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It's a vanity item, like a Rolex watch, and its existence is not for actual utility. Utility-wise for the cost, it's not outstanding compared to regular calculators. If you spend e…

This article is only saying that ZFS can mitigate disk data corruption caused by bad RAM, mainly through using checksums, not that it can completely prevent disk data corruption. A…

RPIs have no ECC RAM. Without ECC RAM you can get bitrot in your RAID/ZFS much more easily.

Hanlon's Razor is such an overused meme/trope that it's become meaningless. It's a fallacy to assume that malice is never a form of stupidity/folly. An evil person fails to underst…

You are right that nuclear power tends to have a very long lead time. China has already conveniently installed vast amounts of solar power.

It's fair that Meta does not have to pay the legacy big media racket the protection fee, but unfortunately this hurts the players that were not asking for the protection fee in the…

I tried it for myself. The prompt for the Python was not given, so I skipped it, but I asked in a new session "What is mantra for Saraswati?" An excerpt from the result: ॐ ऐं वाग्द…

Maybe they can develop their own high-tech fabrication technology to catch up, but I wonder how they will manage and accelerate the progress. The West has IP laws to incentivise R&…

What I want to know is whether those 2 photographers, Ron Risman & Eric Gendron, became friends from this extreme coincidence.

But there is no database keeping score reliably on all the nefarious actions. If a lot of companies already behave this way, then the behavior becomes normalized. None of these com…

Outbound traffic from S3 is not free. If the data is emigrating, of course you need some outbound traffic.

That's a rather strong assumption about other state actors, in terms of their current progress, future progress and their ability to attract researchers who get frustrated by the p…

It's not taboo, just politically sensitive and dangerous for Chinese citizens because it can get them in trouble. Some like the Chairman but not all of them do. Today the objection…

From a quick reading of the wiki, the associated methodology seems rather limited: "System complexity, particularly in software systems, making SIL estimation difficult to impossib…

And someone will decide that a 0.0001% probability of an airplane crash caused by a bug is acceptable? Maybe 0.0000001% is more reasonable? In any case, how do you accurately deter…

The "concrete examples" he gave in the "Ongoing transition" section are traditional AI tasks. What about other tasks like program compilation and theorem proving that require more …

For the "Reorder floats + Delta", I wonder if he did anything special to prevent floating-point errors. Floating-point operations (e.g. minus followed by plus) do not necessarily r…

Only if their job depended on it. For some people, their jobs mostly depend on following orders, official policy & "best-practices". The job reward is not directly related to the o…

What are some of the intricacies in the 45-cent chip that makes it hard to produce by a large number of different fabs? In the absence of more details, it seems to me that a cheap,…

In this modified version where the for-loops get converted to do-loops (possibly unsafe/incorrect behavior), unnecessary multiple vpbroadcastd's for ymm1 are still done: https://go…

Here's the github repo: https://github.com/EmaApps/emanote

When I want to be careful about running these setup scripts, especially just for trying out new software, I run them in a docker container to limit whatever damage the scripts can …

He means the blockchain application in TFA is bullshit but the other situation he described regarding hinterland transportation is one that could benefit from a proper decentralize…

Do you have an example of a contrived example and explanation of why it is contrived, for the non-biologist to see why it is contrived? I once tried reading a few chapters of a bio…