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by weebull 2y ago
It's no different to desktops IMHO. The used market on parts is quite healthy.
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by weebull 2y ago
There's a class of code where you never need to read it because it's effect is well understood and it does it without problems. It has the right level of abstraction to be useful in multiple places and not specific to a singular c
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by weebull 2y ago
> Dead is dead, though. I do not think the final moments matter as much as all the years before them. Well indeed. How many people give up what they love because of the fear that it will kill them? This man kept his love for aviation ali
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by weebull 2y ago
Composability. This does not mean "it's a small component in a dedicated pipeline". It means "this is a component that's useful in many pipelines".
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by weebull 2y ago
This sounds superb. We need more coverage than just North America though.
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by weebull 2y ago
*swell
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by weebull 2y ago
I always heard it as "if the database index fits in the RAM of a single machine, it's not big data". The reason being that this makes random access fast. You always know where a piece of data is. Once the index is too big to
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by weebull 2y ago
Red flag - walk away. Interview did it's job.
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by weebull 2y ago
And in audio, that meets the definition of really bad latency.
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by weebull 2y ago
> With its perpetually upturned pectoral fins, and blunt nose, the Dream Chaser looks more like a killer whale than a spacecraft. Hard disagree. It definitely looks like a space craft.
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by weebull 2y ago
I was going to ask "What's an Ana and why are we cutting it?"
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by weebull 2y ago
Not containers, but cgroups, and that is how HPC clusters work today. You still need multiple users though.
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by weebull 2y ago
Not a GPU for sure. Not really a DSP either. I would call it an array processor.
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by weebull 2y ago
...because it knows that the next token in the sequence "the 5th letter in the word _illusion_ is" happens to be "s". Not because it decomposed the word into letters.
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by weebull 2y ago
> I honestly think the very readable specification has been a boon for RISC-V and possibly part of the reason why people continue to find it easy to pick up. Totally agree > If you are unsure about something in the spec, there's
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by weebull 2y ago
...because those are normally proprietary documents. ARM, for example, put a tonne of effort into decoupling their ISA specification from their implementations, and guard this document. You're seeing how the sausage is made.
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by weebull 2y ago
I recommend Emacs + verilog-mode.
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by weebull 2y ago
> The loss of Taiwan and with it TSMC — the thinking goes — would result in a global tech meltdown. The irony is that for most of the tech industry TSMC is unavailable. Nvidia, Apple and AMD have booked all the manufacturing slots for th
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by weebull 2y ago
You can't really take out the censorship. You can strengthen pathways which work around the damage, but the damage is still there.
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by weebull 2y ago
It's a great book, and one my father recommended to me to get me through the concepts when I was having trouble with the standardised teaching of the day. It comes down to Leibnitz Vs Newton, and the world has standardised on the notat
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by weebull 2y ago
> The Quake engine was iirc the first "real" 3D engine. There were many 3D engines before Quake. You had a bunch of Micropose combat flight sims, a ton of 3d driving games, even Elite on the BBC micro. Hell, I'd written so
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by weebull 2y ago
Threads on Mastodon, but... > 1. Threads users can't reply to Mastodon comments or see them in Threads. > 2. Threads users can be followed by Mastodon accounts but they will not be notified nor can they follow back. > 3. L
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by weebull 2y ago
LLMs don't know anything except the most frequent observed response to a context made up of a sequence of tokens. How often do the words "I don't know" get uttered in books, papers, articles, stack overflow, or any other
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by weebull 2y ago
> > “There was no ‘zero-error’ policy. Mistakes were treated statistically,” said a source who used Lavender. > > What is the "zero-error" alternative approach for dropping bombs in a war, or firing rockets for that ma
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by weebull 2y ago
It doesn't need to make anybody rich, but it should support its development in a fashion where the authors aren't worse off.
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by weebull 3y ago
It's a problem they planned for.
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by weebull 3y ago
> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already > > Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already ...but there's a difference. Op isn't saying "why AI?" - why do we need supercars, cars are just fine
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by weebull 3y ago
Just as a general comment on this topic... The fact that people complain about the performance of the mechanism that enables the system to be profiled, and so performance problems be identified, is beyond ironic. Surely the epitome of prema
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by weebull 3y ago
> The advantage of storing them elsewhere is not quite clear (unless you have hardware support for things like shadow stacks). The classic buffer overflow issue should spring immediately to mind. By having a separate return address stack
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by weebull 3y ago
Those pathological cases are really what inlining is for, with the exception of any tiny recursive functions that can't be tail call optimised.

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