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Agreed, how could we not have datacenter capacity for the GPUs when Meta has shown that you can go from a bare field to an operational datacenter in about 3 months by using tents i…

It's been quite a while since I first heard about it, but IIRC they were seeding cryptographic PRNGs with entropy from multiple sources, one of which was allegedly this art install…

Ian Banks' Culture series is the only one that comes to mind.

You missed Adelaide's O-Bahn, which is another way to mitigate the "buses get stuck in traffic" problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

That's not countering the argument that steering is what is preventing the bike from falling over rather than the gyroscopic effect of the wheels. You'd have to tie off the handleb…

IIRC if your brokerage reports everything to the IRS properly, you only need to fill out net short- and long-term capital gains on your schedule D rather than specifying every sing…

This is exactly how Toyota's AWD works in the Sienna these days. It gets 35mpg city and highway, 1mpg less than the front wheel drive Sienna (which, to be fair, is also a hybrid)

If your threat model includes someone with a quantum computer intercepting all of your traffic and storing it to decrypt later, you probably don't want to share your keys over a no…

They fought the FBI over unlocking iPhones when they could have just quietly complied with the request. I'd say they have a decent track record.

IIRC backpropagation was a very significant breakthrough on how to update weights when training neural nets.

I want my guests to be able to cast to my TV, add songs to the Spotify queue, etc. As far as I can tell, these sorts of features work via broadcast frames and thus require the rele…

Amazon Fresh also used it in a handful of locations. (and still does) IIRC there are 2 Whole Foods locations that use it as well.

Yeah, I'm going to be honest: I'm a cryptocurrency doomer so I've not followed things super closely, but a quick Google search turned up this article[0] from 2022: >While it is tru…

IIRC people were already converting their data into texture maps and writing their SIMD instructions as shaders operating on those textures before Nvidia released CUDA.

There's a quote that I love: >I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. Nvidia has been working hard(er than their competition) on the softwar…

Is the term you're looking for "cupping", ie the formation of "sun cups"?

Haha yeah, I was being charitable to avoid starting a flamewar ;)

I think that Javascript's massive success with the terrible syntax it used to have goes a long way toward confirming your hypothesis.

So that they can seamlessly upsell you on upgrading to a new phone that you'll pay off in installments over the next couple years. Also, many postpaid plans (like my home ISP) requ…

If you practice bringing a new datacenter online without any connectivity on the existing deployment, and you practice then joining two disjoint "clouds", then you've pretty much c…

Azure has procedures in place to prevent circular dependencies, and regularly exercises them when bringing new regions online. IIRC some of the information about their approach is …

Unfortunately yes. That being said, the hottest loops that would benefit the most from added parallelism tend to have fewer side effects already in my experience so things aren't q…

>foreach will not be replaced behind the scenes into multithreaded version since it changes behaviour. It only (meaningfully) changes behavior if you're both iterating over an oder…

One difference from most other classes of bugs is that threading issues can be quite nondeterministic, which makes it harder to automatically disambiguate between flaky tests and r…

Humans are bad at reasoning about multiple threads simultaneously, so I suspect the more practical shift is the trend we've already been seeing toward more declarative syntax. eg `…