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Quite a lot of web rendering is done with non-integer JS Number types, aka FP64. You are right that there’s a 31-bit integer optimization, but once you have a non-integer in the mi…

Supposedly B2B SaaS companies in YC have been known to enter into agreements to “buy” each others’ products so they can all book more users and revenue despite a single dollar not …

AI is not the only thing in the world. The rendering of this webpage involves a lot of FP64 work.

Literally every workload not named above. It’s the default for a non-integer number. * Web rendering and almost all web apps (see the JS number type) * Most things in a game not do…

What? Pretty much every general-purpose calculation on your computer that isn’t an integer is done with FP64. AI may not use it and games may prefer FP32 for many things, but your …

At least one of those American citizens was the intended target of a drone strike.

I am pretty unconvinced that any of the past explosions of starship used that feature. It’s very convenient to have an “explode” button so you can say all of your rocket detonation…

It does still need CE certification and emissions testing. I’m guessing they didn’t do that and it will be fine because they only sold 2,500 units.

There is square footage on many NYC listings, but it’s wrong. They often have the square footage of the total area occupied by the apartment, including all the interior walls and c…

It is. All over the Arab world, imagery in ads is “backwards” and I believe several companies will flip their ads horizontally, and UI localization involves flipping graphics.

I go to the conference frequently and know the organizing committee. It depends on the year (2025 and 2026 did it, but not 2024). And if someone decides to register arith20xx.org, …

Starlink was an attempt to grab the rural broadband funding that supported that fiber rollout in the US. It was too slow, so the money went to fiber and traditional ISPs instead. F…

Wait until he hears about negative Miller capacitance.

This page reads like someone had ChatGPT write an article about the economy being K-shaped and then had ChatGPT summarize it as bullet points. Somehow that feels more offensive tha…

Yeah, that is correct. Sawmills often produce only one or two grades of wood and don’t do aggressive binning. That’s why the quality is so variable within the grade. There are also…

The threat of breaking all encryption has been a slow-burning $1 trillion or more grift for the field over the last 20-30 years. Not that anything has materialized from it. I am so…

They aren’t “knowingly selling you poor quality” as some sort of scam. They are selling you wood to the spec you asked for. If you want higher-grade wood, you either have to spend …

The ones that use an OS generally use seL4 these days.

I think you might be surprised that Linux is generally not involved in safety-critical systems. There is a whole separate ecosystem for those applications.

Literally any product you send to the consumer can be reverse-engineered at comparatively low cost. The world doesn’t just revolve around server-side software.

This sounds like it is working as intended. The patent comes early in the process to protect all the commercialization investment. Patents are intended to be filed early in the pro…

If a piece of software is in safety-critical applications these days, it is often required to have a proof of correctness.

That business idea is already taken. It’s OnlyFans and it has more revenue than a top 10 company on the US stock market.

I did some baroque harpsichord tuning in my past. Nobody I knew in the field of baroque keyboard tuning had absolute pitch, because it would drive you crazy if you did with all the…

I really doubt it, and I am not surprised that apps didn't work. I also don't think playing a musical instrument actually gives as much insight here as you want - it's a very indir…