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by wyldfire 4y ago
My one-step-shy-of-tinfoil-hat dad loves to say that he thinks climate change is BS. He has no expertise on which to claim this, but when prompted he'll cite "it used to be that we had to worry about the ozone layer ... " --
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by wyldfire 4y ago
AMD XDNA – Versal AI Core / 2nd-gen AIE-ML tiles Are these programmable by the end-user? The "software programmability" section describes "Vitis AI" frameworks supported. But can we write our own software on these
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by wyldfire 4y ago
The price is shown as $1,995.00 + tax&shipping for A-V70-P16G-ES3-G.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
If we follow this incredible path over the coming century, all I can think of is the future doctor from "The Little Black Bag" [1]. Physician's tools become so advanced as to lower the bar for future doctors. Maybe future a
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by wyldfire 4y ago
What is their sincere interpretation of "Open" in "OpenAI"? Their models are not distributed publicly, correct? Do they describe the network characteristics and training data openly? Where's the "open" p
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I don't know how codon does this. But I always supposed that existing optimized pythons like pypy map integer operations to native types and promote them to arbitrary precision when they encounter overflow. It's IMO a similar pr
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I wonder if it's anywhere near Kepler-22b. Romulus and Remus were raised by wolves, after all [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_...
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by wyldfire 4y ago
The "G" button often represents the Ground floor (aka "first floor" here in US). Sometimes in the US 'G' indicates "Garage".
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by wyldfire 4y ago
s/already been fixed/was eventually fixed when it showed up on HN/
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I don't think this is the case. Maybe it's a placebo button in some cases? But I've definitely ridden in elevators where the "close door" button has nearly immediate effect (usually older ones). The button never
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> According to the chart, if you’re on an elevator made by Mitsubishi, Matsushita, Toshiba, or America’s Otis, you can cancel a floor by quickly tapping twice (“double-clicking”) on the corresponding button. If I had to guess I'd sa
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by wyldfire 4y ago
In fact, it does. [1] [1] https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io/
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Those system calls shown as examples pass a list of buffers to be read into / written from. [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/readv.2.html
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> RISC-V caught up, key functionality wise, with the set of extensions ratified in December 2021. Having an ISA with functionality parity is the table stakes. But having designs actually capable of outperforming the current generation o
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Have you tried ccache btw? I don't know if it works with MSVC, but I think it should.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> It's less about price and more about Apple changing their strategy if they conclude that a company they think is a partner has designs on competing directly with one of their key application offerings. Interesting that this pivots
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> The “cheap” way I suspect my motherboard is using takes advantage of the fact USB 3.x Gen1 only uses one of the two SuperSpeed lanes present on the USB-C connector, and unlike Gen2, it often does not require a redriver to improve signa
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by wyldfire 4y ago
It's interesting that you bring the smartphone up because Apple broke the mold by offering a product as a one-of-a-kind luxury good that offered far superior style and function. The Dymaxion Bathroom was not sought-after because it wo
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Most highways in the US that I've seen are either concrete or asphalt.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
There's probably a quid pro quo that motivates them to amend it.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Specificity: not so great Selectivity: perfect
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Second, I think people will start to put a premium on accounts being "verified" as genuinely human. IMO this is long overdue. And I think people should/will eventually even pay for this feature. > Powerful nation sta
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> In a way they’re like any other law book that collects together public opinions and statutes with explanatory text, which are definitely copyrightable. If they're commissioned by Georgia, it would make more sense for them to be bo
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Apple themselves could take note and decide to negotiate a license for the sake of their customers. Businesses are often willing to pay for something that would ordinarily take an R&D team some NRE to develop. And Apple has a great de
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> both parties benefit from it. Is that really the case? It is a bias towards the status quo. Regardless, IMO the constituents represented by those parties don't benefit from it.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I'm completely absent any other context about ARRL - it seems like this is an accomplishment and one that likely was the result of (expensive) lobbying.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
The way you can interact with other code is via symbolic references. Indeed, the linker resolves most of these references. These are stored in an object file as a "relocation". It's considerably less convenient than a packag
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Has anybody had the opportunity to compare the costs and benefits? Heap allocators are very significant cost over stack. Nim's designed for different use cases. Rust statically checks memory usage, and provides Arc for use cas
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> That's what is has turned into, but it was never the point. The point was to promote the creation of new creative works. I wonder - if copyright expiration had been enshrined in something harder to extend like a US Constitution am
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Mainstream media tends to give in to these threats, Not sure which parts of the mainstream media you're referring to but certainly not traditional (legacy?) print media like NYT/WaPo. Maybe just maybe it's not interestin

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