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eff-nix··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
Exactly. The abstract essentially says “these people make for great employees for X Y Z reasons, but many people look at that and come up with conspiracy theories based on it”. Then the Parent says “look the research agrees with me!”
eff-nix··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
Do we have evidence these people did fellowship together?
eff-nix··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
No.
eff-nix··on Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)
Anywhere I can read more about this float accumulation with 2’s complement?
eff-nix··on Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)
Sure, when comparing 0’s to anything else. But what about normal distribution to uniform in 0,1? The author hand waves something about signs but it’s not very well reasoned - that’s just a single bit in floats.

And what of the Pi test - I’d expect that to flip many more bits than the 1-bit one.

eff-nix··on Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)
But why do we expect random data to result in more bit flips? That seems harder to argue than the mechanics of a basic branch prediction system.
eff-nix··on CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices
My friend drunk drove and crashed, the cop —correctly— gave him a long talk about how that’s a bad call, then let him off. Does that mean drunk driving is now legal?
eff-nix··on CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices
If you tell the TSA you’re a sovereign citizen for 15 minutes they’re legally required to let you fly.
eff-nix··on Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County
LGB is closer - but that has its own aliasing issues.
eff-nix··on California Evacuation Map as Chemical Tank Will Fail or Explode: 'Bad'
Evacuation map doesn’t seem to take into account wind at all.

But then, if it did Disneyland would need to shut down…

eff-nix··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
Earlier today, I tried to run a simple nix tool a colleague made. 3 hours into the build, it crashed. Something about a missing python import? I ran the exact same ‘nix develop’ again. 2 hours later, it worked.

Keep in mind: this was just a simple rest server. But for some reason it needed to (nondeterministically) build the word from scratch to send that single request.

I’ll take a docker system thank you.