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Re:Just a little AI resistance, as a treat on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:22AM (#50353151)
That's what adversarial model training is basically.
That's a superficial reading.

Said women repeatedly calls out that behavior. The pointlessness and harm caused by macho culture is a theme throughout the movie.

Re:Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:40AM (#50229480)
That's also my assumption. Place and route has to work out an NP hard problem on billions of wires.
Re:A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:01AM (#49962341)
Thanks for the clarification, learning everyday.

I haven't had to analyze the performance of no-swap processes before. My assumption is that code is hot enough to avoid eviction and that evicted code pages are rather the exception. To strong-man the argument, I can imagine long running complex (bloated) services could have parts that are not touched unless a specific request comes in.

Re:A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:22AM (#49961693)
Disabling swap disables loading a process' binary to memory? Or do you mean that evicted code pages will need to get loaded from disk every time.
But only in 2028 because all the wafers rotting away in the warehouses are HBM which are too expensive to package or integrate into consumer electronics with tighter margins. Looking forward to having enthousiast-grade GPUs with HBM again though.
Meritocracy, in its originally intended pejorative meaning.
Re:Deterministic Concurrency [video] on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:33AM (#49876442)
I find it useful to use the term "determinate" (determinacy) [1,2] when dealing with concurrent or parallel computing. That puts the focus on equality of outcome (same result), leaving open "deterministic" to mean the exact same sequence of events (schedule).

[1] As used by Jack Dennis and Arvind: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-resurgence-of-parallelism/#... [2] Originally defined by Karp & Miller: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2946247

Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:22AM (#49876340)
Many earth rotations ago, I was IMing through an mIRC bot because I refused to install MSN. This kind of reminds me of that too.
Re:Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:18AM (#49876301)
> They probably don’t realize that the marginal rate of energy cost is fast approaching zero. That technological innovation is exponential and carbon capture can likely be made economical relatively soon.

By adding that, he is implying "Don't need to act, keep burning fossils, tech will fix it". That is in itself asserting a simplified model assumption about a (human) world that is much more complex; something he was railing against in the previous parts of his text. Either it's a cheeky joke, he himself is an intellectual or both.

Re:Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:05AM (#49876165)
I found it an apt demonstration of his own thesis.
Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:46AM (#49682913)
They weren't. A lot of abstraction concepts like ADT, modularization, structured programming had to be developed over the following decades.
Re:Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas) on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:13AM (#49624060)
I really like languages that embrace the duality of "closures are a poor man's object, objects are a poor man's closure".
Re:Music Theory for Programmers on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:25AM (#49584688)
I enjoyed the programmer's approach to build it up from first principles. I chuckled at rythm being the binary encoding of the duration's mantissa.

Now dispell the "this is just the western tradition": do Klingon music theory https://youtu.be/1LjcBv-OWtQ

Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Saturday August 29, 2026 @07:59AM (#49489146)
Iceland already is Schengen
Re:Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:04AM (#49488215)
Caches are important for cpu core performance even when the the working set doesn't fit.
Re:Cerebras CS-4 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:25AM (#49359068)
You're thinking of Taalas.
Re:Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @03:19AM (#49094356)
Pretty old, but a good example of how such an abstraction works: https://github.com/ExaScience/arrow-street
Re:Solod: Go can be a better C on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:23AM (#48944295)
The larger runtime makes bootstrapping go for unsupported architectures more laborious than C, but it's not a hard blocker. The function call overhead for inline assembly feels like more of an issue doing close to hw programming. It can be avoided for the runtime, but user go code can't escape it afaik.
Re:Exapunks (2018) on Friday July 03, 2026 @08:03AM (#48774010)
Having played it: yep! It's a solitaire Mankala/Awele game. You use the sowing mechanics to try to clear the board, with chains scoring exponential points.
Re:The Disappearance of Japan's Animators on Friday June 26, 2026 @03:37AM (#48683536)
I can also recommend the manga, the first vol. It's packed with interesting ideas and author footnotes that the 1995 hints at but has no time to elaborate on.

E.g. In the movie the protagonist glances an office worker that looks like her. The manga has her explain that she looks like a cheap generic model to hide the fact she is full of expensive specialized government tech. I always think of that scene when I put an expensive work laptop in a ratty backpack.

Hanging out in programming language IRC channels (quakenet shoutout) makes you realize pretty quickly why experts in said channels and newsgroups are such irritable grumps whenever someone asks a question that smells like homework assignment.

I also grew to understand the value of people digging deeper into the underlying issue, instead of just answering "how do you do X in Y". The usual reaction was "I don't want to explain to you why I want to do it like this. Just tell me how to do this!"

The binary view is mostly true, unless it's for events or problems they are themselves familiar with. There is a term for this, but can't for the life of me remember it: People think the problems they are dealing with are infinitely more nuanced, complex and unique than the problems other people are dealing with.
Re:Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:15AM (#48256044)
Play on Cilk?
Re:I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:10AM (#48256025)
And here I thought drawing graphs in TikZ was doing it manually.

Love the article, this is why I browse HN.

And that's a shame, but the relevant workloads typically run on server class CPUs.
> Hard to make a better wheel.

Pet peeve: stupid analogy seeing how wheels kept being improved throughout the millennia with every new technology. The only thing in common is that it's round.

Similarly, DRAM in any way you see it has been improving to the point of barely being recognizable since the 70s.

That said, DIMMs and the whole bus idea is in dire need of getting a new type of bearing.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Friday May 01, 2026 @04:21AM (#47972400)
Just to highlight: in contrast with fossil fuels, at least nuclear waste is something we can capture, creating a storage problem.
AmbientTalk did this. I used it for a demo where I dragged a mp3 player's UI button to another machine, where pressing play would play it back on the originator's speakers. Proper actor programming in the veins of E and Erlang.

https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/

Re:RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video] on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:47AM (#47714889)
Tournament parallelism is the technical term IIRC.

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