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Normally fume hoods have filters on the output. Some toxic elements still release into the atmosphere but at much lesser quantity. Dirty filters are then disposed of properly as a toxic waste.

The law is not for the individual person, but for organisations that develop the OS. So they would go to Arch linux org and start threatening them with huge fines, unless they do something here. And all the headache of how exactly to implement this would fall on arch developers. At which point I suspect they would go the same route as Midnight BSD and just forbid the use in California, because as you rightly said it is impossible to implement age verification in DIY distro.

I think you missed the point. Imagine 2 devices, device A has a chip with flash memory that contains a binary blob with firmware. Device B doesn't have built-in flash storage so it requires the driver to load the same binary blob during boot. Both devices are reprogrammable and both contain the same closed source firmware. However device A would be allowed but device B would not. From my point of view they are the same device. The fact that you don't know how to reprogram device A doesn't make it more or less proprietary.

on Any day now · c/funny · 3 pts · 296d

We don't use them in my project, I only added an exception for ©®™ and such. You can easily whitelist any character range you need. My command looks like this:

- (! grep -r -I -P '[^\x{00}-\x{7f}©®™°]' src)
on Any day now · c/funny · 5 pts · 296d

I just made a CI pass to forbid non ASCII characters in the code. Found a lot of em dashes :(

No, it will not save any power at all. The power is only consumed during switching, so when some module is properly clock gated, it will not consume any power. There are many parts of the chip that are dark, for example the full CPU core could be disabled for various reasons and it does not affect power consumption when it's dark. Maybe you know the Steam Deck, it is a battery operated device with the best power efficiency in its class. But what people don't know is that it has more than 20% of its chip area disabled, as it relates to stereoscopic displays, because the same exact chip is also used by some AR or VR goggles, I forgot the name.

Also in general the modern chips are more limited by thermal rather than space. So realistically, even if you remove the NPU, you won't be able to place anything high power there anyways, maybe you can put a couple hundred K of sram for cache in its place, but it won't matter much in the end.

on Good old 2013... · c/fuck_ai · 2 pts · 1y

We can already fully simulate ringworms and other small organisms, this is only a question of compute power. Even if you don't believe we can make a better architecture for the conventional neural networks, in the future we will have enough power to straight up simulate a normal biological brain.

It's just a name you can google, it's not specifically 3g only. In practice what they want to do is to remove all voice services that are not VoLTE, which includes the older systems too. In Australia they even started to ban phone models that are not able to do emergency calls over VoLTE properly.