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I still wish Tile had caught on; einsum is really nice, but sometimes I want a dilated convolution, or a maxpool. (OTOH, I’m not an einsum expert; please feel free to delight me by…

Anyone know how to get mail to join@ssi.inc to not bounce back as spam? :-) (I promise, I'm not a spammer! Looks like a "bulk sender bounce" -- maybe some relay?)

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/01/06/i-have-no-mout... I honestly worry about this - I've been tinkering with ideas to try to build towards AGI, and I'd love to share them…

IMHO, it comes down to the software. It turns out you need very different kernels for good performance on different GPUs, so OpenCL is a nice tool, but not sufficient; you need a h…

Just curious - what was your motivation?

FWIW, Framework also announced a new battery with the same form factor but another 10%-ish capacity. And because the system's amazingly easy to disassemble, if your battery starts …

Neat; thanks for posting this! I just started tinkering with ideas in the same line of thinking a couple weeks ago; it’s good to see that there’s prior art to learn from. I landed …

NB This is even more important in VM scenarios, where second-level address translation means something needs to walk a guest-physical-to-system-physical map for each level of the g…

I worked on the Windows kernel in the early 2000s. I really enjoyed it - I learned a lot about PC hardware, worked with some very smart people, and although a few projects were amb…

Source? It's unclear to me that the military is currently any less effective and efficient than it was in the 90s. In Hollywood films in those days, it was typically portrayed as b…

FWIW - in my experience, if their demands upset you, it’s not going to go well (you’ll get more demands and feel more exhausted); if you laugh at the ridiculousness of the situatio…

Go supports untyped constants -- https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants . It's useful for defining a named constant, and then using the name to initialize variable values of any com…

The dollar is also backed by the legal system (which gives the general populace a mechanism to redefine who owns which dollars, e.g. in case of fraud), and the Federal Reserve (whi…

A close friend of mine made a career out of shepherding drugs through the FDA approval process. They’ve stated multiple times that in their professional experience, every single re…

It was, in hindsight, a lame attempt at a joke, based on Volkswagen's history with skirting emissions controls. More seriously, it's hard to know what all's installed on your phone…

Except the apps are the 3rd-party parts. In your example: Volkswagen imposes quality controls on those parts, making sure they're not going to blow up or subvert the car. As soon a…

American conservatives tend to support freedom of contract and freedom of speech (including dishonest/incomplete speech) - and they consider monetary donations to politicians to be…

More like a UBI. Or extended social security. Socialism's more about the community owning and managing the means of production, and less about just giving people money. You could m…

Except... big companies can use GPLd code for free -- they just have to provide their modifications somewhere, and make it possible for users to replace the GPLd part (which is whe…

So, I'm seeing a lot of dislike for the GPL in these threads. Just curious, as a side question... suppose one really does believe that users should be able to improve and modify th…

Evidence? (My own suspicion is that the lockdowns are better for the economy in the long run, but I’m definitely not an expert.)

A more analogous approach would be to use ALPC; its handle-passing support was inspired by unix domain sockets. Unfortunately, it looks like ALPC never got exposed via Win32. Windo…

It creates a race-to-the-bottom for app stores.

The problem is not that Epic would be able to prevent other stores from being installed. The problem is that if there are multiple app stores, it encourages a race-to-the-bottom fo…

IMHO, that’s a feature, as long as it’s possible for apps to be malicious. I’m a relatively experienced dev, but even I don’t have the tools or time to figure out whether some app …