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rbanffy

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About rbanffy

Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

email: username at that google mail thing

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    I fancy myself as a decent writer, but I suck at writing documentation. People describe reading my notes frustrating and incomprehensible. I find it much better to use AI to untang…

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    Comment #49220753

    Presidents come and go and, hopefully, this one will be held accountable.

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    We have shorter attention spans now.

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    It’s lovely to think some x86 CPUs have a nice ISA buried under the layers of cruft that form a recent x86 ISA. I still remember the time when mnemonics were 2 or 3 characters. Goo…

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    Let’s not be racist, please. It doesn’t matter if the intelligence is based on carbon or silicon.

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    Comment #49220553

    Or the Reptilians. Or nazis from the centre of the Earth.

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    There’s residual and radioactive heating from the Earth itself that can provide energy for an ecosystem. We expect Jupiter’s moons to provide similar environments because of tidal …

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    > that uses 1/1/1950 as the epoch I guess we can say this is when humankind reached adulthood, became able to drink and got a driver’s license. And a gun.

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    Also, if the finding is never recorded, it can be used to frame just about anyone who can be accused of finding it and smuggling it out of the US.

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    Oh... That's not great - it'd be nice if it had a way to push updates without building a new chip. OTOH, maybe because of this our future cyberdecks will have cartridge ports.

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    My understanding is that the chip carries the neural network itself while the weights are loaded on top, so any model that uses that same network topology should be loadable on dem…

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    Benchmarks are benchmarks. You can base your decisions on them, because good numbers on them will give you good numbers on other related things you do, but nobody who has been in t…

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    Comment #49203503

    Was it that long ago?