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gerardvivancos··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
Asking the question with the provided data is too simplistic to even argue about.

"Here's the non contextualized percentages, what do you think of the difference between this two percentages which are more than two centuries apart, and from different countries?"

gerardvivancos··on Markov Chains are the Original Language Models
It could be me not understanding something but:

> Since there is a 25% probability Alice is at the grocery store, we multiply that with the probility of her transitioning to the Planetarium: 25% ∗ 75%

Shouldn't this be 25% * 70%?

gerardvivancos··on Why crypto gaming is not the future
> The main benefit of using a blockchain is that you don't have to build a store and manage payment processing yourself

Here by “you”, do you mean the player or the developer? If you mean the former, that’s solvable if implemented in the game (MTGO, diablo 3’s auction house, and how could I forget Artifact). If you mean the latter, I don’t see this as an advantage to me as a player at all. In fact I could argue that having to purchase eth would be an extra hassle to me.

> Also, if the games servers died so would your collection of cards. If for whatever reason the devs killed Gods Unchained someone could build a fork and we'd be able to take our cards over there because the asset is decoupled from the game

I don’t think I’m understanding this right. Is the game open source?

What’s the asset that’s decoupled from the game? The ownership data on the blockchain?

If the game logic is not fork-able as well, I don’t see the value in forking the chain. Your collection will be lost as cards in the sense of gaming cards.

I edited my post because in the paragraph above I compared that to “the Hearthstone team releasing the card art to the players once they shut down the game”, but I’ve since realized that if the fork is about the ownership, the art would also be lost unless it was either released to the public or already public. In any case I can’t see the value in keeping original ownership information about (a copy or instance of) public digital art.

I’m asking in good faith just to be clear.

gerardvivancos··on Aranese: Spain's little-known language
Historically, those taxes had been used to pay for wars and other acts that were used to spread Castillian in regions it was not spoken. Both in the Peninsula and South America.

Nowadays, taxpayers money funds institutions that preserve and promote Castillian.

Maybe don’t try to kill languages and life support won’t be needed.

Also, it makes more sense to spend in preserving something fragile than to promote something already popular and strong.

I am inclined to think it is not the taxpayers money that you are after

gerardvivancos··on Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
It is easy to make my 2019 16" MBP consume more than the 96W that the included charger provides. Loading the CPU alone gets you close to that. Just add some discrete GPU work and there you go.

In fact, since connecting an external display enables the dGPU, the consumption can increase enough to get you over 96W with the CPU alone

gerardvivancos··on Daddy isn’t coming back
I'm really unsure whether or not to send this message. I just hope it’s useful.

Just wanted to say I’m glad you’re there, for him and for yourself. I’m glad you’ve got something to latch onto.

Keep being there, sometimes it’s hard but it always pays off in the long run.

Again, hope it helps

gerardvivancos··on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
If you mean including PS3 and X360, these two consoles had discrete GPUs. The move to AMD APUs was on the Xbox One and PS4 generation
gerardvivancos··on WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
Assuming US keyboard, you can use US International as a secondary layout. That would make typing “single quote” then the letter an acute accented letter.

So ‘ then a would become á

gerardvivancos··on WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
I also use dual layouts and found that switching between US (for coding) and US international (typing with diacritics) is the most comfortable setup for me. Both in Win and Mac switching between both modes is just pressing Ctrl+Space and the US international layout allows me to type all diacritics I use (Catalan) with an US keyboard.

Maybe I’m just stating the obvious and everybody already knows and is moving aware from that, so I won’t explain the details. But if someone is interested just let me know

gerardvivancos··on AMD Radeon Pro W6000X for Mac Pro
To be fair, you can compare those 80 CUs to the Xbox Series X 52 CUs. Or to any other AMD’s RDNA2 GPU out there. You are going to need to know what’s the core frequency and other GPU specs to properly compare but it is not just marketing.
gerardvivancos··on AMD Radeon Pro W6000X for Mac Pro
In AMD’s terms, a Compute Unit is roughly a grouping of Stream Processors. It has more stuff than the SPs and the exact configuration is different across architectures/generations

If you’re interested in this particular GPU you’ll want to read the RDNA2 white paper [0]

Regarding CUDA cores, the architecture that Nvidia uses is substantially different from AMD’s, but still there is a similar grouping where the CUDA cores live in groups called Streaming Multiprocessors. Which -as opposed to AMD’s CUs- do not include TMUs as far as I know so there’s another level of hierarchy called the TPC and then the GPC.

There’s a great article [1] from Fabien Sanglard about Nvidia’s recent architectural history which you might find of interest

It is hard to compare amounts of any of these things against each other because there’s no direct equivalence. They are simply different architectural approaches and while one could say that CUDA cores are equivalent in function to Stream Processors and be superficially right, there are too many important differences which make comparisons based on how many of them are available an apples to oranges comparison.

It is even not straight forward to compare CUDA cores to CUDA cores or CUs to CUs across different generations.

[0]: https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/rdna-whitepaper.p...

[1]: https://fabiensanglard.net/cuda/

gerardvivancos··on M1 MacBook battery life so good Apple thought indicator was broken
M1 iPads have 28.65 Wh (11”) and 40.88 Wh (12.9”) batteries while the M1 MacBook Pro has a 58.2 Wh one.

https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/

gerardvivancos··on The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus
You might want to know that Dropbox Passwords hogs the CPU On windows if the browser is running but the Passwords native app is not. You will see high CPU usage from the Windows Delivery Optimization service, but the culprit is DBP whose extension is trying to contact with the host app in a loop, constantly spawning processes that die.
gerardvivancos··on Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering
On Nvidia cards the RT cores are the ones handling BVH traversal and ray-triangle intersection operations.

The part of the hardware that is running the DLSS ML model are the tensor cores. But the algorithm and the model itself is not baked in, it is provided in the driver and/or game

gerardvivancos··on Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 2: Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections
I would assume that's because the hardware they provide is for calculating the triangle-ray intersection.

You can use that for path tracing, but not only.

gerardvivancos··on Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
I'm not sure this is an issue specific to this update. The very same description in the Apple forums matches what happened on my work Macbook Pro (a 2018 one if I'm not mistaken) while installing a different update a few months ago.

I won't say this is not an issue specific to this supplemental update, but I'm not buying it is _yet_.

It looks like one of the usual consequences of a system update going wrong. See that the user reports that after fixing this through Recovery Mode, they were asked to install the very same update again, as if nothing had happened. This looks like a rollback.

I wish MacOS was more transparent about what actually happens on those cases. If you had to roll back, let me know. If you could not install because of any reason, let me know.

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Why does not the status quo require some qualified majority?
gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
"Majority" because you-say-so.

No one talks about the ones who want to remain? No one besides all the media in the whole country, you mean?

C'mon.

According to you, the victims are some 50%-ish of people, but somehow the other 50%-ish (that is implied in what you say) is not?

Violent riots? Do you know what a violent riot is? Have you seen the police actions? Have you been on the streets these days? Let's stop with the lie spreading.

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Let's imagine the referendum can't happen. Then an unknown % of people have to hold the passport they don't want to hold. How is that better?

Besides, who says that anyone is going to lose their citizenship? Wouldn't that be something to negotiate over? Can't you hold the Spanish citizenship AND another one if you are from LATAM? It's just a matter of political willingness.

But I guess it is better to introduce artificial barriers for this to happen if you happen to be in the situation that you want.

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
The referendum can happen anyway and the application of the result can be done by modifying the Constitution.

Let's be honest, the only reason not to allow the referendum is that the Spanish Gvnt. does not want it to happen.

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Ok, so he's the same one who ordered detentions on 9 Catalan independence supporters under the accusations that they were preparing terrorist actions, even though there is no evidence on that?

It seems like he sees terrorism everywhere when he looks at Catalans.

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
There’s a whole lot of attack surface on the Spanish justice system, to be honest
gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
What’s the name of the judge?
gerardvivancos··on GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic
Not a judge but the Guardia Civil, which is a police force
gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Which judge? Can you name the judge?

It's the Guardia Civil (police) requesting the takedown.

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
The argument for self defence still holds. Just look at the police's actions these days. Is anyone here interested in the examples?

Anyway, there's a huge leap from riots (and, please, look at riots in other countries...) to terrorism.

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Distribution of power in theory, yes. If you're Spanish you very well know that's NOT the case.

And it's clear that this lack of separation is rooted in the minds of Spanish politicians and governors. Here's the Vice President of Spain basically threatening the Belgium Executive if the Belgium Courts don't extradite Carles Puigdemont

https://thediplomatinspain.com/en/2019/10/spain-tells-belgiu...

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Honestly, I would not rule out the Guardia Civil from writing amateurish content.
gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
What's incredible is that a police order is enough to take down an app or website, without any court intervention.

Not that Spanish courts are to be trusted on matters like this, but still...

gerardvivancos··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Actually the shutdown is asked by the Guardia Civil, which is a police, not a judicial authority
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