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by ralfn 1y ago
But do you think with the profit margins of NVidia, others won't be offering competing chips? Google already has their own for example. From that perspective the notion that NVidia will own this AI future while others such as AMD and I
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by ralfn 1y ago
Because of the vesting milestones the stock price of AMD would go up by such an extent that creating more s hares would not dilute the share price. Obviously, for the stock price to go up money needs to come from somewhere. It makes sense t
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by ralfn 1y ago
I think there are three preconditions that helped brexit happen: - it's much easier to influence politics in English than in Norwegian (or Dutch or Greek, etc.). The language can act as a protective barrier making it obvious which mess
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by ralfn 2y ago
Broadcom is a very hostile and abusive company. That would be the end of Intel chips. Things Broadcom would do: sell you a chip, nerf if after a year and charge you a subscription to unnerf. Look at what they did to VMWare. If you were a VM
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by ralfn 2y ago
Didn't they explicitly acquire the people behind CRDT's. Wasn't it also part of Google Wave?
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by ralfn 2y ago
Conflict free replicated datatypes. It's what used when multiple people edit a Google doc at the same time. But most source control systems are also based upon these datatypes. Most distributed systems will have components that corresp
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by ralfn 2y ago
Bingo
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by ralfn 2y ago
>To me it's pretty clear reason why they've gone after Telegram is the Channels and Groups. Seen from a certain perspective Telegram channels are an alternative to Reddit, and have been popular medium during COVID and the Ukrai
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by ralfn 2y ago
There isn't a fixed number of Linux users. Your economic model for this is misguided. System76 seems to want to sell to engineers, researchers and data scientists. The competition here is a MacBook with the typical Unix ecosystem or a
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by ralfn 2y ago
Why would we be thankful for that? It was meant as an ironic illustration that highlighted some fundamental issue with our theories about quantum states. However irony never survives popularization and it instead it became the opposite in p
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by ralfn 2y ago
Yeah. It's victim blaming. Reminds me of "they should have shouted louder". The confusing thing is the crime itself is small on an individual level. The question is: does it add up cumulatively if a small crime is committed a
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by ralfn 2y ago
I feel like they are announcing that OpenAI is going to be getting worse at answering technical questions. I use OpenAI because StackOverflow answers are just the absolute wrong answer. A combination of gaslighting (you shouldn't be h
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by ralfn 2y ago
>Which was due to MCAS malfunction and pilots responding poorly to it. I think if they are the point where they are murdering whistleblowers than I wouldn't take Boeing gaslighting about who was to blame for that on face value.
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by ralfn 3y ago
>Just link directly to the article. No one wants to be exposed to Reddit comments Humility is a virtue
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by ralfn 3y ago
It has to do with density, not size. I live in the Netherlands. Most major cities and smaller cities has good public transit and walkable centers. Not even Amsterdam has one 1 million inhabitants. The general consensus about urban design su
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by ralfn 3y ago
Most people I know have some kind of chromebook (next to MacBook for work). They bought them in stores. Is this a US thing where your school buys you a laptop?
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by ralfn 3y ago
The consumer market is Windows ecosystem. Without the ecosystem who wants Windows? And what will it do for reputation of the vendor or Microsoft when people can't run their apps. People are already buying non Apple ARM laptops. They ar
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by ralfn 3y ago
I can not fathom the level of incompetence by vendors to want to install Windows on ARM devices. 1. The only reason you make people deal with Windows is backwards compatibility. 2. When you advertise it as a Windows laptop people will expec
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by ralfn 3y ago
>I'm curious what "its own vision" was Making Windows a requirement for the web. Things like ActiveX.
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by ralfn 3y ago
Have you ever seen the d3 javascript visualisation examples? The author has a physics background, so the code ends up being very verbose with lots of comments about simple programming stuff, yet incredibly terse when it comes to heavy mathe
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by ralfn 3y ago
Computers were invented long before they became invented. So that wouldn't be in the last 100 years. However unlike computers, if this idea works, it will get productized quickly.
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by ralfn 3y ago
But that's not the case in the EU. They are more likely to come after Google. And the US government has issues coming after monopolies that are US based and bring a lot of money in (for obvious reasons). If the US starts regulating the
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by ralfn 3y ago
Using laws to tell how a private university should be run based on particular ideology would definately be fascism. You are not arguing in good faith. What if they passed laws trying to do the opposite? Wouldn't that be fascism too?
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by ralfn 3y ago
Sorry I didn't phrase my point well enough. Every sorting on a computer existing in reality is within a limited domain. The general sorting problem is an artificial problem for theoretical computers with infinite memory. It's a ph
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by ralfn 3y ago
I am asking why because it makes no sense to me. The choice makes no sense to me. The reasoning might. You seem to be avoiding answering the question.
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by ralfn 3y ago
Why? This makes no sense. You had the subscription, so I assume you experienced value from it. But you are willing to make a stand and deny yourself that value so other people could share their Netflix. People you don't know. Thats ext
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by ralfn 3y ago
If the thing you have to sort is within a known domain you can definitely beat o(n log(n)). Just expect crazy memory usage. And that's only not the case in theory. But nobody owns a real Turing machine with infinite tape and truly infi
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by ralfn 3y ago
>Personally I think Apple missed a bit in the marketing by positioning this so heavily on average consumer use cases Yeah especially with bringing iOS ecosystem, it means that for (general) developers it's not interesting. If they w
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by ralfn 3y ago
They did specifically mention foveated rendering. Also the 12ms mentioned, wasn't that from camera to screen (so the latency of both the camera sensor added to the latency of the screen) or did i misunderstand? Now that i think about i
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by ralfn 3y ago
Sony's VR headset also has eye tracking. It is a great input, but more importantly: drastically lowers the required computation with foviated rendering, i.e. rendering hires where you look, not everywhere.

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