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So the longest time, would be around 2009 with CUDA 2.1.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-21-january-2009

> C++ templates are now supported in CUDA kernels

Or maybe 2010 with CUDA 3.0, to make up for your C++ classes.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-30-downloads

> C++ Class Inheritance and Template Inheritance support for increased programmer productivity

Let me check the date, I think we are in 2020, so if my math doesn't betray me, it looks like about 10 years to me.

From where I am standing, I am pretty sure you never used CUDA.
The JPEG images in the article are much worse than what you can achieve with JPEG export in Preview.app. While they don't look like AVIF, they aren't nearly as trash as the article makes JPEG's out to be.
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There's a lot of good ones mentioned here. But I learned PHP in half a day, coming from a C background. JavaScript took several weeks, mostly because I had to unlearn C syntax. Java took a month, on the job, but it wasn't too bad. So I'd actually recommend against spending time on PHP, unless it's something like Laravel.
I dunno, makes sense to me. Your idea is worthless to ones self (monetary) if you do not leverage/execute it.
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Thanks for the clarification, very well explained ;)
Web safe colors are completely useless for graphics. Really poor choice of colors.

256 is far too many to pick from :) People do their best work when they are under severe constraints. I would recommend a palette that was put together manually without algorithms because someone made sure that colors actually fit well together. My go to source for such project is this site: https://lospec.com/palette-list/
This is a great read .....

We hear a lot about smart Allied code breakers breaking German and Japanese code - anyone know what the Allies' codes were like? were they broken?
See a recent albeit heated discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22500063
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In the United States there's a lot of denialism right now.

People here are trying to find any reason that they can point to about other countries to indicate that the drastic measures that they've taken aren't necessary here.

That the hospitals being pushed to the breaking point won't happen here.

I wasn't sure if that's what cjbprime was going for (and it wasn't!), but I thought I'd respond to that sentiment just in case. I think it's important that more people here (specifically in the United States) consider the possibility that we'll be in a similar situation as Italy in a few weeks.
I live in Seattle, so I’ve been following the WA outbreak with particular fervor.

What is utterly batshit insane to me is that as of YESTERDAY, the nursing home with almost every death in the USA STILL didn’t have enough testing kits to test the 63 residents left, nevermind the dozens of staff. They received 45 test kits. Total. This is AFTER Mike Pence visited the state and assured everyone that “millions” of kits were available.

I am extremely angry about the way Trump and his cronies have fucked up the most basic level of competency required here.

People dying and people needing to be tested should not be a political issue. We should not have to worry if we make his “numbers look bad” to get basic help with a pandemic.

Seattle is a fucking ghost town. Basic competency at governance would have mitigated this. I am enraged at the level of incompetence the current administration has displayed.
As the EU is mostly only its parts and everyone now in alert, I highly doubt it. Everyone is keeping their medical items to themselves now, because there is not even sufficient for their own country. EU will mostly be talk.
Which there are few in circulation, thanks to vaccines among other reasons (which lower effective transmission rate), so most people haven't really experienced it working. Somebody mentioned noroviruses the other day as probably the closest relevant thing people may have experienced - let someone with one loose on a cruise ship, and shit literally hits the fan very fast.
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It is fantastic for cleaning your chain before applying proper chain oil.
It is easy to take some shitty token like GirderCoin and criticize it, but what about tether and other stablecoins? Those are centrally issued tokens that seem to have demand and userbase.

"But until that happens, tokenization of assets seems likely to remain the province of professionals, and “be your own bank” merely a lovely dream."

Well, everyone can hold these tokens and "be their own bank" already with bitcoin and stablecoins, however just not that many might want it. To me it looks like the author is mixing up the technology and business demand. The token technology seems to work robustly, there have been some somewhat successful tokens issued (stablecoins). Still everything is quite miniscule compared to mainstream economy. Whether tokens will be significant technology remains to be seen.
Ikea is NOT selling mattresses at $50 above what other places charge. Compare materials, coil count, thickness, etc. -- plus return policy. Ikea mattresses are a huge bargain compared to similar mattresses from any major brand such as Sealy, Serta, etc. Can't speak to the online mattress sellers.
X.509 has supported this for a long time and so have browsers, iirc Chrome restricted some French CA to specific domains at one point.

The issue here is not so much technical as cultural. Mozilla employees don't know or care about people from Kazakhstan and didn't prioritise finding ways to reduce the disruption.
Yeah, Bayesian is a true model you can chop and change the viewpoint. It's much more sophisticated.
Who said anything about a phone? Prepaid SIM cards are free, top one up with £5 and you're good to go.
Many banks certainly don't tend to act like it is the people's money.
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Calls to not panic are worse that useless. They are dangerous, extremely dangerous now. They lead to complacency and they will lead to death.
> I partly think the problem is political. If you quarantine and the virus is controlled, then it looks like you panicked over nothing, because you took this huge reaction and nothing much happened.

I think this is exactly what's happening. It's an extension of the way individuals feel -- no one wants to be seen preparing too early, because people might think they're silly.
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No need for that. You can buy xylitol (a sugar alcohol) for a fraction of the price. This isn't metabolized either. As with similar substances, using too much induces an osmotic effect with predictable consequences.
I also work for one such organization.
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Consider that there are two sides to this: Stripe and Finix. Due dilligence on Finix may well have been solid enough in isolation, but have unveiled things that requires non-public information about Stripe that few people were privy to before someone could connect the dots.

Or someone seriously dropped the ball, of course - it happens.
Source for your comment that Ikea uses "cheapest possible foams"?
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It can and should be done by the military first because of less red tape involving civillian reactors. If it workd for the military it will also work for civillian operations. One just needs to modularise the reactors and their safety systems and be able to build a scalable solution with up to two dozen modules.

NuScale Power is on a similar path to deliver a working modular reactor by 2025. It uses 65x9 ft, 60 MWe modules. Not quite container sized but still transportable by bardge, train or truck.
What makes you assume that the economic output of these old people, on total, is negative? They might be holding/running investments, collected massive knowledge along their careers or have enough savings and are making money for the private healthcare system.

If they go away, we might lose on the knowledge or their investments might stop working and the new youth might not manage it any better. So a total loss of society.
Sure a pki could help Signal. Carriers are the ultimate arbiters of who owns a phone number and have direct access to the hardware that checks that ownership. For many people they also do ID verification. Carriers could provision phones with certificates and that would decentralise the Signal key database enormously.
And you have millions without basic access to healthcare, meaning they will go around untreated passing the virus along to their fellow citizens.
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Dip your ink in Microsoft hate and blame them for something completely unrelated to them: check.
"metabolic dysfunction, coupled with reduced central sensitivity to sweet taste, occurs when an LCS is repeatedly consumed with, but not without, a carbohydrate"

https://www.genengnews.com/news/metabolism-and-glucose-sensi...
I knew the founder of this one in high school.
To be fair they'd be incentiviced not to... assuming they understand the exponential nature of the money, which I guess they don't. But as soon as they do learn they won't want to explain.
Because at the beginning, a logistic curve is often confused with exponential growth. There are very few truly exponential processes in the nature. All things come to an end. Epidemics, population growth, economic growth... no such thing as exponential growth with limited resources.
I'm currently using Fiery Feeds on iOS, mostly because it supports NextCloud News very well (for me it's the most important feature).

It's also very well designed, switches to "Reading Mode" automatically (if you choose) and lets you switch to to Excerpt/HTML views when Reading Mode is ineffective.
> Maybe they'll pay their bees better. They'll hire them outright and give them bee benefits instead of having them work as 1099 labor. That'll win a bunch of hearts and minds. "Oh, it's better for the bees, so now we only buy our honey from Willy".

I always ask to be 1099 labor, and I'm always told "absolutely not. It'll never happen; completely unacceptable".

Where does this delusion come from that W2 status is a good thing that workers want to have and employers want to withhold? Where are these W2-withholding employers?
As someone in the UK, it seems insane that cutting off domestic water is even allowed. It's considered a basic right, and even during droughts, the water companies have to supply a basic level to everyone. (https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/water/water-suppl...)

You can cut off water to commercial premises for non payment, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
This may be relevant: there's a recent (3rd March) hypothesis due to Rami Sommerstein from Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital [0] that ACE inhibitors are a potential risk factor for fatal Covid-19 in those patients taking ACE inhibitors for hypertension/diabetes/cardiovascular disease:

>The largest Chinese study with 44,672 confirmed cases of Covid-19 shows a high overall case fatality rate (CFR) of 2.3% [2]. Important co-morbidities are hypertension (CFR 6.0%), diabetes (CFR 7.3%), cardiovascular disease (CFR 10.5%) and age >70 (CFR 10.2%) [2]. Similar co-morbidities were noted for the SARS outbreak in 2003.

> ...

>On the one hand, it has been shown that the Covid-19 agent (also known as SARS-CoV-2), uses the SARS-COV receptor angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) 2 for entry into target cells [4]. The interface between ACE2 and the viral spike protein SARS-S has been elucidated and the efficiency of ACE2 usage was found to be a key determinant of SARS-CoV transmissibility [4].

>

>On the other hand, it could be shown in animal experiments that both the ACE-inhibitor lisinopril and the angiotensin-receptor blocker losartan can significantly increase mRNA expression of cardiac ACE2 (5-fold and 3-fold, respectively) [5]. Further, losartan also significantly increases cardiac ACE2 activity [5].

Edit: thank you philipn for your twitter link.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m810/rr-2
Your first statement looks like it should be logical, but when read for soundness, the consequent ("[then] I think you might...") makes absolutely no sense following the antecedent ("if you think..."). I only mentioned nuclear weapons to try to really emphasize to you that a technology's existence is enough to cause fear in people and communities, which does have real world consequences. But I don't think you care about that.

Anyway, I work at one of those companies. You know what they have? Ways to let users opt out (ex: ROBOTS.txt), ways to ensure they're not DOSing people when scraping (which uses material resources: compute time, spindles, electricity, etc), ways to track the copyright of the source material (which belongs to the author, usually), and ways to respond to second-party requests (legal and non-legal notices) who want to know how much of their data has been scraped or exercise their rights over their material. These technological features are because this is what human societies have found to be a decent balance between scrapers' rights and internet users' rights. Your solution lacks this due consideration and gives internet users a giant middle finger.

In your last paragraph it is pretty clear you are doing this because of some ill-conceived "ethical" notion that "because HTTP responded with this payload, it is now mine with an 'ethical license' to do anything". There are other ways to point out security flaws in ActivityPub that are way more constructive and less asshole-ish, but it seems you're pretty keen to erase a lot of moral and legal nuance to prove "because I have a technological capability means I have the moral ought and the legal right". Sorry, but no: the world is a lot more complex than this.

Just because I have the technological capability to transmit the message "you're being a dick" from the comfort of my home doesn't automatically mean it would be ethical for me to, so of course I am not going to tell you "you're being a dick", and normally I wouldn't type this sentence at all but in this special case I am because it shouldn't be a problem with your ethical system since I'm not actually saying it despite having the technological capability, so it should have no impact on you (and if it did, it should give you pause to reconsider that maybe you need to do more self-reflection on discovering your actual reasons for doing this ill-advised project).
> You don't need to be a genius to run a multiplication of two arrays on a GPU.

You don't need to be a genius, but you need to know a lot about low-level stuff. "Simple" matrix-vector multiplication is a task where quirks of hardware already make quirks of the language fade in comparison. You need to find out how to split your task into blocks to minimize access to global memory, you need to manage your shared memory, etc, etc. _Somewhat_ performant matrix-vector multiplication algorithm looks nowhere close to textbook definition because of this. So sticking Java or whatever popular language on the problem is not going to make it much more accessible, as you still need very specific knowledge to not waste electricity by writing an algorithm that is 5-10 times slower than it should be, because all it does is waiting for global memory.
Your link is mixing up the two molecules by calling PFAS "The Teflon chemical". "Teflon", the non-stick final product, is PTFE with a very strong fluorine chemical bond and no chance of reacting with the human body at normal temperatures (That's why nothing manages to stick to it, basically). PFAS were used by DuPont in the manufacture of Teflon (and recklessly dumped into the environment).

PFAS are an ecological disaster; Teflon itself is not a concern.
Freedom is not free, self rule requires some people to actually sacrifice their careers to be in the political process rather than handing it over to student body president level nincompoops, ass kissers and sociopaths. The local government is shit with the homeless problem. The Federal government is shit because the then candidate told you he could kill somebody on Fifth Avenue with no consequence. So it's well established that people are okay with some citizens dying for nothing. What's so surprising or worthy of anger here, today?
Only each of th individual components (reactor vessel, turbine unit, pump unit) has to be container sized so they can be easily transportable and assembled on site. Small reactors fit in a SSBN so why not? Why fully rely on a pump if one can use natural circulation for emergency cooling? Hasn't Fukushima taught us anything?

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
Had one end of March. Booked well before COVID-19 was a thing, paid for before it was in Europe. Already cancelled, now we're fighting with the travel agency to waive the cancellation fee.
Very nice, thank you!

I reply with my humble contribution, based mainly on John Hopkins' data. I tried to understand if the effect of restrictions is already visible (I hope it will... since I live in Milan), thus I fitted an exponential on the data from the week before March 1 (when the initial mild restrictions started) and compared with the actual growth.

https://www.kaggle.com/mattiamonga/covid19

The model is quite simplistic, but the decrease seems real. Let's hope a bigger one will happen in the next days.
You can, if you have the stomach to face occasional big losses.
Python and JS are a good combo, don't mind learning two languages at the same time.
They ought to be able to exit cleanly in time... that's what hibernation is for.
Right, but doesn’t it suspend when you’re away? DPMS should be at least an order of magnitude less, if not two.
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>But they have no reason to rush and use themselves as the guinea pig if they can offload that risk onto literally anyone else.

Not only that, Amazon would be literally paid by others to take over Amazon's own risk. This is such a nice play all around, they just need to manage not screwing it up somehow. But execution never was a weakness for Amazon imo, so I bet it will mostly go smoothly.
You know you have the bad guy. He knows he's bad. But the system is going to let him get away. He's not a child pornographer but you and I both know we don't put other people away the way we did Al Capone. He knows he's the bad guy and he laughs in my face just because some lawyer will get him off. I'm the good guy, man. If I let this guy off who knows how many lives he'll ruin.

Society is peaceful because rough men stand ready to do violence in the night in its name. They can judge me, but I did the right thing.

Plant the drive, Dave.
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Even for things like regular expressions checking for equality can cost exponential time. Whether something is exponential or undecidable is pretty much irrelevant if you want to run the algorithm as part of compilation.
Oh man. Page 11, form asks for "Prison Identification #", handwritten answer is "Slave #79471054". Page 12, defendants are Attorney General, DOJ, FBI, etc.: "Collectively, "The Federal Terrorists"". Page 13, says "There is no difference between pretrial detention for the legally innocent and federal incarceration for the legally guilty; pretrial detention is actually federal prison and is used to punish and coerce the innocent into pleading guilty—The government has legislated, through pretrial detention, that those who have not been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt can be sentenced to indefinite incarceration." He may have a point there. Page 15: "Current conditions of confinement are similar to conditions imposed under Nazi Germany by the SS and Gestapo to torture political prisoners with psychological punishment to inflict permanent damage including death." Well, let's not mince words here. Page 16 says "Total loss of income: $50,000,347,000".

Grievances on page 16 include: "Exposure to 24/7 bright lights that cannot be turned off constitute torture and violate the 8th amendment". Page 20 (now it's typed rather than handwritten) says "No heat or A/C in cage" and "There was no heat in the building for a month from Thanksgiving to Christmas; resulted in sub 30s and formation of ice in the cell", and "Cells infested with rodents", and mentions sleep deprivation including the bright lights and "Every few hours at night COs come by with bright flash light to wake up plaintiff". Page 23 says "The United Nations considers 15 days of solitary confinement as torture—the plaintiff has spent 3 months and counting in solitary confinement, with no end date in sight". Page 23 also claims "Plaintiff is subjected to harsher conditions under "pretrial detention" than ALL convicted prisoners serving sentences under the BOP".

Some of his complaints seem trollish, but others seem serious, and if that's being done to someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime, that seems worrying.
Woops yeah indeed, that was my use-case actually!
It's hard to move browsers permanently if you're not prepared. I moved to FF Quantom for a bit, but had to regularly open Chrome to get passwords etc. And the Chrome assholes removed the password export (or at least I could not for the life of me get it to work at the time)

I ended up going back for a bit and added a password manager, and now I can move between browsers easily - but as I said, it's not always straightforward, especially for _most_ non-tech users.
Italian student here! Now most universities offer remote lessons/exams over the internet (in my case with Microsoft Teams).
One should also consider that good ideas usually come out of having a lot of domain knowledge in a particular area. And that requires effort and work ("execution" but in the past).
I'm supposed to start a short contract there end of March, and I'm considering cancelling. UK seems to be <del>4-6 weeks</del>(EDIT: 2-3 weeks) behind Italy now, and I don't want to get stuck in a different country than the rest of my family, without even an insurance number (apparently, it takes more than a month to acquire one; end of April, I'm betting the country will be in total lockdown).
Pandos ;-)
More complicated and still years away. It's the military we're talking about so little non-proliferation concerns there.
I used to love the idea back in the day of BEA's "LiquidVM" product (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13217_01/wloc/docs10/lvm/overvie...) - not sure what advances there's been made since that (apart from better hardware and newer versions of Java etc)?
>>even if the other side is to blame, we shouldn’t focus on that until we solve the problem?

Exactly! That is what is meant by not letting polarized politics drive the issue. We shouldn't care what 'side' is doing what, we should be focused on preventing an epidemic. Personally, IDGAF about assigning blame to any side, I'd rather that the petty bickering is dropped and effective measures are taken.

I realize the climate in the US isn't conducive to this, but assigning blame doesn't fix anything. Rather than blaming people, effective steps need to be taken. Focusing on assigning blame just puts the other side on the defensive; which is counterproductive to the kind of cooperation that will be needed to effectively respond to this crisis.