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by topspin 7mo ago
"Is something like this competitive, or preferred, in certain applications?" They cite a very specific use case in the linked story: Virtualized RAN. This is using COTS hardware and software for the control plane for a 5G+ cell n
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by topspin 7mo ago
> I wonder which approach is more capital efficient? Which is more time efficient? I don't. I wonder whether US astronauts are going to die on the surface of the moon while the world watches in 4K. I believe, to my great relief, t
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by topspin 8mo ago
There is an incentive to use higher power. Push the edge of safety limits to achieve higher performance from lower cost devices, for example. It occurs to me there is an opportunity here. Passive lidar detectors sampling fleets of vehicle
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by topspin 8mo ago
https://www.renesas.com/en/products/ra8d2
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by topspin 8mo ago
Thing is you can make a 3d printer; it's basically CNC stuff with a different tool. I suppose fabricating your own 3D printer needs to be legally ensnarled as well. Purely performative power grabbing. There is no epidemic of ghost gu
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by topspin 8mo ago
For me it was DAOC. The low latency allowed me to pull off melee combos consistently in PVP with a high alpha range class. That led to years of nerfs upon nerfs, and the game designer is still bitching about it all today.
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by topspin 8mo ago
That came to my mind as well. CSS was one of the earliest major applications of Rust in FireFox. I believe that work was when the "Fearless Concurrency" slogan was popularized.
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by topspin 8mo ago
For me it was Dialup -> 802.11 @ 7 miles -> Dialup -> 802.11 @ 11 miles -> ISDN -> WISP -> DOCSIS via Comcast. > this is the part where I write a whole chapter about how there is fast, cheap gigabit fiber available in r
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by topspin 8mo ago
My ISDN was sold as "ISDL" by an ISP. Still had the performance you're describing, but it was tied to them. There was no dialing on my part: it was just always up. I'd pay for it today if an ISP offered it at a low co
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by topspin 8mo ago
> It was ridiculously reliable. Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, getting broadband was a problem where I lived. I oscillated among a few wireless internet providers (actual 802.11 Wifi to a repeater 11 miles away in one
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by topspin 8mo ago
> Microwave is line-of-sight so here on the Colorado front range In such places it was common to bounce microwave trunk lines with "passive repeaters": big aluminum reflectors, about the size of a highway billboard, setup where
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by topspin 8mo ago
> RTX 60x0 series is apparently coming in 2018 That's either a typo, or NVidia has achieved some previously unheard of levels of innovation.
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by topspin 8mo ago
It's exists. Car and Driver and other sites have photos. Obviously it's weird to not showcase the exterior of a Ferrari, that being pretty much the entire point of Ferrari. The cynic in me can't help but think this may be d
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by topspin 8mo ago
> a canary and a proxy Whatever shenanigans are appear in the public record, multiply by 10x to approximate of the real story. > Does that make sense? Yep. 1929 called. Just to gloat. They don't want their market back.
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by topspin 8mo ago
> Record high margin debt $566B in margin debt. Is that actually a financial black swan amount of money? If 50% of that got "corrected" into Money Heaven on Friday, would it be more than a bad day at the stock market?
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by topspin 8mo ago
> then hold it as a gold standard I just changed employers recently in part due to this: dealing with someone that appears to now spend his time coercing LLM's to give the answers he wants, and becoming deaf to any contradictions.
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by topspin 8mo ago
> you are starting to sound like an llm My observation: I've always had that "sound." I don't know or care much about what that implies. I will admit I'm now deliberately avoiding em dashs, whereas I was once a
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by topspin 8mo ago
I'm using LLMs to code and I'm still thinking hard. I'm not doing it wrong: I think about design choices: risks, constraints, technical debt, alternatives, possibilities... I'm thinking as hard as I've ever done.
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by topspin 8mo ago
What happened here is what always happens with all printed and digital material that goes through some evidentiary process. The shot-callers demand the material, which is a task fobbed off onto some nobody intern who doesn't matter (de
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by topspin 8mo ago
8.5.7 here (built Sept 6, 2023) Now I need to worry about this one. I've been anxious about vscode lately: apparently vscode extensions are a dumpster fire of compromises.
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by topspin 8mo ago
> Why is such an ancient plane still being used? Because it was designed to operate in the same atmosphere as we had in the 1950's, it's highly customized with unique instruments and communication gear specialized for NASA and
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by topspin 8mo ago
> those weapons will be used against you On the matter of social media "moderation," this is the phase you're actually in, right now.
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by topspin 8mo ago
Pluses and minuses as cutting fluid. It's not sulfurized or chlorinated, like actual (and lower cost) cutting fluid. On the other hand, the vapors are non-toxic, being mostly polyalphaolefin synthetic oil, and it likely is better tha
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by topspin 8mo ago
I've grown to dislike the smell of 3-in-1. It's not awful, but once it gets on the skin you smell it for hours, even after washing. I've started using M-Pro 7 gun oil for the same tasks. Not that it solves world hunger or a
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by topspin 9mo ago
"violating ideals held by our Founding fathers" There are a whole raft of "ideals" the Founding fathers held that we've obviated, beginning with who got the franchise. I can confidently say that government being th
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by topspin 9mo ago
> It sounds like their Election Commission takes their job very seriously. A key part of India's system is the Elector's Photo Identity Card (EPIC), required to cast ballots. Similar obligations are present wherever election i
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by topspin 9mo ago
Standing by; three times is enemy action
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by topspin 9mo ago
Is this better or worse than a world in which "news" becomes about "tweets?"
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by topspin 9mo ago
> PCI is very delay-tolerant That fascinates me. Intel deserves a lot of credit for PCI. They built in future proofing for use cases that wouldn't emerge for years, when their bread and butter was PC processors and peripheral PC c
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by topspin 9mo ago
That has a name: ExpEther[1], and likely more than one. pciem does mean you could do this with software. [1] https://www.expether.org/products.html

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