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> Honestly it’s hard to refute the fact that we need roads and houses more than we need cat videos. If the software made by my company ceased to exist, every government in the US, …

A gps logger would likely be too heavy. The birds themselves only weigh 12 grams. You can derive latitude from the length of the day. You can derive longitude from the offset of da…

> (I would upload as AV1 but the encoder is slooooooooow.) If you're using libaom, try switching to libsvtav1. It's still slow, but it's slooow instead of slooooooooow.

The Motorola 68000 was roughly an order of magnitude more expensive than the Intel 8086.

I wonder if/when we'll reach the point that it's cheaper to manufacture SRAM (with 6 transistors per bit if I recall correctly) than it is to manufacture DRAM. (with 1 transistor a…

My feeling about JavaScript is statistically speaking, random JavaScript code is more likely to be spaghetti nonsense than, say, the equivalent Python code. This feeling isn't base…

> AV1 software decoding is already very intensive I think you might be misunderestimating how incredible the dav1d AV1 decoder is. Not only does it require less total time than the…

Wikipedia does not say that the Strait is Iranian/Omani territorial waters. Wikipedia says that Iran and Oman claim that the Strait is Iranian/Omani territorial waters. Claiming it…

A lot of people don't understand just how bad the 3d printer ecosystem can be. Most people understand how bad HP/Epson/Canon ink printers can get, but they really need to understan…

"Bambu's software" is forked from an AGPL project and is therefore itself AGPL. I have a right to fork, modify, and use it how I wish subject to the terms of the AGPL. Bambu's TOS …

I like the idea of keeping stuff out of the kernel as much as possible, but in this case, there are good reasons why cryptography has to live in the kernel. We need on disk encrypt…

"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."--IBM training presentation, 1979

Within the past month or so there was a fix for rtx cards that should unlock a massive performance increase for certain games. Only applies to rtx 30xx, 40xx, and 50xx. Search term…

It feels... commercial. I feel like I have to read a EULA and hit I Agree before I can listen to that.

The last time I had a season pass to something, they printed me the equivalent of an employee id badge with my face and name printed on it. The badge was the ticket. How do you res…

Hiding profiles has genuinely made the platform profoundly worse. It's impossible to tell if you've just got a troll on your hands or someone who's making a good faith argument. It…

I was on a jury a few years ago. The defendent was a homeless person with mental health issues. The cop was obviously lying about the one thing that was the core element of the cri…

AirGas prioritizes industrial users, in the case of helium, copper welding. Argon is perfectly good enough for almost all welding purposes, but copper is different because of its h…

My experience is that it's really easy to subtly fuck something up if you're doing a bunch of trig in code. If there's something subtly wrong somewhere, everything seems to work fo…

That's not true. The Bible provides a recourse for unwanted pregnancies in the form of a procedure to perform an abortion. Which is another reason the Bible should be banned from b…

The law pertains to providers of covered application stores or operating system providers. Or, not and. They are not a covered application store, but they are an operating system p…

I have 64GB of RAM and 16GB of swap. Swap is small enough it can't get really out of hand. I have memories from like 20 years ago that even when I had plenty of RAM, and plenty of …

Single pumped AVX512 can still be a lot more effective than double pumped AVX2. AVX512 has 2048 bytes of named registers; AVX2 has 512 bytes. AVX512 uses out of band registers for …

I am not OP and am not speaking for them. "A $30 million mess-up" can look like (at least) two things. It can be $30 million was spent on a project that earned $0 revenue and was u…

Every inside contributor (besides the original author) started as an outside contributor. If the solution to the problem of LLMs is a blanket ban on outside contributors, I fear fo…