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ulterno

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"then" is used to depict time, sequence or a causal relationship. "than" is used with comparative adjectives, to depict comparison.

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • If someone walking by, falls over that, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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  • The incident from xz gives a good example of where self-compiling stuff would be a good idea.The code was mostly fine, but the maintainer managed to include malicious instructions in the binary. Most people who read the source, didn't realise the possibility. I checked it out afterwards and it was still hard to get.

  • JustHTML: Addressing some questions

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  • Tools that are closer to logic, are better for helping with coding. So an expert system is better than a Neural Network for making code helper tools, although its output would be more limited and wouldn't take human language input.

    Using an LLM for this stuff means telling humans to not put the effort into making logic, hence "reducing their cognitive load", but instead using something that takes a lot more energy (as in fuel) to make logic.

    What we are currently calling AI, is a fuzzy system, abstracted onto a logical system. And now we are trying to make that abstracted fuzzy system make another abstraction on top of it, that does logic. This is vs the human brain, which is a fuzzy system made directly out of chemical (and quantum, as some studies would state) processes, just creating a logical system on top of it.

    Each leveI of abstraction has a cost.

    1. If you make an lC with a fixed instruction flow (i.e. it does only a single thing), it won't have to load instructions and will only load data and parameters, which wilI make it much more efficient at that specific process.
    • ln this case, the Ioading of variabIe data and parameters wiII be the sIowest part
    1. Now, you can specify a set of instructions, which are then implemented in hardware. Then, when you load instructions from a variable input (ROM, perhaps) you get to change the instruction flow can be changed on the fIy, but now the Ioaded instructions are an abstraction and are actuaIIy Ioaded parameters.
    • ln this case, loading of instructions becomes as sIow as parameters and then you see preloading/prefetching (and further, branch prediction) to make this part faster

    One nice example of abstractions is interrupts:

    • EarIier you had polIing, which meant that the CPU would have to check the corresponding data Iine every n clocks, determined by the polling rate and this would have to be written by the software programmer.
    • With interrupts, you now have a separate unit doing the poIling (which is much more efficient, because that is the only thing it is made for) and storing any state changes an a buffer, which then, depending upon the type of interrupt, can be taken by the program (which is stiIl polling, but at a much slower rate) and acted upon or may be done using interrupt routines.
    • There is a similar thing you do in case of muItithreaded code. Where if there is a Ioop running in thread A that needs to be interrupted by B. B will change the value of some variable, which can be checked by A. Now if there is a Ianguage that simplifies this interruption process, there will be some runtime that is doing a similar job for you. This will be another level of abstraction, which will require extra effort on runtime.

    One of the heaviest examples of abstraction l can think of, is what is done by the programs that simulate other processors. Things like the tools provided by FPGA manufacturers that let you emulate the logic inside the processor and Mentor tools which even have simulation starting from the user, designing the transistors.These are usually not used anywhere other than cases of testing, debugging, prototyping and the sort.Virtual Machines made for emulation are a bit different from these, but are pretty heavy nonetheless and one won't consider, say emulating a Nintendo 3Ds on a hardware of similar performance for daily use.

  • Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For Seagate Barracuda HDD Taking Down The SATA Bus

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  • It was specifically for ST2000DM008-2FR102 and not all ST2000DM008's.Felt weird from the summary paragraphs, because I have a ST2000DM008 which works perfectly with LPM. I have even tried some manual control a few times.

  • Facts

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  • Yes you can

  • is there any easy Videocutter?

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  • I used it a few times and it seems like a good choice for keyframe cuts.For when you are re-encoding anyway, might as well go with ffmpeg.

  • "phd-level reasoning"

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  • There kinda is

    Yeah, looks like my bio-LLM just lost the context that the last sentence was a question.

    And now closely reading the Logic Breakdown (which I just ignored because it was cut-short), simply states the minimum number of trips to be 1, which is the correct answer after all.

  • A lot, I'd reckon

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  • And then the religious leaders will make fake commandments that lets them get their way and use the hand as an undeniable truth.

  • We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI

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  • Considering that viewers are directly (ok, maybe not so directly) paying them for the content on stuff like Odysee, I'd say, the additional 5 minutes required to log into it and copy-paste the title and description and click on the submit button isn't really much and neither is the ~1 hour they would require to keep the tab open in the background (while doing other stuff themselves) for the upload to finish.

    Might just be that they uploaded a few times and say their YouTube views plummeting, because only those people went there and not many new people came in, which made them reconsider.

  • I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this

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  • Yeah, kinda weir on that one.It is surprising how people can be unreasonable when they are given the ability to.

    Though I can think of conspiracy theories for this behaviour.Guess I should go to jokeconspiracy@lemmy.ca considering how many of these come to my mind.

  • Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims

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  • Well, the server ECC variant is still pretty useful for desktop workloads. Just make sure AMD always supports it in the next generations. If it's still a DIMM, then it can be sold right away.

    GDDR7, again, if the chip has the required pins as in GPUs, then GPU manufacturers can simply buy them, test them for a few hours maybe, and pop them in their lineups with a bit of re-calculation of traces (in case the exact pinout differs). Of course you get some re-soldering damage, but there's not much you can do about it. On the other hand, if the GDDR7 is in GPUs already, most the companies would require is to alter the firmwares a bit and sell refurbished units.

    HBM2. Seems like it is possible to get slottable modules with HBM2. Pretty sure some industrious people in China will find a good use for them. Perhaps with RISC V processors?And the AI specialised units shouldn't be fully useless either. Remember the cancer studies case?It is still useful computing ability that can be used well by those who know how.

  • Facts

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  • About the word, "safe" and how it is contextual.

  • Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims

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  • Maybe they just realised in time about the upcoming RAM price hike and setup both to each other, so that either one becomes an excuse for the other.

  • Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims

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  • Are they using the same ICs in the AI modules as they are in DIMMs?

    If yes, then we can still hope for some level of a 2nd hand market, which may at least manage to be lower than the max at that point.

  • "phd-level reasoning"

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  • Nah, it seems to still fail to recognise that there is no spoon question.

  • I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this

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  • Maybe someone ate it and got food poisoning?

  • Facts

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  • Depends upon what you want to be safe from.

    If you want to be safe from having a flash mob come and beat you up, I'd say, this assumption doesn't really compromise your safety.If you want to be safe from having the wrong assumption, well, you are deep in unsafe territory.

  • chemotherapy mother

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  • Also, images require a hundreds of thousands of characters even when they are not conveying a thousand words.And all of those require energy to be sent to places, unlike what some rando on the internet once said.

  • What Are You

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  • "Son of Adam, Daughter of Eve" logic. snigger.