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The metaphor sure seems plausible, but why does the whole thing read like a LinkedIn post that was fed to an LLM to farm attention? :(

I may be completely out of line here, but isn't the story on ARM very very different? I vaguely recall the whole point of having stuff like weak atomics being that on x86, those do…

Maybe this is a naive question, but how are "skills" different from just adding a bunch od examples of good/bad behavior into the prompt? As far as I can tell, each skill file is a…

One detail most comments seem to be missing is that the O(1) complexity of get/set in hash tables depends on memory access being O(1). However, if you have a memory system operatin…

Ah, the age old question of "1 horse-sized duck vs. 100 duck-sized horses"...

As others have mentioned, the main problem is that open systems are more vulnerable to low-cost, coordinated external attacks. This is less of an issue with systems where there is …

Two things that I don't see mentioned is that: (a) [Name 2005] is much easier to mentally track if it appears repeatedly in longer text than [5] (at least for me). [5] is just [5].…

Without looking it up or reading the discussion, do you have a general idea how refrigeration works? You don't need to understand any specific technical details. Just the general p…

But the thing is... except for the original authors, none of these papers so far really claim to have a room-temperature superconductor, right? They claim "simulated band structure…

I see a lot of "This must be real, why would labs publish this if they don't think it's real, they have nothing to gain." sentiment on HN lately. Or "Researcher's career would be r…

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy Bit focused on eastern Europe, but has a hiking mode with very good coverage of the official routes (not only in easter…

No disrespect, I use offline Google maps almost daily, but there are far far better offline hiking apps out there. Google will probably work ok for the most popular trails, and I g…

I don't have any scientific data for this, but my anecdotal experience is that the actual damage comes from the way the phones are used, not necessarily the absolute charge count. …

I am really fed up with all the "nobody keeps a phone long enough to make battery replacements useful" arguments around here. Out of the 10+ phones in our family over the last 5-10…

Someone already has :) It's called CXL. Both Intel and AMD are diving head first into it for servers. Apple would just need to support it...

A good reason why memory virtualization has not been "disrupted" yet seems to be fragmentation. Almost all low level code relies on the fact that process memory is continuous, it c…

I'm seeing a ton of "nobody would but a $10.000 Mac Pro when Mac Studio exists" opinions here. But, like... why? Threadripper Pro exists and as far as I can tell, certain industrie…

A 32-core or 64-core Threadripper Pro workstation with a few hundred GB of RAM can easily run north of $10.000 and people buy them. The price is not an issue if the computer is fas…

Wordle is a great name. But strictly speaking, at no point there was `wordle.com` or anything similar. Wordle always lived as a humble page on a larger domain. Which I believe was …

A gentle reminder that every retina MacBook has been shipping with fractional scaling as default for years now (and it's not even 1.5). Sure, you can put it back into 2x if you wan…

Don't forget it's 200k a year whereas the EU salary is 5k per month - still way below, but as op said: once you factor in the cost of living, it starts to make more sense :)