moonbug

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moonbug··on Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web

fewer.

moonbug··on Jack Dorsey is attempting to sell his first tweet as an NFT

always suspected he was a wrong'un.

moonbug··on OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model

well, yeah. All of the opencl implementations were (and probably still are) awful. Other than requiring a lot of boilerplate, I found it adequate, essentially a clone of the the CUDA C driver API.

opencl 2 went into the weeds going full c++, but that all got rolled back with version 3.

moonbug··on Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

bro, it's ok not to have Https on all the things.

moonbug··on Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

you can do that in mathematica, I think.

moonbug··on OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model

it's a pet project.

moonbug··on OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model

in other words, Nvidia's product execution was spot-on.

moonbug··on OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model

but almost no one codes to the CUDA driver api.

moonbug··on Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate

you'll never know if you're speaking to the Blight.

moonbug··on Drivers locked out of their cars at Royston Tesco

the cars are transmitting? are you quite sure?

moonbug··on Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)

Article about Uber are always instructive: read and then do the exact opposite.

moonbug··on Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

Dunno, but disks are consumable items - don't kid yourself otherwise.

moonbug··on Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

This class of drive will typically have a design life of 5yrs at 100% duty.

moonbug··on Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

balloon gas is typically about 90% helium and is generally a recycling of helium expended in industrial applications.

moonbug··on Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

drives like this will typically be rated for a 5yr operational life.

moonbug··on [dead]

If it's a cover for anything it's right-wing politics.

moonbug··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)

but why.

moonbug··on Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

yeah, next year in Jerusalem.

moonbug··on Is Satoshi Sitting on One of the Largest Personal Fortunes on the Planet?

no, because it is unrealisable.

moonbug··on Autopilot on Cars for $999

there's no way this is being sold into the EU.

moonbug··on Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare

edgy, kid.

moonbug··on Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare

> You can already do many things with crypto that you cannot do with the traditional banking system

OP meant legal things.

moonbug··on Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

there's already too to much of it.

moonbug··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

"As such, DeFi may potentially contribute to a more robust and transparent financial infrastructure."

check your comprehension.

moonbug··on Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software

http://ftp.dell.com/monitors/Dell_SX2210-Monitor_Webcam%20SW...

enjoy

moonbug··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

...and yet it is so.

Total energy required to mine one block / # transactions per block.

moonbug··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

> It is hilariously inefficient system

I think you mean "morally reprehensible"

moonbug··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

> Bitcoin is now considered by some important for our future finance system.

Really? give us a source, one who isn't either a grifter, a shill, or a criminal.

moonbug··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

Bitcoin needs to be exterminated.

moonbug··on Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer

because now you've turned failed IO operations from an errno into a segfault.

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