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Great write-up. I really feel like any kind of performance optimization, compromise, or other detail should be accompanied by tests or assertions that capture all of the inputs that supported the decision. In this example, ideally the compromise necessary to support Windows XP would have come with an assertion that the minimum supported version of Windows was still XP or earlier. This way, the decision is remembered and revisited if XP stops being supported, because the build would break. I don't know what the chrome code looks like but I imagine something like

// TODO: Remove this hack if we drop Windows XP
assert(min_win < win7)

... simple. I recall finding a function deep in Google search that had been "optimized" in x86 assembly, but way back when the cache lines were 32 bytes. On Opteron and later the "optimized" code was slower than idiomatic C++. That's when I decided any kind of performance decision needs to be recorded, somehow. Either something like `assert cache_bytes==32` or just a FIXME($date) that forces someone to revisit the decision every year.
He was interviewed on TED around that time

https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_moot_poole_the_case_fo...
They mentioned they did 1.5% but that, with the maturity of the process, it was excessive.
I can select "always show full URLs" but the only difference I can find is wether the https://www is showing, or not.

If that is all, then no, I don't hate it. Hadn't even noticed it was different.
Aren’t you allowed to download offline copies as backups of any movie you purchase anyways? You just don’t gain the right to distribute copies. I’d be shocked if anyone would get in trouble for torrenting a copy of something they purchased just for the purpose of having a backup, because even having a DVD copy doesn’t mean you own anything other than the right to watch it. Likewise if you sold the DVD you’d have to destroy your digital backup.
The effect of water poverty in U.S.
Wow I am surprised that Atlanta has so much light...

This map appears to be pretty close to this image: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712129main_8...
Excellent pun !
"We who are not as others"
Have been desperately wanting something like this so I can build an AI to detect when people don't pick up their dog shit in front of my gate. I am saved.
The RPi compute engine is a PCB, a fairly large number of components, and a complicated chipset meant for video processing and Linux. This is not what your power seat wants, and it’s probably considerably more expensive than what your seat wants.

In any case, the current bottleneck is, to a vague approximation, a bottleneck on total output. An RPi compute module has a lot more mm^2 of silicon than a little ECU. You also likely can’t make a good RPi compute-like module on the larger-feature-size fabs that make ECUs.
They said they use the standard Sony camera but did driver changes to support 300fps… I’m very surprised that the rpi can handle 300 frames per second! Maybe very low resolution? But still that’s quite impressive for the SoC!
Flask 2 Coming soon with Async Support
Here is the v2 release notes: https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
Yup.

AI is gonna pour rocket fuel on this stuff. There's already a great deal of talk about replacing lawyers with AI.
> What has made the auto industry particularly vulnerable is its reliance on just-in-time delivery, where parts are brought in when needed, rather than being stockpiled.

It's fascinating that the response is to close production rather than increase prices.

Those warning of inflation point to events like this as support. But inflation requires that higher producer costs be accepted by consumers.

And for that price transmission mechanism to work, there needs to be supply actually available at the higher price. It appears that just-in-time economics mean that in the event of a shortage your supply just goes offline. You don't get higher prices, just empty shelves.
People at CERN: Hold my particle accelerator.

Lego: Ok.

https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/using-lego-study-bui...
No, I don't work and google and wouldn't work at google, but I know a lot of people who do.
Well, I know about the few incidents. It's just that it wasn't really a strike, it was much moreso for show.
Answered my own question with the power of macOS preview. So the center of the outer band lies at around Newport, then continues to just south of Bend.

Cross referencing with the dark sky map, your best bet on the coast is probably around Roosevelt Beach, though the Oregon Dunes and Dismal Swamp general area also holds promise

(I have no idea how far out of the band you can be while still seeing it, they list Salem as a good viewing spot, which is much further north than the band)
I wish there was a mainstream site which has 4chan anonymity and fast pace + reddit thread format. Both become hardly usable with either elitism, censorship and people who think upvotes matter or an absolute cancer to follow conversations in threads.
I think it's very likely they will announce the "faster M1" at WWDC this year. It will go into the 16 inch MacBook Pro and the iMac Pro.

Hard to say if whatever they announce will go into the Mac Pro - or if maybe they'll have yet another "faster" chip for that. Time will tell.
55k is just the cost of the server. The total cost is 400k
I am genuinely curious how you keep track of all that. Presumably this is all spread out over maybe a dozen workspaces?
I don't know how they would phrase it, but the whole sentence seems disjointed like it's been through too many editing passes and lost meaning.
Certain shader nodes only work in Cycles. In particular I use the Bevel node a lot for an "edges" effect: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_node...

You can get the difference between the surface normal and the bevel normal and use that as a "sharpness" value to mask things like wear on the corners of objects
I don't know, man. It seems to me that having a job is actually a pretty big factor from the human point of view.
Yeah I guess I'm just surprised. It feels to me (who knows basically nothing about it) that it's been a pretty big problem for at least a few years, and it also seems like the combined buying power of the entire world's hardware companies would make the investment in new fabs trivially worth it.

Maybe fabs take longer than a couple years to set up regardless of money spent?

Maybe fabs take a level of expertise that only a handful of people in the world have, and it's a matter of ramping up promising undergrads to that level which will take like 15+ years?

Maybe analysts expect demand to even out so that capital outlays right now don't make sense?

But all of these are surprising to me to the degree that we still don't have enough semiconductors. I'm just hoping for a sort of comprehensive overview of the issue, if such a thing exists.
In Germany the term corruption is not used by the media, it is "scandals" or "lobbying", although it is often crystal clear corruption. Don't forget the latest mask scandal.[1] And this is pursued only because the pressure of the public is so great, because it is incomprehensible that the authorities stuff their pockets while the majority abides by rules. There is no real punishment.
In my opinion there is a lot of corruption in Germany disguised as lobbyism.
There are superb initiatives like LobbyControl[2] who want to put stricter laws in place to publicize lobbying.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/german-politician-resigns-part...

[2]: https://www.lobbycontrol.de/

EDIT: Added lobbycontrol paragraph
Totally, and even on a good website, the real best answer isn't always obvious. I feel like on 30% of answers on StackOverflow the highlighted answer is either flat-out incorrect or out of date by 10 years and one of the answers further down will have 10x the upvotes and be more correct.

And then of course there's always the problem of asking the wrong question. Like searching "how to read string between nested brackets" or something, when really the person is just trying to parse JSON but isn't aware of what JSON is.
To be fair, if you made the pitch that way to farmer today they would as well - those points are all iffy.

mostly, though, the nature of labor has completely and utterly changed in 80 years and comparing the two is like apples and oranges.
I am way out of my comfort zone discussing this, but I really like the idea of building oribiting infrastructure. Not sure why they are not using an earth-moon Lagrange point.
I agree that it would probably be cheaper and more practical to go directly to the moon with a simpler refuling scheme.
I do however also believe that some infrastructure is needed for further space travel and a larger more permanent off-earth presence.

Starting new missions from outside a strong gravity field seems like such a huge advantage. I guess most people want a destination and not just a more long term established presence.
Without censorship... so you want a place with nazis? 'cause that's what happens.
NASA's "bold bet" is also an insurance policy on the fact that SpaceX might have just built this Moon landing Starship version on its own and get back to the moon first. Especially if it got a large private backer, like Yusaku Maezawa is backing the dearMoon project. NASA's relevancy would definitely take a hit if that happened, so funding it themselves is a good idea. I don't see the other two bids getting private funding to go forward without NASA support.
Roads. Ro-ads. Row-ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3vOCWA-J0
Habituation? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation
It’s interesting to see how Moot gets the blame for the all the things that happened after he sold off 4chan.

Especially when you consider how anonymous and the occupy movements were all the rage among woke leftists a few years back, and they originated from 4chan.
Only met him briefly and spent about an hour with him, but he left a huge impression. Great guy, and good luck to him on whatever's next!
You are absolutely right! And this is why I avoid any and all software written in C due to AT&Ts prior evil monopolistic practices of the mid-20th century. /s
Cave Creek Arizona is another dark sky area (where we live) and it's an excellent thing
After a time, you should write a post about how its worked out. Sounds interesting!
> Release water so its easy to lift again

How? Don't you have to pump it out since it's below sea level?
> I bought in January 2011 is still completely serviceable for pretty

Isn't this essentially what Apple's observation was (and hence their spec choices)?
At $WORK the word "leverage" is used as a verb so frequently, usually with no meaning other than "use", that it begins to sound like noise. A sort of grunt that must be periodically uttered, from time to time, to indicate the speaker is a member of the glorious tribe of passionate, devoted $WORK employees, like a radio callsign periodically interrupting a transmission to assure the listener of the station's identity. What scraps of meaning it still clung to -- even as a buzzword -- began to fade.

I have resolved to assiduously use "use" when I mean "use".
This is nuanced and underrated.
Some of us admins in the field like to joke that Autodesk isn't a software vendor, they are a licensing company. And to be honest some of their changes with regards to Named User Licensing is going to be a PITA for many studios.

I've gotten the chance to have a few conversations with some on the Maya team before, and they are great people. But they are fairly hamstrung by a company focused on sales and growth than development, one where M&E is less than 10% of their company revenue[0] (those numbers, which are an increase in revenue, can likely be attributed to the forcing of subscriptions), and having to cover a lot of ground re-architecting an application with a ton of technical and legacy debt. The historical idea of Maya being a Fraken-app exists for a reason.

[0] https://investors.autodesk.com/static-files/749abc95-16be-4c...
> does Starship have to dock again why can't it just go straight back into earth

Because Moon-bound Starship will be quite different from Earth-bound - not enough to not call it Starship, but still - the Moon-bound will be optimized for less gravity (different legs?), no atmosphere (no wings), braking using engines in the middle of the body, not in the tail section, Moon-specific systems like ladder or elevator etc.
I don't think mine is a position as much as general facts about pre-history that calls into question the parent commenters position.

Now in the case of the (in)Famous mathematician, he seemed to have made a value judgement based on his interpretation of similar facts and the decay modernity wrought, and so it goes.
The cars are maybe already paid for. Then they can't increase the prices until they cleared the pending orders?
Reading the docs...

I cannot offer that to the users of my own docs, because I know how outdated it was...
i remember a long time ago i was told north korea was a dark spot on earth when viewed from space, interesting to see it on an actual light pollution map. not that north korea is alone in this aspect.
Oh, where can I sign up? I'd love the concept of being a paid user!
Starship and Its Belly Flop Maneuver
There are ebook scanning services that do a great job. I have used bookscan.us for hundreds of books for years and it works well.
Biden will seek to raise taxes on richest Americans
So few i-Paces are sold that maybe it's no big deal.
What job has 3.5% rate of criminal prosecutions, with 0 eyewitness evidence?
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people believe that now and as near as possible to everyone believed that when the concept was fairly new and novel.
A rule of thumb in grid-scale projects is to allocate roughly 50% of your capital costs to _just maintenance_ over the lifetime of the thing you're deploying. Driving those costs down is really critical for affordable generation for any utility.

The fancier the installation, the more money needed by specialist humans to keep the thing running.

Offshore wind at scale is pretty affordable and less "fancy", relatively speaking.
The problem with UE4 in film/animation is about the the place it should occupy in the pipeline. Being a game engine at its core, it's fundamentally designed to ingest models and render images. So its natural place is at the end of the pipeline. There's no really good roundtrip capabilties that let you e.g. export a scene that was created in UE for use in other tools. So despite the interactivity that would let you e.g. block out a scene with awesome real time feedback, there's no good way to get the data out into a different animation or lighting tool for final touchups before it goes to an offline renderer. This is why some big animiation studios have invested a lot of effort into in-house realtime preview renderers that attach to their tool pipelines with less friction.
I'm not in the field myself, though animation was my original career and I know people who work in feature animation.

To answer your question, the field has been sloooowly diversifying in some ways, as you say with Unreal (particularly since Unreal's engine is fast and good for real-time previews), but I don't see a huge push for moving away from does-it-all packages like Maya or 3DS Max. The economic incentive isn't there. Studios have figured out how to make their money and are comfortable with the pipelines that they already have. This isn't to say their pipelines are good. In fact, many of you would be shocked at just how bad most animation pipelines are at big studios. Not only are they way too vendor-locked (as is kind of the case with Maya), but they don't want to pay an adequate salary for qualified software engineers who can build better pipelines and write more software that's agnostic. Of course, I'm making sweeping generalizations, but this is the kind of story I've heard more often than not. Pixar is known for having good practices and they write (and sell) their own software, but I don't closely know anyone who has worked there.

It's going to take a decline in the field of animation before studios realize that they're basically stuck in 2006 in terms of how their artists are working to make their content. I won't mention them here, but people at certain major studios have been trying to get things like Unreal for 10+ years and never get approval to receive licenses for it and they never do because higher ups don't believe they'd see a monetary return on investment. Their content is so profitable that the people in charge don't really give a fuck.

In case I didn't make it clear, I'm pretty much an outsider at this point, so I'm sure there may be some more relevant viewpoints here that would contradict mine. I don't intend to be authoritative.
BBC (broadcast so don't have link) said that under the previous CEO that an investigation was shelved into the accusations. Given the number of accusations I have to wonder if there was a cover-up.

Jail sentences, bankruptcy and suicide has been caused, management that oversaw this need to face prosecution.
Having personally had Malaria twice, I am elated at this news.

It was fascinating to experience it from "the inside" in Africa, and attempt to understand how essentially everyone gets it, every single year. It's simply a part of life there.
European chip production within 3 years, Asia has become expensive and unreliable.
Separating the "get to/from moon" vehicle from the "land on/start from moon) vehicle has indeed been the plan for many years now.
Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking of!
Needs moar yellow van https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128IR21ZQa0
they give attention to the places that apply for the designations.
> I’m curious if automotive systems used more generic controllers for cabin systems if shortages like this would be less or more severe.

that wouldn't help. generic and not-generic controllers would still use ICs, and ICs are still what we're slowed down on. a more generic design might have to use more (or more complicated) ICs as well, to have more tolerant inputs.

more generic/standardized controllers might help if there were limits on printed circuit board manufacturing, or board assembly capacity. (as those things get cheaper/easier/faster the more identical units you make. and yes, that applies to ICs as well, but all of the widely used microcontrollers / jellybean parts are already produced in huge volumes.)
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Right now, if students are motivated they can test out of Algebra 1, Geometry, or Algebra 2 to advance faster. I don't see any prohibition on letting students test out of these math classes to advance faster either. Is there?

The main difference is whether we spend an entire year on just geometry and then never bring it up again. Or whether we introduce a few mathematical concepts like data analysis, model development, and probability as students are learning these concepts. I don't see how this is an inevitable "watering down the curriculum." If there is language prohibiting students from advancing faster, then yes I think that is a problem. Including these concepts in the curriculum, in my opinion is good.
True, but this is a company where when I logged on the other day there was an article about a guy retiring after 52 years as a delivery driver. Yes, that's right, fifty two years at one company, although I imagine he did small package delivery and feeder work (trailer loads). So not just one position, but pretty close.
One approach I've used in lieu of buying ebooks is to buy a used/new print copy, get it destructively scanned, and thus acquire a drm-free copy of the book. Often this can work out cheaper than buying the ebook.
The union loss at Amazon is another sign big companies have too much power
Ah, right, I see. So it was just showing me the marketing ones by random chance!

It seems a bit odd to offer per-category leaderboards only, especially on the front page, especially if it's going to randomise which one to show with only minimal feedback that it's doing that.
You have empty shelves, workplaces start going in person again and demand for cars becomes less elastic. Potentially used cars start selling for more than they cost new.
Developers should be upgrading on 2-3 year cycles max - the leap in performance of 2 generations noticeably impacts performance and unless you're doing some really trivial stuff - performance matters.

Check out Chrome build time benchmarks between 3/4xxx and 5xxx series (or any dev tool related benchmarks). 10-20% off your iteration cycle is noticeable - and that's a single generation jump.

Increasing iteration speed is a big productivity boosts, seeing professionals with 5+ year old devices is just ridiculous to me, you spend 8+ hours on that device - investing 2000$ for an upgrade every two years is not that much to ask.
Unusually Flare from Nearby Star a Bad Sign for Alien Life
It really depends on what you are trying to do 300 times per second.

EDIT: Actually I just saw an article that I believe says 244 fps for Tiny YOLO on R Pi.
It's more important that you are able to participate than what the result is. Better to have an insecure system where 10 million people get to vote, than a secure system where only 10 people get to vote.
Which benchmarks are we talking about?

The 5800u is a 15w part, you might be confusing the normal part with some overclocked implementation.

But the 5800u at 15w is still faster than the M1 in multicore.

Yes, Zen has to downclock, but it has more cores.
Is there any guide that operates at the level of the C abstract machine and a real platform because it's always really jarring to have lots of hand-wavy statements like

> When compiling C,machine codeis generated. This is the 1s and 0s that can be executed directly by the CPU.

No! Tell me about how the code is translated into an ELF executable, linked, has its memory laid out by the OS and then executed.

> I’m seriously oversimplifying how modern memory works, here. But the mental model works, so please forgive me

No! Tell me about how memory works in the C abstract machine which is what you can actually program against and guaranteed by the compiler.

> Nothing of yours gets called before main(). In the case of our example, this works fine since all we want to do is print a line and exit

No! tell that main is special because it's mapped to the _start symbol or at least eventually jumped into by code at that symbol which has an address that's stored by the linker in e_entry.

Like I might be the weird one but this kind of writing (which is common to seemingly all C texts) confuses me more than if it had just been explained.
Honda promises to make only emissions-free vehicles in the future
I find it bothersome that this situation is referred to as simply a shortage without any mention of the incorrect predictions or decisions the automakers made that lead to it.
A fully mobile, bipedal Groot robot
Cases where docs are not enough:

- Beginners do not understand doc's jargon, or they need to learn too much stuffs to understand it that they'd rather quit. So they end up relying on third party sources/implementations

- No English knowledge and no translations
I imagine Moot wasn't hired for technical skill exactly, but for his years of experience trying to shape a difficult community. I'd be interested in a breakdown of how Moot "fostered" the toxic aspects of 4chan. One could say that any anonymous community will be toxic and harmful to the general world, but that feels like a conclusion that is drawn after watching 4chan metastasize.
The empty shelves will cause cost-push inflation, as people try to buy cars from a smaller available pool (e.g. substitute new cars for used). The price mechanism for cars will respond to a shortage of cars.

Edit: it’s maybe bad luck that this could coincide with a demand-pull inflation pressure, as people ease back into personal transit.
Yes, Speeduino, Megasquirt 1 (not the newer closed source ones), RusEFI are all open-source engine control software.

Not even in the same dimension as commercial stuff, but the primitives are there.
Perovskites under pressure: Hot electrons cool faster