cogman10

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by cogman10 4d ago
I don't believe so. The issue is that x87 is 80bit floats which is awkward. As such, it still requires dedicated hardware. Intel has proposed and abandoned pushing a new x86 architecture [1] which tweaks x86 instructions to fit better
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by cogman10 4d ago
Lawmakers should have outlawed EULAs the moment they first showed up in software. The idea that someone could sell you a product which is completely broken until you sign away all your rights on a contract you don't get to see before
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by cogman10 4d ago
You only need an external server if you want to make it so the end user can access their device remotely. Otherwise, an app can very easily just scan the network for the device. Heck, the app itself could be the thing that sets up the dev
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by cogman10 4d ago
Not to mention the size difference as well. The JVM stack is 2^16 in size while x87 has 8. The java compiler can practically pretend like the stack is infinite in size while a compiler dealing with x87 has to contend with spillage in all b
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by cogman10 4d ago
LG sits at exactly the location where screenshots are possible. Eventually, a digital signal needs to be converted into pixels on a screen. Once that happens, it's trivial to also pipe those pixels into a screenshot. It's the rea
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by cogman10 4d ago
Pretty much the exact reason I stopped using Roku. I bought a streaming device to stream, but apparently roku decided selling devices wasn't lucrative enough so they started selling ads instead. I really wish there was a better way to
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by cogman10 4d ago
x87 is such a weird architecture. It was designed the same way you'd design a chip for a scientific calculator. Heck, It's almost a perfect fit for an HP RPN calculator. But for a compiler to target, it's just so painful.
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by cogman10 4d ago
> So they are claiming that ACR is done entirely through audio processing, and no visual data from the screen itself is used? That...doesn't seem plausible. It's probably easier to do and every bit as accurate as just using a s
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by cogman10 4d ago
I'm not sure of the current state of it, but a few years back specturm was selling access to a private network based on consumer routers. Tmobile could partner with them so that one of their customers could go through spectrum instead
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by cogman10 4d ago
They should flat out be banned for consumer electronics and goods. It's insane that something you purchase can force a post purchase EULA before it can do anything. Imagine buying a shirt but there's a 10 page EULA that says you a
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by cogman10 5d ago
Especially since I think there's a pretty easy to understand mechanism for a hot drink to cause cancer. Hot liquid damages the cells lining your esophagus which potentially damages the DNA of some cell leading to cancer. Pretty much e
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by cogman10 5d ago
In some ways I wish that sample size and delta were manditory parts of these sorts of headlines. Like "In a study of 900,000 people, those that drank their coffee were 5% more likely to develop esophageal cancer". At very least it
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by cogman10 5d ago
I agree, that'd be a great way to approach things. The problem is a lot of the regulators are instead looking at doing tax breaks for these data centers when they should be taxing them (and other businesses) for the externalities of t
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by cogman10 5d ago
It's not the only GW datacenter planned [1]. AFAIK, a majority of these big datacenters are going to produce their power via natural gas turbines. I don't know of any that are actually planning on powering themselves via renewab
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by cogman10 5d ago
> You're not wrong, but you are muddying the waters. No I'm not. We can walk and chew gum. It's important to recognize when and how Dems fail and this is one case where more than a few are failing their voters. > Ther
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by cogman10 5d ago
> How hot is too hot? At the time IARC reviewed the scientific evidence, the available data suggested that the cancer risk goes up at drinks temperatures above 65°C. The new British study did not record drinks’ temperatures. Rather, it w
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by cogman10 5d ago
https://archive.is/c2mcm
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by cogman10 5d ago
> The time to vote out an incumbent was the primary. I agree, that's why I'm saying you should be involved in the primary and not just the general. Because, as I said, it's not the default position of the democrat party t
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by cogman10 5d ago
That data centers need a lot of power and some cases a lot of water isn't some sort of conspiracy theory. When you have data centers like the box elder county DC that is planed to consume more power than the entire state of Utah and i
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by cogman10 5d ago
Vote strategically. Democrats aren't by default better on this issue vs republicans so you need to be more involved than just voting in the general. If you are in a D leaning district, then register as a D and vote in the D primary. M
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by cogman10 5d ago
What's worked really well for us is not having the DBAs as gate keepers, but rather having them as guardians and experts for devs to rely on. Our DBAs are the first line of defense when a DB starts to struggle. They crack the database
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by cogman10 5d ago
Those are only a fraction of what oil becomes (around 10% total) everything else is burned.
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by cogman10 6d ago
Leyden has been relying pretty heavily on training runs which I get, but man is that a pretty hard burden to setup. The tooling for doing these sorts of training runs doesn't really exist, you end up needing to do something more bespok
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by cogman10 6d ago
woof, yeah, Just did the test myself (because I was curious) and it spat out the answer pretty quick.
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by cogman10 6d ago
The full quote > Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and m
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by cogman10 6d ago
> Both pregnant women and pregnant people are acceptable phrases. Literally the first sentence in the guidelines that talk about birthing person. The entire paragraph says "it's fine if you want to" and isn't prescrip
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by cogman10 6d ago
Technically your refrigerator heats up your kitchen in the same fashion adding extra work for your AC to compensate. Unless you live in the artic where it's freezing year round, these things make sense. During the summer they reduce y
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by cogman10 6d ago
> significantly slower than a resistive or gas-powered water heater This was TC being a weirdo. He bought a 120V hot water heater. Had he done a regular 240V water heater the recovery time would be comparable to pure resistive water he
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by cogman10 7d ago
I generally actually agree with you. The real issue with these cameras is the network effect that allows them to stalk anyone anywhere. Were I to draft legislation, the first thing I'd do is ban any sort of surveillance network from g
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by cogman10 8d ago
> Democrats should drop "birthing persons" I've never heard 1 democrat politician say "birthing person". This was never something "democrats" said and always something that rightwing media says that Dem

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