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The paper linked at the "see also" section ? (thx)

Mapping the abilities of (fixed-function) "stream transformers" to compute is old, much older than "GPU libraries" or render pipelines and all that. I remember the Commodore Amiga …

unfortunately they never are. Brightness-adjusted, that is. Everyone installing lighting fixtures these days believes they must be daylight-level bright. The only ghosts you see ar…

the sad thing, in a way, is that the law entitles the pedestrian here but doesn't protect them. One could make an argument that cars which take the "visual" away from the driver sh…

There probably is an EU derangement syndrome. If it can afflict the English, it can afflict everyone. Maybe the original poster should consider a sightseeing trip to Europe.

Ranking software engineers is famously hard. What does "top 40%" even mean ? Skills/Experiences/Productivity in that sector are not some Gaussian Distribution of trivially-measurab…

These relative figures mean nothing. Your usage of one specific ultra-new model went from one hour a month to seven? congrats to the 600% increase. Your use of a widespread common …

"velocity" is not "frequency"; someone throwing semi-finished products at the wall to see what sticks surely has frequent product launches. But even if these ship fast from incepti…

German 50 Trillion (Marks) _stamps_ from 1923 are (literally) a-dime-a-dozen because postal services had a giant amount of them printed for issue in fall-1923 - just to have the wh…

can't help but wonder if the aggregate of the solar PV subsidies made in the last 25 years are higher or lower than the aggregate of energy price subsidies made when the Ukraine an…

xor'ing the elements of lists together also allows a test of "unordered equality" because 1^2^3^4^5 == (xor of any permutation of [1,2,3,4,5]). Yes there are false positives, and t…

I always thought I had learned to successfully mask as one of my compatriots, but the test ruthlessly exposes me as 80% Autistic / 20% German. The test is broken, if you ask me.

https://docs.rs/tokio-console/latest/tokio_console/ comes to mind. I'm not aware of eBPF-based dynamic instrumentation for either tokio or other async runtimes, but I'm also not (i…

> "... handwavy crap ..." handwavy argument. Yes, in the (sub)tropics the argument is even stronger pro-PV, not the least because it'll give you the opposite of heating - aircon - …

Definitely not a usecase for Starlink. For the microseconds-chasers, there's microwave relay links, say between Chicago and New York (ref e.g. https://bullseye.ac/blog/economics/in…

Air pollution (from smog) in India is already at a "seasonally deadly" level. If you haven't been to India during late autumn, it's hard to imagine how bad it is. Your eyes burn an…

Sometimes, not to do something can be the right (morally, technically, economically, ...) thing to do. You don't always need to present the other cheek to do right. Neither do you …

Except funding is not everything that's needed for long term projects. There are other resources - workforce, supply chain integrity, legal entitlements and approvals, etc, that ar…

Impossible to raid ? It's definitely much easier and much much cheaper to send a single rocket there blowing the assembled rather large target into still sizeable chucks of orbital…

Fighting wars (more than one, in fact) to force a country into permitting unrestricted sale of opioids has historical precedent of course. The victim then was China, which tried to…

A "do not connect to the cloud" physical flip switch on the IoT device is what I want. Where can I sign the petition for that?

Include it and it's still cheaper than, say, nuclear. Also ... even when storage is included, you still gain freedom from opex spending for fuel (that is, lining oily pockets). Onc…

on the m68k, the "cisc-y-ness" is in the many many addressing modes, whereas x86 in that particular aspect of the architecture has always been rather "risc-y" (read: rather limited…

you really believe that were such a "gag order" to exist the current US government never mind its health secretary would have done an "Epstein" about that and upheld it? Truly alie…

A mandate for government orgs including the military to exclusively use "all domestic" suppliers is laudable but also subject to graft and corruption - companies need to compete to…