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by sparky_ 1y ago
Was just thinking the same, this is effectively branch prediction/precalculation.
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by sparky_ 1y ago
Good question. I'm at a 75% win/loss ratio by picking rock every single time. Doesn't appear to be learning in this session, anyway.
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by sparky_ 1y ago
I don't get it - isn't this blatant copyright infringement? Seems like they're just running some kind of cracked Minecraft build with a JVM-in-JS layer or some such trickery?
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by sparky_ 1y ago
I had a lot of love for cPanel back in the 2000s, when the days of shared hosting and self-installed PHP scripts were in their heyday. Nowadays, though, isn't this just a relic of an earlier time? Who/why would use it for anything
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by sparky_ 1y ago
I can appreciate the technical aspect of a translation layer, but I struggle to understand the use case for a tool like this. If your data is inherently relational, then you should be using a relational store anyway. And if it isn't, t
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by sparky_ 1y ago
Traffic lights are out across Iberia apparently, better stay home.
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by sparky_ 1y ago
Hello from Portugal. Local news is indeed reporting that power is out across all of Iberia.
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by sparky_ 1y ago
Not a lawyer, but this sure seems to open a legal and ethical can of worms. Image generation models capable of generating this type of content would necessarily need to be trained on the real thing, the possession of which is inarguably ill
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by sparky_ 2y ago
Interestingly, Ireland is not a NATO member, so it's somewhat surprising Russia is poking around there. Although they're still EU, so maybe that's why.
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by sparky_ 2y ago
Man, nothing makes you appreciate EU labour protections like reading the HN comments.
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by sparky_ 2y ago
Potential explanation: https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/silicon-shield-2-0-a-taiwan-...
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by sparky_ 2y ago
Howdy, neighbor! Am also an American expat living in Portugal. We've been living in Lisbon for about a year, and so far I really love it here. People are friendly, the vibe is relaxed, and life is peaceful with a glass of inexpensive w
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by sparky_ 2y ago
This is the best take on the generative AI fad I've yet seen. I wish I could upvote this twice.
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by sparky_ 2y ago
Rather embarrassingly, these chips are actually produced by TSMC :-) https://www.pcworld.com/article/2355435/intels-lunar-lake-is...
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by sparky_ 2y ago
Given the audience on HN, I think we can presume any readers of my comment are not trying to execute completely random untrusted binaries. There are legitimate cases when you need to do this to run a binary you trust, but the system doesn&#
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by sparky_ 2y ago
This super unhelpful error is sometimes the result of trying to run an unsigned or developer signed binary on Apple Silicon. Try `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine program.app`, then open it by right clicking on the app, and selecting 'Ope
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by sparky_ 2y ago
I believe the poster means, it isn't allowed by Apple's guidelines, ergo your app will be rejected because of it. Nothing to do with the law itself.
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by sparky_ 2y ago
The difficulty you'll face for mobile is users man-in-the-middling their own device to find your developer's API key, and then making their own POST requests to increment their credit balance. This is why platforms like the App St
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by sparky_ 2y ago
True, although the Fermi Paradox still sort of applies here, e.g., even if the galaxy were teeming with aliens zipping all over the galaxy in their warp-capable spacecraft, the odds of them charting a course right past our fairly uninterest
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by sparky_ 2y ago
Yes, it wasn't a thing in the US, but basically all televisions in Europe had a text mode for this, and it was very popular when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.
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by sparky_ 2y ago
I take it this is mostly useful for compute workloads, neural networks, LLM and the like -- not for actual graphics rendering?
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by sparky_ 4y ago
Can you expand these acronyms for those of us not familiar with the ins and outs of California real estate?
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by sparky_ 4y ago
Well, except that AppLovin is a (non-malware) ad tech company. So I mean, at least there's that. But the play is more consolidation that anything. A large swath of mobile games use Unity, and a large swath of free games monetise using
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by sparky_ 4y ago
It's the largest player in the mobile ad space behind Google. Not a household name perhaps, but a name well known to engineer and biz dev alike, within the mobile space.
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by sparky_ 4y ago
Depressed, scared and yet optimistic over the long (5+ year) term.
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by sparky_ 4y ago
I am really enjoying Canary mail, on macOS/iOS. It's an indie app, but feels super platform native (near Apple experiences), while boasting some nice features like email templates and actually good integrated PGP support (complete
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by sparky_ 5y ago
This presents some interesting thought experiments around digital preservation and emulation. Will there be "software archeologists" in the future, pouring over ancient programming languages and attempting to execute or emulate th
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by sparky_ 5y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Intel has indeed confirmed plans to act as a fab/foundry for other companies [1]. So this new capacity is likely aiming beyond their own chips and ISA. 1: https://www.cnbc.com/2
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by sparky_ 5y ago
What citizenship status do Palestianians have by default, if not Israeli? Given that Israel doesn't recognise Palestine as a state, doesn't that obligate them to confer Israeli citizenship to the residents, as they would otherwise
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by sparky_ 5y ago
Fellow outsider here. Got curious and did some searching; would love to hear from some real Indian folks to confirm or deny this line of reasoning. As non-Indians, it seems we exist outside the system, which could be ambiguously interpreted

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