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Where did you get that quote from (2nd paragraph)? I can't find it in the three articles on horse nomads.

WRT your last point, I didn't read the conclusion to say that GRRM maliciously cause harm, but through his incomplete knowledge of history and his assertion that the culture he portrayed was historically accurate was causing harm. He simply noted the deficiencies of GRRM, and the resulting consequences of such.

And to the point that you've brought up about a difference between this article and the last 2, I would counter to say that all three have had the same conclusion, that GRRM has been inaccurate with the portrayal of horse-bourne nomads, only here he has laid out the consequences that it entails. If you're fine with the predicate but have issue with the conclusion, I would suggest you make a counter to his argument, otherwise it would appear to be in bad faith to lambast his conclusion yet agree with his predicate and have no word on his argument.
> The frontend decoder hasn't been a frequent bottleneck in Intel cores for a long time and they could scale it up more aggressively if they wanted.

This isn't grounded in any facts. Decoding the variable length x86 ISA costs you exponentially in decoding width, both power and area. You can scale it, but it will never be efficient. The way Intel and AMD combat this is by having a decoded uOP cache from which the issue width is typically twice that of the frontend decoder. Arm64 has an inherent advantage here (RISC-V does not have quite the same advantage as RV64GC instructions are a mix of 16- and 32-bit). Arm64 also is much more recent design than x86_64 that learned a lot from the past experience and isn't bogged down by a lot of useless legacy. This helps.

Arm64 is rather large for a RISC ISA, but it's mostly pretty good (however IMO RISC-V's lack of flags and implementation of conditional branches is superior).
It could, but it isn’t in this case.
Congratulations, from now on you are on call 24/7 in case anything happens to that machine. It is now your own pet. When RAM fails in unpredictable random ways, you'll spend hours reading the syslogs. When your SSDs fail, you'll spend hours ordering new ones, setting raid up and migrating the backups you've had to provision, automate, supervise and secure yourself.

When the server gets even remotely suspected of having been hacked into, you must trash it overnight and never use any of it again.
IMO it's just placeholder stuff from earlier in development that management didn't think was worth finishing.

Driver AI? Let's just assign them a route to follow to see how it looks, we'll worry about real AI later.

Police AI? Just give them gang member AI (shot on site, aggressive when looking at them) until we can do a better pass.

Wanted System? Just spawn in mobs to something happens when the player gets a wanted star. We'll sort the real system when Driver AI and Police AI is finished.

Etc. Etc.
>Every single person will get COVID-19 at some point. It’s impossible to avoid. Regardless of how they say COVID-19 is transmitted, you will inevitably get it.

Simply not true, especially now with vaccinations starting.
The entry level is cheap so apple can win some price bench comparison ..also in general I can understand what is marketed like that but I don't have appreciate that btw.
why we don't compare the 16gb ram 1tb ssd Mac 2.5kusd against a 700usd 4800u with same spec ? If you are comparing programmers productivity.. or for a better monitor monitor .. ok let's use a 900usd 4800u then.. ok 80% of perf in single core and 140% on multi for less than half the price.. and wait the 5800u and see.. when you compare you have to be fair between the components.. single core bench from 12core 24th vs 4core it's the start of every biased bench
>How do the people that work in these places sleep at night?

Like Donald Draper said: "On a bed made of money!"
That one would be interesting to try with AlphaZero. Reinforcement learning systems tend to have trouble with imperfect information.
Some ads take the form of tiles in your start menu. These are there right after installation if I'm not mistaken, but you can easily remove them. Then there are prompts to "finish setting up Windows" which take you to a screen that offers, among other things, a Microsoft Office trial. Apparently there are also adds in Windows Explorer, but I'm not 100% sure I've ever seen them.
It was Eckhart Tolle who wanted to be able to just sit motionless on a park bench and still enjoy life. In turn that spurred him to write The Power of Now. While new-agey, it actually employs some techniques that are very similar to those used within cognitive therapy.
Total & Aramco come to mind.
I use Nextcloud for the calendar, the to-do deck and to access my Samba shares over HTTPS.

That said, I would never put anything important on it. I had at least 5 upgrades in the past 2 years result in total failure, with an unrecoverable instance and corrupted DB.
> Apple's chip has 4200Mhz RAM. Wouldn't it be fair to have both ram speeds the same?

No it wouldn't, because Apple is selling that as their supported configuration. If that crashes due to ram / chip instability you can take it back to Apple to get a new one with the expected performance. That's completely different from your homebrew ram overclock, if that config doesn't stay stable, tough luck.
Sorry, there is no printed version at this point. I wanted to focus on the e-book variant first.

While this is not necessarily an argument against a printed version, note that this book works best when reading on a computer. It comes with the full source code bundle and a small utility that allows to execute all code examples interactively.

Also, it is likely that there will be updates to the book in the near future. I'm already considering to write an appendix. By exclusively providing an e-book, iterative improvements are easier to do and the readers get all updates for free.

Nevertheless, I may consider to offer a printed version later on.
"Worlds fastest CPU core"

I'm just pointing out that people are making these comparisons because Apple themselves did it first.

This is slightly disingenuous—I think most people know they meant the design of their cores are faster than any other core, GHz for GHz. They didn't say "the M1 is faster than any other processor out there".

The 5800X runs at 3.7 GHz, peaking at 4.8 GHz with all 8 cores.

The M1 runs at 3.2 GHz and 4 of the cores are low-power cores. Of course the 5800X is faster; this shouldn't be a surprise.

However, as the AnandTech review has pointed out with their benchmarks, if the M1 ran at the same speed as AMD's processors, the M1 would be faster. That's what Apple implied with the "world's fastest core" thing. Even now, the M1 has 8 vs. AMD's 4 instruction decoders, allowing it to process more instructions per clock cycle, with faster RAM.

They have cranked-up M1's in the lab running at faster speeds that they've benchmarked, so they know what they said is true--even if they can't say how they know yet.

The proper way to understand Apple-speak is "even though the M1 is an entry-level chip, it's more than competitive with Intel and AMD's newest chips at a fraction of the power and heat. Wait until we crank up the speed and add more performance cores in future products to see what they can really do."
If your only selling point is lower fees, why don't I just make a site that takes 0.9% and eat your lunch?
It's not just in the UK. The new (currently termed) 501.V2 strain is rampant here in South Africa as well. So far it is spreading really fast, and especially among younger people (with no co-morbidities) who are becoming critically sick.

We've had a pretty authoritarian year of lockdowns and tough regulations, so now compliance is way down all over the board.

Some parts of the coastline has been totally closed, but since it's now our major vacation people are just swarming malls and other locations.

I'm expecting a pretty big outbreak again, possibly either matching or eclipsing our previous growth that we had at the start of June.
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Seems Apple managed to eliminate a major source of defects by removing the DIMM connectors from the MacBooks.
Hardware accelerator modules also often need their own mini-cpu built in to them as a controller, apart from the main CPU cores. RISC-V was specifically designed for this use case to have a very light weight core ISA, with an extensions mechanism that make it easily customisable for specific accelerator design. Even the lightest weight ARM cores are monsters in comparison.

Thus we are likely to see a lot of new ARM chips containing a few RISC-V cores tucked away inside the design. In fact NVIDIA already does this on some graphics cards and it’s not impossible M1 does as well.
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Linux and Windows have ram compression too.

It's helpful, but it's nowhere near doubling your memory. Especially when you have an SSD to swap inactive data to, the benefit of compression is equivalent to adding something like 0-2GB of RAM.
I agree. Cases are so rare where I live that even if the vaccine becomes available in a year or so, it seems exceedingly unlikely that I’d get it before then. Some places are not doing all that badly with this virus.
I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding what the article is saying.

The article literally gives several examples of co-processors for x86 going right back to the original 8086 and 8087. Where you get the idea it’s saying Apple invented the concept is kind of confusing.

Also it’s not about RISC-V versus ARM. It’s about ARM chips containing RISC-V cores as local controllers inside the accelerator hardware, and why that makes sense.
Coming at this from data & analytics, my hope with serverless is to drive some management focus into the underlying data structures that support our applications. In Enterprise world when software grows the hard thing to do is integrations and data management. Take some of the major offenders in these 2 categories - SAP and Salesforce - the challenge is how to make these systems talk to other systems AND get some meaningful analytics out of them. SAP can't even talk to itself sometimes due to incompatible deployments across subsidiaries (this happens a lot when companies do m&a). I don't quite like serverless either but there is an area, databases, where it's going well and it might push companies to take better care of their data. Having 1 scalable Aurora (Postgres) database in AWS serving multiple microservice applications is a data analytics dream - entities, tables, users would be all automatically integrated by default. Running databases is super hard, so maybe removing friction with serverless can push companies to reconsider the absurdity of spending millions for crap like SAP and Salesforce whose main goal is to lock your data in their systems.
The choice is not only serverless or hosting on bare metal - there are a lot of options in between. You can hire VMs and have the vendor transparently deal with hardware faults for example without downtime. Running your own VMs doesn’t mean running your own hardware.

The original claim is not at all unrealistic, I’ve been running a small shop with about 20 VMs without issues for years, uptime seems to me about comparable with serverless or hosted services from big players who regularly have small outages and there really is very little work involved.
One thing that surprised me as a latecomer to software development coming from a visual arts background is how much choice of technology and working practices are purely fashion driven. The thing about fashion is that the way if develops is largely arbitrary. Changes in fashion resemble a drunken walk through possible design space with the drunkard receiving regular shoves from "influencers" who are usually trying to sell you something. Occasionally you have a fashion "revival" where someone takes an idea from the past, gives it a new spin, and then sells it back to newcomers as the next big thing.

This seems especially true in the types of startups and companies many HN readers work at or aspire to join / build - that is ones which are low stake / high reward.

I think when you combine the low stakes nature of the VC driven startup world with its cult of youth and the in group conformity of young people this is what you get.

[1] by low stakes I mean no one will die and you won't be prosecuted if your single page app startup goes tits up. Indeed you're supposed to "fail fast" precisely because the cost of failure is so low. Even if a VC or angel has invested a few million in you, to them that's still low stakes because they exist on an entirely different plane of wealth and you are just one of multiple bets.

[2] We're going to rebel by all dressing the same but not the same as our dad!
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> I think not, otherwise someone would have reported back with the answer already.

Well, they have, but nobody believes them :)

In any case, I understand your attitude to the mystic woo. It used to put me off a lot when I started meditating.

Now I take it as simply something that's there. They are statements that someone makes. If they're talking about states that someone could reach and they also give instructions, I might consider trying them to see what happens.

In any case as a programmer and scientifically minded meditator, I encourage you to pursue your interest in meditation. Try different techniques until you find something that works. Take it easy, take it slow, cultivate play and joy in your practice. If you manage to do that, you'll reap the fruit of your practice.

I wish you good luck!
It was fine for me until I federated and the avatar folder grew over the gigabyte because joining another room triggers the downloading and caching of pictures and there are no thumbnails.
I'm currently reading Fisher's posthumous book, "Postcapitalist Desire: the Final Lectures" (lectures collected and edited by Matt Colquhoun). And it seems that many, including myself, had overlooked Fisher's whole academic project as being solely a negative endeavor, which is partially because his book "Capitalist Realism" was such a huge success and overshadowed his other writings. He was always actively trying to find strategies for a way out of capitalism, finding various kinds of desires in our current society that capitalism was not able to satisfy. I think the most important essay on this matter would be "Terminator vs Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism" (https://markfisherreblog.tumblr.com/post/32522465887/termina...), which I think solidified his position as a left-accelerationist from that point. It's kinda sad that the next well-known essay, "Exiting the Vampire's Castle", which decried the callout culture of the Left, marked the end of his activities on the Internet because of its backlash and perhaps hastened his spiral of depression. His unfinished project - "Acid Communism", might be critiqued as a nostalgic retreat to the 60s and the 70s - but I think he was doing something more subversive than that. My interpretation was that in order to imagine a society without neoliberalism, we need to reclaim the ability to remember that there was a past before neoliberalism. The tendency of postmodern culture (as critiqued by Frederic Jameson and further elaborated by Fisher) was to destroy the ability to articulate about history and time, leaving any sort of progressive change into a stagnated halt. I think his unfinished project was not about retreating to the past, but remembering the past to turn the wheels of history again. Although he may have taken his own life in 2017 (possibly after seeing a glimpse that something might come after neoliberalism, but that may be fascism instead of what he'd wanted) - I still think he died as an accelerationist and didn't succumb to the "no alternative" dogma of late capitalism.
In linguistics, it's called rebracketing:

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

> Rebracketing often focuses on highly probable word boundaries: "a noodle" might become "an oodle", since "an oodle" sounds just as grammatically correct as "a noodle", and likewise "an eagle" might become "a neagle", but "the bowl" would not become "th ebowl" and "a kite" would not become "ak ite".

> Technically, bracketing is the process of breaking an utterance into its constituent parts. The term is akin to parsing for larger sentences, but it is normally restricted to morphological processes at the sublexical level, i.e. within the particular word or lexeme. For example, the word uneventful is conventionally bracketed as [un+[event+ful]], and the bracketing [[un+event]+ful] leads to completely different semantics. Re-bracketing is the process of seeing the same word as a different morphological decomposition, especially where the new etymology becomes the conventional norm. The name false splitting, also called misdivision, in particular is often reserved for the case where two words mix but still remain two words (as in the "noodle" and "eagle" examples above).

Other examples:

> The English word outrage is a loanword from French, where it was formed by combining the adverb outre (meaning "beyond") with the suffix -age; thus, the original literal meaning is "beyondness" – that is, beyond what is acceptable. The rebracketing as a compound of out- with the noun or verb rage has led to both a different pronunciation than the one to be expected for such a loanword (compare umbrage) and an additional meaning of "angry reaction" not present in French.

> Many words coined in a scientific context as neologisms are formed with suffixes arising from rebracketing existing terms. One example is the suffix -ol used to name alcohols, such as methanol. Its origin is the rebracketing of al•cohol as alcoh•ol. The word alcohol derives from the Arabic al-kuḥl, in which al is the definite article and kuḥl (i.e., kohl), is based on the Semitic triliteral root K-Ḥ-L.
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That is a good question and, ideally, I should be able to answer it. Unfortunately, I don't know. The book started as a passion project and I never analysed the market in any useful way. However, I think that there is a certain potential for extending the existing market by making people interested in the topics.
It wasn't generally thought that amd/intel were unassailable engineering wise, just that sw compatibility, x86 patents and volumes were important enough that it was economically hard to go against them. But other chips (eg IBM) regularly challenged them on speed despite relatively tiny volumes and budgets. And of course years earlier the Itanium debacle + exponentially increasing fab costs (favouring volumes) killed off most of the RISC competition.

Trivia: Simultaneously to the previous Mac ISA transition, Apple acquired PA Semi who had a power efficient and fast PPC chip. Then, Apple decided to go to Intel anyway instead of betting on their new in-house chip. Discarding their newly acquired highly acclaimed chip design, they put the newly acquired semi team to work on the A series of chips instead.
It's mostly just inertia.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/perf-trajectory_575p...
> If slavery had been critical to the U.S. economy, you would've expected a massive economic collapse right after the civil war. But there wasn't even a blip.

Do you believe that the newly emancipated slaves retreated to their own self-subsistence farms directly after the civil war or what?
I was inspired by the Hackers movie to pimp my laptop in the late 90s, early 2000s.

IceWM was a great candidate but I don't remember using it as much as Fluxbox or IonWM.

Of course I also modified the boot splash in FreeBSD to display the Duke Nukem nuclear logo when the computer started.

That scene in Hackers where all the kids setup their laptop in a phone booth and each of them opens up a customized laptop really stuck in my mind.

It gave me a fantastic sense of pride and belonging to a sub-culture everytime someone saw my custom laptop. :)
The linked OP has pictures though?
i felt the same way 25 hours in... don't worry you'll start hitting really bad bugs. especially in the last few mainline missions
You misunderstand how some of those words work.
I wouldn't take comparison to Hegel as a great compliment. That said, the magnitude of knowledge and knowledgeable people in the 21st century (and onwards) will far outnumber the 19th century. So that what made one appear as a genius then would make them look ordinary now. I'm not asking us to see people of bygone eras differently than they're written about—I'm asking that we revere them, but with a healthy dose of skepticism which prevents us from seeing ourselves and times as failed in comparison.
Not sure why you are all focusing on my example with the weather. Like I said there are many factors involved here, with the weather being one of them.
It's a modern misrepresentation. In fact, Stoicism encourages to help your neighbor.

From the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius:

> [...] Do not be carried along inconsiderately by the appearance of things, but give help to all according to thy ability and their fitness [...] (Book V)

> [...] Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. There is only one fruit of this terrene life, a pious disposition and social acts. [...] ( Book VI )

You can read the full ebook here [1] (I'd link to project Gutenberg but unfortunately they're still blocking German readers). Alas.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...
Just 100 days to mask, not forever. One hundred days

It started as just two weeks to flatten the curve, remember.
I don’t know, but if you’re shipping mainboards with soldered on RAM it could be worth it to test the modules before soldering to reduce the amount of returns where you have to replace the entire board.
HN has never sent me a notification.
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MS didn't change, it is still that MS specialized in producing low quality closed source software.
Is this for real? Not being able do your main task, whether it be coding or something else, for more than 4 hours a day is a very strong signal you need to do something you are more passionate about in my opinion.

Startup founder here, I can easily code 12-13 effective hours a day when that is the top priority for the company.
HN is also in a strange category for me.

The articles and the conversations are better quality than on any other social media with the added bonus that what I read is relevant for my daily job and career.

At the same time, it's still distracting, I almost never finish an article and go straight to the comments, thinking "entertain me, comment section". I feel productive, but in reality, it's superficial knowledge, and spending time here is time I don't spend on actually working on my goals.

In the end, it's all about balancing the pros and cons. For Facebook, Instagram, it's easy, I don't use them. For Twitter, I focus exclusively on tech so that I don't end up in a pointless yet vicious fight. For HN, it's spending 10 minutes on the top articles, keeping up with important industry news every second day.
Seemingly not at same rate tho. I guess some specialist can explain it better, but afaik there are some viruses and vaccines where you can spread and some you don’t.

For covid there’s no data yet, but my hunch says it reduces spread only slightly.
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