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by unsigner 2y ago
There might be a chicken-and-egg situation here - one often hears that there’s no point having wider SIMD vectors or more ALU units, as they would spend all their time waiting for the memory anyway.
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by unsigner 2y ago
checking whether coordinates fall inside a national park is an exercise in computational geometry, surveying (the earth is not flat, what are coordinates on a sphere), databases, access to government data. detecting birds is an exercise in
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by unsigner 2y ago
"easier tasks" is arguable and arguably wrong "task about which you will find more easy-looking tutorials hiding the complexity under a blanket of 3rd party code and services" is better
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by unsigner 2y ago
If you think something like German automotive engineering or iPhone production can be substitute by a “simpler and more convenientional process”, you probably don’t understand how it works. These things have evolved and have been optimized
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by unsigner 2y ago
Something that was sustainable when heating few hundred million people won't necessarily be sustainable when heating a few billion.
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by unsigner 2y ago
semaglutide comes pretty close to "a few thousand dollars to make 3-4 kg of body fat magically disappear with no complications or effort"
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by unsigner 2y ago
or you can submit to Putin and Xi and see if they grant you your four-day work week
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by unsigner 2y ago
Let me offer an intentionally shocking counterpoint: The 4-day workweek only appears possible due to the peace divident, and the peace is rapidly coming to an end. We'll need the fifth, and maybe the sixth day of the week to produce sh
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by unsigner 2y ago
There’s brutal war two countries over, and if one falls, the war is coming here. I can’t stop taking care of my family, but not a day passes without me wondering if bread on the table today is more important than preparing to stop Russia to
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by unsigner 2y ago
a Lenovo Yoga Slim with a Ryzen 7840u lasts for 8-10 hours with Wifi enabled, browsing, Slack, and a text editor, with the screen brightness at around 30-40% - good enough for indoors.
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by unsigner 3y ago
I’m not okay with the German and Japanese civilian casualties during WWII either, but I think the world is better off with Hitler defeated. Similarly, I think we would be in a better place if Stalin was defeated, and Russia rebuilt in a wes
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by unsigner 3y ago
Not all Russians, no. I think the suffering during the Cold War, and the current war in Europe (which has so far only reached Georgia. Moldova, and Ukraine, with a satellite conflict simmering in Bosnia) is due to only one of the evils bein
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by unsigner 3y ago
I suspect this thread is a honeypot to gather all Bulgarians on HN
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by unsigner 3y ago
The Eastern Mediterranean might be the (significant, underreported, under-remembered) Russian military presence in Syria. They have airbases, a naval base, they rotate and train their officers there, they constantly ship military equipment
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by unsigner 3y ago
X3D chips usually arrive later.
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by unsigner 3y ago
Thousands of tanks will be attacked by millions of human-piloted drones before we get to fully autonomous drones, if ever. The existence of 1.5 mln dollar Tomahawk missiles hasn’t made the unguided 155 mm shell (costing a few hundred dollar
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by unsigner 3y ago
This feels incredibly detached from my reality. In my reality, there’s a brutal land war two countries over, and I’m agonizing whether I’m dooming my children by not teaching them battlefield first aid, trench digging and FPV drone piloting
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by unsigner 3y ago
Don't think of them as "computer-generated" any more than your phone's heavily processed pictures are "computer-generated", or JWST's false color, IR-to-visible pictures are "computer-generated".
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by unsigner 3y ago
From reading about this reading wars, one would think reading itself was invented around 30 years ago, and people are still not sure how to teach it. Shouldn't that be a solved problem? How were English children taught to read 100 year
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by unsigner 3y ago
I understand the reference to Ptolemy, Newton (Copernicus?), Darwin, but how did Einstein teach us that we're "part of nature instead of a privileged special case"?
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by unsigner 3y ago
That's amazing! What does the API look like? I see you're calling it FuryGL so it must have some roots in OpenGL? What did you have to change because of the underlying hardware? compared to OpenGL? Compared to what a software ras
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by unsigner 3y ago
The brand should be called Horseshoe Cosmetics
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by unsigner 3y ago
These comments mention spam a lot as a reason to stick with iMessage. What kind of spam are people (presumably in the US) getting outside of iMessage? I’m in the EU, I get very little SMS spam (mostly for telecom’s clumsy attempts to find m
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by unsigner 3y ago
Eastern Europe. slowly transition to digital payments, with two trends working against that: - it seems payment fees for small merchants are such as they lose money on small purchases (e.g. 2-5 EUR). So some of them require or prefer cash.
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by unsigner 3y ago
From the creators of "find your mother's maiden name in the number pi"
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by unsigner 3y ago
You can fold this and bring it into an office that doesn’t provide bicycle parking. Also some people detest any form of physical strain, fearing they might get sweaty or ruffle their clothing.
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by unsigner 3y ago
There's no "their side" here, both sides of the Dnipro are Ukrainian territory; one of them is temporarily occupied.
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by unsigner 3y ago
Unity was a dream, or a lie, the lie that you can make games without a somewhat competent software team. Now TFA gives hope to another dream, or a lie, the dream that magical open source fairies can let you keep getting away without a compe
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by unsigner 3y ago
Hard disagree on that, at least in the educational system I'm familiar with. The meagre time allocated in school schedules allows the teachers to barely introduce the students to concepts and techniques, and actual skill needs to be de
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by unsigner 3y ago
Teachers around me are freaked out about the end of homeworks, they can't stop talking about it. And their students anywhere between 8 and 18 are generating all assignments they can using ChatGPT (and then manually or DeepL-translating

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