earhart

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by earhart 2y ago
I still wish Tile had caught on; einsum is really nice, but sometimes I want a dilated convolution, or a maxpool. (OTOH, I’m not an einsum expert; please feel free to delight me by pointing out how it’s possible to do these sorts of things
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by earhart 2y ago
Anyone know how to get mail to join@ssi.inc to not bounce back as spam? :-) (I promise, I'm not a spammer! Looks like a "bulk sender bounce" -- maybe some relay?)
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by earhart 3y ago
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/01/06/i-have-no-mout... I honestly worry about this - I've been tinkering with ideas to try to build towards AGI, and I'd love to share them publicly to
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by earhart 3y ago
IMHO, it comes down to the software. It turns out you need very different kernels for good performance on different GPUs, so OpenCL is a nice tool, but not sufficient; you need a hardware-specific kernel library. From the framework side, ea
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by earhart 3y ago
Just curious - what was your motivation?
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by earhart 3y ago
FWIW, Framework also announced a new battery with the same form factor but another 10%-ish capacity. And because the system's amazingly easy to disassemble, if your battery starts to lose capacity, it's trivial to swap in a repla
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by earhart 4y ago
Neat; thanks for posting this! I just started tinkering with ideas in the same line of thinking a couple weeks ago; it’s good to see that there’s prior art to learn from. I landed in the same place they did, on using XML. I think there’re a
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by earhart 4y ago
NB This is even more important in VM scenarios, where second-level address translation means something needs to walk a guest-physical-to-system-physical map for each level of the guest-virtual-to-guest-physical map. So TLB locality become
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by earhart 4y ago
I worked on the Windows kernel in the early 2000s. I really enjoyed it - I learned a lot about PC hardware, worked with some very smart people, and although a few projects were ambitious and ambiguous and didn’t really pan out, most of them
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by earhart 5y ago
Source? It's unclear to me that the military is currently any less effective and efficient than it was in the 90s. In Hollywood films in those days, it was typically portrayed as being incredibly efficient, but that has nothing to do
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by earhart 5y ago
FWIW - in my experience, if their demands upset you, it’s not going to go well (you’ll get more demands and feel more exhausted); if you laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation, remind them to ask nicely, and still help them with what
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by earhart 5y ago
Go supports untyped constants -- https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants . It's useful for defining a named constant, and then using the name to initialize variable values of any compatible type.
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by earhart 6y ago
The dollar is also backed by the legal system (which gives the general populace a mechanism to redefine who owns which dollars, e.g. in case of fraud), and the Federal Reserve (which manipulates interest rates and dollar supply levels to tr
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by earhart 6y ago
It was, in hindsight, a lame attempt at a joke, based on Volkswagen's history with skirting emissions controls. More seriously, it's hard to know what all's installed on your phone, and what all it's doing; car parts are
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by earhart 6y ago
Except the apps are the 3rd-party parts. In your example: Volkswagen imposes quality controls on those parts, making sure they're not going to blow up or subvert the car. As soon as other shops can install 3rd-party parts, you have a r
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by earhart 6y ago
American conservatives tend to support freedom of contract and freedom of speech (including dishonest/incomplete speech) - and they consider monetary donations to politicians to be speech. They also tend to believe in supply-side econ
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by earhart 6y ago
More like a UBI. Or extended social security. Socialism's more about the community owning and managing the means of production, and less about just giving people money. You could make a good case that the F-35 program, with all its b
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by earhart 6y ago
Except... big companies can use GPLd code for free -- they just have to provide their modifications somewhere, and make it possible for users to replace the GPLd part (which is where things typically fall down). So... if you genuinely don&#
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by earhart 6y ago
So, I'm seeing a lot of dislike for the GPL in these threads. Just curious, as a side question... suppose one really does believe that users should be able to improve and modify the software on devices they own and share those improvem
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by earhart 6y ago
Evidence? (My own suspicion is that the lockdowns are better for the economy in the long run, but I’m definitely not an expert.)
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by earhart 6y ago
A more analogous approach would be to use ALPC; its handle-passing support was inspired by unix domain sockets. Unfortunately, it looks like ALPC never got exposed via Win32. Windows TCP sockets are definitely their own thing, which is pret
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by earhart 6y ago
It creates a race-to-the-bottom for app stores.
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by earhart 6y ago
The problem is not that Epic would be able to prevent other stores from being installed. The problem is that if there are multiple app stores, it encourages a race-to-the-bottom for the app stores -- why go through Apple's store with a
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by earhart 6y ago
IMHO, that’s a feature, as long as it’s possible for apps to be malicious. I’m a relatively experienced dev, but even I don’t have the tools or time to figure out whether some app is safe. So when I had Android hardware, I mostly didn’t ins
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by earhart 6y ago
That gets tricky if one of the writes fails.
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by earhart 7y ago
FWIW - I’d love to see increased density where I live in Seattle, but the people who support it seem to ignore all the other stuff that has to go with it - e.g. more school capacity, better transit, requiring parking in new developments bec
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by earhart 7y ago
We brainstormed a bunch of names one day, and Midori won. I think it was Chris Brumme's suggestion.
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by earhart 7y ago
Very cool; I’m looking forward to playing with it. Just wondering - what’s the current state? Is the core language pretty well baked at this point, or is it open to changes?
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by earhart 7y ago
Something like https://github.com/google/git-appraise ?
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by earhart 7y ago
PlaidML? (Disclaimer -- I'm one of the devs. Even though we were bought by Intel a year or so ago, we've been pretty good about keeping the AMD / OpenCL support intact.)

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