bluescarni

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by bluescarni 2mo ago
I am not really seeing how the first chart can be construed as AI disrupting the junior job market... The 22-25 red line had plateaued before the release of ChatGPT and was already trending downwards by the time ChatGPT appeared. Additional
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by bluescarni 2y ago
> Thusly, what happens in code that accesses the string after the move is UB. No, it is implementation-defined behaviour. > In the implementation of C++ the article uses the string was just empty. But for all we know it may still cont
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by bluescarni 2y ago
> So apparently, move does not prevent generation of a copy, but the empty string instead of expected text “Dave” is very interesting. Apparently, after termination of show after the move, the object is invalidated. This does not affect
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by bluescarni 3y ago
As if typical HN comments were any better than typical reddit comments...
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by bluescarni 3y ago
> Most FSD buyers seem aware they’re paying into a research effort. Shades of Star Citizen right there.
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by bluescarni 3y ago
"Hacker" news, ladies and gentlemen.
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by bluescarni 4y ago
It's eerily reminiscent of the x86 bashing that was going on in the early 2000s, only that in those days PPC was seen as the superior (new, baggage-free) ISA by Apple fanboys. Then Apple switched to x86, and from day to night we witnes
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by bluescarni 4y ago
My initial comment was correcting a factually inaccurate statement regarding CPU performance. It is you who barged into the thread with unrelated GPU performance numbers, but whatever :)
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by bluescarni 4y ago
Those are Tensor flops, the numbers for the Zen CPU are "general-purpose" flops (sometimes called "vector flops" in marketing material). The vector flops for the 3090Ti are 33 TFlops for single precision, 0.5 TFlops for
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by bluescarni 4y ago
Go and measure it yourself, if you have one :) https://github.com/Mysticial/Flops/ You can also get a theoretical computation of the Flops, which matches nicely with the experimental measurement. You have to take
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by bluescarni 4y ago
Eh? My 5950x (measured) flops are ~2 TFLOPS in single-precision, ~1TFLOPS in double precision (obviously, due to half the SIMD vector size). This is a desktop-class 16-core machine.
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by bluescarni 4y ago
> Does anyone honestly think politicians in a specific part of the world are not corrupt? Just because American democracy is failing, it does not mean democracy is failing everywhere.
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by bluescarni 5y ago
Another new lambda feature in C++20 is default constructability. I am surprised this is not mentioned in the article.
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by bluescarni 5y ago
> If that's your main example, you are in for a ride. Since asutton branch is over 15 years old almost at this point, and it was by design that no work should happen in LLVM until concepts make it into the standard. Nice strawman, w
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by bluescarni 5y ago
> On top of that, many technology companies have built their whole platforms on top of LLVM. That is irrelevant, as most of those companies are keeping their modifications to LLVM closed-source. They are not at all interested in fosterin
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by bluescarni 5y ago
No. GCC existed and thrived long before companies started putting money into it. It would clearly suffer if, e.g., Red-Hat withdrew its support, but not nearly as LLVM would in the same situation. The culture, history and governance of the
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by bluescarni 5y ago
The fact that you think that climate change is a "political" topic speaks volume about the success of the right wing propaganda machine.
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by bluescarni 5y ago
> Korolev and his team made rapid advances. But even with the full weight of the Soviet economy behind them, they struggled to catch up. The main reason for this was organisational. Whereas the American programme was centrally planned an
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by bluescarni 5y ago
As a scientist myself, I strongly disagree. If you spend a non-negligible amount of your time telling a computer what to do, you are, indeed, a programmer. And as such you should be expected to become a decently proficient programmer. Physi
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Solving Differential Equations with LLVM(github.com)
4 points by bluescarni 6y ago|1 comments
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by bluescarni 6y ago
Hello, I have recently released version 0.3.0 of heyoka, a C++17 library for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) using Taylor's method. The library uses automatic differentiation techniques and just-in-t
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by bluescarni 6y ago
> WW1 was a total war. Fascism was a response to total war which conscripted every civilian into the military. WWI was a contributing factor to the rise of fascism, which is a complex phenomenon whose roots date back at least to the late
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by bluescarni 6y ago
The Italian deaths in WW1 were overwhelmingly soldier deaths, as the fighting on Italian soil was limited to north-east border of the country (where incidentally I am from). The civilian population was largely unaffected by the war. > An
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by bluescarni 6y ago
> Fascism was a direct result of, and contingent upon, the mass death and poverty caused by WWI. That is grossly wrong. There was no "mass death and poverty" in Italy during or after WWI.
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by bluescarni 6y ago
> So you're saying if the code was higher quality it would have fewer bugs? I mean, well, yeah. That's not what I am saying, at all. You cannot do RAII in C. My point was that I believe that most of the bugs under discussion he
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by bluescarni 6y ago
It's worth noting that many of these issues likely wouldn't have been possible with the use of RAII semantics.
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by bluescarni 6y ago
That's really interesting! How does it behave with almost-sorted data?
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by bluescarni 7y ago
> The laptop was seized due to his sexcapades, then discovered to have much more interesting data. > Anthony Weiner's wife is Huma Abedin. She was deputy chief of staff to Clinton. Somehow, his laptop had come to contain lots of
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by bluescarni 7y ago
What? The problem was not the re-opening of the investigation (which the FBI could've done without informing or asking anyone), it was the fact that Comey decided on his own to inform the public (via congress, and against established d
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by bluescarni 7y ago
This is the same FBI that dealt a devastating blow to Clinton's campaign with the re-opening (and later re-closing, again with no charges) of the emails investigation shortly before the election. Are you really suggesting that right af

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