joha4270

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by joha4270 16d ago
While I do believe its a bubble, that seems like a silly viewpoint that presumes infinite risk tolerance.
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by joha4270 19d ago
The one in my oven. It's not about lights, it's about electricity always being available. And well, always having power available (for domestic, but also for expensive production facilities that looses money while idle) using ren
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by joha4270 1mo ago
A lot of CPUs does not execute instructions directly, but instead translate them into a second set of "uOps" This allows it to split complex instructions into multiple operations instead of having dedicated hardware for it. High p
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by joha4270 1mo ago
To be competitive with ARM and x86 they need a talented design team creating fast and wide cores on a modern node. (which I expect to take a decade at least) For the vast majority of non-number-crunching code any theoretical difference betw
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by joha4270 1mo ago
The world /is/ peaceful right now... relatively that is. Not to say there isn't war, but they're small wars with a million deaths being a big one. More people died in Second World War[1] than in all wars since then combi
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by joha4270 1mo ago
I cannot actually get the program working (which could easily be user error), but I could replicate the md5 by removing a newline vim inserted for me. If your file is 142 bytes, that's possibly what you're seeing
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by joha4270 1mo ago
Emoji are text. Which text editor/browser/settings should I be using to ensure I copy your reply accurately? With the exception of (sigh) newlines, I surely hope your text editor accurately records the characters you paste into it
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by joha4270 1mo ago
Oh this is delightful! x86 assembly isn't something I'm familiar with (and I should really get back to $dayjob), but I will mention the existence of emoji-test.txt [1] in case somebody wants to try and mine more executable sequenc
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by joha4270 1mo ago
I don't see why that would matter. Sure, it was noticed on a browser but ultimately this article is about overlap between x86 assembly and a subset of the unicode standard. The browser isn't really involved.
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by joha4270 1mo ago
You can work around this in various ways yes (I'll add dynamic recompilation to your list of workarounds), but you're always going to have the problem of "Somebody downloaded a program and want to run it now"
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by joha4270 1mo ago
This does exist, we call it Java (or C# or probably a dozen other implementations) The big tradeoff you're making is that you have significantly less time to run your optimizer, since not everybody has a beefy machine or the patience t
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by joha4270 2mo ago
What alternative do you then propose for "I'd like to install this random application which isn't popular/high quality enough to be included in the main repository"? Everyone figures it out from scratch by copy past
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by joha4270 2mo ago
However terrible it is, it is still a mistake unless you're accusing them of doing it deliberately. And however much you can say about the current US Administration, I don't think they're prioritizing bombing civilians over m
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by joha4270 2mo ago
You're not the first person to say so (and I don't mean to dispute it), but I have never been able to find a clear answer for /why/ those processes are incompatible. Is it built in different silicon, is it physical steps
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by joha4270 3mo ago
That's a negative framing and while I'm not going to call it /wrong/, but world population is increasing so of course our energy usage is going to increase too. If you scroll a little further down on your linked page, yo
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by joha4270 3mo ago
Could you point me towards the kind of code people programming in dynamically-typed languages produce? I have lived in statically typed languages almost all of my life, and even when I don't, I pretend I do, just without having a typec
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by joha4270 4mo ago
Not going probably never even crossed his mind. Social status in Roman society was very strongly influenced by military success. He was a previously successful general. Historically (with all the accuracy you get when you summarize all of h
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by joha4270 4mo ago
Yes and so we use HBM for AI (among other things), but that's an exception. For things like games or displaying webpages, its not very important and we generally don't put HBM into things for that.
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by joha4270 4mo ago
I think you have misplaced a unit somewhere, because that would be a truly absurd amount of corn. A quick trip past wikipedia [1] suggest the figure was 383.6 million tonnes in 2021, which is still approximately a thousand kilograms of corn
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by joha4270 4mo ago
Your feelings are obviously your own, but a Starlink terminal isn't that big and can transfer quite a lot of tokens. Every single satellite has sufficient cooling for its power production, otherwise they would be frying. Waste heat fro
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by joha4270 5mo ago
The satellite moves, so every orbit it captures a globe spanning strip that is 50 miles wide (here uncritically accepting the 50 miles figure). And the carrier isn't going to be in the middle of the pacific, its going to want to launch
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by joha4270 6mo ago
So, is there anything about GPU's in here right now? I didn't actually finish Act 2, but it seems to end in a conventional processor with the GPU first coming after another two acts currently under construction.
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by joha4270 6mo ago
What is so unbelievable about that? Sure, its going to take decades to actually make the transition and the UH-60 will remain in service for decades more after that in less demanding roles. I expect by the time this finishes, the MV-75 will
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by joha4270 7mo ago
The L2 already keeps track of what lines are somewhere in L1's for managing coherency. Divide the cache into "meta-caches" indexed by the virtual bits and treat them as separate from the L2's point of view. Duplicate the
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by joha4270 7mo ago
Can you not take some of those virtual bits and get more buckets that way? I am sure it will make things more complicated if nothing else by them possibly being mapped to the same physical page, but it doesn't sound like an impossible
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by joha4270 7mo ago
I'm sorry, I'm clearly missing something but why would page size impact L1 cache size?
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by joha4270 7mo ago
Alas, no matter how the bits that makes up my bank balance looks, in practice its still a single point of failure where I might simply lose access to my money if the right service is down. Cash has much better uptime stats, even if it can
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by joha4270 7mo ago
The guts of a LLM isn't something I'm well versed in, but > to get the first N tokens sorted, only when the big model and small model diverge do you infer on the big model suggests there is something I'm unaware of. If you
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by joha4270 7mo ago
More or less, yes. Of course, defects are not evenly distributed, so you get a lot of chips with different grades of brokenness. Normally the more broken chips gets sold off as lower tier products. A six core CPU is probably an eight core w
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by joha4270 8mo ago
Whatever our human laws and morality says about right and wrong and fault, the laws of physics usually judges the car a winner when it hits somebody. Placing yourself somewhere where pedestrians are not expected (non-residental road) mostly

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