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Right? "The government" as a whole can't have it both ways. Eliminate older navigation systems because GPS is everywhere, AND run around jamming GPS.

An entire generation of programmers was created in the 1980s from typing code from magazines. OTOH the only way to run it was to first type it in. Today people have too many option…

Does FreeCAD use triangle meshes? CAD is usually NURBS surfaces, which require similar algorithms but on curved surfaces.

>> This is the second ChatGPT shared conversation I've seen today that is truly fascinating. We recently had some bugs fixed in the geometry kernel of solvespace. Not much conversa…

the quality gap between an average hire and top talent ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶i̶r̶e̶c̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶l̶ ̶ is night and day. Fixed that for ya.

I recall reading that the corals can reproduce both sexually and by cloning, with most in nature using cloning. The researchers brought them back to a lab and bred a bunch of them …

>> Going forward, however, I expect the inference market to grow much faster than training costs (and that includes the assumption that training costs will continue to skyrocket), …

>> Everyone repeats the statement DDR5 on-die ECC isn’t a replacement for regular ECC, but nobody ever shows data on DDR5 bitflips. That's because the on-die ECC cannot detect erro…

>> The commits are in my fork if anyone wants them but I can’t imagine why anyone would. This recently happened with solvespace (I am a maintainer). Someone posted a link to a fork…

Yeah Eric Raymond and open source were a bad move. Should have stuck to Free Software - as in GPL license. All that open source stuff was deliberately made corporation-friendly, wh…

Permissive licensing is a large part of the issue TFA is talking about. GPL does not have those issues. All FLOSS suffers from AI ingesting the code and being able to output work-a…

>> Probes trained to predict the outcome of future edits (before they are materialized and written on disk) achieve performance above chance up to roughly 25 steps in advance. Are …

The US military knows full well the importance of logistics. TFA is somehow arguing for distributed distribution networks that are harder to track and attack. Why not advocate for …

>> I do not give a shit if you want to use a 3 year old browser at this point. Go look at a blank screen. And I don't give a shit about your site/content/whatever. If you don't wor…

>> Are there similar size, but less powered (and cheaper) workstations? I designed this: https://github.com/phkahler/mellori_ITX It's 195 x 190 x 60mm and takes a standard ITX boar…

If the ink is refillable due to lack of DRM, why not just buy a commercial printer that supports those cartridges?

But orthogonal matrices are square.

If it can be made orthogonal, can you go a step further and diagonalize it? The storage and performance improvement from that would be huge.

>> This doesn't appear to be AI posturing, did you read the tweet? It is about one product blatantly, directly ripping off another. Then it shouldn't reference AI or Vibe coding.

I think they're out of training data though...

>> I wanna see an inference chip where the weights are part of the rom of the chip. I've been wondering about that for a while now. For a lot of tasks putting weights in ROM is pro…

I was drooling over the MC68000. I had a pre-release reference manual from 1979 and it was the most awesome chip around. Atari and Commodore and Apple used it after their 6502 syst…

>> Scroll wheel mice are slightly better because the middle button is physically different (and often slightly raised). I do have one stored away in case I need it. Solvespace does…

"Gave away for free" does not mean they did so under a Free Software license. One could just put a copyright notice with NO license and they'd be in violation of the copyright.