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by zucker42 5y ago
> It is politics and ideology harms open source. The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology. Open source would not exist to the same extent without the ideo
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Chip production is not completely fungible.
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by zucker42 5y ago
This is doubtful in my opinion, but Nintendo would certainly like us to believe that. I think that Nintendo does this for profiteering purposes, and also because they are irrationally restrictive of unintended usage of their hardware/s
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No one wants a globally distributed ledger. They want to send money from one person to another. Or, to use the example that motivated Vitalik, they want a record of the items they own in a video game. A globally distributed ledger is simply
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Probably the millions of people who own/have access to one and don't have the ability to buy another computer.
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Alder lake's AVX-512 comes with a significant asterisk. It's only in the P-cores (so can only be turned on if you disable the E-cores), isn't officially supported, and can't be turned on in some motherboards IIRC. We sho
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by zucker42 5y ago
Sorry, those ideas were not meant to necessarily be directly related to the topic at hand. They were examples of political ideas that I want to be reflected in my software (just like apparently this maintainer wanted the political idea that
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by zucker42 5y ago
Yes, I want the political ideas that "the user should maintain control over software he/she uses" and "the user has a right to repair technologies he's using" reflected in my software. This is definitely a terr
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by zucker42 5y ago
Looks like it is "go-style" because the API/syntax is modelled after the go API. In particular the "choose" macro from the example looks to be designed to mimic "select" even though otherwise macros might
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by zucker42 5y ago
As far as can tell, dang does a pretty good job fighting off sock-puppets and vote manipulation as things are. Imagine if there was a multi-billion dollar industry focused on making fake accounts in order to increase vote counts for HN post
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It's still completely true, except for the GPU shortage.
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In 7.5 years (mean time for construction of a nuclear power plant), there will still be oil, gas, and even coal plants in operation in many countries. Nuclear capacity is clearly not useless.
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The article comes as close as possible to accusing Columbia of fraud without outright saying it. I hardly think that's dry.
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Metaculus indicates that the first fusion plant may not be online until the 2040s[1]. We shouldn't be not building lower carbon energy infrastructure now with the idea that fusion will save us. [1] https://www.metaculus.com&
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> Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket. When I repair an iPhone instead of buying a new one, Apple ends up with less money in their pocket. Repairing an iPhone cle
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by zucker42 5y ago
Except consumer GPUs don't officially support ROCm, despite consistent pressure from users for years. And there's no indication of when that situation will change. CUDA is successful because the same software works on low-powered
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How do you build such a system when there's no example of how the website will be formatted?
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Given that one question missed means you lose, you have to be very careful to choose a good team. I've gotten a perfect score on a standardized test (during high school) but while I know a lot of smart people, I know no one who has als
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by zucker42 5y ago
The nature of globalism is that there's many steps in the supply change that are dependent on one or two countries. Semiconductors are also dependent on the Netherlands (ASML) for example. Also violations of the air defense zone, thoug
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Cardboard uses wlroots.
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I think he's saying he can't port forward because he lives on a university campus.
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I recall a recent HN post about reverse engineering a thinkpad EC in order to get around battery DRM. With framework that would be doubly unnecessary because the EC firmware is open source. Also they open source stuff having to do with thei
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What Is the Progressive Consumption Tax?(cardin.senate.gov)
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Yeah, that's the way the commenter I responded to wants me to view it, but I'm skeptical of that way of looking at it. I view it as specialization, where two people each utilizing their strengths can accomplish more together than
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by zucker42 5y ago
> This increases the quality of the work, but other scholars at institutes without the same level of funding are now competing against a higher bar, reducing their total output. Reducing output in exchange for quality doesn't sound
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I don't think those software updates would come free. I think Qualcomm deserves half the blame here because they produce such horribly locked down products.
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What also amazing is that there's no extra charge for increasing speeds. That would be unheard of in the US, where artificial segmentation is the norm.
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Yeah it's pretty ironic that a "legitimate" NFT venture and a project invented solely for social engineering are indistinguishable even for someone who presumably knows a lot about the crypto space.
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I would guess they just got removed because they were obscure. I remember past words with repeated letters.
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If anyone would like to try their hand at predicting when this might happen, there's this Metaculus question[1]. Looks like the community median is 2047 right now. [1] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/8169/

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