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It’s still very challenging to get a blobless Linux running on open hardware & firmware as a daily driver.

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first-time

Its own government, in 2014, with the help of the US.

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You never know what you’re gonna get from the “no tankie shit” instance.

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This shit is bananas
B-🍌-N-🍌-N-🍌-S

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I’d never heard of Slate Star Codex, but I am familiar with the cult of LessWrong.

In 2013, a significant portion of the rationalist community shifted focus to Scott Alexander’s Slate Star Codex.

Now he’s moved to Substack as Astral Codex Ten. He’s started his own psychiatric practice as well, however, “Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new patients, and we’re not expecting this to change in the medium-term future.”

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Historical Revisionism

These historically accurate pictures[1][2] are fake news!

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Really? Can we please stomp the Nazis, at least here?

Yes, Nazis and other fascists, especially ones who commit genocide, and especially when it doesn’t require a time machine because it’s happening as we speak.

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Everyone knows it means. Where’s your evidence of such a historical rewriting from a The Office meme?

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Look upon our Self-crits, ye Mighty, and despair 😆

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The New York Post in c/technology, or really anywhere but c/nottheonion?

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Tankie is a floating signifier. If you ask twenty liberals what a tankie is you’ll get

  1. Twenty different answers, and
  2. Several people upset at being called a liberal because they don’t have even a Wikipedia-level understanding of liberalism or socialism.
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Fredrich Engels, 1872: On authority

Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is. It is the act by which one part of the population imposes its will on the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannons — by the most authoritarian means possible; and the victors, if they do not want to have fought in vain, must maintain this rule by means of the terror which their arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if the communards had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach them for not having used it enough?

Therefore, we must conclude one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don’t know what they’re talking about, in which case they are only sowing confusion; or they do know, in which case they are betraying the proletarian movement. In either case, they serve reaction.

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Maybe capitalist states should do that, but they won’t because they’re capitalist states. They’ll form bourgeois democracies at best and fascism at worst[1][2][3].

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Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Tankie Party?

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Tankie is a floating signifier, a pejorative, a thought-terminating cliché, a rhetorical cudgel.

The only reason why you would deny it or hide it is if you have an agenda.

Or because it’s a thought-terminating pejorative. And in any case, just as it is impossible to be unbiased, it is impossible to be agendaless. By implying that I have some secret agenda, you’re doubling down on McCarthyism.

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That’s a lot of mod interventions for a one month old account. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0c6e9517-fc60-44ae-94cd-fedbef4b33f8.jpeg You’re what I might call “high maintenance.”

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order-of-lenin

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why everyone’s talking about them like they’re at all a priority?

Because the red scares and the cold war[1][2] never actually ended, and our government, think tanks, and corporate media still feed us a constant drip of spooky stories.

china under the bedUS scaredspecter

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If there is to be a shift from the quantitative to the qualitative, then I think that—whatever of the proximate cause that breaks the camel’s back—this US election will be the ultimate cause.

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That’s a poor analogy given that the Pi 5 & Pi 400 are incomparably more powerful than 1980s home computers, and I don’t think OP was asking if a Pi 5 can run WordPerfect or VisiCalc.

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People in China and Hong Kong can, actually. Presumably your understanding of the Tiananmen riots is about as garbage as almost every other Westerner’s.

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Some people do get upset; some people don’t.

The easily upset don’t—or refuse to—understand that 1) some of us have brains that just don’t remember people’s names very well, and that 2) they should get over themselves.

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To mention anything remotely associated with Russia is to be a paid Putler puppet; a lot of people are saying. See you at Tolstoy & the Dostoevsky book burning.

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How would the foreignness of the agents be relevant? And why ask that when I’m a thousand times more likely to be hunted down by domestic agents?

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We get the strangest reports sometimes.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Piracy

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The ones that do, do; the ones that don’t, don’t.

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@d3Xt3r, did you actually look at the options in this poll? Because some of them are as racist and as fascist as can be imagined.

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Election interference

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I noticed today the Tom’s Hardware has been keeping track of Chinese GPU developments.

They don’t have a tag for tracking Chinese GPUs in particular, but they have one for GPU news in general.

China also seems to have some interesting embargo work-arounds:

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China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

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China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China’s domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

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Presumably this is another Xinjiang embargo self-own.

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This comment is triggering and it should have a NSFW spoiler.

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Added. cc @mudle

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Added. cc @Quintus

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Nazi brand wants a Lebensraum do-over.

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This sounds like recycled Cold War I hysteria. How much Democratic party Kool-Aid have you drunk?

First of all, where did Russia get so many US dollars from that they were able to outbid all of their US petit bourgeois and corporate competitors in buying the US Republican Party?

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Right?

The 14th Dali “suck my tongue” CIA asset Lama

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This isn’t simply a matter of Biden pleasing his donors, nor is it really about Biden in particular. This is the liberal international order working as designed, namely that the US makes the rules and orders everyone else around. Israel is a settler-colonial project of the Western imperial core, and it has been the US’ unsinkable aircraft carrier in West Asia for generations. As Biden has said throughout his career, “were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.” The Hague Invasion Act has been on the books for over 20 years, so this is nothing new and has always been bipartisan.

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Are you serious?

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Spam/misinformation: Not an anti-AI licence.

This person may be confused, but still your tagline is a waste of mods’ time. And just speaking as a user I find it to be annoying visual pollution, especially since I think it’s ineffectual, unless your only goal is to “raise awareness.” Beyond that I think any effectiveness is about as plausible as that of sovereign citizenship.

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You don’t understand: these comment footers are the only thing between us and Roko’s basilisk.

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@CerealOverdose666, please replace the Google AMP link with the original: aljazeera.com/…/whats-happening-is-not-genocide-s…

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In virtually every war in these Burgerlanders’ lifetimes, their country has been on the morally & militarily losing side. They desperately, desperately want a moral & military victory for once, even moreso now that Biden has proven to be Genocider in Chief.

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count (www.quantamagazine.org)

Traditionally, algorithms for counting distinct items in a stream of data would store all the items. A new algorithm, called CVM, uses randomization to estimate the number of distinct items with minimal memory usage. The trick is to keep track of items by recording them and then randomly deleting some. The probability of an item...

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High praise indeed! waow-based Variyam co-develops innovative new data analysis algorithm

The authors presented their new algorithm at the 2022 European Symposium on Algorithms, a premier international conference on algorithm design. Since then, their discovery has been gaining recognition and praise from computer scientists across the field, including world-renowned computer scientist Donald Knuth, author of “The Art of Computer Programming,” who is often referred to as "the father of the analysis of algorithms.”

In May 2023, Knuth published his own paper on the algorithm, “The CVM Algorithm for Estimating Distinct Elements in Streams [PDF],” offering extensive praise and even naming it the CVM algorithm in honor of its inventors. Knuth said in addition to “explaining the ideas to just about everybody [he] meets,” he expects the algorithm to become a foundational aspect of computer science in the near future.

"Their algorithm is not only interesting; it is extremely simple,” Knuth said in the paper. “It’s wonderfully suited to teaching students who are learning the basics of computer science. I’m pretty sure that something like this will eventually become a standard textbook topic.”

As Knuth predicted and Variyam hoped, the algorithm has already found a place in computer science courses.

From Knuth’s paper:

Algorithm D (Distinct element estimation). Given an arbitrary data stream A = (a1, a2, . . . , am) and a buffer size s ≥ 1 as described above, this algorithm returns an unbiased estimate of |A| = |{a1, a2, . . . , am}|. It uses a buffer B that’s capable of holding up to s ordered pairs (a, u), where a is an element of the stream and u is a real number, 0 ≤ u < 1.

D1. [Initialize.] Set t ← 0, p ← 1, and B ← ∅.
D2. [Done?] Terminate if t = m, returning the estimate |B|/p.
D3. [Input a.] Set t ← t + 1 and a ← at, the next element of the stream.
D4. [Remove a from B.] If B contains the pair (a, u), for any u, delete it.
D5. [Maybe put a in B.] Let u be a uniform deviate, independent of all others (namely a random real number in the range 0 ≤ u < 1). If u ≥ p, go back to step D2. Otherwise, if |B| < s, insert (a, u) into B and go back to step D2.
D6. [Maybe swap a into B.] (At this point u < p and |B| = s.) Let (a’, u’) be the element of B for which u’ is maximum. If u > u’, set p ← u. Otherwise replace (a’, u’) in B by (a, u) and set p ← u’. Then go back to step D2.

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