Emacs Makes All Computing Simple.

Quit reddit, problem solved.

Someone told me a while back that Rev. Sun Myung Moon was going to give a speech in a stadium near me. My first reaction was to be terrified at the idea of going, because he was likely to speak in Korean. The event might turn into a mass wedding without my even realizing it. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I’ve always thought you were supposed to at least talk to the person before going off on something like that.

There are some Lemmy instances without downvoting, but none without upvoting. That affects what gets posted. Also it doesn’t matter much what an individual instance does, since a lively community has users from lots of instances contributing. That’s the point of federation, I thought.

Mathoverflow is still quite active though it’s just math. Other than that, there are some good personal blogs and the like. Mathstodon.xyz is a math focused Mastodon instance if that helps. Bonfire doesn’t sound interesting at the moment but maybe it will become so. I’m pretty down on the whole concept of social media though. I’m here out of habit.

When psychologist Jeff Wine’s daughter was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, he decided to change his entire research program to focus on the disease. Since then, he’s helped foster significant advances in the field.

This is not news, the incident is well known and is months old and there has been fallout. The multiple posts start to feel like spam.

This is months old and yes there has been fallout, but posting it as if it was new is misleading.

For algorithms, anything that isn’t a straightforward scrutable way of presenting user content is bad, IMO. Algorithms that promote engagement, monetization, and sycophants are bad.

I would say scrutability in itself doesn’t automatically make an algorithm good. “Demote everything that doesn’t support Trump” is perfectly scrutable but leads to a skewed discussion.

In fact I would say any content boosting algorithm at all leads to skew and what you call sycophancy. That includes upvotes/downvotes that affect what posts users see first. So I would get rid of all that stuff and just show purely chronologically.

I haven’t noticed much difference between instances either, though I haven’t been on many. I moved from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml because .ml has a bit less censorship (e.g. .ml lets me subscribe to !covid@hexbear.net). They are otherwise about the same, as far as I can tell.

It’s gonna take a long time, just deal with it. 12 hours is expected, right? Get some sleep and check it afterwards.

Useless article. No dates, prices, specs other than the capacity, etc. It does mention this is a new HAMR platform that might reach 100TB in a drive someday.

Delay line memory in gigabytes? Bold indeed.

Maybe they can enhance it to play the whole game instead of just the end.

Add mustard.

What are you saying here? Lemmy has algorithms too, and while it has some good points, it’s disappointing in lots of ways too.

Added: the article is mostly about Mastodon which is more pleasant than Twitter because it lets you listen to just your own selected coterie, also not entirely good.

They get fairly close from what I understand. But while they are more power efficient, they’re still behind in pure speed. The X925 goes for speed at the cost of power, at least per this:

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-cortex-x925-reaching-desktop

No the battery is LFP, fairly conventional. The new thing is the super powerful charger and the cooling system.

No really if you could convert heat to motion more efficiently than the (ideal) Carnot engine, you could have perpetual motion since the Carnot engine is reversible.

Lots of used cars on sfbay.craigslist.org. Some surprisingly low prices. No idea about mechanical condition though.

This is more about the Arm X925 core than about Nvidia. The X925 is a new superscalar ARM core that’s the first one competitive with current x64 at single threaded compute.