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by wyldfire 4y ago
Vespucci was an explorer but more importantly - a cartographer. Much like clever Dr Baum, it wasn't so much a discovery as a usurpation. Indigenous humans didn't discover the Americas, they were just here already. And they had nam
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> we contacted a medical doctor via email who confirmed it was indeed them who inserted “Baum’s loop” as an eponym into the Wikipedia article (personal communication: A. Baum, 21 May 2020). So, a physician gave a part of the anatomy thei
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> The second macro is optional, but it allows you to define the correct ELF symbol types outside of Apple’s toolchain: If portability is your goal, you should not rely on "defined(__clang__)" to imply that you can't use .t
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Just need to throw in some clever CV segmentation ;)
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I remember an episode starring Toby Kebbell that had his character submitting to authorities to review his sense-perspective audiovisual recordings.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
This was aired on my local NPR station a couple of months ago. It's pretty interesting stuff.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I'm vaguely familiar with Price's roles but the only works I've actually seen of his are "Thriller" (spoken-word only) and "Edward Scissorhands" (his final role). In the latter his character seems fairly
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by wyldfire 4y ago
No, that is not true. `zig cc` uses libclang to compile it in the same way that clang would.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Probably best to avoid the conflict, per your advice. But if they're not really using the mark that way I doubt it's enforceable.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> dramatically by enabling the decoupling of geopolitics from oil. I can't help thinking that oil and combustion engines are here for a long time. The energy density is unbeatable. As renewables succeed, oil's utility doesn&#x2
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Or can that be filed under "whatabaoutism" and ignored? One does not imply the other. It can be "whataboutism" in that it doesn't respond to the Russian topic in this thread. And we needn't ignore it. W
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> If I said, "the moon is made of cheese. What type of cheese do you think it is?" most humans would automatically object, but with LLMs you can usually craft a prompt that would get it to answer such a silly question. For some
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Maybe we should just assume that LLMs "know" very little and if you want to build an oracle you should teach the LLM how to access an ontology.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
It's truly magical. And flags like MAP_LOCKED, MAP_ANONYMOUS, MAP_POPULATE - you can tune it in closer to the behavior you want. That said, if you are concerned about memory consumption, you are ceding control to the kernel. It gets t
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> It's still bizarre though that Rust is capturing such ridiculous mindshare. I don't think it's that bizarre. The two big headline features that bring Rust such popularity are: #1 "70% of bugs are memory-safety bugs
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I think as hardware and software have matured, more and more people have access to develop software. They get correct results without having to dictate every little item. I think it's great, personally. I don't know if it'
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> I hope Intel & AMD try to play. Android supports x86_64. Intel and AMD do play in the mobile space. But their smartphone-oriented designs just couldn't cut it. They absolutely wanted to be a part of the largest market of CPUs
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by wyldfire 4y ago
They do indeed. but their argument was/is that their CDMA licenses made it so that your phone/tablet/etc design was feasible at all. ARM could make this claim too but in ARM's case, it doesn't have standard-essenti
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by wyldfire 4y ago
The "snowpocalypse" does not refer to disruptive snowfall that interrupted local transportation. It refers to the impact on power generation that caused blackouts that extended for ~5+ days and killed hundreds [1,2]. [1] https:&
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by wyldfire 4y ago
In fact, Qualcomm has announced a "Cloud AI" PCIe card designed for inference (as opposed to training & inference) [1, 2]. It's populated with NSPs like the ones in mobile SoCs. [1] https://www.qualcomm.com&#x
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I have no idea if these concepts are similar, but as a machine learning beginner, I found the concept of a "perceptron" [1] to be useful in understanding how networks get trained. IIRC a perceptron can be activated or not activat
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Apple's designed Qualcomm out of next-generation iPhones (again) [1], only this time they've acquired the Intel/Infineon modem design team instead of buying the parts. So if Apple were to make a Macbook with a modem next yea
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by wyldfire 4y ago
... but presumably this isn't true for some customers whose network operator is holding this update hostage. Like mine.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
And yet Google used Exynos for those designs. Somehow Samsung must have told project zero that they didn't need to release a fix - a project run by their customer for this SoC. But promptly after disclosure a fix appears. I guess it
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Indeed - I fudged things a bit by talking about TCP there. It would have been clearer if I just discussed IP instead. > TCP and UDP just have completely separate spaces of socket addresses But so does SCTP, and ICMP and IGMP and ... --
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by wyldfire 4y ago
The identity of a TCP/IP connection is a quintuple containing { src addr, src port, dest addr, dest port, proto }. It feels like the article would be better if before or after all the network stack spelunking and quizzing that it was
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Probably saved a good $0.45 using a cheaper header. :(
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by wyldfire 4y ago
"Banshees" was an interesting but puzzling film. I enjoyed it but I didn't think it was quite as approachable as McDonaghs other films. I suppose it's supposed to be an allegory to the futility of the Irish Civil War? I
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Your reply seems to mistake the subject "he" for Jobs but in fact Abagnale is the subject there. G-GP suggests that (unlike Jobs) Abagnale output nothing and GP refutes that claim suggesting that Abagnale's autobiography and
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I thought I had received an email from Amazon a few months ago telling me that my storage on Amazon Drive was going away. Pretty frustrating any time a service like this just goes poof. EDIT: I misremembered the details, actually the email

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