daemontus

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by daemontus 9mo ago
The metaphor sure seems plausible, but why does the whole thing read like a LinkedIn post that was fed to an LLM to farm attention? :(
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by daemontus 11mo ago
I may be completely out of line here, but isn't the story on ARM very very different? I vaguely recall the whole point of having stuff like weak atomics being that on x86, those don't do anything, but on ARM they are essential for
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by daemontus 11mo ago
Maybe this is a naive question, but how are "skills" different from just adding a bunch od examples of good/bad behavior into the prompt? As far as I can tell, each skill file is a bunch of good/bad examples of something
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by daemontus 1y ago
One detail most comments seem to be missing is that the O(1) complexity of get/set in hash tables depends on memory access being O(1). However, if you have a memory system operating in physical space, that's just not possible (you
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by daemontus 1y ago
Ah, the age old question of "1 horse-sized duck vs. 100 duck-sized horses"...
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Theory crafting a system for 1000 simultaneous micro SD card ingests(forum.level1techs.com)
62 points by daemontus 2y ago|36 comments
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by daemontus 2y ago
As others have mentioned, the main problem is that open systems are more vulnerable to low-cost, coordinated external attacks. This is less of an issue with systems where there is little monetary value attached (I don't know anyone who
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by daemontus 2y ago
Two things that I don't see mentioned is that: (a) [Name 2005] is much easier to mentally track if it appears repeatedly in longer text than [5] (at least for me). [5] is just [5]. [Name 2005] is "that paper by Name from twenty ye
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Ask HN: Do you know how a fridge works?
3 points by daemontus 3y ago|4 comments
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by daemontus 3y ago
But the thing is... except for the original authors, none of these papers so far really claim to have a room-temperature superconductor, right? They claim "simulated band structure with low Fermi level", or "unusual levels
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by daemontus 3y ago
I see a lot of "This must be real, why would labs publish this if they don't think it's real, they have nothing to gain." sentiment on HN lately. Or "Researcher's career would be ruined if they falsely claim
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by daemontus 3y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy Bit focused on eastern Europe, but has a hiking mode with very good coverage of the official routes (not only in eastern Europe ;)). And everything is f
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by daemontus 3y ago
No disrespect, I use offline Google maps almost daily, but there are far far better offline hiking apps out there. Google will probably work ok for the most popular trails, and I guess you can use it as a supercharged compass. But at least
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by daemontus 3y ago
I don't have any scientific data for this, but my anecdotal experience is that the actual damage comes from the way the phones are used, not necessarily the absolute charge count. Here me out... - A phone that is used a lot in the car
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by daemontus 3y ago
I am really fed up with all the "nobody keeps a phone long enough to make battery replacements useful" arguments around here. Out of the 10+ phones in our family over the last 5-10 years, one was water damage and one was failure o
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by daemontus 3y ago
Someone already has :) It's called CXL. Both Intel and AMD are diving head first into it for servers. Apple would just need to support it...
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Stop bringing meaningless opinions like “software should not crash”(github.com)
1 points by daemontus 3y ago|0 comments
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by daemontus 4y ago
A good reason why memory virtualization has not been "disrupted" yet seems to be fragmentation. Almost all low level code relies on the fact that process memory is continuous, it can be extended arbitrarily, and that data addresse
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Self-Soldering Circuits(youtube.com)
7 points by daemontus 4y ago|0 comments
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by daemontus 4y ago
I'm seeing a ton of "nobody would but a $10.000 Mac Pro when Mac Studio exists" opinions here. But, like... why? Threadripper Pro exists and as far as I can tell, certain industries are practically begging AMD to keep updatin
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by daemontus 4y ago
A 32-core or 64-core Threadripper Pro workstation with a few hundred GB of RAM can easily run north of $10.000 and people buy them. The price is not an issue if the computer is fast enough. The question is how fast would a hypothetical 40-c
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by daemontus 4y ago
Wordle is a great name. But strictly speaking, at no point there was `wordle.com` or anything similar. Wordle always lived as a humble page on a larger domain. Which I believe was the point of the original comment: That if your product (nam
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by daemontus 4y ago
A gentle reminder that every retina MacBook has been shipping with fractional scaling as default for years now (and it's not even 1.5). Sure, you can put it back into 2x if you want to. But you can do the same on a Framework, and the
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Call for non-profit tech efforts in Ukraine TechForUkraine(techtotherescue.org)
9 points by daemontus 5y ago|0 comments
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by daemontus 7y ago
Don't forget it's 200k a year whereas the EU salary is 5k per month - still way below, but as op said: once you factor in the cost of living, it starts to make more sense :)