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New comment by acuozzo in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

acuozzo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:58:28 +0000

> How are you getting ready?

Finding out how to make the best use of the large amount of DDR3 RAM I have.

Those Chinese C612-based boards for the E5-2696v3, et al. (which support DDR3 and DDR4) seem OK with the custom BIOSen out there.

New comment by acuozzo in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

acuozzo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:38:51 +0000

Acrid is probably the word they were looking for. Wine isn't sour.

It could be that my affinity for port & madeira biases me, but the wine-haters I know have all expressed a strong dislike of what they described as its "acidity".

New comment by acuozzo in "Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)"

acuozzo — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:02:18 +0000

> I don't know how this is related

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

New comment by acuozzo in "Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton"

acuozzo — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:53:02 +0000

> Can someone explain why the old books could really be relevant.

Lots and lots of information is not online. You'd be surprised.

New comment by acuozzo in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

acuozzo — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:35:11 +0000

I noticed this too and thought I was going crazy.

New comment by acuozzo in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

acuozzo — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:15:31 +0000

> Philosophically, what is the difference between empty space and space that will be reclaimed when you need it?

It makes large allocations fail which would have otherwise succeeded.

"When you need it" is a state you can only enter into, AFAICT, when you approach the limit gradually, not abruptly.

New comment by acuozzo in "SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI"

acuozzo — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:27:11 +0000

I'm not a student. I work with SDRs and in latency-critical problem domains at a telecommunications research laboratory.

I'm also not upset. I just want to know which compilers you're using which honor the "register" keyword in C.

New comment by acuozzo in "SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI"

acuozzo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:09:22 +0000

Is it possible you're confusing LLVM with JIT compilation?

Clang targeting LLVM, despite the name, produces binaries compiled 100% ahead-of-time.

The "LLVM" is just the intermediate representation used by the compiler. GCC uses GIMPLE and RTL.

> In C... it is still possible to bake what is placed in "register" a priori

By what mechanism? Even ancient GCC circa 1989 ignored the "register" keyword/storage-class. Automatic register allocation algorithms have been the default for a long time. You have to go back to the K&R days to find a compiler willing to honor it (or find an esoteric compiler like AZTEC C for the 6502).

New comment by acuozzo in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

acuozzo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:58:59 +0000

But DOS 6 was buggy as hell due to DoubleSpace.

New comment by acuozzo in ""Please Remove All Mannered Prose" and Other LLM Incantations"

acuozzo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:26:56 +0000

Just tell it to write in ASD-STE100.

New comment by acuozzo in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

acuozzo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:09:04 +0000

What incentive would it have to stay on Earth?

New comment by acuozzo in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

acuozzo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:39:08 +0000

"Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft's CEO and maintained that position from 2000 until his resignation in 2014."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

New comment by acuozzo in "No country for mediocre mathematicians"

acuozzo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:36:09 +0000

Choose a non-competitive hobby then.

New comment by acuozzo in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

acuozzo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:23:05 +0000

> For a lot of people, "fixing" means adding code to make it work.

What if the fix requires deleting a single line of code?

Is the additive fix to enshroud it in if (0) { } ?

New comment by acuozzo in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

acuozzo — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:23:11 +0000

Just tell it to exclusively write briefly and in ASD-STE100.

New comment by acuozzo in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

acuozzo — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:34:37 +0000

Just figure out how many 7-foot-tall persons you'd have to add to your country to increase the average height by 1 inch.

7 feet = 2.1336 meters 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters

New comment by acuozzo in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

acuozzo — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:55:22 +0000

Can this help tiny models like Qwen3.5-0.8B?

New comment by acuozzo in "Don't be a meat proxy"

acuozzo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:58:38 +0000

I'm not GP, but in research very diverse teams are not uncommon. I'm on a team now in which I'm the embedded software engineer / Android SME and my coworker is the 4G LTE/5G NR SME.

I ask him 4G LTE/5G NR questions all the time. I don't know ahead of time if he'll know the answer, but (1) it'd be a solid bet that he does and (2) it's his responsibility to know it given his role.

New comment by acuozzo in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

acuozzo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:58:11 +0000

> I do not see a "typical" user needing to access a path with say...

Typical users run software written by atypical users.

> some sort of OS-wide single-implementation

How do you propose handling migration? What if someone tries to expand an old archive file containing a now-forbidden path?

New comment by acuozzo in "Claude Sonnet 5"

acuozzo — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:15:00 +0000

> No point in wasting your time with them.

I've been arguing with people online since Usenet was mostly used for discourse instead of piracy. Trust me, I know that there's no point.