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by ArchD 4mo ago
It's a vanity item, like a Rolex watch, and its existence is not for actual utility. Utility-wise for the cost, it's not outstanding compared to regular calculators. If you spend enough time with S100X for the cost to be justified
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by ArchD 11mo ago
This article is only saying that ZFS can mitigate disk data corruption caused by bad RAM, mainly through using checksums, not that it can completely prevent disk data corruption. Also, it does not talk about the scenario where the in-RAM da
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by ArchD 11mo ago
RPIs have no ECC RAM. Without ECC RAM you can get bitrot in your RAID/ZFS much more easily.
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by ArchD 1y ago
Hanlon's Razor is such an overused meme/trope that it's become meaningless. It's a fallacy to assume that malice is never a form of stupidity/folly. An evil person fails to understand what is truly good because of s
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by ArchD 2y ago
You are right that nuclear power tends to have a very long lead time. China has already conveniently installed vast amounts of solar power.
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by ArchD 3y ago
It's fair that Meta does not have to pay the legacy big media racket the protection fee, but unfortunately this hurts the players that were not asking for the protection fee in the first place. Maybe small players will hurt from the re
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by ArchD 3y ago
I tried it for myself. The prompt for the Python was not given, so I skipped it, but I asked in a new session "What is mantra for Saraswati?" An excerpt from the result: ॐ ऐं वाग्देव्यै विद्महे कामराजाय धीमहि। तन्नो देवी प्रचोदयात
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by ArchD 3y ago
Maybe they can develop their own high-tech fabrication technology to catch up, but I wonder how they will manage and accelerate the progress. The West has IP laws to incentivise R&D by the free market. In China, IP law enforcement is hi
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by ArchD 3y ago
What I want to know is whether those 2 photographers, Ron Risman & Eric Gendron, became friends from this extreme coincidence.
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by ArchD 3y ago
But there is no database keeping score reliably on all the nefarious actions. If a lot of companies already behave this way, then the behavior becomes normalized. None of these companies get ostracized. At worse, they just make a better off
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by ArchD 3y ago
Outbound traffic from S3 is not free. If the data is emigrating, of course you need some outbound traffic.
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How AI is helping historians better understand our past(technologyreview.com)
2 points by ArchD 3y ago|0 comments
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by ArchD 3y ago
That's a rather strong assumption about other state actors, in terms of their current progress, future progress and their ability to attract researchers who get frustrated by the pause. After the 6-month pause is over, then what? Anoth
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by ArchD 3y ago
It's not taboo, just politically sensitive and dangerous for Chinese citizens because it can get them in trouble. Some like the Chairman but not all of them do. Today the objection is with jokes about the Chairman. Tomorrow it'll
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by ArchD 4y ago
From a quick reading of the wiki, the associated methodology seems rather limited: "System complexity, particularly in software systems, making SIL estimation difficult to impossible" "The requirements of these schemes can be
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by ArchD 4y ago
And someone will decide that a 0.0001% probability of an airplane crash caused by a bug is acceptable? Maybe 0.0000001% is more reasonable? In any case, how do you accurately determine the probability of a rare failure of a black box withou
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by ArchD 4y ago
The "concrete examples" he gave in the "Ongoing transition" section are traditional AI tasks. What about other tasks like program compilation and theorem proving that require more hard-core logic? I will be more convince
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by ArchD 4y ago
For the "Reorder floats + Delta", I wonder if he did anything special to prevent floating-point errors. Floating-point operations (e.g. minus followed by plus) do not necessarily round-trip because their results are not exactly ma
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by ArchD 4y ago
Only if their job depended on it. For some people, their jobs mostly depend on following orders, official policy & "best-practices". The job reward is not directly related to the organization's or society's desired o
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by ArchD 4y ago
What are some of the intricacies in the 45-cent chip that makes it hard to produce by a large number of different fabs? In the absence of more details, it seems to me that a cheap, 45-cent, chip should not be so complicated that only a smal
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by ArchD 4y ago
In this modified version where the for-loops get converted to do-loops (possibly unsafe/incorrect behavior), unnecessary multiple vpbroadcastd's for ymm1 are still done: https://godbolt.org/z/61jYejsra With t
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by ArchD 4y ago
Here's the github repo: https://github.com/EmaApps/emanote
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by ArchD 4y ago
When I want to be careful about running these setup scripts, especially just for trying out new software, I run them in a docker container to limit whatever damage the scripts can cause. When the script is complicated, I tend to use docker
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by ArchD 4y ago
He means the blockchain application in TFA is bullshit but the other situation he described regarding hinterland transportation is one that could benefit from a proper decentralized blockchain system but there is no such system.
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by ArchD 4y ago
Do you have an example of a contrived example and explanation of why it is contrived, for the non-biologist to see why it is contrived? I once tried reading a few chapters of a bioinformatics book explaining DNA, RNA, protein creation, etc.
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by ArchD 4y ago
Why is this called misanthropy? Before there were big establishments, there were already people.
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by ArchD 4y ago
Do you trust the bank, credit bureaus or some other establishment that you deal with to not leak your sensitive info? Maybe you do. But in case you don't, which is a rational response to the past performance of some establishments (e.g
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by ArchD 4y ago
Docker lets you document/codify the steps used to setup a machine or service. The Dockerfile contains the steps for creating the image. With docker-compose, you can codify how to setup services. This is better than the alternative of d
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by ArchD 4y ago
Why don't those digitized articles just use images? They can have any variant of any glyph they want to document.
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by ArchD 4y ago
How can you "know much about PAM", though, other than getting very familiar with source code of PAM, the PAM modules and poorly-documented distro conventions? As the article mention, documentation is scarce, and I cannot agree mor

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