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by blt 14d ago
Another benefit the article doesn't mention: these intrusive lists seem a good soft defense against use-after-free bugs in C. The node struct knows about all containers to which it belongs, so writing the "destructor" is very
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by blt 22d ago
It can't come soon enough that AI workloads get their own specialized hardware to free up the general-purpose devices for general-purpose usage again.
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by blt 2mo ago
Nothing new under the sun, the same thing has been happening since the "big data" keyword became popular in the 2010s.
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by blt 2mo ago
Yep, same with code, the models are always verbose by default. Conincidentally, the output is charge per token. Another one is a table of contents in something short.
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by blt 2mo ago
Why is the company called Flock? Because the oligarchy and their police/government/tech enforcers view citizens as sheep. It's so flagrant, a sci-fi author couldn't come up with something more on the nose.
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by blt 2mo ago
Without any concrete description of the AI techniques used, one can't help but wonder if they have labeled something like nonlinear model-predictive control as "AI".
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by blt 2mo ago
This is a great comment. As someone who is familiar with R^3 geometry but not projection or clipping, I feel like I could almost implement it from your comment alone. Can you explain more about clipping before/after the divide by w ope
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by blt 2mo ago
It's really natural! - make a bunch of edits - decide I don't like all of them - copy the part I want to keep - undo a bunch - paste the good part This is copy, not cut, but it wouldn't work if the clipboard state was part of
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by blt 2mo ago
I'm not a synth designer or analog IC engineer, but from my limited knowledge: Most polyphonic synths use individual chips for the main building blocks such as voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers, such as https:&#x
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by blt 2mo ago
Great point. I've taken so many grey-blob photos of forests. Any course on landscape photography will teach that landscapes should (usually) have a foreground, middle ground, and background. It seems kind of too obvious and too restric
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by blt 2mo ago
Probably some of both, but 11k is extremely reasonable for this. If I understand correctly, it has 3x complete subtractive synths per key (not just 3 oscillators into 1 filter) x 49 keys. A typical analog polyphonic synth has maybe 8 voices
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by blt 2mo ago
yep, developers from 10 or even 5 years ago would have considered it a hilarious joke
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by blt 2mo ago
imo this was the single worst problem with SO, people always searching for the XY problem in every question instead of taking it at face value
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by blt 2mo ago
github's original tagline was "Social Coding".
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by blt 2mo ago
UI does not register quick taps on iphone 15p duckduckgo browser
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by blt 2mo ago
Seaborn is already a nice high level semantic plotting interface. I suppose it doesn't target HTML output in a web app, but its main API is very declarative, one big function call with detailed kwargs. A port to JS seems possible
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by blt 2mo ago
One can predict forces involved in landing for specific hardware using machine learning, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08027 .
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by blt 3mo ago
They both work great. The MUSIC in Facing Worlds is amazing! I wasn't old enough to fully appreciate good electronic music back then :)
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by blt 3mo ago
There was a spirited debate about Quake III Arena versus Unreal Tournament. Both were praised, but UT had more creativity in game modes (Assault, Domination) and weapons, better bot AI, and more polished sound/art assets. Reading the G
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by blt 3mo ago
ROS sucks, good move. Too complicated
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by blt 3mo ago
I have a conspiracy theory that these unnecessary projects to replace intersections with roundabouts in small/midsize towns are driven by kickbacks from the contractor to the city council.
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by blt 3mo ago
There's only one GLM in my heart: the one that includes vec3.hpp
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by blt 3mo ago
Not relative to its available resources. For example, there's still no option to penalize intersections. I'm still getting absurd side-street routes and unprotected lefts/crossings to save 1 minute on a 20-minute trip.
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by blt 3mo ago
For me, it's hard to imagine him giving up the printed newspaper strip's connection to the physical world. Calvin and Hobbes is filled with references to the basic elements of physical reality: dirt, rocks, water, snow, speed, col
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by blt 3mo ago
I wonder why we use something polynomial-based instead of something exponential-based like the decibel scale?
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Ask HN: Did your (non-AI) research field get less fun after commercialization?
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by blt 3mo ago
After that build-up, I was hoping to see a toy implementation of a method or two for `MultiArrayList`.
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by blt 4mo ago
My interpretation leans towards: Gmail Thinks I'm Lazy. LLMs have made one thing clear: intellectual laziness is even more pervasive than we previously thought, even among "knowledge workers".
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by blt 4mo ago
Sound systems do have an omnipresent "only as good as your weakest link" feeling. A lossless source (or analog, whatever your preference) and great speakers/amps can't overcome a bad sounding room - or a piece of music t
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by blt 4mo ago
California is among the US states with the highest income inequality.

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