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by povik 2mo ago
If a model demonstrates being good by winning on prediction markets I may want to ask the same model questions which are too niche to have markets. That said I don't know if niche questions are enough of a revenue stream to be interest
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by povik 4y ago
Hi, I wrote the Linux kernel drivers for speaker output on the new ARM64 Macs, so I can shed some light on this. > I wonder how they model the energy output of the speakers. Simple. The speaker codecs (special made for Apple, but e.g. co
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by povik 4y ago
> When the next Apple chip comes out, it's back to square one. It's entirely Apple's fault. That's simply not true. Source: wrote a couple of drivers for M1 (now upstreamed in mainline Linux) that work without a sing
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by povik 4y ago
Yes, exceptions should be written into the law in the first place. I assume the government is very comfortable with getting to draw the line themselves.
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by povik 5y ago
I happen to come from that part of the world where something radically different has been tried out, and will also tell you capitalism is good (considering the alternatives).
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by povik 5y ago
Technical nit: if average is 48 hours, median cannot possibly be higher than 96 hours.
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by povik 5y ago
How are you so sure? Is the environmental impact of the pet rocket program of his really so significant?
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by povik 5y ago
Also at top of the list: “We care about your privacy” (and not that we are required by law to give you these options that follow)
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by povik 5y ago
> It seems to me this is simply a statement that an electron is a fermion not a boson, right? Not really, that's a property of any quantum particle, bosons also. They don't occupy a single point in space like you would imagine
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by povik 5y ago
> I don't really understand the physics of why electrons don't collapse into the positive nucleus, since positives and negatives should attract My (student of physics) answer to that would be that they are pretty much collapsed
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by povik 5y ago
Although you can use a lot of latex commands to enter math, which is useful when you are starting with texmacs after exposure to latex
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by povik 5y ago
Why would the commentators have a stake in the matter?
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by povik 5y ago
Does anyone have a link perhaps to an archived mirror?
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by povik 5y ago
> ...as they continue to build a dystopian new world order where only they control everything you can do with your own hardware Well, the new M1 computers have a built-in ability to run third-party OSes. It is not an oversight but rather
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by povik 5y ago
Well now write that with E-Prime
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by povik 5y ago
Don't they, really? I was under the impression that they do implement OS-level sandboxing and the ban on JIT/arbitrary execute is another level of security.
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by povik 5y ago
Regarding the FTL acronym: "To hide the complexity of SSD internals, the controller usually contains a piece of software called an FTL (Flash Translation Layer); the FTL provides the host with a simple block interface and manages all t
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by povik 5y ago
> The psychological boost of everyone wearing their own lovely little custom masks together was really cool and bonding. They were the last connection to the early successful response to covid, when they were deprecated it seemed to be a
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by povik 5y ago
I seem to remember the authors being Czech. This is also suggested by the fact that the Czech website is different from other language variations and gives a Prague address for mail orders. Maybe the developers are in Prague and sales go th
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by povik 5y ago
From what I read on this it is surprising to me that the Russian involvement has not been uncovered earlier. The two operatives were official visitors to the warehouse at around the time of the incident. Scans of their fake passports have b
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by povik 5y ago
> Then all of a sudden you have a situation where a living sentient being is paired to an iPhone like some sort of bluetooth speaker. I think you put your finger on why that part was unsettling.
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by povik 5y ago
“saneyaml” would not make for bad PR
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by povik 5y ago
The question is about design of chips, not manufacturing. That is quite the difference in the market that has developed.
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by povik 6y ago
To nitpick here: You need less than kilogram of electrons to screen a kilogram of protons (roughly 2 grams it seems)
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by povik 6y ago
I remember reading that answer and having greater confidence in the language's designers as a result.
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by povik 6y ago
No, you are not putting it another way. Achievement is not “exploiting those lesser than themselves”.
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by povik 6y ago
> But to think that we know anything about anything is frankly pure arrogance. It would be arrogant to conflate a model and the subject being modeled, but we have some pretty successful models for physical reality, and you won't bri
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by povik 6y ago
Well it's marketing but a descriptive one, so I am okay with playing along.
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by povik 6y ago
But then again there is a mechanism already, just not cryptographic, and that is police having to physically seize your device. I guess we don't need to work on this. There's nothing special about an E2E communication device compa
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by povik 6y ago
I would especially like to see a cryptographic mechanism enforcing such middle ground. That is, a mechanism that would allow law enforcement accessing the private key or plain text, but only with some inescapable side effect which would hin

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