KK7NIL

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by KK7NIL 7d ago
Your theory seems to be that the speed of information significantly increased the power the pope can wield and this is what allowed for the centralization of power. I don't think the historical record shows that. The speed of informati
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by KK7NIL 8d ago
The Anglican Ordinataries are actually a rather mild example as they're still under the Roman Catholic church. The eastern Catholic churches are also in communion with Rome but have a far longer history of independence and also allow m
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by KK7NIL 8d ago
> Historically this was the result of the fact the church predates modern communications. It was not possible for a Pope to direct things That's not really accurate. All bishops were essentially "autocephalus" in antiquity
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by KK7NIL 12d ago
AGA and EGF are very minor federations in the Go world, all the professionals are in Asia where the game is far bigger.
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by KK7NIL 16d ago
Nice read but hard to resist the "X but in Japan!" jokes.
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by KK7NIL 22d ago
Python certainly has some baggage, especially the typing system (which is still not finished, if you're looking at static typing and so is implemented differently by type checkers) and pip's safety, or lack thereof. But comparing
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by KK7NIL 23d ago
Citation needed. And the problem isn't that Europe doesn't have its own wizards, it's that they don't have the mana market to turn those spell ideas into reality.
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by KK7NIL 23d ago
It's part of the EU's strategy to catch up by investing in future technology instead of building out present capacity. I think it's a mistaken strategy but it's hard to suggest anything better when you look at the measly
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by KK7NIL 26d ago
a.k.a. VRAM
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by KK7NIL 28d ago
The difference is that the US didn't start that war.
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by KK7NIL 1mo ago
Basque is not an Indo-European language:)
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
> In the past, "labor saving technology" has always spawned alternate jobs that people could take with some retraining. Labor saving technology does not create enough alternative jobs to employ all those that it displaced, othe
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
He's pointing out that labor has always opposed labor saving technology, despite that being the basis of our modern quality of life.
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
> I'm not sure how many languages you speak or encountered in the wild before, but some languages are VERY different from each other, some are a bit different and others are basically the same with some differences. I'm a dual
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
What's your evidence for that? And if the first 80% doesn't bias the language after post-training (which I think is what you're claiming) why not go for English or a mixture of languages, which is essentially what they did by
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
The whole point of this project is to have an LLM that speaks European Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese.
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
> Why would you let America take 2-3% of your transaction volumes? I don't think VISA/Mastercard takes such a fee? (They'd be some of the biggest companies in the world if they did.) The fees they charge are actually fract
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
Presumably they're making the leap that this printing technology can be leveraged to develop an alternative display technology that would change the structure in real time, kind of like color e-ink displays. It's quite the leap, b
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by KK7NIL 4mo ago
I'd say Skyrim was just around the border where you started to get engines which uncoupled physics from FPS. This only really matters for competitive games though, so it's not surprising it wasn't prioritized.
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
Are the quake, goldsource, source, etc engines jank? Because they all did this, to some extent. It might be harder to find an engine from the early 2010's that didn't tie at least some physics to FPS.
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
> If you have a diode, then the transistor is only a small step away. It is not. We've had semiconductor diodes since 1874, but it took many decades to develop the solid state physics to understand how they worked and how to extend
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
Considering two Germans in Paris independently discovered the transistor just a few months after Shockley's team, this seems like a self-serving fantasy: https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/the-european-t
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
And the other side would say that if we cut welfare spending we'd have a reasonable debt to GDP ratio. It's very much political and it's a joke to pretend otherwise.
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
Nvidia subsidized machine learning research for years (both with CUDA, hardware donations and developing what was a very niche product line just for them) before deep learning became big, much less the advent of LLMs. Certainly Jensen seeme
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
The velocity factor is usually 0.6-0.7, never seen it as low as 0.5. And it's set by the dielectric, not the conducting material.
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
No, the problem is getting a high power (hundreds of watts) and high uptime EUV source, there's no reason to think this is a step towards that at the moment.
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
> If someone is stealing your only $20 out of your pocket and I stop them and you now have $20 in your pocket, I've just created conditions for commerce on the part of you taking that $20 and spending it someplace else in the market
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
That post was not at all worth my time, it just cherry picked data without ever putting it together to show intentional price manipulation or monopolistic behavior (no, showing concentration isn't enough). > They can't do anyth
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
Those are pretty extraordinary claims with very little evidence. And, even if they are true, the obvious solution would be to enforce the already existing antitrust and competition laws, not to have the government directly engage in commerc
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by KK7NIL 5mo ago
Both BJTs and FETs have intrinsic exponential/logarithmic behaviors (at low biases) due to charge density being given by the Fermi-Dirac distribution since electrons are fermions.

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