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Lenovo is much better than Dell and has announced a lot of Ryzen 5xxx laptops. Not sure if the Thinkbooks/Thinkpads are available yet but they are coming.

AMD just caught up (to Intel) in 2020 in laptop efficiency, and the OEMs are starting to catch up in offerings in 2021. However, availability is a mess in general lately. Might be 2022 before really high-end laptops offer Ryzen regularly.
I will refrain to say I 'create' music as I'm no musician whatsoever. But I do have fun putting some loops together and then I create this channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKW2akhyUWdpZqNKGRQMLbw

Here's my latest 'work': https://youtu.be/sRgScVDoXww
“No”. Energy usage is independent of transaction volume.
> Except that would generate the same sort of run on solar panels and/or their constituent components that is did for GPUS before ASICs got big.

Yes, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that, because supply isn't constrained.

For any good (or service) for which there is sufficient supply elasticity, when demand increases prices increase temporarily, but that's then followed by an increase in supply to meet that demand.

The inflation adjusted price of high-end GPUs has been basically flat since 2000 -> https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/103399-inflation-adjust.... Insofar as there has been variation, it has largely been due to other confounding variables.

In other words, solar panels will be used to replace fossil fuels no matter what. As long as there's a carbon tax, all crypto mining does is stimulate the demand for solar panels. Right now, I stand to gain a lot of money by starting a solar panel manufacturing company (because of crypto), but the net result (fully developed solar panel supply chains) is still good for humanity no matter what. That only happens if we have targeted environmental policy that magnifies that incentive.
It can be an order of magnitude faster to do it yourself, depending on how balled up the runtime library has gotten. If you can make some simple guarantees like "I'll realloc similar sized blocks mostly" and "I'm single-threaded thru these calls" then you can drop the bulk of the runtime drama.
Except for the many artists who are having their work stolen.
Small migrations to other chains doesn’t affect the Ethereum community. Multiple cheap NFT solutions exist on Ethereum (such as Immutable X) that keep NFTs in the larger Ethereum ecosystem instead of isolating them on a less used chain.
No need for a drive, a virtual image would do as well
Proof of Stake fixes blockchain's energy problem. It's already fixed. See Cardano and Polkadot.
I'll mention this article I was directed to by jsmeaton that really highlighted a lot of the reason why there is inertia behind such UX friendly integrations of PGP backed solutions:

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

It's the best break down I've seen of PGP and it really took me out of my flawed notion of PGP, and that it is maybe not so 'pretty good' as I had thought.
I'm willing to bet if you did, you wouldn't know. It's not something anyone is going to brag about. Similar to kids getting free school meals or any other 'benefit' for being poor. When you have these problems you tend to keep them to yourself due to shame.

Also, from the article:

"But, he says, one-third of young people do not have any internet access and many more lack the quality of connection needed to work or learn from home."
The plastic straw ban is silly because the cost/benefit ratio is almost completely cost.

First and foremost the ban has hurt segments of the disabled community that need easily manipulable straws in order to be able to eat. And then to add insult to injury, according to https://earth.stanford.edu/news/do-plastic-straws-really-mak... plastic straws make up less than one-percent of ocean pollution.

That disparity between consumer and environmental impact underlines why measures that rely on individual actions are doomed to fail: They are a minuscule improvement per person with nowhere long enough a tail to get close to the impact of the top polluting companies and sectors. Add on top of this the complacency that passing an over-hyped bill generates and how it paints all environmentalists as controlling jerks, and you have a bad situation all around.
Other people scraping this data like ISPs or governments could presumably do a better job of mapping IP+time to person.
To be fair the founder of the NHS did see it as a socialist:

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

"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community."
You forgot the most important advantage of scale:

Just barely comply with the letter of the law or be in the gray area, have a legal team that makes you harder to pick on and then wait for the regulators to figure out that the small guys are the easy targets.
Results are a little strange. Theoretically speaking, the M1 is a 2.6 TFlop GPU at FP32. The Macbook Pro they are benching it with is just 1 TFlop. to get the exact same result on a GPU with 2.6X the FP perfromance seems....unusual. I would be interested to see if their benchmark is a limiting factor here as realword is dramatically different.
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That can be seen as "poorer people don't have enough access to the Internet" or as "the people in charge created too much reliance on the Internet". If COVID had happened 30 years ago, the risk tolerance would be different and we'd be much more reluctant to close schools for an extended period of time.
If only someone had invented a way to partition and limit access between networks...
The flaw is greed.
I think in large parts of Europe you need to identify/register when buying a sim. No idea how hard it is to get one without.

Also I was just wondering, albeit maybe ridiculous, if criminals have the same issues with messenger apps as the rest of us, in so far that you are kinda forced to use whichever app is the most popular. I reckon there is not much criming to be done, if everyone in your gangster-circle is using a different app.

I don't think criminals lower down the hierarchies have or have access to much security knowledge, so they might just pick the currently most popular or use multiple apps depending who they talk to.
Observing someone in public isn't really in the same league as this.
I don't see how the latest iPhone with Signal installed and a text-based diceware passphrase for locking it would be inferior to EncroChat. You can even turn on a feature that resets the phone to factory settings once ten wrong tries have occurred.
As an embedded programmer, I often end up using a simple linked-list for memory allocations (when I allocate at all). But I hash by rounded-up blocks. Instead of having hash nodes for every sized block e.g. {...114, 116, 117, 118...} I'll use {64, 128, 256, 512...}. With 8 or nine hash buckets the app will re-use the same memory (after allocating a working set) forever.
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> I got tired of following football around 14, its inherently repetitive and boring (unless you play it yourself).

> Those type of events are outliers and not worth using.
It's literally inspired by vim-anywhere.
Me too, it is very good.
And probably you as a customer are a main target of such video, but the fire was such a high-profile case (I think) that this should be more understandable for general audience.

edit: not sure why I got downvoted (and I don't really care that much), I just think that communication from CEO of big company after such event should be clear for everyone, not only for those directly affected.
You don't stop crypto by taxing it. You stop it by banning it at the ISP level. It won't stop 100% of transactions but the price would crater for Bitcoin to $10 and that alone will kill it.
I understand the economic downsides of GDPR. If you abolished it with the intention of gaining international competitiveness I would consider it an acceptable trade. I'm still split on whether GDPR really accomplished all that much.
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Ironically that this is also how Photoshop started.
More folks wanting to participate, more folks buying and trading Ether, more transactions, more CO2.
Yes, but it didn't happen 30 years ago. We have the ability to let kids learn from home and save more lives by doing so.
That needs to be qualified ... greatly.

1) There is such a thing as homeschool.

2) Schools are closed because of government mandated lockdowns. Not every region or nation decided to close their schools. In fact, most didn't. We're not even sure if that level of lockdown was good policy. Certainly there are credible epidemiologists who vehemently disagree with either lockdows or school closures.

3) The level of learning by remote instruction ... the data isn't out yet, but it isn't looking great. Maybe it's better than nothing but maybe not by much.

4) This is a generational pandemic that came suddenly and required big government bureaucracies to turn on a dime, and the internet to facilitate remote work was the most natural choice. But what are you saying, had this happened in 1992, no learning would be done? Or as the saying goes "necessity is the mother of invention" and we would find alternatives. We educated children just fine before the internet. In fact I suspect we would come up with something better than zoom classes.

5) But OK. Let's give the internet points for assisting with this pandemic. Let's draft laws that in the event of global pandemics you leverage the internet for remote learning. What is your argument for post-pandemic world?

But overall I vehemently disagree with the notion that: "No internet == no teaching."
I have a reasonable suspicion that people who have benefited from the caste system previously, will be favourable towards it still.

What I'm curious about is, do they go OTT with it? I know for my country folk, something about moving overseas seems to compel us to wear All Black paraphernalia far more than we do home, and also, the drunken 3am hakas outside a kebab shop, far more commonly encountered overseas than in NZ itself.
This is ridiculous, just use Itsycal, it does all of that. Make sure to send a tip to the author!

https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
>failed to make any effort to integrate because they're just visiting to make their coin

I mean, have you seen the waiting times for Indian US green cards? You may literally die of old age before getting through the queue right now. The system is structured to make them disposable temporary workers and not future American citizens. So why is it surprising that they act like it?
This, a blockchain for storing ownership is incredibly inefficient.
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I am 80% done with OMSCS and very much agree with this sentiment. Every day I believe less and less that this will have an impact on my career, but I got to work on a whole bunch of interesting stuff and learn things that I probably would not have pushed myself to learn without the structure of the program.
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I met Charlie in 1986 at the Apple Developers conference (at the Hilton on Nob Hill in SF); while we were all out on a boat Apple had hired for all the developers, I heard the whole story, including a hilarious bit about recording a cricket to use in Airborne. Charlie became a real mentor/inspiration to the other young developers starting little companies to build Mac software (including me).
I'm glad they compartment their data centers. Having one data center for everything would be a big fail. I say this because you would be surprised at how many cloud services centralize everything in one spot.
(They aren't cross-platform if they don't run on Linux)
In the levels of government of which the bureaucrats and appointees in charge of this operation are a part creating grandiose publicity for career purposes with no intention of following through and every intention of leaving it for the next guy to mop up is far more common than "galaxy brain" moves.
The arrogance of domain squatters, Exhibit A:

https://milk.com/value
You need to have bigger ambitions. Let's turn the whole planet into a crypto experiment. We can change the name of the planet Earth to ... Crypton.
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Is that guaranteed? Parler has found that the machines their code ran on could be taken away for having bad opinions. I'm not a defender of fascists, if anything I lean towards being happy when their megaphone is taken away, even when they receive the occasional punch, but the precedent this has set with the power of these companies is frightening for anyone.

What if Amazon will refuse to do with business with people who support unions next? It no longer seems impossible to ke.
Bitcoin runs over tor, you know.
That is very wrong. If you allocate a a few bytes at a time, it will top out in the ballpark of 10 million per second per core, which is still 300 cycles at 3ghz.

Realistically allocations mean mapping in more memory which is a system call, going to block and have both TLB and other cache effects. Every allocation will also need to be freed which needs to alter the heap data structure (there is a reason it's called the heap).

This idea that allocation is simple and fast is bizarre in any context where speed matters. The lowest hanging fruit to optimization is usually cutting down on allocations inside loops and just reusing a single allocation made ahead of time.

What this person was saying is true to an extent, although it is likely to be more in the ballpark of 5x to 10x slower instead of 200x.

I would not say minimizing allocations is a big part of HPC, I would say that it is the bare minimum to any non-trivial program where speed could be an issue.
Sure, I don't know what the correct term is.
But I personally did not really gain anything from the type system that helped me get the logic of the program right. Whether a Turing complete type system "runs" my assertions at compile time, or a test runner does it on save does not make a difference to me. Actually, I could measure the compile time for this simple one-page program in seconds, while the Go tools compile and test a Game of Life implementation in a fraction of a second.
Tomato, tomato

edit: we are talking about replacements for Adobe products here, so context matters. Adobe products _also_ don't run on Linux.
SD cards should be pretty easy to hide as well, unless they do X-rays on your shoes and the like I guess?

Could put a micro SD card in a SIM card slot in your phone maybe.
Well, there is at least gold where you grew up. Lots of other areas have gone through the same transformation without the 'gold'. For example where I live is a touristic part of Spain. It wasn't touristic at all 40 years ago, so much so that people washed their clothes in the river (not joking). Come mass tourism they abandoned everything and erected megahotels. But tourists priced locals out, nobody can afford housing anymore. It is impossible for an avocado picker turned waiter to keep up with foreigner prices. Same thing as the Bay Area, but without 'gold' to be earned. Most people even if they work their butt off earn around 1000 USD a month.
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> it may be a way to signal membership.

Yeah, because they want the world to know they are successful criminals. Just wondering: do they also wear a Beagle Boys mask?
The logo of encrypted-os is...unfortunate...my eye read instantly "pedos" in it.
According to this newer documentation, many workers of the South Carolina plant would never fly a 787. Because they know how they are being made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
Paywalled content is effectively marketing spam, is it not?
Not sure if anyone is doing that as a service now but the old methods like post it to yourself in a sealed envelope or email are just as legally binding (ie not binding at all in any way) as the most sophisticated hashed blockchain you can throw at the problem today. There's a reason lawyers use signatures on paper over registered mail. We are talking about a part of the law where the last technical advance was to accept Fax Machines.
C++ “result” type based on modern languages like Swift and Rust
The desperate grasping of straws trying to explain away Feynman's unimpressive IQ score is pretty entertaining here.

" I say again: do you really think that Feynman had a middling ability to remember patterns, deduce and track logical models, and memorize things, which are the skills tested by the IQ test?"

See, now I'm confused because for all your effusive (and IMO misplaced)praise of the IQ test you don't seem to grasp how the scores work.

A 125 on the test is in the top ~5% or so of all test takers.

In no world is that a "middling" score. It's not far from two standard deviations above the mean, but below what many would say is "genius" level and below the Mensa cutoff for whatever that's worth.

It's a really great score, nowhere even close to middling!
I think we need to pass a law that says that any news story about baking cakes has to describe the damned cakes. I have yet to see one story on that issue that does this, and it makes a huge difference.

If we are talking about pretty generic wedding cakes, where say the baker just bakes N cylindrical cakes of decreasing radius, stacks them coaxially, covers them in icing, writes the couple's first names on top, adds a few frilly but pretty standard decorations, and shoves a couple little plastic figures on top to represent the couple, and the only thing that makes it a "gay" wedding cake is writing two male names or two female names instead of one of each, and shoving in two male or two female figures instead of one of each, then yes, the baker should have to serve gay couples.

If we are talking about the kind of wedding cake that you'd get by going to a place like Charm City Cakes in Baltimore (the cake shop that was the subject of Food Network's "Ace of Cakes" series) and asking for a custom cake, where you are hiring an artist whose medium happens to be cakes, who is going to make you a unique cake where the artist is going to express their own artistic vision and interpretation of the your marriage, where the cake is very much an act of speech by the artist, then I don't think the baker should have to serve gay couples. These cakes are necessarily acts of original speech by the artist, and that should not be forced (even if the person who wants the cake is in a protected class)--the artist should be free to only create works where the artist's feelings match what the buyer wants.
> one always needs to keep an open mind about what it can grow into.

Why? There's no shortage of more serious and productive problems to solve.
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Theoretically, in k8s, you should deploy once, and then things work. You may be missing parts of the puzzle such as resources like jobs and deployments or tooling like Kustomize or skaffold.
There's a few companies that already do that, they rent out servers / processing power (probably via a spot market) which are in people's homes chooching along. The spot market will always be loaded because at some point one of the many cryptos will find it worthwhile.
If it was easy to set up a nuclear power plant, would that be a great idea for anyone to set one up and run it?

You will run into problems eventually that you won't be able to solve (especially as you have more complex requirements). If this is just for a pet project you probably won't care. But if there's a lot riding on you being able to fix it quickly, you will not enjoy being in a position where fixing it takes hours to days.

It's like a car. Super easy to operate, until there's a strange sound, and then something falls off. Do you know how to fix it? Do you need to get to work in 30 minutes? Can you just "order an Uber" when it comes to K8s?
i'm not as scared of real AGI as I am of some pseudo-AGI convincing enough to fool everyone into following what it comes up with and ascribing it magical powers - we have enough problems with personality cults and herd mentality as it is..
That needs good insulation first, or am I missing something? Usually space heaters are warmer, but less efficient. Heat pumps are great if you have time to warm up the space but if it's insulated like an open field, you'll be always cold.
This book looks like it may be a nice complement to these CAT notes:

https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html

(I haven't gone through either.)
Okay? By that logic, the entire world has created too much reliance on the internet.

We closed school when we had no power for 4 days two years ago. To extend your logic, schools have created too much reliance on electricity. If this was 100 years ago, the buildings would be different and we wouldn't have needed to close schools for an extended period. That argument doesn't make sense or have a purpose, but it makes just as much sense as your argument, to me.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here, I guess is what I'm getting at.
Actually, I agree with the sibling commenter that power consumption is not a good predictor of whether a chip is entry level.

Estimate of TDP for the M1 silicon are about 20-24W [0].

The i7-1185G7E can be offered at anywhere within 12-28W TDP [1].

This 12-28W figure is exactly the same for the i3-1115G4E [2].

Yes, there's some trickery in Intel's TDP numbers, but based on Anandtech's results for that i7 [3], it looks like lower TDP means that you can't burst for as long.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/208076/...

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/208079/...

[3] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review...
I hope this is a typo and you mean to write "The EUR as a monetary union".

The euro is truly an unremarkable currency and I'm not sure that the EU would be much worse without it. It's equally likely that the EU would have done much better without the euro. I can't blame the UK for avoiding the euro.
Hey everyone, I created a C++ "`result`" monad type with functionalities and behaviours much like Swift or Rust's equivalent `Result` type.

I've been working on this project for quite some time, and just wanted to share it with everyone because it's at a point that i feel is complete for a 1.0 release.

A little bit about it:

It's completely zero-overhead (no paying for what you don't use), constexpr supported, C++11 compatible (with more constexpr in newer versions), it optimizes extremely well (https://godbolt.org/z/TsonT1), it's extremely well-tested (https://coveralls.io/github/bitwizeshift/result?branch=maste...) both for static validation and runtime validation, and despite being based on the feature-sets from other modern languages, the design has kept a focus on keeping this idiomatic for modern C++

The design was originally based on the P0323 `std::expected` proposals, and over time grew into a standalone type that better modelled `result` in the end.
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