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adfgionionio commented on Istanbul's blue tile paradise onthearts.com/p/istanbuls... · Posted by u/keiferski

JKolios · 3 years ago

That is not even a good example of lying by omission. You directly altered the facts as I presented them by joining sentence fragments. In this case, the grandparent comment is replying to an article that mentions the Hagia Sophia in the same breath as buildings that were built as mosques and have gone through their entire lifetimes as mosques. The comment does not have to restate the article point by point. If anyone is guilty of lying by omission it's the article's writer. They've erased most of the building's history.

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

>That is...a good example of lying by omission. You directly...presented...this case...point by point.

Thank you!

What the article's author wrote is fine. The Hagia Sophia was a mosque for about five hundred years. It is a mosque today. The last time it was a church is the 15th century. It is perfectly fine to mention a famous mosque in an article about mosques without getting into its (literally) ancient history.

pirate787, on the other hand, deliberately hid its long history as a mosque in service of proving a point.

adfgionionio commented on Istanbul's blue tile paradise onthearts.com/p/istanbuls... · Posted by u/keiferski

JKolios · 3 years ago

What exactly is "false" or "fake news" about the parent comment? All three sentences look entirely factual to me:

The Hagia Sophia was indeed a church. The Hagia Sophia was also indeed a museum. The reconversion into a Mosque was also widely criticized.

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

Do you think this is an accurate summary of your opinion on this matter?

>What exactly is "false" or "fake news" about the parent comment? All three sentences...to me. The...museum...was also widely criticized.

Lying by omission is still lying. Context matters.

adfgionionio commented on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr theintercept.com/2023/05/... · Posted by u/mikece

Gunax · 3 years ago

I think we need a term for 'taking public information and deriving nondisclosed information from it'. It isn't really spying, but it's more than just access.

It's not about agreeing or disagreeing, but I think a lot of the debate here is just people arguing the semantics of what's going on.

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

> I think we need a term for 'taking public information and deriving nondisclosed information from it'. It isn't really spying, but it's more than just access.

Sure, but I don't think that was done here. People were organizing protests by Twit. All the relevant information was made public because the protesters wanted people to show up.

I can imagine similar scenarios that would be a problem, but this seems about as benign as I can imagine.

adfgionionio commented on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr theintercept.com/2023/05/... · Posted by u/mikece

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

>we don't really consider it "protesting" at all when we organize activities.

Everyone else does.

adfgionionio commented on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr theintercept.com/2023/05/... · Posted by u/mikece

landemva · 3 years ago

From the article, "the agency had cast such a broad surveillance net that large volumes of innocuous First Amendment-protected activity regularly got swept up as potential security threats."

This is funded by unlimited federal deficit spending. Let's reduce their budgets.

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

The police are allowed to "surveil" protected speech, unless you want to ban them from reading the newspaper.

I really don't see the issue. This is information people knowingly release to the public, so the cops are not spying on anyone. A protest is a potential security threat, which is why the cops always show up. I see no evidence this information was abused to try to prevent people from expressing their opinions. What am I supposed to be upset about?

Also, as you very well know, the large majority of the Federal budget goes to social services like healthcare and social security. The entire DoJ budget is a drop in the ocean. Slashing federal budgets will do nothing to eliminate this sort of program but will result in Granny living on the street.

adfgionionio commented on ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021) chipsandcheese.com/2021/0... · Posted by u/NavinF

tux3 · 3 years ago

The x86 decoders consume a reasonable amount of power, but the trouble is making them wider without affecting that.

I have an AMD CPU. Zen CPUs come with a fairly wide backend. But the frontend is what it is (especially early Zen), and without SMT it's essentially impossible to keep all those execution units fed. It's not that 8 x86 decoders wouldn't be a benefit, it's just that more decoders isn't cheap in x86 cores, each extra decoder is a serious cost.

If you compare with the big ARM cores, having a wide frontend is not a complex research problem or an impractical cost. 8 wide ARM decode is completely practical. You even have open source superscalar RISC-V cores just publicly available on Github running on FPGAs with 8 wide decode. Large frontends are (relatively) cheap and easy, if you're not x86.

So when we notice that the narrower x86 CPU's decode doesn't consume that much (a "drop in the ocean"), that's because it was designed narrower to keep the PPA reasonable! The reason I can't feed my Zen backend isn't because having a wide frontend is useless and I should just enable SMT anyways, it's because x86 makes wide decodes much less practical than competing architectures.

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

The decoders are largely irrelevant. All modern x86 machines use a uop cache. The large majority of instructions hit in this cache and do not need to hit the decoders at all. As a result, the decoders can spend much of their time shut down. You already have four-ish decoders that are idle most of the time; why do you want eight-ish decoders that are idle nearly all the time?

No one would design an ISA like x86 these days. It definitely does use more power and more die area than strictly needed. It definitely does reduce performance in some applications. It definitely did take heroic engineering efforts to make x86 work well. But, all told, it just doesn't matter very much.

adfgionionio commented on U.S. focuses on invigorating ‘chiplets’ to stay cutting-edge in tech nytimes.com/2023/05/11/te... · Posted by u/adapteva

georgeburdell · 3 years ago

Chiplets are the microservices of the semiconductor world. It’s good in that smaller individual chips are cheaper to produce, and the whole package is more scalable, but it’s bad in that there are interfaces that reduce performance vs a monolith

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

This isn't really true. Chiplets can be used to "break apart" what would traditionally be one chip, but also to more tightly integrate things that would previously have been discrete components on the motherboard and to use the right process for given a functionality.

Consider AMD's approach. They use multiple CPU dies in a single package to build very high core count systems that would previously have required multiple sockets. Bringing these into one package can make communication more energy-efficient and faster, as well as simplifying other aspects of the system. They also use different processes for different dies. The "IO die" is fabricated on a slightly old process as it is not performance-critical while the best process is reserved for building cores.

adfgionionio commented on Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards frame.work/ca/en/blog/get... · Posted by u/Pasorrijer

humanistbot · 3 years ago

I'm using this to yet again make my semi-annual plea for someone to please make a framework-compatible keyboard with a Thinkpad-style trackpoint. That's the only thing keeping me on Lenovo at this point, decades of ingrained muscle memory. The patent is expired (from 1997 and 1998) and it'd be huge!

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

It might be possible to use an OG Thinkpad keyboard. Assuming it physically fits in the machine, the electronics are quite straightforward. People have already adapted old Thinkpad keyboards to work over USB. I am pretty sure they'll be too thick, but I will take some measurements anyway.

It is even conceivable someone is still manufacturing these keyboards. I see several companies listing Thinkpad keyboards on AliBaba, but I don't know AliBaba well enough to tell if they are manufacturing new keyboards or just selling old ones.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Genuine-New-Laptop-Ke...

adfgionionio commented on Total Crap – A magazine written by AI mcsweeneys.net/articles/i... · Posted by u/zdw

ambrozk · 3 years ago

I see we've passed "first they ignore you" and moved onto the "next they laugh at you" phase of LLM denial. The next step is "you win."

adfgionionio · 3 years ago

People said this about Bitcoin. They said it about Google Glass. They said it about VR headsets. They never seemed to notice the same logic applied to Microsoft Bob.