HerbManic

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by HerbManic 4mo ago
You do have the eighth wonder of the world however. The 'Wall of Whittakers' at Pak'n'Save. Also sorry that we send you our trash from Cadburies in tassie.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I'm across the ditch in Oz, and every time I am in NZ it is always peculiar just how forgotten they are in some spaces. I live in Melbourne, and our population is larger than that of all NZ so I get why they kind of get forgotten, but
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
While it sounds nice in principal, it basically just means cashed up people get it first. But there is also the fun side of it becoming a status symbol I guess. Drive up future demand.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
So France and Canada both build nuclear plants. Must be something in the french language that makes folks just want to do the cool stuff. If it is anything like all my french cookware, it will be done wonderfully.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I was about to say. DDR 2/3 I can still see many use cases for that stuff in modern-ish tech. I am currently looking for some EDO sticks for a really well preserved IBM Aptiva I found on the side of the road. That stuff is expensive fo
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
When the Wii came out was also really close to when the Ouya released as well. It was funny to see that a tablet/phone processor (Tegra 3) had a more powerful CPU than the Wii U, it was only lacking in the GPU department. But you could
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
This is behind a paywall for me. For those that don't know, they make the ceramic surface that the wafer sits on when being etched. It has to simultaneously handle extremely high heat and extremely low heat as liquid helium is pumped t
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I absolutely love that folks keep these old systems going with stuff like this. But, I do wonder what the browsing experience is like. It was rough using Firefox back on Mac's in the mid 2000's and the internet has only gotten sig
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Alas, I sit in the horrible limbo zone. The wife and I have been trying for about 6-7 years now, done all kinds of medical whatnot but still nothing. It just feels like complete defeat some days, this was the last thing on the list of goals
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
That is the stats for parents. By age of 6 you will have spent about 50% of your time with them. By age of 12 it is 75% and 20 it is 90%+. As they gain independence, you have less time with them but it is also considered higher quality time
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Also like a power based version of Wirth's law [1]. Software will find out ways to use more power than battery technology can improve. I run my phone very minimally and as such I tend to get 3-5 days of use before needing to recharge.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
> Now we're building systems where language is the interface to action. A prompt can write code, launch workflows, coordinate agents, make decisions, and increasingly affect the physical world. Remember, it only affects the physical
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Yep apparently I am a German author, I am not. Further searching and I could not find anyone else with my name.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Wim hof has a lot of stories, hard to tell which ones are true or not unfortunately.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I would assume it is purely because of the mass.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
The optimistic take is that he is doing all this to achieve his space goals, that the ends are justification of the means. But when he is interested in actively interfering with elections the world over and probably spends more time on twit
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I have noticed that those that are the most optimistic about AI almost always talk in a future-tence. It WILL do this, it COULD achieve that etc.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
With all the talk about developers being lazy and younger folk not understanding the technology they use, it is always great to see examples of core foundational work still being done. Makes the rest of that talk feel like fear mongering.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
The massive increases to military spending would be a big part of it. Have to feed the war machine at all costs apparently.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
And welcome to our little odd ball land. Just remember, if an Aussie offers you a 'Golden Gay Time', take it and you will be pleasantly surprised. ;)
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Not only x86 chips, they are going in fairly hard on Risc V and Loongarch (MIPS/Risc V inspired ISA). Risc V is still growing trying to catch up to ARM, while Loongarch LA664/LA864 chips are much closer to x86 performance than oth
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
And you know this one will end up compounding something else nasty on that side of the country. The universe has a sick sense of humor sometimes. To para-quote Hedonism bot from Futurama "Everywhere I looked, there were piles of bodies
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I am always fascinated to see how well these kinds of interventions stick. For instance, going dumb phone feels like a solution but when you hit that inevitable wall, the whole narrative of that solution falls apart. I have found that one o
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Yep, bundle it all together, rename the whole company X (for added confusion), get a few final pay outs in the hundred of billions if not trillions and then Elon flees to Argentina as the whole house of cards crumbles.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
In the hotter parts of summer I typically down clock/undervolt my machines to at least hold off them potentially cooking themselves a little. For most work, I don't even need a whole Ghz yet alone 3+ Ghz so it isn't a big iss
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
Basically given the choice of one kills in hours and other in decades. Can we try to take option c?
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I have seen some Climatologists who are thinking we might hit the 2C mark by mid to late 2030's simply based on the exponential heating pace we are seeing decade over decade. Part of it being some feedback loops have arisen from our in
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I went into this think "Oh another mini x86 board, thats cool". I was not expecting a mixing deck to pop up. Very nice.
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
I mean Canada is a part of the 'Five eyes' surveillance alliance since the 1950's. This is nothing new but it does keep escalating. It was Terrance McKenna who said that the worst government is usually the one that is in char
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by HerbManic 4mo ago
There is always the Australian system. Mandatory voting, preferential votes, majority rule. The Preferential part is the most important, it means you can vote for who you want but also have the second preference get a vote if the first fail

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