Dr. Dabbles

What he won’t support is them raising prices mostly for Nvidia. TSMC has done this in the past as a clear move to cut nuisance production, and nvidia’s books are full of nonsense orders that they can’t possibly fill. Wei isn’t an idiot, unless Nvidia fronts a lot of cash, it’s unlikely to work out in Jensen’s favor.

To rip off investors. If they pretend to be on the same hype train as everyone else, and lie about what their product does, there’s a chance some idiot will give them more money.

Christmas scenes being set up at arts and crafts stores already. Like, let me enjoy the last few months of warmth!

The guy gets his life force from being talked about. If we ignore him completely and show his daughter the support he never gave her, it will ruin him.

You’re looking at a tweet from well over a year ago. They’ve killed well over 1500 animals at this point, and I think you might want to look up “neuralink” on literally any news site.

The kind of weirdos that simp for Musk are the exact same ones that dread being openly ridiculed for it. Their Twitter profile is part of their actual persona.

The other 8 died, too. In excruciating pain. One of them vomited to death. These people are barbaric and should face animal cruelty charges.

What’s more depressing is that if you make $8 an hour, you essentially get all of your paid taxes back at the end of the year because you don’t make enough to pay them. The standard deduction is $13,850 leaving you with $2790 of taxable income for the year. So you’d owe $279 in federal income tax at the end of the year, but you would almost certainly get that reduced to zero after income, child, or housing credits.

Depressing.

All records created by customers, yes. The alternative used was our default structure, but that structure is also in ram. The problem faced is that a resolver can be targeted in several ways, one of which is querying for zone data that doesn’t exist. When latency is the primary performance concern, and you need a low performance cost method to look up whether a request can be (maybe) served or (absolutely) not, bloom filters look like the right filter to use.

Performance wise (latency), there was no improvement in lookup performance, nor a reduction on CPU consumed. So for us in that application, it didn’t make sense.

Big table was the example I was thinking of. A massive k:v store that can start at 4, 8, 32TB you can have in RAM. The problem is, you can only answer negative membership in the key space, not positive. So if you’re looking up a key you either get a absolute no or an opportunity to scan the key space anyway.

What I’ve tended to find is that indexes make more sense in most scenarios. Not all, because there’s always exceptions. But indexes tend to be faster, still consume vastly less space that the data being indexed, and they tend to offer more powerful features rather than just membership in a set.

A bloom filter tells you that an element is not in a set, or maybe is in a set. The only guaranteed accurate result is not in set. You also have to reproduce the filter whenever you remove items from the set being tested, which isn’t a free operation.

I’ve seen bloom filters abused in a lot of ways that make no sense, but very few ways that do. The classical example of scanning a k:v space in a memory efficient manner is the best application I’ve seen, but it still doesn’t really work if you need to know a key is definitely in that space. You still have to perform the lookup.

An application for bloom filter I was working on was mitigating the effects of abusive lookups for non-existent names on a DNS platform, and it turned out that even with absurdly high lookup rates, adding an initial check for negative presence in a record set, we didn’t benefit at all.

Did you not catch the reference, or are you dedicated to not having fun with this? 😆

But what if the runway was a treadmill?

It absolutely does. Airplanes were being shot down in Vietnam with an SKS firing 7.62 rounds. Now, the question at that point would be do you want someone lobbing bullets into the sky so they can fall back down and potentially hurt someone or damage something? Absolutely not. But it’s not only possible, it has been done before.

Cops have a LOT of rifles, not just hand guns. 🤷‍♂️

Don’t forget a mountain of benzos.

The day always comes, or you trade it before and someone else picks up the pieces. I’m sure whoever has my Model 3 is happy I replaced t he blown drive unit, but they’ll have to replace the next one out of pocket.

Tesla. Literally everything involving Tesla. Customer support, vehicle service, sales. And it’s gotten worse over the years, so I’m a one-and-done customer.

Yeah, exactly. This isn’t how radio signals work at all. This is a tall tale and never happened. When I searched for such a story, none came up. When I removed the location and searched for the same type of story, thousands of them are floating around the internet. Powering military tents from radar emissions, powering homes from radio tower emissions, all of them are re-tellings of stories someone once heard from the 1930s, 1940s, and so on. They’re effectively chain letters for the confused.

A couple things stick out in your story. first off, there’s no such thing as a “not spot” when it comes to radio. That’s not how RF energy works at all. Second, zero news stories show up when I search for such a story. So my guess is that this tall tale has spread in legend form and relies on people not realizing how radio signals work.

You likely aren’t going to get enough energy to make up for the losses incurred when boosting voltage to 4.2 volts or whatever your battery requires. There’s tons and tons of scam devices out there in the world that attempt to convince people these devices make sense, but they really aren’t usable for anything meaningful.

Charging a battery with a couple microamps per hour. Would probably negates things like self-discharge? But certainly wouldn’t recharge a battery that you have in use with a device. And if that device has radio or storage attached to it, you definitely aren’t gaining enough electricity.