connicpu

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by connicpu 7d ago
I hate the word crypto, very ambiguous. In my professional life it almost always refers to cryptography.
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by connicpu 8d ago
x86 has a built in instruction for doing AES. That's just moving the ASIC into the CPU core, not eliminating it.
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by connicpu 15d ago
On Android I use Firefox despite the rough edges simply because the usability gain of the mobile web with ublock Origin is insane. Also it's nice sending tabs between desktop and mobile.
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by connicpu 16d ago
Could even run on the computers at my middle school, nobody thought to block it
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by connicpu 16d ago
Validating that a path on a grid doesn't move through impassable objects is definitely much cheaper than running a pathfinding algorithm, especially on 2004 hardware. You'd have to make those checks as well in order to run the pat
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by connicpu 19d ago
Other countries are free to find a way to incentivize building home-grown equivalents and prioritizing that software or even applying tarrifs to foreign software.
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by connicpu 19d ago
One of the reasons I loved learning Helix is that it shows you the list of possible next keypresses every time you press the first key in a combo. Amazing for discoverability. It even works for user defined shortcuts!
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by connicpu 23d ago
It feels so degrading talking to the bot. Last time I did it I was trying to upgrade my service to take advantage of a 2.5GbE modem I bought and I almost said screw it because it was so frustrating with the long pauses after everything I
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by connicpu 26d ago
We're using grok and while I can usually understand the comments they're always at least 2x as verbose as they need to be. It loves explaining everything in two different ways, putting one of the explanations in parenthesis.
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by connicpu 28d ago
The better solution is to not have too many critical upstream services :)
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by connicpu 1mo ago
I think the more likely explanation is that the Cursor data they effectively acquired for $10B was extremely valuable for their training when combined with the insane number of GB300s xAI has for training.
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by connicpu 1mo ago
Sometimes the law is vibes, SCOTUS will probably create a set of tests where lower courts will have to look at how many points it hits and decide whether it's over the line on a case by case basis.
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by connicpu 1mo ago
I think the point is more that the patent office has been too broad with issuing software patents. I'm sure some are reasonable, but many are "obvious to someone skilled in the art" and should not have been issued.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
If you've collected data on a California resident with the intent to profit from its sale then you're doing some type of business with respect to California
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by connicpu 2mo ago
The company would have to not have any interstate presence at all. If you are a business based in the united states that has customers in California, you are easily reachable under California law.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
This is part of why my text editor is built from source on my own branch where I only occasionally pull in changes from master. I know I'm probably a very rare exception here.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
Some jobs are also just so much that there's little room for doing something so similar to your work after you get home.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
I would assume the 200K lines of software and the firmware is presumably flashed after receiving the product from the assembly house.
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NASA Taps SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Artemis III Imagery from Orion(nasa.gov)
6 points by connicpu 2mo ago|0 comments
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by connicpu 2mo ago
Technically open source requires some amount of monetary volunteering, it's just that the electricity to run a code editor and compile (most) open source code bases is within hobby budget for most people.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
It's not haphazard, it's a circular orbit. And at those altitudes satellites move at a little over 7km/s.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
I find C++ beautiful only when I come across simple, powerful things that use the minimal amount of advanced language features possible
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by connicpu 2mo ago
Satellites flying at 360km (the target altitude for starlink V3) deorbit very quickly without regular burns. Dead starlink satellites are guaranteed to come down within 5 years.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
Just coverage is already provided by the 600-something direct to cell satellites already in orbit yes, but you need more if you want it to be useful beyond loading text-only posts or sending SMS
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by connicpu 2mo ago
Starlink actively works with radioastronomy sites to avoid causing interference. They've posted about this before.
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by connicpu 2mo ago
One difference is you usually only get one shot to manipulate a human before they get suspicious. If the LLM's context resets you can try all over as if your first failed attempt didn't even happen.
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by connicpu 3mo ago
It was more that IT considered the college-hosted git instance "experimental" still, in multiple project courses we were required to use college hosted version control as part of the class, but those who wanted to use git were on
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by connicpu 3mo ago
When I went to college (early 2010s) professors were still encouraging students to use SVN, so I probably have a fair number of peers who didn't learn git until they got out into the real world
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by connicpu 3mo ago
If you're big enough you can get direct access to Nvidia engineers, and they are usually transparent when they find out the bug was in their software and send you a patched version to try to resolve the issue
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by connicpu 3mo ago
When you run CUDA at scale dealing with nvidia driver and library bugs takes up a disgustingly large percentage of engineer time, I don't know a lot of people who would be looking forward to rely on more nvidia libraries.

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