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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • The last I read, de minimis still applied. I didn’t know until now that was done with.

    As an avid collector of vinyl records: FUCK! I’ve got no problem sending $50 to a European artist who’s selling a limited run of records out of their living room. Hell, if it’s an artist I really like, I’ll spend $70. I’m not about to spend $70 and the artist get half of it.

    Spending ludicrous amounts of cash of 12-inch pieces of plastic is totally fine with me, but I want my money going to the artist who’s making the music I love, not a government I voted against.


  • I honestly don’t remember ever having this kind of slang when I was a kid. If anything, our slang was borrowed from previous generations. (“Dude, that’s cool.”) I’m an old millennial, and I speak the same as Gen X and Boomers, it feels like. I never remember my parents asking “what the hell are you saying?”

    Am I just forgetting? Is there a late-90s, early-00s equivalent that I’ve just purged from memory?











  • I have to wonder if NPUs are just going to eventually become a normal part of the instruction set.

    When SIMD was first becoming a thing, it was advertised as accelerating “multimedia,” as that was the hot buzzword of the 1990s. Now, SIMD instructions are used everywhere, any place there is a benefit from processing an array of values in parallel.

    I could see NPUs becoming the same. Developers start using NPU instructions, and the compiler can “NPU-ify” scalar code when it thinks it’s appropriate.

    NPUs are advertised for “AI,” but they’re really just a specialized math coprocessor. I don’t really see this as a bad thing to have. Surely there are plenty of other uses.