gattis

nobody equated china to north korea. the post you are replying to applied equivalent logic to an extreme example (north korea) to show more easily that the logic cannot be correct.

yet we know the results of presidential elections before all the votes are tallied, or have a pretty sure guess

in other words, someone didnt like the election results

Might make things awkward but grokipedia seems way more informative on this topic to me. But I guess I am unfamiliar with the topic so half of it could be hallucination. Curious if anyone familiar with this subject wants to weigh in?

I've been playing around with this for a few weeks. Newton is a pretty thin wrapper around mujoco-warp, which is trying to port mujoco, originally a CPU sim, over to warp on the GPU. There is also mujoco-mjx for this purpose, but using jax instead of warp. I think mjx/jax has the edge on performance because there are mature RL libraries for jax (brax) and big advantages to using Jax for everything, especially with its ability to "vmap" over each layer of abstraction. But I can see why nvidia wants to move away from IsaacLab using physX+pytorch because physX was made for games and interfacing with it through IsaacSim is a bit of a kludge. And apparently mjx isn't so accurate with collisions because of the way it has to be treated in jax. Pytorch RL works decently with newton/warp, at least they can share GPU buffers and you don't have to copy things back and forth to the CPU, however you can't optimize with cuda graphs past the newton/warp boundary because newton/warp have their own cuda graph capture scheme going on at the same time underneath.

They already have a newton branch of IsaacLab on github but its pretty early for it. I just came across a dope project today that is a different wrapper around mujoco-warp that already mimics IsaacLab's api and you can run some robot environments on it. Clean code too, very promising: https://github.com/mujocolab/mjlab.git

Wasn't there a whole storyline about rebels starving in that episode of Andor?

The article makes it sound as if magnetism arises because of a delay in the propagation of the electric field caused by a limit on the speed of light. It's kinda the other way around. Light is a alternating electric field and the speed of it's propagation is limited by the ε0 and μ0 (electric permittivity and magnetic permeability) in Maxwell's equations. From Maxwell you can derive c^2=1/(ε0*μ0). Lorentz and Einstein came along and realized that this changes all of mechanics, and that is special relativity.

not a single one of those points is true lol

Not to mention pacman is way faster than the others. dnf is close but apt is unbearably slow once you've used pacman

except the biggest buyer is our own social security fund

wait, we skipped the part where we found out microplastics were bad for you. concerning, yes, but plastic is relatively inert and there's no actual evidence of harm yet.

furthermore, ive never even seen a usb-c connector at an airport or for any public use and i doubt i ever will. hell, even IEC can barely withstand that use case,i usually have to bend my prongs for the plug to stay in. usb-c not gonna make it 3 days.

manufacturer's compliance with the specification has always been a total joke heh. i see what you're saying about the springs, but i shouldn't have brought mating cycles into the discussion. the side plugged into the motherboard should just be secure above all else. i can easily ruin any usb-c connector with just my thumb and index finger. the thickness of the A shell and its square profile prevent it from bending under torque pretty darn well.

perhaps. but thats why you have the C at the other end because it doesnt make sense to be frequently plugging things in and out of the motherboard and and wearing down those connectors.

but i doubt you will get more cycles out of C in real life. that might be what the spec says but given the pitch of the pins on the C connector compared to the A, you have a world of greater tolerance to work with

any device that doesnt need a 20gbps or higher link is better off connected to your motherboard via a usb-a to usb-c cable. the "a" connector has not been deprecated. in some ways it is the superior connector, higher mating cycles, less fragile, less likely to get ripped loose, much more torque required to bend, and so on. the "c" connector is more useful on the opposite end where you will be plugging in and out more frequently.

I won $2000 in a programming competition they held at the embedded linux conference, and they never paid me, even after asking twice. Can't say I've been rooting for them since. Never again will I accept a giant check and be told that the real one will come in the mail!

They ought to use it to make the search better. When the search is bad, the whole internet is bad. Even sites with useful information now have it buried amongst paragraphs of glorified keyword-stuffing... that they probably generated with the help of these LLMs google is busy releasing.

had to stop reading when the first suggestion was "steps and slides" and the picture showed a slide apparently made out of rough concrete.

You think it's perfectly legal to fly a drone over a US Air Force Base and snap a couple photos and throw them up on a public website?

Well, politicking is mostly a waste of time, but here we have a rare chance to dialog with someone brainwashed by a truly corrupt and malignant ruling party with absolute power, and show them what free-thinking is all about. Personally, I would have taken the shot. The whole point of opening up to trade with China was the hope that the exposure would have influence on their people and that democratic ideas would win out in the end. I don't think we should shy away from this kind of confrontation.

Well, I imagine everyone's favorite book changed many times over the course of their lives. Especially if you are well read.

I remember in 2000 when journalists asked George W Bush and Al Gore what their favorite books were. Bush said his was The Bible. Al Gore said his was The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. Probably could have called the election right then.

Well, QT does use GPU pipeline for all its rendering, in every backend there is, including OpenGL.

Every widget in my app above is custom as well, it was meant for a raspberry pi and a tiny touch screen. If visually customizing an existing QT widget isn't enough, you just go one or two abstractions up their tree, inherit from there, and make it do what you want using not only custom code but you can grab from many smaller QT parts. For instance in my app you grab cables out of modules and plug them into other modules, which is not a common UI thing. You just grab some of QTs bezier shape rendering stuff and draw the cables with it, and it was trivial to add gravity and make the cables springy.

It's these tools and maturity that are going to end up making your life easier on a project like this. If you go with a young framework that exists just because some sassy guy is very opinionated about how you should be forced to manage things like state and mutability, you will end up having to ram things in, and mostly working from scratch.

Not the coolest answer but I feel like QT is gonna be hard to beat here. It has a ton of this functionality already, signals are not the enemy for something this complicated and time-driven, it runs on anything and performance is great, and its pretty powerful/flexible when you need to whip up custom graphics stuff. QML and JS are really nice to have. I wrote a modular synthesizer GUI with it (https://github.com/ohmbre/ohmstudio.git). Took a gamble on QT5 because I wasn't a big fan of QT4 or below, and don't much like KDE, but it turned out perfect. Just never came across anything and said "ew well that's gonna be hard with the tools I have." There was always something handy. GUI never got in the way of audio performance, as long as its on its own thread and using ring buffers etc, you're fine.

It's quite good. Tried a couple house/electro/ebm tracks and it gave a good mix of stuff you'd expect and novel stuff you wouldn't. It finds a lot of songs that sample a given song, for obvious reasons. Glad someone gave this a go without any collaborative filtering or user ratings, just digging through waveforms alone.

I'd ditch google if someone just built a way to grep the web.

I have this same argument every time someone brings up microplastics and I ask them if thats a bad thing or something we should worry about. They send me articles for days trying to prove me wrong and every single one just says it "might" as if they are the first ones to come up with an untested hypothesis.

After reading the linked-to Humbird paper, I'm not so sure I agree with the glum outlook. A huge chunk of the cost seems to be macronutrients, which currently, yes, are very expensive. But even the report mentions emerging technologies such as plant protein hydrolysates that could be done much cheaper at this scale. The problem seems to be that nobody has ever had any reason to look into optimizing costs at this insane scale. I don't think we should just assume that means it won't get much cheaper once we do.

well, the money to pay the rent off comes from somewhere... ultimately taxpayers, which includes these "responsible" people

every time the government alters the fair-market price for things, a transfer of wealth is created. sometimes for the better. but yeah, in every case, someone is getting boned.

at least this is only addressing the past and not creating upside-down incentives going forward. if the state said they were paying off any delinquent rent going forward, then only a fool would pay their rent. although, I'm sure a lot of people are making a mental note for themselves to stop paying rent the next time there is a state of emergency.

"The estimated lethal dose of the drug is 10 grams in one day, which is not terribly different from the maximum daily dose."

This is hyperlinked to a page which doesn't say anything close to that. It says the LD50 is 338 mg/kg in mice and 1944 mg/kg in rats. Even if we make the most wild leap and go with 338 mg/kg, the mean human weight is 62kg and so the mean LD50 is 20.956 grams. Extra strength tylenol is 500mg/pill. I think most people can manage to not accidentally take 42 pills, and most people already know that taking the whole bottle is one way to die. So to me it's not really that dangerous at all. Also, I've taken acetaminophen to get rid of a headache about once a week for at least 20 years and it's success rate is sitting at a cool 100% (no exaggeration) in getting rid of the headache completely, and never taking longer than 15 mins. When I don't take or don't have access to it, it usually develops into a bad migrane that lasts many hours before going away on its own. So yeah, at least it works.