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Joel_Mckay
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About Joel_Mckay
"A Generalist knows less and less about more and more until he knows absolutely nothing about everything."
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Comment #49218970
In general, more complex processors have latency issues, and in some ways modern chips have actually become worse with each design iteration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastab…
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Comment #49215328
Don't worry about it =3
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Comment #49212458
%Debt to GDP ratio is not a subject either country likes to focus on. The magnificent 7 formed a large portion of the US growth numbers, but many have legally hidden >$1.6Tn in "AI…
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Comment #49212095
I would never kink shame a persons cognitive dildo, or irrational off-topic cult dogma. Have a wonderful day =3
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Comment #49211923
I suspect if they fail to figure out a way to socialize the losses (they won't), than the identical lost-revenue value will be deducted from nonvoting shareholder 401k investments.…
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Comment #49211643
>about defending big corporations It is not personal opinion, but rather a fact of doing international large business. Sometimes doing "something" means the political posture of ap…
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Comment #49207410
I am sure they will figure something out in whatever jurisdictions they find advantageous. =3
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Comment #49207371
Quod erat demonstrandum =3
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Comment #49207276
A corporation will shift the capital loss to a tax write off like any other firm. The taxpayer just takes a dollar out of their pocket, and pays a dollar in tax revenue short fall.…
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Comment #49203925
I’d recommend the Chenming-Hu books on solar cells and semis available as pdfs on his site. https://www.chu.berkeley.edu/modern-semiconductor-devices-fo... LLMs have already been s…
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Comment #49203005
Practically No, the stack-up of metal layers often hides the gate structures underneath, and the billions of process cells may not all be the same. Theoretically Yes, as an ion-bea…
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Comment #49184238
Cloudflare is famous for IT service rug pulls to get paid back for high traffic loads. Let us not forget they are a business =3
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Comment #49184178
The systems will reflect the cultures communication structure for better or worse. =3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
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Comment #49182878
Google itself now captures a lot of traffic with LLM generated site summaries. For media/news businesses that make their money from readership, it is unsustainable to subsidize Alp…
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Comment #49174134
It is a classic artist starting off point to first drop a red/blue gradient as a base mixing layer, and add skin details/masks for each additional texture layer/feature. The "The U…
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Comment #49173818
stealing: "To take (the property of another) without right or permission." A Trademark is considered intellectual property. It is theft, and Disney could still drop a boot on the i…
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Comment #49172613
Isomorphic plagiarism by definition must steal from experts/creatives, chat/markup users, and or other models. Compaction and dynamic granularity encoding only abstract the Micky M…
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Comment #49172317
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Comment #49171674
All skin is slightly translucent, and color/tones forms a gradient across the surface of the skin. Your upper cheeks and forehead are usually slightly reddish, and the chin/neck ar…
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Comment #49171347
Procedural generators are often free if you look around for a bit. https://kuhantilope.gumroad.com/l/ultimate-skin https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/mpfb/ https://github.com/a…
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Comment #49168220
Many are saying July 2027, as in the past these market corrections have correlated with Shrek movie releases. Debt-backed investors have to pay up eventually. =3
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Comment #49167719
That is funny, most youth can't duck their student loan payments, and protest in odd ways like a trust-fund kid. Hired one or two gold-brickers over the years, it is kind of like a…