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One interesting thing with wider addresses isn't necessarily increasing itself, but features built upon the expansion. CHERI is one example of that.

"If the database size is smaller than the mmap_size, the entire database is mapped into memory, turning disk reads into simple pointer arithmetic." hah so that's how it works?

If it's on the house (and they can probably turn up the token speed) why use anything other than the most powerful models?

The same thing is happening in software, I see the ladder pulled up and don't feel vulnerable as senior staff. If anything, we face a massive and increasing competency crisis in co…

The GPT ones are strange. The $25 fable one to me is subjectively better than the others. The $100 fable one is too literal and robotic. The jevons paradox is you need auteurs to c…

This is silly or just AI slop post? Because using a Go quote as an example of doing something right in the arena is laughable at best where it has the same problems, more magic, an…

It's chronoception effect, not placebo effect. Standard literature claims humans can readily visually perceive 60-90Hz, and perhaps somewhere 500-1000Hz for ghosting. Note that all…

More like AI psychosis 2040. There is zero chance of the 2031 doomer timeline presented, and I would stake a large sum of money on it.

This sounds somewhat similar to IBM's Centaur used on the POWER9/10/11. Some of the POWER9 hardware people ended up at Meta so might be related.

Those two companies spend all their effort patting themselves on the back about "peer reviewed studies" and posturing immeasurables like security theatre and "trust and safety". It…

Grok build already punched above its weight and is the nicest TUI, claude and codex are clearly vibecoded by web developers that don't understand systems (eating SSDs, spaghetti lo…

I hear a thread of envy throughout that is basically "why isn't my magic money machine as hyped as their magic money machine"

Sure, humans are attracted to laziness by default and at its best technology must be used to lower toil and suffering (unfortunately there are unintended consequences etc for philo…

I came into the US tech industry in 2011 from a CS program (programming on my own longer), which was basically a pipeline into Java or web dev at that time (the classes on other th…

This hasn't been true for quite a long time, because it's domain of other products for both. i.e. MySQL/Maria's MM is one of the worse options compared to anything else.. like TiDB…

Versus letting a singular entity snoop everything? If you actually open a connection to the result what is the difference? The only way to fully deal with all that is an overlay or…

I've never felt this. Most large services run or delegate to anycast DNS services. If you have knowledge of TCP, you know you will occasionally get stalls much greater than that be…

Maybe.. and "a few" was pulled out of thin air, but these machines were national treasures with immense R&D expense. Think rockets, heavy aircraft, and lithography.. not commoditie…

Scroll down the list and look how many there are and where they were manufactured. Economic efficiency would mean only a few vendors.

I think a national security argument is much more sound than an economic one, although costs are externalized in a way that isn't obvious, i.e. ecological disaster that shipping ev…

I always just set up root recursors at my home and other locations. I've never noticed any downside.

Just keep hitting it with RICO lawsuits. The money they piss away on the vanity projects should probably have always been going to risk management.

They carry $575m in debt, which is around 80-100 devs a year if they are paying something like 4.5% on it, ignoring tax write-offs on either case as well as equity comp. There is s…

I think it's just the relative cost of money. Credit, debt, raises, revenue all rely on it. The tech industry got used to zero interest rate and then Covid-era stimulus. Now, sudde…

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