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peter_d_sherman
18,476karma·5,706submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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>"FP8, which has been used as the standard until now, was only supported by the RTX 40/50 series.
In contrast, INT8 ConvRot is attracting attention because it can benefit from hardware…
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>"Compatible with 386 (and later systems) with 2MB (or more) memory ." Looks good! An order of magnitude (or two!) less code complexity and less memory hungry than most of 2026's …
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I found the above article while searching for places in the world with the least number of English speakers per capita, coupled with the most extreme weather conditions imaginable (according to Gemini…
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So I read a whole bunch of text trying to figure out what this thing is... Then I see the following line in the 'How it compares' section: "Self-hostable server (open source)": ngr…
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Great article overall! But: >" Initially, the Amiga had a reputation for being unstable. But that was largely because early Amiga software wasn’t very well written. Amiga software was prone …
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>"The internal memo disclosed that Meta employees consumed 73.7 trillion tokens in roughly 30 days , a figure tracked on an internal leaderboard called "Claudeonomics" — a referenc…
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>"Here is the crux of it: Multiplying matrices of numbers is hard, even for computers with matrix multiplier units. But adding banks of numbers is a lot easier. (Even your own neurons like add…
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Related: https://github.com/antirez/ds4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142108 …
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>"Features o Tiny: around 1100 sloc of ANSI C o Works within a fixed-sized memory region: no additional memory is allocated o Built-in controls: window, scrollable panel, button, slider, tex…
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"The transmission medium of Chaosnet is called the ether. Physically it is a coaxial cable, of the semi-rigid 1/2 inch low-loss type used for cable TV, with 75-ohm termination at both ends. …
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'Botsitting' -- that word is going into my 2026 lexicon! :-)