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by pillusmany 3y ago
If you pay with card there will be an electronic trace.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Our power problems today are far away from the theoretical limits you described. But reversible computing is inevitable in quantum computers, so it's researched in that context.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
A bit of survivorship bias in your question. You are comparing the absolute best from 100 years ago with the average peer from today. There were also far far fewer "researchers" back then.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Big software companies create and open source stuff which makes them more productive. Why doesn't this dynamic work in hardware? Wouldn't "valuing hardware" improve their competitiveness?
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Neither has fusion research produced anything for us yet. Should we stop funding it?
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by pillusmany 3y ago
> A reasoning and conscious machine would be just as or more moral than us. There is no rational argument for it to exterminate life. We drove the mega-fauna into extinction without actually planning for that or desiring it. Same thing t
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Shared memory: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-core/objects.html
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by pillusmany 3y ago
You can use just ray.core to do multi process. You can do whatever you want in the workers, I parse JSONs and write to sqlite files.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
"Ray" can share python objects memory between processes. It's also much easier to use than multi processing.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
The "ray" library makes running python code on multi core and clusters very easy.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Quality anti-aliasing is expensive. So you want to allow the implementation to decide how much to spend on it depending on available compute, battery and so on.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Games targetting pre-Pentium PCs also used precomputed trig tables. Pentium was fast enough that it didn't matter as much. Just a few years later it was slower to read a trig precomputed table.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Criminal rights are a different thing. There are tons of commercial rights EU citizens have which don't apply if you are an EU citizen living in US - for example warranty rights.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Not a credible threat. There would be millions of people in the streets if Facebook/Whatsapp/Google were blocked due to EU regulations.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
90s apps used these Windows handle controls and it was not a performance problem. On computers 100 slower than today and with 1000 times less memory. BTW, the current Windows Task Manager still shows the total HANDLE count on the CPU page.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
You literally have an option in WhatsApp do disable loading of audio/image/video.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Pro cameras have a volume problem. Too few are sold. Imagine if Intel only sold 10000 CPUs a year, but the fabs still cost billions of dollars. Do you still think you would have $500 CPUs?
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Tensor cores massively accelerate matrix multiplication with no algorithmic breakthrough. Just by being smart about how you move/cache/reuse values, operations which are considered O(1). There should be an O notation which takes
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by pillusmany 3y ago
What if that person doesn't have the right qualification yet was told to remove the bolt? What if management was notified that the employee doesn't follow procedures yet did nothing?
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Standardized memory chips allows economy of scale to work.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
> It would be odd if our immune system, as had apparently been speculated, became less effective against pathogens that it saw a lot. That actually can happen. It's called "original antigenic sin" or "immunological im
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by pillusmany 3y ago
He said it, but in reverse order: first shortage of electricity, then of transformers - needed by new power plants built to solve the electricity shortage. You can get an estimate of how much new electricity will be needed by the GPUs alrea
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by pillusmany 3y ago
Are the rates of drug dealing the same through?
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by pillusmany 3y ago
He already uses custom parsing. How do you search in the lookup table? If you are thinking of a hash map it will be slower than the few operations of his custom parser.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
According to this logic FOSS projects should not support proprietary OSes like Windows or macOS.
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by pillusmany 3y ago
The only solution to the drug problem is full legalization of all drugs. They should be manufactured by big pharma and sold in grocery stores. No question asked. Poor people should have acess to subsidized prices. We should also invest in e