librasteve

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by librasteve 3d ago
nope
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by librasteve 4d ago
Please ban chess playing computers. -signed members of the chess federation
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by librasteve 6d ago
oh, so that’s where all the aliens are … up and cruising around at .99g
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by librasteve 8d ago
I recall that most Tory voters in the 1980s were "sold" on the idea of privatisation (and had real horror stories in relation to eg phone line installation delays). One of the ideas was to widen share ownership to the average blok
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by librasteve 8d ago
I hate how the UK sewage system has failed. I agree that a good share of the blame lies with the for profit asset stripping owners. But just blaming 1980s Thatcher privatisation lets the government off the hook. The regulators (Ofwat and th
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by librasteve 8d ago
AI jokes would be funnier methinks
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by librasteve 8d ago
yes, I’m so delighted by this quality content I want to up my licence fee
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by librasteve 12d ago
I fancy making a custom ARM or RISC-V chip design, is AI any good for that?
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by librasteve 12d ago
we visited old friends a couple of years ago (we lived in SF in the late 80s) … knowing the city quite well we decided to take BART from SFO downtown. our first notable experience of the decline was a drug user injecting on the BART station
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by librasteve 14d ago
and Aristotle
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by librasteve 15d ago
ok … thanks - i’m really hoping that I can delete PowerPoint though since it makes all my app appreciation nerves shudder
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by librasteve 15d ago
Nice idea … did they consider warping the map, I wonder. Not sure why parks in London rank an E or F on the “daily life” scale
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What is your AI era PowerPoint alternative?
1 points by librasteve 15d ago|2 comments
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by librasteve 15d ago
here is a product preview .
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by librasteve 15d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20180402044113/https://viz.co.uk...
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by librasteve 20d ago
It’s fascinating to read all the tech feedback in the comments here, but I think this business is failing because it has yet to achieve true product market fit. Any half decent product, with a nice website, a real solution and some SEO can
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by librasteve 24d ago
yeah, but imagine every message has custom (but flawed) encryption… security by infinite obfuscation
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by librasteve 24d ago
as a test of the proposition that human oriented software languages are redundant, I asked my favourite agent to rewrite some code in asm … and yes, it ran and it was fast conclusion… well, it’s scary but actually I think it’s a bit useless
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by librasteve 24d ago
Well even in deep pipelined FPUs (I'm thinking Weitek 1167 for example), the "divide" instruction is microcoded ... this chip had a full IEEE P764 64-bit single cycle barrel shifting MAC ... but divide was built via a special
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by librasteve 24d ago
the von Neumann bottleneck
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by librasteve 25d ago
yeah, i have the notion that a grid would be good enough
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by librasteve 25d ago
wonders how ARM did that - the MIPS R2000 came in at ~115k and the 80286 ~134k anyway - say you want 50% of the transistors for on chip RAM these days, then thats 100 billion / 50 thousand = 2 million ARM 1s clocking at say 3GHz 6e15 M
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by librasteve 25d ago
excellent point
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by librasteve 25d ago
interesting to be reminded that an 8080 (8 bit datapath) took 4,800 transistors an Apple M5 Max is 100,000,000,000 transistors (ok it’s 18 CPU + 40 GPU cores) by comparison so 17 million 8080 equivalents
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by librasteve 27d ago
errr… I think that was his Father
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by librasteve 1mo ago
A nicely framed article that helps to explain emergent theories such as Navier-Stokes.
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Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century(quantamagazine.org)
62 points by librasteve 1mo ago|5 comments
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by librasteve 1mo ago
nice work … would love to have this on my apul watch
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by librasteve 1mo ago
yeah, then NatSemi integrated Ethernet onto a single chip and game over TR
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by librasteve 1mo ago
yeah, Madge was a (UK based) 2nd source of IBM Token Ring kit … MAUs, CAUs and so on iirc much better determinism than Ethernet CSMA/CD

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