phkahler

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by phkahler 9d ago
Would be even better to have a judge declare that they already are illegal.
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by phkahler 9d ago
Ask LG who has agreed to their wiretapping. They can't tell you if some guest in front of a TV has agreed or not. How can that be concent?
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by phkahler 9d ago
IANAL but without concent I think LG is comitting a crime here. The owner who ostensibly agreed to obtain concent through the ToS might be breaking their agreement, but wouldn't that be a separate issue? ToS and other click licenses ha
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by phkahler 11d ago
China destroyed a sat with a laser years ago. Not disabled - destroyed. It created a bunch of debris.
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by phkahler 11d ago
>> Somehow I doubt that after a war with China, satellites would be high on the priority list of things that need rebuilding. If GPS goes down, most of our communications will go down. A lot of other stuff falls from there. I suspect
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by phkahler 11d ago
>> People have to do that. Companies can train people too.
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by phkahler 12d ago
Knuth wrote TAOCP.
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by phkahler 13d ago
>> Eventually the system eats itself. Can it please finish itself before it eats the table, chairs, and dishes?
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by phkahler 19d ago
>> Similar formulas exist for moments, to compute the inertia matrix for a rigid body. Fun fact. The inertia for any rigid body can be represented by 4 point masses forming a tetrahedron. If you diagonalize the inertia matrix, the coo
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by phkahler 19d ago
Better still, you calculate the signed volume of the the tetrahedron formed by the triangle and the origin (4th vertex).
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by phkahler 22d ago
Higher bit-depth 10,12,16, float.
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by phkahler 23d ago
Yeah like why is Blackstone named and not the actual company? Clickbait.
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by phkahler 28d ago
@yassa How long did this take?
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by phkahler 1mo ago
>> The yuan will never become a reserve currency as long as China maintain tight currency controls around importing and exporting it. It's very difficult to (legally) send CNY out or China. Did you read the article? It seems that
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by phkahler 1mo ago
I dont think its exponential innovation. Rapid incremental innovation is happening very fast with some occasional bigger bumps.
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by phkahler 1mo ago
The separation is not total but its more than used to exist.
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by phkahler 1mo ago
Right? "The government" as a whole can't have it both ways. Eliminate older navigation systems because GPS is everywhere, AND run around jamming GPS.
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by phkahler 1mo ago
An entire generation of programmers was created in the 1980s from typing code from magazines. OTOH the only way to run it was to first type it in. Today people have too many options to be bothered I suppose.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
Does FreeCAD use triangle meshes? CAD is usually NURBS surfaces, which require similar algorithms but on curved surfaces.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> This is the second ChatGPT shared conversation I've seen today that is truly fascinating. We recently had some bugs fixed in the geometry kernel of solvespace. Not much conversation, but the analysis from the AI was amazing:
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by phkahler 2mo ago
the quality gap between an average hire and top talent ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶i̶r̶e̶c̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶l̶ ̶ is night and day. Fixed that for ya.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
I recall reading that the corals can reproduce both sexually and by cloning, with most in nature using cloning. The researchers brought them back to a lab and bred a bunch of them and found a lot of offspring could thrive in the warmer more
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> Going forward, however, I expect the inference market to grow much faster than training costs (and that includes the assumption that training costs will continue to skyrocket), which means they really can make it up in volume. But
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> Everyone repeats the statement DDR5 on-die ECC isn’t a replacement for regular ECC, but nobody ever shows data on DDR5 bitflips. That's because the on-die ECC cannot detect errors in the transmission of data from the DIMMs to
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> The commits are in my fork if anyone wants them but I can’t imagine why anyone would. This recently happened with solvespace (I am a maintainer). Someone posted a link to a fork with a bunch of goodies added. I think they just had
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by phkahler 2mo ago
Yeah Eric Raymond and open source were a bad move. Should have stuck to Free Software - as in GPL license. All that open source stuff was deliberately made corporation-friendly, which is not what's in the best interest of the code.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
Permissive licensing is a large part of the issue TFA is talking about. GPL does not have those issues. All FLOSS suffers from AI ingesting the code and being able to output work-alike programs to some extent, but for now large GPL programs
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> Probes trained to predict the outcome of future edits (before they are materialized and written on disk) achieve performance above chance up to roughly 25 steps in advance. Are these probes effectively run in parallel? The way this
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by phkahler 2mo ago
The US military knows full well the importance of logistics. TFA is somehow arguing for distributed distribution networks that are harder to track and attack. Why not advocate for improved defenses along the supply lines? Or is it down to p
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> I do not give a shit if you want to use a 3 year old browser at this point. Go look at a blank screen. And I don't give a shit about your site/content/whatever. If you don't work with Firefox or my old Mac brows

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