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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
That's not quite accurate. Every core has access to the entire L3, including the L3 on an entirely different socket. CPUs communicate through caches, so if a core just plain couldn't talk to another core's cache then cache co
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
First off, it's not a direct comparison. The Epyc has one L3 cache per chiplet. This means that latency is not uniform across the entire L3 cache. This was a serious concern on the first generation of Epyc, where accessing L3 could tak
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>Tesla is leagues ahead if I’m not mistaken You are. Pretty much every other manufacturer offers adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, and the like. They're just honest about their capabilities.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
It's a shame that the necessary work of criticizing our media is so often undertaken dishonestly. >When Donald Trump made the same calculation, saying he couldn’t cut ties This is not what happened. Donald Trump denied that the Saud
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I certainly question the orthodox view that software should be fault-tolerant and horizontally-scalable. If programmer time is more valuable than machine time, then why can't my team get a single server with a few TiB of RAM and a few
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
This does not, by the way, imply that the machines are working correctly and human drivers are the problem. These cars are rear-ended more often than human drivers, which suggests they stop more suddenly or at times humans don't expe
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
The problem with that is, in part, that they ignored the spirit of the donation, but also that the proper amount for a university to spend on a scoreboard is twelve dollars and thirty-seven cents. OK, that's a bit unrealistic. I could
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Well, Gates is a bad guy. He was a robber baron who decided that stealing a whole lot of money makes him the world's leading expert on everything. He has no training in pedagogy, epidemiology, sanitation, or really anything else rele
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
The misinformation about Prop. 47 is stunning to me. It did not change anything relating to violent crime, nor did it make petty theft legal. Petty theft is still punishable by jail time. Robbery is still a felony. What it actually did is
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
And the market agrees with you! Spending $1.5 billion on Bitcoin during the middle of a massive speculative bubble is just the sort of responsible leadership investors want to see in these uncertain times. That's why Tesla's stock
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I don't think anyone sensible would claim they would never have made this mistake. It's not even surprising that it made it to production. What is surprising is that it lead to a massive and easily-diagnosable slowdown that no o
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>Only for rational numbers. Doesn't work for real and complex numbers. Complex numbers aren't really relevant, in my opinion, because they are usually introduced as an extension of the rules for reals and polynomials. To multip
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
It suffers from all the same problems. The only advantage it has is that they chose a slightly larger arbitrary constant. It still does not and can not scale. One order of magnitude makes little difference when we're dealing with somet
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
The browser can (and should) totally disregard what the webpage says if the user tells it to. The default should never be "break websites without asking the user".
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Because we have people pretending it's new so they can drum up outrage and gain power. Because we have people playing the victim after being fired for being intolerable to work with. Most importantly, we have politicians adopting autho
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
It is amazing to me that people have fallen for the propaganda that Tesla is a battery company. They buy their batteries from the same companies as everyone else. Tesla doesn't make its own batteries. That is the fact. Anything else is
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
What sort of engineer ignores inefficiency on the order of six to eight orders of magnitude? Being a hacker is about creativity and innovation, sure, but it's also about knowing when something is total junk and should be discarded. If
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I would be much happier if there were no innovation. Instead of just wasting electricity, we are wasting lives and minds. We have teams designing custom silicon to print Bitcoin. At least it's better than them working for Google, I s
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Surprise, surprise: it's full of child porn. I very much like these sorts of P2P projects. I hate the fact that all of them come with a pointless cryptocurrency bolted on. Bittorrent has worked beautifully for pirates for going on twen
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>I wonder why that is? Because it tops out at four transactions per second while consuming as much power as Argentina. It's not rocket science. >I wonder what will change the opinion of the skeptics? All of the following are nece
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
"And <your name> criticized the Reason article, accused its author of dissembling, and called monarchists and race realists names." The NYT article is perfectly fair. It states that Scott Alexander has sharply criticized neo
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, but there actually isn't anything to see. Plug-in hybrids blow any EV out of the water and will do so the foreseeable future. They're cheaper, lighter, just as efficient on short trips, and mu
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>If your view is that you and Cade Metz do not use pejorative language I use pejorative language and make no apology for it. You seem to dislike pejorative language but seem to make an exception for the pejoratives in the Reason article.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Oh, cut the crap. The whole Reason article is accusing Metz of acting in bad faith, calling his writing a "lazy hit piece that actively misleads readers", etc. I called the Reason article a misrepresentation and I called Eliezer Y
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I am a long-time reader of Slate Star Codex and was a self-described Rationalist in my teenage years. I am still active in effective altruism circles. I consider the article entirely fair. In fact, you will see that pretty much all I am doi
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Here ya go: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod...
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
What did I write that's untrue?
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Not everyone in Silicon Valley is a rationalist, but pretty much all Rationalists are in Silicon Valley. Some big names in Silicon Valley are central figures in the movement. EDIT: To be clear, I don't know what the geographic distribu
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>"Aligned with race realists and monarchists (?)" Definitely not. Definitely yes. Ever heard of Moldbug? The dude who claimed the rule of Leopold II (yes, that Leopold II) would be better than our current government? I am not
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Yuck! What a ridiculous misrepresentation of the New York Times article. Go read it yourself. I think most people here are familiar enough with the "Rationalist" movement to be able to judge it on its own merits. https:/&#x2

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