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russler23··on SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights
It is a step in the right direction, and indicates the court may be amenable to a broader recognition of rights violations in the future.
russler23··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
I’d like to say that I enjoyed first learning machine code on a VAX due to its orthogonal instructions and large fans, but it wouldn’t be true, because I learned on a MIPS machine.
russler23··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
Impressive, but pretty unsurprising given the A series. 100 points higher than the A14 is a less than 10% improvement.

From Apple’s somewhat uninformative slides, we should expect peak power draw around 15W? The A series draws half that for > 90% monocore performance, so scaling seems on target.

russler23··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
Those seem unrelated to me?

– a pro-vax fan-liker

russler23··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
Ethernet ≠ Internet
russler23··on Regular cannabis use were associated with poorer cognitive performance
We tried LSD and free love already haha

https://allthatsinteresting.com/margaret-howe-lovatt

russler23··on Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
You’re overlooking that each office has a scope of authority. The relevant authority in this case is the Constitution, unless we are no longer a nation of law.
russler23··on Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
I feel like the above comment is the HN analogue of an old man yelling at skateboard kids from his porch.
russler23··on US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
We’ve sacrificed a lot of jobs for ideals across human history, and I’m totally okay with that.
russler23··on Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says
The judiciary’s fiscal dependence on the popularly elected bodies is by design and a necessary check on its power. More independent state organs habitually trend towards tyranny. In theory, a deeply unpopular, but principled stance may result in funding cuts, but will survive those; whereas an unprincipled power grab will run into a Congress ready to curtail it.
russler23··on Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
RISC is a philosophy, not so much a set of rules. If you let the creators of RISC define their approach, the division between RISC and CISC becomes more clear. Most summaries of RISC oversimplify it. Maybe that’s ironic, haha.
russler23··on FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars
Justifying lethal force against people running away astounds me.

It’s one thing if you’re running away with nuclear launch codes, but I’m skeptical that was the case here.

russler23··on [dead]
"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world—"

— Donald Trump, 9 months after the Tiananmen Square protests

Edit: Saw this story on Daring Fireball, and found the original interview.

russler23··on TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
Are you under the impression that Taiwan wouldn’t welcome US sanctions on China with dancing in the streets? Taiwan was bitterly opposed to detente.
russler23··on TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
5nm will be a more budget-friendly option for TSMC customers in 2023. This is a conservative proposal, not something bleeding edge.
russler23··on TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
Definitely true in general, but it would surprise me if the Trump administration wasn’t involved in making this particular project happen, just on the strategic importance alone.
russler23··on How Long Was Venus Habitable?
Potentially habitable planets close enough to colonize are rare enough that we can’t afford mistakes either way.
russler23··on Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety
A generalization, but accurate enough. Disappointing to see it getting downvotes. Intel 10nm and TSMC 7nm have similar characteristics, as a brief Wikipedia search reveals.
russler23··on How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
Fairness at gunpoint is law in a nutshell. Maybe it should surprise us, that our species isn’t good by nature.
russler23··on A new RISC-V version of uLisp
JS is inevitable, it just has a flattened curve.
russler23··on U.S. govt, tech industry discuss using location data to combat coronavirus
/s

I hope.

Explicatory edit: The CCP, like every government in history, is motivated to conceal its human rights abuses. China also lacks a free press, an important window into its current events. Accordingly, there are obstacles in the way of justly assessing China’s response to this crisis.

russler23··on Ampere Altra 80-core ARM CPU
I remember when Linux on Arm was the new hotness. That was 2005.
russler23··on How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
Thinking of the US as “the good guy” deters improvement. If anything, the US is “the better guy,” a more modest claim.
russler23··on WD SweRV Cores Roadmap / Architectural Discussion from RISC-V Summit 2019
Interesting talk because SweRV EH2 is multithreaded.

Additional Resources

SweRV GitHub: https://github.com/chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV Apache license. Commercial support available from Codasip.

Tom Verbeure's SweRV EH1 deep dive (posted to HN before): https://tomverbeure.github.io/2019/03/13/SweRV.html

Western Digital's deep dive no longer available :( https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-RISC-V-Meetup/events/2584829...

russler23··on UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange
Assange is an anarchist. Asking him to please leave some of the system up while he’s tearing other parts of it down is fundamentally misunderstanding the man. Surprisingly, despite the risks he took with other people’s lives, he’s done more good than harm. I hope you were more outraged by the war crimes committed by both the US and the Taliban than you are at Assange’s informative negligence.
russler23··on Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain
That sounds plausible, but a little speculative. Perhaps a follow-up study is in order?
russler23··on Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)
Alas, a point is 0-dimensional.

(I deserve downvotes for this!)

russler23··on Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
That’s true, and the public anger at Smollett that I see as unreasonable might have to do with that suppression of questioning. But I think the anger has more to do with a) white people who feel defensive about being called racist and b) law-and-order types who are offended by the attempt to deceive the police. They are taking this opportunity to push back against a falsehood, even though it’s a stupid falsehood.

The story was just uncomfortable for me, so I felt relief when contradictory testimony was found. I live near Chicago in an area both white and black, and mainly left-wing. I didn’t dare bring the story up with my black neighbors, and never heard about it from them either, despite its high profile. It was a very self-conscious couple of weeks. In contrast, when Obama was running for office people couldn’t help talking about that, and the sense of pride was real.

There was really no benefit to expressing doubt either; actual tragedies and abuses (Laquan McDonald murdered by the CPD, for instance) are still fresh in everyone’s mind. If current events weren’t as horrific people might be more comfortable expressing doubt and maybe even laughter over a guy with basically a homemade lanyard around his neck.

russler23··on Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
I guess I’d call it an appeal to racial sympathy more than anything else. If Chicago wants to charge him with filing a false report, they can go right ahead, but I’m pretty sure they don’t need his personal records to establish that.
russler23··on Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
> The implications being that the courts are corrupt?

You don’t have to be corrupt to be ineffective. Have you been following patent rulings? Or FISA?

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