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Joel_Mckay

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About Joel_Mckay

"A Specialist knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing."

"A Generalist knows less and less about more and more until he knows absolutely nothing about everything."

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    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 #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…