John Bernard Bowlins

Bored, stupid, insipid.

Recovering misanthrope and bazaar merchant.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

@salomonsalomont @PanditPranNath1 @Fostret1 Kollektivt kommer de snart nå IQ rumstemperatur.

[Austin Lieberman @LiebermanAustin]

Thanks to the @oasishealthapp I’ve switched from poisonous FairLife Protein Milk to Bourbon and I can’t even begin to explain how much healthier I feel.

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

@GlassHenrik @Miazmaic @Joel69Cognac @slop3 @FredrikHjelm4 Är det privata företag som ska agera domare, jury och bödel?

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

@SebastianM66542 @hanfverband Deutsch auch nicht :)

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

@danieru242 Förbjud matematik.

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

@aqdev @RolandPoirierM1 Du vill alltså återinföra motboken?

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

@wieldwright @escapefrommelos What the fuck is this shit?

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

fractal geometry enthusiasts would disagree

(it’s obviously infinite)

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

“if 64 bit is so good then why don’t we have 65 bit architectures”

We kinda do, actually.

Just mostly as hardware, not pointers.

Intel Itanium’s general purpose registers were 65 bits; the last bit was known as a NaT flag. NaT stood for “not a thing”, which was a really interesting way of handling speculative execution.

Basically NaT was a poison flag to say “hey this result might be garbage we’ll deal with it later”.

Today we don’t really think about it, modern CPUs basically do all of their speculation in hardware…and throw out incorrect guesses without any user awareness.

Itanium was essentially a bet that with enough primitives exposed compilers *might* be able to make better decisions at compile-time (versus say, hardware guessing at runtime).

A (very) simplified way of putting it, is that on x86 you’re getting constant micro-stalls that the hardware deals with (…die space penalty), where *hypothetically* Itanium with a perfect compiler had no micro-stalls

…but really, really bad macro stalls (NaT recovery is a sloooow software fix).

Turns out, it was really difficult to write compilers that kept Itanium’s pipeline fed with anything that looks like a normal OS. But, it’s really interesting to see the general idea of “compiler handles the scheduling” coming up again with Cerebras (and arguably, the whole accelerator space)!

We’ll see how it pans out…

(Itanium was lovingly referred to as the “Itanic” by many)

[rammy 🏳 @rammy_c8]

When the Iranian baddie blocks you

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

@Agrippa_se @petterkar1sson Vi kan ju börja med att utvärdera konsumptionsförbudet, vilken hela er värdelösa myndighet använder som en krycka för att det ska se ut som att ni löser "brott". Sedan kan vi ju utvärdera de ständigt ökande integritetskränkningarna i form av kameraövervakning och signalspaning.

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

Removal of the Andreessen monument from Menlo Park following a slew of terrible crypto and web3 investments, 2022

[Knoebel @Knoebelbroet]

Russian hackers got access to the Wii U CEMU emulator via a backdoor.

If youre location is set to Israel, there is a 1 in 6 chance that it will play a loud siren sound and wipe your filesystem.

More:
https://t.co/aiPw8hb7DL

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

I hate computers

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

30.9% of genetics papers data are kind of trash because of Excel’s aggressive auto-formatting.

Until 2023, there was no global option to disable data conversion. For example, the human SEPT family (1-14) of genes is directly related to cell division and cancer research.

I’ll give you one guess as to what that auto-formats to. Yup…turns into a date.

Oh, it get’s worse though. Many labs use what are known as RIKEN identifiers. It’s a 10 digit alphanumeric code, kind of like a barcode that identifies a gene sequence. Here’s one:

2310009E13

Uh oh. There’s an “E” in there. Guess what that turns into? A floating point!

Excel has a hard limit of 15 significant digits for floats. So, not only did your RIKEN identifier get formatted wrong, but it’s also rounded off to an unrecoverable state.

12.5% of the RIKEN database (Row E) is a disaster.

If you know anything about Bioinformatics, you should be losing your mind. Remember, a huge amount of scientific research is meta-analysis. Good luck cross-referencing patterns when ~31% of the data has errors!

So basically there’s a giant data hole from 2004-2023, much of which has been standardized into national / official databases, and there’s no good way to fix it.

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

Okay so she
1. Got on a cruise ship to St. Helena
2. Took the weekly 5hr flight to Johannesburg
3. Took a daylong connecting flight back to San Francisco
4. Flew to ~8hrs to Tahiti, then 1hr to Mangareva, from SF
5. Took a 2 day boat ride to Pitcairn

WTF forget the virus thing

[John Bernard Bowlins @rubbernecking]

Jag besökte Leos lekland en gång för länge sedan med min dotter och såg två pappor puckla på varandra nedanför vulkanen. I believe it baby!

[Dan Luc @DanLucSE]

Nu har jag i och för sig aldrig testat kokain men jag har besökt Leo's Lekland.

Är inte kokain just det motsatta mot vad man som vuxen behöver just där??

Hade de istället funnit spår av heroin eller valium hade jag inte blivit förvånad.