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New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Why wasn’t the steam engine invented earlier? Part III"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:27:23 +0000

Resistor matching is still a thing to this day.

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "TikTok has an open computational chemistry position"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:23:29 +0000

I’ve heard they received some kind of government healthcare grant early on, which requires them to keep providing services under the TikTok name for at least 15 years.

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "TikTok has an open computational chemistry position"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:12:13 +0000

And it was a resounding success! (Not)

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "TikTok has an open computational chemistry position"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:10:29 +0000

People seem to forget that TikTok was originally a pharmaceutical startup…

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "A DRAM Failure"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:21:12 +0000

What does uncorrectable error mean in RAM? I’ve read somewhere that they use Hamming codes for ECC RAM. Isn’t it the case that too many errors (more than floor((d - 1) / 2)) simply result in an incorrect codeword? Or do they know the error locations a priori? (i.e. erasure coding)

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "What influences keyboard input speed (2018)"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:04:22 +0000

Maybe you’re getting slower at the same rate as computers ;-)

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "What influences keyboard input speed (2018)"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:57:20 +0000

Why does debouncing increase latency? Can’t they report the keypress immediately on the first signal spike, and then use the debounce timer to ensure that no additional presses are reported within the debounce interval?

Or are switches generating spurious signal spikes even when left untouched? That would explain why they need to delay the keypress…

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Hosting SQLite databases on any static file hoster (2021)"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:10:47 +0000

>free forever

Like Geocities?

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Tinyphysicsengine: Minimalist 3D C99 single-header physics engine"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:26:23 +0000

What is this comment about?

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "AI language models are struggling to “get” math"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:53:16 +0000

Even if neural networks were fundamentally incompatible with conventional computation, I don't see why you couldn't augment a neural network with a conventional ALU to do the numerical computations. This is exactly what humans do with pencil and paper - it's just a bit too slow.

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Carmack Unscripted"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:02:48 +0000

Funny, but work anniversaries at FB are literally called “Metaversary” after the Meta rebranding.

Also, your colleagues are your “Metamates”. I’m not even kidding.

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:35:55 +0000

I stopped too, after they threw back some of my reports because they were missing some completely unrelated generic diagnostic info (like which MacBook generation was I using, even if the bug was 100% reproducible everywhere), even though I’ve provided them a minimal working example on GitHub, and even the method name of the problematic private API.

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:28:54 +0000

“Oh no! Someone asked something on the Internet that I consider inappropriate!”

You know there are communities/societies where people openly discuss their salary, right?

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:15:53 +0000

How much?

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:11:07 +0000

How about instead fixing any of the hundreds of well-documented bugreports raised by your developers instead?

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Geothermal may beat batteries for energy storage"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:45:37 +0000

Geothermal smartphones when?

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Quiet Quitting"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:19:38 +0000

Step 1: *systematically kill the middle class over a generation*

Step 2: "noooooo, why are these workers not pushing themselves like they used to? are you not believing in our mission statement? but we've introduced Pride Month this year! what else do you want???"

Step 3: ???

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Your browsing behavior is being modeled as a language"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:17:32 +0000

This is not an article. This is a so-called content marketing piece.

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Your browsing behavior is being modeled as a language"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:09:54 +0000

And it’s still mostly shit.

New comment by aaaaaaaaaaab in "Ask HN: Is a MSc in Computer Science worth the time and money?"

aaaaaaaaaaab — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:46:29 +0000

The H1B benefit only applies if you have a Masters from a U.S. university.