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barsoap OP ,

HDDs won't go away any time soon and that's also exactly what he says but the industry is nowhere close to moving as much product as it did in the past, and the number of companies has been reduced to pretty much three. Technology also isn't going to improve drastically any more while NAND storage only needs that much of a price reduction to match HDDs, currently about 15 vs. 50 Euro/TB. Not spitting distance but it's getting darn close.

It says, after all, "boom and bust" not "rise and fall".

Also, no, tapes are more cost-effective. An LTO-8 tape is about 80 Euros, that's less than seven Euros per TB (uncompressed).

barsoap ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7meZZeYllo

barsoap ,

There's the blacks of the UK, the rest of us likes em well enough.

barsoap ,

Hmm. Why am I mildly surprised that I can't find anything non-regular about the syntax. There's nested comments but that's part of MIME quoting, not the actual address format, so it's reasonable to not accept those in an HTML entry field because HTML is many things, but not MIME.

barsoap ,

Yes but do you condemn Hamas.

barsoap ,

Women are told to shut their mouth and keep their opinions to themselves all the fucking time.

I think right about now would be a good time to check your privilege. People overall are told that all the time, yet somehow women still by and large have shoulders to cry on, places to complain where they're heard. Wait, no, crying on shoulders, complaining, again, that would be pathetic for men never mind.

barsoap ,

You’re forgetting the “male” part of oligarchs.

Is it forgetting or, looking at the percentages, considering it irrelevant to the overall problems the system has?

How large a percentage of men are oligarchs, and how large a percentage of oligarchs are women? Which one is, in <randomliberalcounttry>, the larger number? Would oligarchy be any better if all oligarchs were women? Now as an anarchist I might be biassed here but given that oligarchy is a system of rule I'd say it's the actual problem, not the gender distribution that's a mere nuance. I don't care whether we're all ruled by left-handed people, or ones with heterochromatic eyes, their geno- or phenotype doesn't matter what matters is that they are in power. For more education, consult your friendly neighbourhood anarcho-feminist.

barsoap , (edited )

I mean yes I could have used the term "toxic masculinity" but men not steeped deeply in feminist theory tend to react badly to it, and self-identified feminists (usually also not quite firm in theory) getting called out for engaging in it tend to react even worse. And I already used quite a lot of budget on the privilege check, so, yeah, better avoid that one.

Oh your edit.

Have you ever asked yourself why people only bring up male victims when we are talking about female victims?

Because the overall narrative is women are weak and in need of protection while men are not, and if they are, it's because they are a) toxic male view losers b) toxic female view in some way inherently broken because how can you fail as a man in a world made for men.

Looking at the difference between the toxic perspectives: At least the male one doesn't lend itself to denying the very existence of men with issues. On the toxic female side you get things like radfems shutting down domestic violence centres for men as it clashes with their idea that men are inherently never victims. Reality, it seems, has a compassionate bias so it has to be denied.

barsoap ,

(btw did you see my edit to your edit)

Advocating for women generally is advocacy for men as well.

In theory, yes. In practice you get self-avowed feminists reinforcing the patriarchy, hence why I did the privilege checking.

barsoap ,

I now could start a big list starting with men being four times more likely to commit suicide than women. But I won't, because I assume you're aware of all those gendered inequalities affecting men just as I was aware of every single one of the bullet points you mentioned.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

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barsoap ,

Oh not just "at this point" I've been busy figuring out what sticks with people vs. what doesn't for at least two decades now. Points that, when prodded, don't cause resistance, where some leverage can be applied that then may or may not avalanche into reevaluation of other topics which would be foolhardy to address directly. Dancing around the neuroses of the collective to enact my grand political vision of *checks notes* universal psychological health.

That all said yes of course we also have issues with gender roles. It's just that in terms of who sits at the big power levers that's not terribly relevant any more, it's not 1850 any more the dam has long since been breached and as women can inherit fortunes nowadays the gender distribution of oligarchs is bound to level out soon enough.

barsoap ,

I'm perfectly consistent in my position, I simply chose to not engage where people's underwear is twisted because a shouting match has never changed anyone's mind.

barsoap ,

I replied to that purported bogeyman directly. Called out what you correctly identified as toxic masculinity.

barsoap ,

Rotten fruit smells of vinegar and they're attracted to that that's why. If you want to get rid of fruit flies (It happens, no need to be ashamed) the usual trick is a glass of diluted vinegar with some soap added to lower the surface tension so the flies can't Jesus all over it.

Bees and wasps and stuff, though, you can catch a lot of those with honey.

barsoap ,

+55 -2

Hey! I am here to tell you don’t shut up. ❤️

Removed by mod

SMH

barsoap ,

I know, the only winning move is not to play. And the mods had limited options

barsoap ,

We weren't talking about workplace discrimination, either. Or car seats. Or medicine. Or work hours. Those are real issues brought up in addition which I readily acknowledged and made no attempt at dismissing, nor did I spent more breath on a single male issue than any single one of the female issues got.

We were talking about people's experiences and pain getting silenced, and how none of it should get ignored. I suggest making that "if" into a "when" and lead by example.

barsoap , (edited )

This entire post is a reaction to a post about how unsafe women feel.

This entire post is about nuance in discussing that reaction. I quote from OP's image:

The disenfranchisement and antagonization of young men leading to alt-right extremism is a real problem that can be addressed by being thoughtful of what methods of rhetoric are employed.

By your logic, I should say “stop talking about men committing suicide when trans people commit suicide at a higher rate.“ Does that seem right to you? I sure hope not.

First off, I never said that any of the issues should not be talked about, I said that none should get ignored.

Then, that's actually an interesting intersection. Do you happen to have any data on whether the same disparity is present or not in trans folks, ideally distinguishing between pre- and post-transition?

My off the cuff hypothesis would be low to no statistical significance pre-transition as transphobia and general psychological turmoil is an overwhelming factor, and a definitely significant but lower disparity post-transition on account of selection bias towards resiliency as well as good self-knowledge and self-actualisation being a protecting factor.

barsoap ,

Oh if you insist, after some consideration (imperfect as it may be), I think Depeche Mode is a good ending note.

barsoap ,

Singapore actually has housing pretty much nailed down. If Singapore had US-style housing policies 95% of Singaporeans would live in Malaysia and commute because only bank execs etc. could afford living in the city.

...also Singapore would have zero green space left. It'd all be single family homes interspersed by parking lots. You can't spit out a chewing gum over there without hitting a public park.

barsoap ,

Governments should simply regulate more so that people vacationing will go to hotels and houses will be available for residents

Berlin did exactly that: You can rent out your apartment for IIRC 30 days a year, or while you're also living there, if you want to rent out more you need a hotel license and tough luck getting one while there's a housing shortage, least of all for a flat in a residential area.

But OTOH that's all only taking the edge off there's been decades of under-investment in social housing in Germany overall, and the little social housing that got built got built via attaching conditions to building permits for private investors, those apartments lose their social housing status after 20 or such years.

And it's not like there aren't companies who want to build, and build plenty -- but they don't because they can't recoup costs, not in this market where every rich fuck who can afford rent already is living somewhere else: Building costs are too high. Some of that is building standards, permitting, etc, but the bulk of it is financing costs, that is, interest on loans for new construction is way too high. Getting at land is not always easy but there's plenty of mechanisms such as municipalities having right of first refusal for any land sale (if they want to, that's another topic). There's really only one way out of this and it's state coffers because the capital market certainly isn't going to get less greedy.

barsoap ,

The build more thing is in urban areas to accommodate urbanisation. Coming to think of it the 49 Euro ticket might actually reverse some of that because there's tons of smaller towns, sometimes villages, with proper train connection to the next large city. Low prices drive usage which prompts higher train frequencies which, infrastructure permitting, takes even more pressure off the metropolitan housing market.

That said urbanisation isn't in itself a bad thing -- it makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons to not have a gazillion tiny villages, it'd just be another form of sprawl. Here in SH, if every train station we do have had a small urban core around it surrounded by village structures in cargo bike distance and then long stretches of fields and nothing, that'd actually be quite nice. The state was very good at doing that in the Hamburg metropolitan area, focussing development on a couple of axes radiating out from Hamburg but it should become more of a general pattern.

barsoap ,

There's exceptions for therapeutic uses (dental, nicotine gum) and you can also import small amounts for personal use. Chewing is perfectly legal, improper disposal isn't.

barsoap ,

Yep exactly they latch in a wide open position.

At this point there might still be experimental versions around, stuff which companies made and want to use up, but sooner than later you'll only see the good, successful versions on bottles. The rest is muscle memory and, if you don't have the physical/mechanical intelligence to figure out a latching mechanism yourself, learning by observing other people successfully not stabbing their faces.

barsoap ,

Yes and no: The bottling lines don't get replaced, and in fact the EU checked beforehand that they won't need to be replaced because otherwise the whole thing might've been an undue burden on the industry and they would have to make a closer evaluation, give the industry more time to switch, etc. The new caps can be screwed on by the old machines and if not, only cheap parts need replacing.

OTOH bottle cap manufacturers very much did do their homework, or at least the ones producing good caps that beverage companies will buy did it as no beverage company wants to be the one with the awkward caps. That's not to say that there's not bad designs out there but those will vanish. Also some consumers seem to have skill issues, like not latching the cap into the open position.

barsoap , (edited )

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC108181

Most relevant here is that they found significantly more caps than bottles, indicating that they get lost. Also lots of other single-use plastics there practically everything that can be avoided has been hit by the banhammer. Oh, cigarette butts I'd expect them to mandate those to be biodegradable in the future.

Things such as fibres from fishing nets and unidentifiable pieces of polystyrene and stuff of course don't get addressed by this, but that's not the point the point is to do what can be done.

barsoap ,

KDE is not an abbreviation, and not in the same way than XNA is not an abbreviation. Originally it was the Kool Desktop Environment which was quickly dropped not for the obvious KDE Desktop Environment but K Desktop Environment, which kinda makes sense given that KDE replaces 'c's with 'k' all over the place -- such as, to wit, its name as it's a reference to CDE. Nowadays it's plain KDE though.

barsoap OP ,

...and aren't making progress on that front: A linear increase in generalisation still requires a more than linear increase in amount of data.

Also it's not btw that we wouldn't know that our current architectures won't lead to proper intelligence, tl:dr: While current architectures can learn, and represent information, they cannot develop learning strategies or decide smartly on how to represent a particular bit of information. All the improvement that are happening are on that "how to learn better" area, we have no idea whatsoever how to make the jump on how to teach an AI to learn how to learn. AlphaZero is able to learn rules of a game, yes, but it can't learn arbitrary information -- once you throw something other than a game at it it has no idea how to make sense of anything.

barsoap OP ,

...and a baby doesn't use the same architecture, not even close, as generative AIs. Babies are T3 systems, they aren't simply systems which have rules on how to learn, they are systems which have rules on how to develop learning strategies that they then use to learn.

I'm not doubting, in the slightest, that AI can't get there: It's definitely possible. It's just not possible with the current approaches, and the iterative refinements that "oh OpenAI is constantly coming up with new topologies" refers to is just more of the same. Show me a topology that can come up with topologies, then we'll have a chance to break through the need for exponential amounts of data.

barsoap OP ,

There are lots of ways to improve LLMs that aren’t just increasing the parameter size

The paper isn't about parameter size but the need for exponentially more training data to get a mere linear increase in output performance.

barsoap OP ,

3d assets in videogames become cheaper and quicker to make

You mean there's going to be a brand-new way for people to completely fail optimising game assets.

barsoap ,

Part of the SoC makes a lot of sense but I'd still like to have an expansion option. Or, well, actually, maybe connecting it up via PCIe might be sufficient, latency is going to take a serious hit but if there's gigabytes of HBM on the chip acting essentially as cache it's probably fine for pretty much all practical workloads. Gigantic memory requirements don't tend to come with purely random access patterns.

OTOH that definitely puts the "N" in "NUMA". I doubt any OS but Linux could deal with the thing sanely.

barsoap ,

Posteo doesn't have to retain IPs and doesn't, it also doesn't retain payment info (though if you transfer by wire there's still a window where a payment can be traced AFAIU).

They will also absolutely forward any and all traffic for a particular account to law enforcement when given a court order. What's it with criminals thinking that they can outsource opsec to legitimate businesses. Defending against a state-level actor actively hunting you down, watching closely and pouncing on any and every mistake, is a vastly different beast than making sure google doesn't know about the butt plug you just bought.

barsoap ,

OTTO is an age-old German mail order company, they started up in 1949. About 16bn yearly revenue. Second largest online retailer overall in Germany after amazon, larger than amazon in Europe when it comes to clothing. Which TBH actually surprised me I thought zalando had that one nailed down.

They also own their own parcel service (Hermes). Are they sketchy? Yes, I mean they're turbo capitalists so of course they are. More so than amazon, nope.

barsoap ,

Speaking about sketchy and durations...

The certificate for slrpnk.net expired on 5/6/2024.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE

barsoap ,

OP fixed their certificate in the meantime so now I can actually see the image (without jumping through hoops to make firefox ignore the certificate error).

3650000 days looks like a honest mistake, should probably be exactly one year. Which is long, but not an eternity.

barsoap ,

Bought a table from IKEA once, was not a good table either. You get what you pay for.

barsoap ,

5/6/2024 hasn’t been yet… so its not expired hah.

The current certificate is valid from Mon, 06 May 2024 07:58:01 GMT to Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:58:00 GMT, it has been renewed today. Click on the padlock on the address bar and click your way through to see those dates. Renewal was probably automatic, in any case there was enough of a lapse for me to stumble across the error.

I don’t think 3650000 is a typo, that’s four zeros away from being a year.

Then where does the "365" come from? That's some highly specific digits.

barsoap ,

You'll often hear smart-alec martial arts masters say that the best self-defence technique is the 400m sprint, but they couldn't be more wrong. In truth it's the 1km parcour.

barsoap , (edited )

The Vector extension has been ratified since 2021 it's a standard part of the spec just don't expect a random microcontroller to support it.

The SpacemiT K1 is 64GCVB and RVA22, doesn't say which specific RVA22 there's some without Vector support but it says in "GCVB" so w/e, also, "VLEN 256/128-bit x2 execution width", if I'm parsing that correctly means you either get 256-bit vector registers or set the whole thing to 128 and then get (roughly) twice the ops/s.

And yes it's much easier to emit vector code than to deal with the nightmare that's SIMD. It's as if Intel would've been sensible ages ago and not introduced SIMD but expanded on repnz stosb to make it useful for things other than memcpy. And no Intel has no excuse: Crays existed when they decided on SIMD.

barsoap ,

ARM even means "Advanced RISC Machines". They changed the official name to ARM but I don't think they actually reinterpreted it.

barsoap , (edited )

It's bound to differ wildly. Most ARM chips are Contex Asomethings, that is, ARM designs, and those that aren't are designed by companies with lots of resources... but also with mobile and embedded as their primary market so it's not the primary focus. Most RISC-V cores are open source designs and/or created by startups, generally also not targeting HPC. The EU is investing into RISC-V HPC for EuroHPC (that is, supercomputers), you might be able to buy a chip associated with that soonish and try for yourself.

Heck, you can build a microcontroller-class chip that supports vector instructions -- you just have to iterate element by element. Instruction support does imply that the instructions work, not that they're fast.

That should be more on the BLAS side of things though, if you want to packet route I guess wait until Mikrotik ships boards with RISC-V SoCs, I haven't heard anything and definitely not official statements but they're bound to get on the train. They used Tilera in the past and as far as I'm aware the reason they switched away was Tilera overall failing, not because it didn't work for the application. A structurally similar RISC-V chip should be quite easy to design and as it's a standard architecture you don't have to write your own libraries so it's way easier to not go bankrupt doing it. Oh and Tilera of course definitely isn't a Vector chip, it's a "have a gazillion cores on a die, each barely larger than a DSP" kind of approach. You can have a core per pair of ports or whatever it is they're doing.

Another interesting thing would be RISC-V GPUs. They do a lot of memory stuff that makes them so much better at BLAS stuff and vector instructions fit right into that. For proper graphics support you'd still need a custom ISA extension to wire up some odds and ends (say the texture units with their crazy indexing operations) but it's definitely an option... which is unlikely to see HPC scale any time soon as I don't see NVidia, AMD or Intel giving up the architectures they have.

barsoap , (edited )

Nope, earlier, it's Göttingen school of history stuff. Essentially the bible-based alternative to Blumenbach:

II) During the time of Moses, the Semites lived partly in India, towards the Ganges, partly on the coasts of the South Sea to the Persian Gulf, in Elymais, Assyria, Chaldea, and in southern Mesopotamia, and with further expansion in some areas of Palestine, in the north and south of Arabia, finally too, but maybe not yet in Moses's time, in Abyssinia or Ethiopia.

Which isn't totally off compared to our modern understanding of who spoke proto-Semitic. "Semitic" as a descriptor of languages is unchallenged in linguistics because, well, symbols are arbitrary anyway and "Descendants of Shem", as in Noah's son, ancestor of Abraham, is not exactly a contentious thing among a group of related cultures having birthed no less than three Abrahamic religions.

barsoap ,

Ha! If only. They at most had WAP browsers and noone was using them because you paid like five bucks per transferred byte.

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