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by ur-whale 3y ago
> This is why I prefer VHDL. It's strongly typed. I agree, and I must say I feel much "safer" when coding in VHDL than I do in Verilog, but OTOH, VHDL's strong typing sometimes cuts the other way. I have found myself
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/NJkQv
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I have a Proton account by the way, but I'm not under the illusion that my emails are safe from 3 letter agencies. Absolutely correct. Nor are they safe from the Swiss government either.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
The goal is worthy, the effort is commendable, but the underlying language (Scala) is an absolute turn-off AFAIC, and I suspect I'm far from being the only one.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I don’t recall people saying Blockchain is useless. About half of the natives here have a hard time telling the difference between Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Web3 and NFTs The moment any of theses words are uttered here, instant skin
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> people have no clue what fiat currency is and isnt No one ever made friend by disturbing the carefully woven set of lies people love to surround themselves with to ensure the harsh reality of the world doesn't come and disturb the
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> no other asset acts like this You say it like it's a bad thing? The fact that Bitcoin behaves like no other asset on the planet is precisely what makes it interesting, worth understanding, and if you can stomach the volatility ove
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> No one who has bought and held Bitcoin in self custody has lost their shirt. Yup. Better yet, they own Bitcoins.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Complex things must be looked at from many different angles before one can try and draw conclusions about them, Willingly choosing to restrict yourself to one very narrow aspect (tether) of a rich and complex ecosystem such as Bitcoin and d
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Want to keep your house? Support your kids? Stay alive? Move to a sane country.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
So remote in Wayland is a bag on the side that requires work and integration. Hard pass on wayland right there. At least until it offers RR natively (meaning: I don't have to waste hours of my life to get it working).
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by ur-whale 3y ago
So, here's one thing I need to know: X can open a window on another machine over ssh Can Wayland do the same?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> is the idea that there are conjugate variables (things which are the FT of each other) God forbid that physicists would use the existing lingo instead of inventing their own and create more confusion.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> which posits that Google is uniquely positioned to win the AI space and hence the future of computing? They have been "uniquely positioned" as you put it to win the AI race for the past 15 years now. And they have done exactl
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Undertaking that kind of focused, bold, visionary attack would first and foremost require to have a CEO with the same kind of attributes:bold, focused and visionary. Unfortunately, ball-less wonder milquetoast Sundar has none of the above a
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> _Ordinary_ FT is the uncertainty principle. Yeah, I was about to jump in and say the same thing. More precisely, in Fourier theory (_regular_ Fourier Theory, not fractional), there is an inequality that can be proven independently of a
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I would venture most of us haven't thought of it since college Not sure what kind of engineering work you are doing, but I can vouch that your assessment is incorrect in general for any kind of engineering work, be it CS related o
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Take a bunch of hirez photos, archive them safely, make a torrent, make a bunch of NFTs and stop worrying about the real thing.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
What about binary size increase ?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Amazing. The fact that we can synthesize stuff like this from text makes me believe the real world obeys some laws of physics we still haven't figured out. Specifically, the fact that when we interpolate in embedding space, the interpo
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Try as you may, you will not escape the village https://youtu.be/op7IgFbT8l0?t=194
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by ur-whale 3y ago
This actually begs the question: Does anyone know the kind of actual infrastructure something like gpt4-32k actually run on? I mean when I actually type something in the prompt, what actually happens behind the scenes? Is the answer compute
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by ur-whale 3y ago
OpenSource working as intended, no?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Isn't the recent AI regulation voted in Europe a problem for this company? The world is a big place. And moving the talent to a place less regulation-crazy than the EU is not very hard.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/FMB2W
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Turns out they have a FB page and just posted something on the topic. https://www.facebook.com/NCA/
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I can't believe I'd ever say this one day, but: assuming they've actually done this properly (which remains to be seen) : very well done facebook.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I'm specifically asking bard if it's running on top of Gemini. The answer is no which clearly contradicts the content of the blog post. Another excellently planned launch by Google.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
16.3 ? That's quite revolutionary. I am still running 0.12.1 [last reliable non segwit bitcoin node release]
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by ur-whale 3y ago
The real cost to Google is not the payout, but the lawyer fees over 7 years.

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