Do we need a new term to describe "unified memory" where the cpu and gpu are still isolated from each other and memory needs to be allocated for one or the other and "unified memory" where the cpu and gpu can both access the same addresses. Which systems use which?
Readit Newsseanalltogether commented on Nvidia DGX Spark nvidia.com/en-us/products... · Posted by u/janandonly
The most insane thing about this headline is that implies parents are giving their children devices with unfiltered access to the Internet and then the government needs to play wack-a-mole with every single website they come across to prevent children from accessing it.
I don't know about iOS, but on Android I have access to Family Link which means I can control what apps my kids can run off the app store, and I can control whether they can access explicit websites (according to google) or have free access. I know other parents that are well aware of this tool, but they have to make sure those phones or tablets are signed into with accounts they have ownership of. I think this is the direction that the government should be pushing for and making sure apple google and microsoft are all playing nicely to allow parents to manage devices under the family.
seanalltogether commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
Biggest alarmist is movement against Nestle using water for bottled water in California. They don’t even use as much as an average golf course.
How much water is wasted on golf courses in these arid regions? Or growing water intensive crops like alfalfa that isn’t even directly used to feed people.
I remember doing the calculations on the Nestle plant that caused a big storm a few years ago. The plant sat on several acres of land, which if converted into an alfalfa farm, would have consumed the same amount of water. The surrounding area was littered with alfalfa farms so it wasn't an unfair comparison. Meanwhile that bottling plant employs dozens of people, far more then a farm would have.
seanalltogether commented on Prime Number Grid susam.net/primegrid.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
it's interesting that for 6 cols only the 1st and 5th column has value, ignoring first row.
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. So in a base-6 counting system primes must be very intuitive to spot. Although also expanding it out to base-12 shows the primes always fall into 4 specific rows.
seanalltogether commented on Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video] youtube.com/watch?v=tl7bI... · Posted by u/zdw
I hope they are successful. What I appreciate about DF is their ability to explain what techniques the developers chose to use in the rendering process. Game engines are so buzzwordy these days and they're often good about showing in the videos which rendering techniques are turned on or off based on settings.
Do we have a reasonable definition for what intelligence is? Is it like defining porn, you just know it when you see it?
seanalltogether commented on The internet wants to check your ID newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/jbegley
Far better to promote device controls than service ID checks.
* It allows parents to decide what age to allow kiddo to see certain content, not the state.
* It allows others to restrict content too. E.g. a gambling addict who doesn't want to see gambling content.
* It has no risk of leaks etc for adults.
I'd like to see laws mandating that service provides respect a new content restriction header or something like that.
I completely agree. Android devices already have rudimentary access controls for kids through Family Link. I'd much prefer governments put pressure on Google, Apple and Microsoft to provide full control of locking down devices, apps and websites that can be managed through a kind of family service. Let me lock things down using government supplied blocklists, or google, apple blocklists with the ability to selectively enable whatever i want for the kids.
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> Test Type: Idle desktop only (no applications or media playback, unless otherwise stated)
It's weird they didn't also include a simple web browser test that navigates a set of web links and scrolls the window occasionally. Just something very light at least, doesn't even have to be heavy like video playback.
seanalltogether commented on Some arguments against a land value tax (2024) lesswrong.com/posts/CCuJo... · Posted by u/danny00
Let's be real: if this scenario unfolded today, your land would be worth more as housing/infrastructure/commercial/etc. than as farmland, some real estate developer would buy it from you, and you'd make a lot of money without having to do anything. If there was a 75% LVT then you'd just make less money.
The reason I brought up this argument is because this exact scenario is happening all over the UK and Ireland right now. One of the houses my wife and I looked at purchasing was built about 20 minutes outside Belfast on old farmland that was converted into a new housing estate. The farms surrounding this housing estate have been incorporated into a new village.