What’s a vakker?

Life is just a big design pattern. ☕︎☕︎

they’ll need to use twice as many chips, which could mean doubling the bus width (one can dream) to 512 bit (ala 5900)

I misread this part, thinking you implied a bus width increase is necessary.

For a 512 bit memory bus, AMD would either have to use 1+8 dies if they follow the 7900XTX scheme or have a monolithic behemoth like GB102. The former would have increased power draw but lower manufacturing costs, while the latter is more power efficient and more prone to defects as it’s getting close to the aperture size limit.

I’d guess nvidia will soon have to switch to chiplet based GPUs. Maybe AMD stopped (for now?) because not their whole product stack was using chiplet based designs so they had way less flexibility with allocation and binning than with ryzen chiplets.

Clamshell design. RX 7900XTX 24GB | PRO W7900 48GB

Same GPU, same 384 bit bus.

NACK-ing rust at version 8 of the patchset is kind of a dick move. The 7 others were fine before? Ridiculous that Linus didn’t step in in a definitive way.

We are in “free fall” around the Sun so that’s why we don’t feel its pull of gravity.

You would similarly feel weightless if you were in an orbit around Earth.

Remember having to use (a modified version of?) quincy for C. Trying to paste anything would put random characters into your file.

Still beats programming on paper.

No, you just get a new set growing in the gums.

After the failed nazi coup in Austria, a referendum was organized to democratically decide whether to join Germany or not. But one day before the referendum, German troops marched in. The referendum was changed and postponed a month. Threats and coercion were employed to manipulate the vote, resulting in 99% approval for the Anschluss. While the population’s true opinions are unknown, it has been estimated that about 70% of Austrians would have voted to preserve Austrian independence.

In hindsight it is obvious to us what was going on.

Anschluss (2025 American edition)

Space is emerging faster than it can transmit changes. This is why no light can reach us beyond the observable universe.

DPI scaling of the regular steam GUI can also be wonky if you have different monitors. For example, I mainly use steam on my lower DPI secondary monitor, but it wanted to scale based on my 4k main one. Could be fixed with an override though.

As hard as it may be to believe, I can’t eat metaphysics for put a roof above my head with it. Even Plato didn’t sit on perfect abstract chairs or ate abstract apples.

Here’s another argument I thought of in the meanwhile:

1. If we accept that the rule of golden mean is universal, then it necessarily applies to itself. Thus, the correct use of the rule is somewhere between the absolutes of not applying it at all and applying it to everything. There are circumstances in which it shouldn’t be used.

2. If we don’t accept the rule as universally true, then there are circumstances in which it shouldn’t be used.

QED

If I mix water and cement there is a distribution of the two, a ratio if you will. Just because statistics deals with distributions (of probabilities for example) doesn’t mean all distributions are in the field of statistics.

I’ll leave it at that.

Depends on the type of distribution too. In some discrete cases there isn’t a mean value. A binary choice for example has no applicability of the golden mean. Like a two party system. If neither represents your values, you can only choose the one that mostly does. Which is not the optimal outcome, just the local maxima.

The golden mean argument also assumes that there is only one good soulution, where multiple equally good ones can exist too.

While I agree that most things require a compromise of two extremes, it is also important to acknowledge how they could result in worse outcomes.

Eg 1: You are sick; the doctor prescribes antibiotics. But you have some concerns about them so you only take it until you feel better.

But now the pathogen is still there, and it will rebound with new strength. (there’s also a chance it becomes resistant due to selective pressure and its survival)

Eg 2: Compromise of democracy and authoritarian state. Those countries’ governments tend to be more stable and enduring that are either of the two, but not a middle of the road. This is why the transition from one to the other is usually turbulent as well.

Philosophers: It is what it is.

Physicians: We need to be a bit more specific than that. Can we measure it?

Did you know that those annoying MOBO software come not from windows update but by the UEFI/BIOS boot process injecting it into your windows installation? Yeah, just like some rootkit shenanigans, still, this is a windows “feature”. (Windows platform binary table) You can turn it off usually, but OFC by default it’s enabled.

For all the flak they (rightfully!) get, a 1st party open source nvidia driver is in the works.

Altough it’s only the userspace part and it’s not compliant (yet?) to be upstreamed into the kernel. It is still something.

Most recruiters have no idea what they are recruiting for. It’s like a game of telephone, by the time the job description reaches you, it has gone through so much dressing and corparatification it either describes a whole IT deparment or nothing specific at all.

Getting hired needs an entirely different set of skill than whatever job you will do. Well except maybe if it’s marketing, because the whole process seems like a song and dance where you need to sell yourself.