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by derf_ 4d ago
I don't need the TV to be cheaper. I can afford to make up the difference for whatever few hundred dollars extra they would earn selling my data. But the expensive ones do this stuff, too.
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by derf_ 10d ago
My first question was, if the vtable only has a single function in it (as in these examples), can the compiler optimize it to a function pointer to save an indirection?
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by derf_ 11d ago
To steel-man their argument, I think what they are trying to describe is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxious-preoccupied_attachment vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attachment
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by derf_ 15d ago
Sarah C. M. Paine has an excellent series of lectures on what it means to be a "continental" vs. a "maritime" power, and how the latter build wealth through trade and an international rules-based order. https:/&#x2
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by derf_ 19d ago
Warren Buffett has often said, "In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you." The exact same logic applies to
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by derf_ 21d ago
It all comes down to who has pricing power. If Canadian exporters can raise prices without unduly harming sales, then the tariffs on their goods are predominantly paid by American consumers. If the US cannot, then the tariffs on their goo
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by derf_ 28d ago
"Aware" is definitely one choice of word. The expectation in Seoul is that if the day ever does come, you will be dead before you make it out of the office building you work in. They run evacuation drills anyway, because of course
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by derf_ 29d ago
> The component category I've never seen fail is CPU. The CPU can fail if the heatsink falls off! That is something that happens (I've had one come off in my hand that was being held on by nothing but hopes and dreams, fortun
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by derf_ 1mo ago
> I believe that only the first Pentium 3 core, Katmai, did this. No, the Pentium M (Banias / Dothan) also needed multiple cycles for basic SSE2 ops (with a few exceptions like PUNPCKLQDQ or PMOVMSKB), a full four years after Katm
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by derf_ 1mo ago
My preferred book format is also the mass-market paperback, which the current publishing industry has decided should no longer exist, probably because they found they could not charge over $20 for them. I can also find decades' worth o
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by derf_ 1mo ago
Hopscotch (1980) is another great Walter Matthau movie. He is just having fun the whole time.
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by derf_ 1mo ago
You also have 60 days from when your coverage ends to elect to enroll in COBRA, and for many plans coverage is retroactive to when your original coverage ended (although you have to pay premiums retroactively, too). That gives you close to
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by derf_ 2mo ago
> When these fail, it will become everyone's problem. Debt is senior to equity. For private credit to start taking haircuts, the equity has to have already gone to zero. At that point, this will already have been everyone's p
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by derf_ 2mo ago
To bolster the argument, even if you do not plan to write the SIMD yourself or will "just get AI to do it", it is important to know what can be fast in SIMD (and on what hardware). That allows you to design your algorithms and s
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by derf_ 2mo ago
I used the same "separate stream" design (one of them coded backwards from the end, to eliminate the need to send a separate offset) when working on video compression, to separate out arithmetic-coded bits from literal bits. It&#x
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by derf_ 2mo ago
> ...doesn’t that depend on infinite growth based ultimately on mostly finite natural resources, manpower, and land? There is no practical limit to the price of the index. Shares may represent some claim on those things you mentioned
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by derf_ 2mo ago
I drove an '89 Prelude (with a carburetor!) that had been used hard before I acquired it, until it left me stranded by the side of the road one too many times. I am happy to report that a 2000 Acura Integra is a very reasonable upgrade
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by derf_ 3mo ago
At one point in I think 2012 three of us who normally all live in different countries were riding in the same car in Australia. We advised the driver to be extra careful (she was dating one of us, so incentives were aligned). But it is nice
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by derf_ 3mo ago
A steady amount of inflation allows interest rates to be near zero or even negative in real terms without actually being negative in nominal terms. Negative (real) interest rates are sometimes a necessary policy tool (see: 2008...2021), but
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by derf_ 3mo ago
> ...you should be forced to identify yourself for posting... The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the right to anonymous speech is inherent in the first amendment [1] [2]. See also The Federalist Papers or Common Sense, without
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by derf_ 3mo ago
This is a good optimization when you can use it, but it is somewhat uncommon to decode a large number of consecutive symbols using the same Huffman code. Actual compression formats switch between multiple codes, as one switches between de
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by derf_ 3mo ago
> ...it prevented massive unconstrained expansion of credit and that seems sensible. At the height of the Great Depression (1936), some economists proposed The Chicago Plan to separate the provision of credit from the money supply by e
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by derf_ 3mo ago
> ... the government can buy the steel for $50 instead of $100. And also lose $50 of tax revenue. I do not see how the government is any better off here.
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by derf_ 3mo ago
> ...the fact they are losing money to climate change is pretty irrefutable evidence. Insurance prices risk. If risk goes up, so do prices. They will not lose (much) money (or not for long) [1], your insurance will just get a lot more
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by derf_ 3mo ago
> To this day, I am still kind of confused with that move. I do not think that this was that confusing. People [1] looked around at the beginning of the 2010's and saw 1) Mobile usage was growing exponentially and desktop was... n
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by derf_ 3mo ago
Any multimedia project trying to support a large number of formats, whose usage in the wild differs by orders of magnitude, is going to have code of varying quality (although quality is not strictly correlated with usage: age and complexi
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by derf_ 3mo ago
> I found S&P 500 Equal Weight to be pretty attractive. The rebalancing required to maintain equal weights means constantly selling your winners and buying more of your losers. That creates volatility drag. Stock returns are highly
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by derf_ 3mo ago
> If AI tokens were so magical in creating new value in developing software applications generally, they wouldn't be selling tokens directly. If hardware were so magical in creating new value generally, TSMC would be designing the
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by derf_ 4mo ago
It is not just the passive money. Many active managers are benchmarked against those indices, and you do not want to try to explain to your clients that you lagged in performance because you did not buy these stocks when your benchmark did.
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by derf_ 4mo ago
As of January, TSLA was somewhere around 2.3% of the S&P [1]. Because SpaceX will have so little float available, it would be somewhere around 0.7% if included. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500

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