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Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:42PM (#50262850)
Yes, exactly. If you can get a 2-3x speedup in CPython just with type annotations, and then a possible additional 2-3x by dropping down to "Static Python," that may be an overall near optimal solution for the ecosystem, all things considered.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:11AM (#50260552)
Out of the box it's comparable to the current JIT, but yes, major gains are only possible with at least type annotations. But that may be the only real way forward for a JIT implementation for CPython with the ability to gradually speed up slow parts of large programs.

https://facebookincubator.github.io/cinderx/#performance

Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:26AM (#50258922)
Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:11PM (#49873146)
Pretty much any lawsuit right can be sold, except for personal injury lawsuits, due to specific state restrictions for public policy reasons.
Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:48PM (#49872994)
Seems like you should sell your rights to the suit to a third party for a flat fee and percentage of recovery.
Re:Making Startups Powerful on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:22PM (#49691556)
According the the University it was for "Ghent University is shocked by the death of Professor Arday....recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter"[1] and as discussed on that page he was not fired (yet?) but was "imposed a disciplinary measure on a member of its research staff for a period of three months. A preliminary inquiry is also under way to determine if further disciplinary action is warranted."

So perhaps you appear to the one "too lazy to research the facts"?

[1]https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/updates-case-postdoctora...

Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:10AM (#49640714)
I don't think anything will beat

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15148829

School principal fired and loses $130k pension for overfilling coffee (about 50 cents).

"Officer" is typically anyone who can bind the company contractually.
The entire argument rests on a 36-year-old survey form: "DOE Form 860 (1990) defines electric utility to mean 'a corporation, person, agency, authority, or other legal entity or instrumentality that owns and/or operates facilities within the United States for the generation, transmission, distribution, or sale of electric energy primarily for use by the public.'"

So the leap is: an old survey form says "sale of electric energy primarily for use by the public," therefore anything not grid-connected isn't a sale to the public.

No assessment of prior practice, history, the plain meaning of the statute, or other statutory exemptions. And there are grid-connected plants serving a single customer so why the distinction?

Why the 1990 form? Congress froze it into the statute so a survey agency couldn't rewrite Clean Air Act coverage by editing a questionnaire. EPA is now exploiting that freeze by treating the form's obsolete boilerplate as substantive law; a taxonomy EIA itself abandoned, since modern EIA-860 covers essentially all generators above 1 MW, grid or not.

It's as if Congress defined citizenship by reference to a 1990 Census form, and the agency decided who's a citizen by parsing the instruction booklet.

100% complete BS. The silver lining is that without Chevron deference, this "interpretation" won't survive litigation, though the memo's "not final agency action" disclaimer means challengers may have to wait for an actual permitting decision to sue.

How is this different than https://foundershield.com/ ?
OpenAI (Stargate) kicked off the price increases a year ago by locking up 40% of the global supply of RAM output.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...

A few hundred bad bits/transistors in a trillion+ parameter model would compromise its abilities not one iota...the models are inherently lossy and resistant to "brain damage"...
A full wafer like Cerebras is about 60x that, and N2P has about 3x the transistor density. So right now it's technically feasible to etch a 1.4 trillion parameter model. So roughly DeepSeek-V4-Pro class. Imagine that running a factory, for example.
Re:Mario Meets Pareto on Thursday August 06, 2026 @01:04PM (#49199391)
Are they conjoined triangles?
Re:JetZero on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:50AM (#49056737)
Pratt & Whitney PW2040 turbofan engine, same as the Boeing 757 and the C-17. They say that the plane itself is so efficient they don't need a cutting edge efficient engine.
Codex context limit is 400k total, including 128,000 reserved output tokens.
Global Foundries has lots of fabs with 10 year old+ processes....
Re:OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:51PM (#48663380)
M3 Ultra has a 1024 bit memory bus (819 GB/s) and starts at $3,999 (96GB of RAM). It can be done....
Ticket quotas.
Re:Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud” on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:12PM (#48289114)
Use EMV 3DS 2.x authentication with liability shift protection?
"... this flying wing will burn 50% less fuel than today's jets..."[1]

[1]https://time.com/7292452/jetzero-low-carbon-air-travel/

It would depend on exactly how the records were obtained. If hypothetically she paid a nurse $100 for it (and had done so many times in the past), that could be criminally liable. In practice, no-one would prosecute over a single x-ray. But when a reporter gets legally protected medical information "somehow", an insinuation that a legal violation took place at some point to effect that is not unreasonable.

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