin 3y ago
Seems like a natural and necessary adaptation. This is fundamentally a consequence of the fact that today there are many cores. Kernel schedulers originated in a world where cores were precious and the kernel had to aggressively preclude
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by topspin 3y ago
The actual data toward the top was also interesting; the cost of GC is high and Rust eliminates it.
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by topspin 3y ago
By law the US government cannot permit default. Does that give the executive the power to trump limits on the Fed? We'll see. Others argue minting is more palatable. I think legally that's true. I think politically that's

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