ComputerGuru

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As datacenters strain the power grid, bills projected to rise for customers(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ComputerGuru 2y ago|0 comments
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
> Given that ref structs can now be generic arguments I missed this development! That was a big pain working with ref structs when they first came out.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Is that also true by population?
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
You (and everyone else opining here) are missing the practical context: DST makes Ramadan easier, because the sun sets an hour earlier. Yes, you are fasting the same number of hours, but your day “starts” at a point fixed to the TZ-adjusted
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
> state is really the wrong resolution here, US timezones follow counties County is the smallest resolution one can reasonably use, but in terms of what timezones themselves follow, that would be metro areas. I.E. the Chicago metro area
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
If the year is “born in the spring” then surely you would want the year to start in the spring (if not the spring equinox, then March) and not winter?
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
> Pi owners should hardly notice any changes I always notice when my laptop logs into Wayland instead of X after an Ubuntu upgrade because of the cursed, terrible mouse/trackpad acceleration curves under Wayland. Long live the nativ
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Keyboard layout integration should have been a day zero thing. Until now I see flatpak/snap packages that don’t use the correct layout for keyboard shortcuts under (X)Wayland. (The curse of TWO terrible new tech stacks meeting.)
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
I’d be very interested in the opposite! Lots of scanned or legacy images that would be nice to convert to LaTeX, or to create a robust PDF ingestion pipeline.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Sorry, I was mistaken and I already do have that set up and working using binary. There’s something else I’m trying but failing to remember that isn’t possible with binary keys.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
You still can’t use uuid as proper foreign keys with validation on mariaDB/MySQL though, right? It wasn’t possible with blobs at any rate.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Cached here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872770
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Site is exceeding its traffic allotment. I had to try a few times but I was able to snag a copy for the archives. https://archive.is/FBDVL
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Basically because of the way the tech evolved. x86 was made to be “generic” from very early on, in large because of the decoupling between CPU vendors and PC vendors. ARM doesn’t make chips you can buy and plug into devices (they don’t make
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Yes. Lack of BIOS or EFI. And ACPI. And. and. and.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Isn’t 200 tokens basically nothing? Did you mean to say 2000?
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
It's actually known that many of the alternatives companies have substituted for BPA are equally or more dangerous; they're just not blacklisted by the FDA so companies continue to use them with impunity. https://www.na
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Au contraire ! I was a ridiculously voracious reader (if I saw it, I wouldn’t put it down until I’d read it) and my answer was always “hard to say, no favorite.” But then one day you read that book that stands out from everything else (t
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
That’s certainly one way to interpret it.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
It doesn’t, though? Gcc doesn’t even ship oob, the project itself uses clang, and almost all packages are also compiled with the system c/c++ toolchain.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Heat extraction.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
BBC famously lost their 9/11 coverage for a decade or so until they managed to find a copy they hadn’t takes over. Their policy is only six month retention.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Is this - at a reasonable guess - what most believe OpenAI did with 4o?
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Just to clarify, you are saying 1b-quantized 405b is smarter than 70b unquantized?
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
I’m aware, that’s what I was referring to in GP. Read the post I was replying to again.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
With a colorimeter?
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
The bigger the size, the greater the chances of unacceptable defects. Which drives the price of non-defective units up commensurately (just like regular wafer size). And makes replacements equally onerous and expensive.
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Apple TV is the only option I know of (other than using it as an HDMI output device for a PC) that allows for color calibration. This needs to become mainstream!
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
Fyi OpenAI challenge isn’t there to protect against hackers trying to steal/brute-force logins in this case but rather trying to stop bots from using all-you-can-eat (albeit rate limited) plans from supplanting their more expensive api
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by ComputerGuru 2y ago
> I've often wondered if broad memorization of trivia is really a sensible use of precious neurons. I agree if we are talking about maxing raw reasoning and logical onference abilities, but the problem is that the ship has sailed an

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