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by torginus 9mo ago
You misunderstand me - first, almost all modern compilers (that I know of) use SSA, so that's not much of a thing you need to point out. The point I was making, is that by looking at the assembler, it seems the generated code is totall
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by torginus 9mo ago
My 2 cents: just like Cursor's browser, it seems the AI attempted a really ambitious technical design, generally matching the bells and whistles of a true industrial strength compiler, with SSA optimization passes etc. However looking
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by torginus 9mo ago
I quickly googled Lidar limitations, and this article came up: https://www.yellowscan.com/knowledge/how-weather-really-affe... Seeing how its by a lidar vendor, I don't think they're biased against it. It see
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by torginus 9mo ago
3/10 needs more crypto
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by torginus 9mo ago
Except for Moore's law, everyone knew decades ahead of what the limits of Dennard scaling are (shrinking geometry through smaller optical feature sizes), and roughly when we would get to the limit. Since then, all improvements came at
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by torginus 9mo ago
Afaik Excel is wicked fast at math (can handle ginormous spreadsheets, some real magic under the hood), while correctly doing decimal based math (1/5 is 0.2 exactly, not some floating point monstrosity)
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by torginus 9mo ago
I'm waiting until the $10k course is discounted to 19.99
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by torginus 9mo ago
That's exactly how I play RPGs
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by torginus 9mo ago
The most confusing thing about it is that it's supposed to be a 'display server crossed with a game engine', which to me implies that it should have tons of flashy demos, as its a very visible component, yet I only see slide
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by torginus 9mo ago
We did some benchmarks and ECS was definitely quite a bit more expensive for a given capacity than just running docker on our own EC2 instances. It also bears pointing out that a lot of applications (either in-house or off-the-shelf) expect
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yeah, anyone who has >10 years experience with servers/backend dev has almost certainly managed dedicated infra.
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by torginus 9mo ago
An I am pointing out the design has merit from a purely mechanical perspective, and is a very poor method for actually preventing third party repair. BMW has done some despicable things as pointed out by a recent article, like welding in a
883.
by torginus 9mo ago
I don't see any geometry that would be hard for casting or milling, it's slightly more expensive because you can't do it in one go, but you have to lift the toolhead if you mill.
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by torginus 9mo ago
I think this is misunderstood - everybody points out that how evil BMW is for trying to be proprietary, then immediately points out any Chinese factory can produce a compatible tool for pennies - which one is it? I think this is a pretty go
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by torginus 9mo ago
I think the issue with this formulation is what drives the cost at cloud providers isn't necessarily that their hardware is too expensive (which it is), but that they push you towards overcomplicated and inefficient architectures that
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by torginus 9mo ago
I was talking about technical talent in general, and using big tech as a yardstick. I think it's even more likely there are a lot more capable antenna engineers outside the world than in the US, since the US didn't spend the past
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by torginus 9mo ago
I'm clueless about this whole thing, but from my EE education I remember that in general: Taylor approximations converge slowly in terms of error if the function they're representing is discontinuous (the error disappears quadrati
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by torginus 9mo ago
> Here's my general mantra regarding AI: NEVER take suggestions about AI from people who have a vested interest in it I get where you're coming from, but let's say you're talking to a HVAC installer, and he recommends
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by torginus 9mo ago
That made me remember that one time many years ago, when I had a friend who literally called me a wizard.. He was working as a shift manager at a call center, and one of his most difficult tasks he kept ranting about was scheduling employee
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by torginus 9mo ago
If these people act without knowledge of each other, its hard to charge them with conspiracy.
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yes. I don't have an estimate right off the bat, but if you considered all the people employed at top tech companies, what percentage do you think are US nationals eligible for a security clearance? I'd say less than a third.
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by torginus 9mo ago
The rumor I heard is that Musk's big issue with SpaceX was that he was only able to employ US citizens with a security clearance, as per the limitations of a rocket company, which he has rallied against multiple times. One of the motiv
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by torginus 9mo ago
Nice, the aibros have their own Malthuisan genocide cult.
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by torginus 9mo ago
For the murder angle, I am far more afraid of the inexpensive but highly effective drones people learned to make in the Ukraine war.
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by torginus 9mo ago
Not AI but I've heard car thieves operate like this - as a loose network of individuals, who do just a part of the process, which on their own are either legal, or less punishable by law than stealing the car. One guy scouts the vechi
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by torginus 9mo ago
I don't get it - afaik you can get every single part of a gun except for the lower receiver/pistol frame without any restriction - as those parts are legally defined as the 'gun' - the rest are just replacement parts. Ev
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by torginus 9mo ago
I don't know about frontier, I code nowadays a lot using Opus 4.5, in a way that I instruct it to do something (like complex refactor etc) - I like that it's really good at actually doing what its told and only occasionally do I h
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yeah, those people are welcome to drive if it makes them feel safer. Meanwhile lets focus on actually making sure planes are safe.
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yeah security people (computer or otherwise), are mostly crypto fascists with hardons for humiliating people and telling them what to do. It's been proven from time to time that the strength of a security system is mostly determined by
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by torginus 9mo ago
He spent other people's money (or maybe even imaginary money) he couldn't have used for himself (since selling off major stakes in your company is a big nono)

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