jakobson14

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by jakobson14 2y ago
apple: "Out latest laptop has <magic maguffin>!" consumer, at the store: "why doesn't this thing have <magic maguffin>!? bring me something that has <magic maguffin>!!!"
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Intel has spent the last 25 years training consumers to look for the "intel inside" sticker. It's the only thing that's kept intel afloat while they butcher their engineering tallent. People shouldn't care, but they
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Guy is an employee of raspi, so of course he's going to write code that ships chips.
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by jakobson14 2y ago
No there isn't. Let's take pytorch as an example. CUDA is an API. OpenCL is an API. Pytorch is not. Pytorch is very firmly GLUED to CUDA. It will probably NEVER support anything else beyond token inference on mobile devices. The
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by jakobson14 2y ago
They are only moving because AMD is finally providing that competition, but it's not fair to say that "if only AMD had gotten their act together sooner, intel would be a better comapny." Ultimately, intel chose to let intel r
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by jakobson14 2y ago
ultimately it was a focus on marketing that led them to kill engineering (if itanium and the many failures and lucky breaks that led up to it hadn't already convinced you that intel might never have had good engineering)
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Honestly, they'd probably be better off if they ditched all the sed/awk/macro BS and just went back to bash scripts (or perl/TCL, if you don't like weird syntax issues) that spat out C code. Rust saw the writing on
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Oh, side note: Safe interps now have available time limits and a few other measures, though it seems memory allocation limits are a harder nut to crack due to all the places a memory allocation can occur in the TCL interpreter. https:&#x2F
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Still blows my mind that TCL includes a firewall and virtual filesystem layer. https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/firewall https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/VFS https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Continue forever? no. Be performed once at no cost? maybe. I'm kinda sceptical that a computation to which the 2nd law is indifferent would occur spontaneously without immediately reversing. The 2nd law is what determines the direction
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Congratulations on supplementing one impossible thing we can't do yet with three more. There are very good reasons these artificial hearts are strictly temporary while waiting for a donor.
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by jakobson14 2y ago
The heart is massively more efficient. Just about everything in all of biology is massively more efficient. Take a moment to consider that your entire body runs on an energy budget of only around 100 watts, of which your brain only uses a m
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by jakobson14 2y ago
Sounds a lot like TCL's Safe interps?
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by jakobson14 2y ago
The verifier is mostly targeted at not letting a program run forever.
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by jakobson14 2y ago
inside the TB link there's no such thing as "3.0" or "x4" hector goes over this as well, but basically you've replaced all the lower (physical) layers of PCIe's networking stack. intel like to pretend that
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by jakobson14 2y ago
bots pay for blue checkmarks, and they'll pay to tweet too. twitter needs the money to stay afloat, and elon doesn't really have a reason to say no his initial concern over bots was twofold: 1) he desperately needed a way to get o
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Ford knows how to build cars after building them for 100+ years. There's nobody who has ever tried to fly a helicopter on mars before. NASA built in lots of margin to help ensure they met their objective, especially considering that it
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Drag isn't relevant for a helicopter. Thin air means you have a very hard time just trying to hover in place without moving.
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by jakobson14 3y ago
There's an odd dig at the FSF in there that I wish had more context. What must have it been like to watch GNU clone unix, having worked on it?
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Read the article again, or better yet do a ctrl-f for the word "cyber" https://www.csoonline.com/article/656427/over-40000-cisco-de ... With how shit cisco's security is and how badly they're ha
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Read the article again, or better yet do a ctrl-f for the word "cyber" https://www.csoonline.com/article/656427/over-40000-cisco-de... With how shit cisco's security is and how badly they're ha
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Nice dodge, but I'm referring to the dumb data-structures mimicking sentient human words.
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Looks like you've fallen right into the corollary. It's absurd to expect self-awareness in some system just because its parts are similar to the parts of other self-aware systems you're familiar with.
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by jakobson14 3y ago
You are vastly over-estimating the competence of both cisco and the russian hackers https://www.csoonline.com/article/656427/over-40000-cisco-de...
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Read the article in full. Timekeeping upgrades and cold-weather functionality are the flashy headlines that are easy to explain to the masses, but there's plenty in there about russian cyberattacks too. Russia has been attacking ukrane
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Apollo was a scramble to get the absolute minimum tin can to the moon as fast as possible which wouldn't kill the 2-3 men inside it. Building anything secure is a detail-oriented endeavour. It is not solvable with a moonshot. The quest
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Pure mythology.
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Have you not heard of 500 errors? How about 400 for "bad request"? Seriously, stop reinventing what is already an established standard. There is nothing more annoying than a server that returns a 200-class status when the thing I
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by jakobson14 3y ago
Using gcode on a lathe or other subtractive machine is ORDERS of magnitude more productive because orders of magnitude less code is required because orders of magnitude fewer operations are required. With a subtractive process you typically
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by jakobson14 3y ago
China is already doing it. Replaceable batteries are seen as the way to go over there and multiple companies are already offering it. Drive your car in and a robot will drop the old battery out and lift a new one in. No more hassle than a c

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