hooli42

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   by hooli42 1y ago

   > What will the US do if TSMC does not blink? Not buy TSMC made chips? Yes. > Obviously that is impossible I assume you're willing to short Intel at this point?
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   >I would counter that nuclear does not scale in that it can't get small Nuclear can't get small because of social and political reasons, not technical or economics reasons. If you could put a small nuclear reactor in your backy
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   This is exactly the situation for desktop games right now, something Epic is profiting immensely from. It's an extremely annoying situation for users, having a dozen launcher/store apps around contributing to bloat.
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   Sure, in the same way SIMD instructions get a linear speedup in theory. If you Google the words "CRC32 is slow", you can see hundreds of people complaining about this.
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   It's legal the same way Airbnb and Uber are legal.
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   Sitting - worrisome. Being used without too much writing -- just fine.
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   If it does't have to be offline for long durations, software raid + adding a new drive every once in a while, and discarding failing drives is pretty foolproof. AFAIK large data centers automate something like this.
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   Hah, neat. The 'weird' instructions can often be 3-4 orders of magnitude slower than arithmetic instructions, though I doubt that matters here.
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   by hooli42 2y ago

   Hash functions can be as simple as a single modulo.