notTheAuth

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by notTheAuth 5y ago
Pretty sure LESS industrial feedback loop generating behavior is the best climate-change solution. Nuclear power probably seems pretty great to WSJ and capitalist readers who want to own it all, and need the public to be ok with nuclear pow
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
> Decentralization seems to work well for cases … I skipped copying it all because it’s right there; not limiting my reply to that snippet. Yeah information network signal attenuates over longer distances (space and time). The internet c
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
General purpose won as it was realized monolithic chips that did it all were infeasible due to manufacturing technology in the past. Overtime the political story about market winners took over, and technology development became mired in MBA
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
I’m going to rely on the insight of my friends in the chip biz working at Intel and Qualcomm back in the day; generic CPUs “won” as it became aware manufacturing anything different was literally impractical 10+ years ago. The goal of custom
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
Xfinity provides internet while Comcast screws customers Trickle down is a euphemism for peeing on people from the top It’s all obfuscating semantic games to conceal their application of agency, not literally, but cognitively
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
Security will play a huge role in obsoleting software development as a job. Monkeys in chairs papering over generic CPU design is pushing chip makers to consider silicon designed to workload spec; input parameter set, let it go. Chips are n
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
There’s an argument to be made that political austerity causes social segregation and people to die in poverty of preventable problems. Why don’t we set aside the rap battle and Mathematica concerns and focus on well known human society fea
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
Fair doesn’t mean the same. I align with Apple a bit more as they actually do interesting manufacturing R&D; they’re all terrible on the software and privacy side. Google is 3-4 useful websites, cloud software hype, and resource consump
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
How is this different than instigating demand for Lamborghinis and 30 room mansions? Gaming people to do things of nonsense utility is about all humans have to do after basic life supporting logistics. Seems like mining fake objects, while
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
Agreed. Just put your commercials on YT, Twitch, but always link to your wallet; whether it’s Patreon or a tshirt store elsewhere. Decouple. Take advantage of network effects. Model income generation wide and deep. It’s all about extending
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
With different software pipelines they could run right on a GPU It’s all state in a machine, and ML is showing us recursion + memory accomplish a lot; why all the generic structure in x86 if we can prove our substrate works just as well wit
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
Yeah I think that’s a side effect of knowing how the sausage is made. I have written my own ECS loops, rendering pipelines; all naive but after that it’s optimizing to product fit, and product emotional themes are pretty copy-paste to satis
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
“Enthusiast” CPUs seem pointless. My CPU is never above 20% in AAA games as it’s all on the GFX card now. Good to see CPUs going through the great decoupling that software did. IMO Steamdeck is the future of home desktops. Both my kids are
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
Check out bio electrical regeneration research If you haven’t come across it, the teams inject drugs that do nothing to cells but instigate an electrical field effect. What happens is regrowth of a limb to the correct “spec” even though tha
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
It’s been known for a while that human communication is the real impediment to technical development. Companies I’ve worked at that sucked had awful internal communication. It was all very friendly, but it was all platitudes and euphemisms,
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
So only after it’s precedent and harder to undo then does it matter? This is basically saying there’s no point in testing software, ship every line to prod and see what happens. This is exactly the kind of political ennui the system purpose
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by notTheAuth 5y ago
The author covers your perspective: > But, that’s only because you are a noob and you don’t deal with the things that I have deal with. > Someone on the internet In conclusion: not all software problems require the same implementation