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by K0balt 1y ago
Any business using commercial inference providers is potentially risking their value proposition. Everything you send to cloud inference will eventually be gleaned for training data. Empirically we know that the data is the most valuable in
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think the key here is twofold. First “the cloud” as commonly understood isn’t what anyone here is talking about. The subject is commercial inference providers. The “cloud”, or Commercial offerings in storage, VMs, etc are reasonably “sec
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by K0balt 1y ago
When you make something that will be mass produced 80 million times, you have a fundamental duty as an engineer to absolutely minimize the amount of negative externalities that will be experienced by people that come into contact with the s
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by K0balt 1y ago
Unfortunately, people that understand the responsibility aspect of engineering are few and far between. Hack together whatever you want, and Have fun doing it… but if your actions are going to create millions or billions of objects that mil
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by K0balt 1y ago
When I was a kid I used to spend hours exploring the surface of windowed ICs with my field microscope. I have a weird association of microchip architecture and the depictions of the surface of the “Death Star” in Star Wars. I think I used t
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by K0balt 1y ago
You are misinformed. Amplitude, spectral, and timing are all integrated into a positional / distance probability mapping. Humans can estimate the vector of a sound by about 2 degrees horizontal and 4 degrees vertical. Distance is also
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by K0balt 1y ago
If this isn’t just an actual scam campaign, it Sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen? Shame on these guys one way or another, the last thing people looking for work need is yet another layer of friction.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Of course, but the cutoff I one of perception more than physics. The airplane is “not flying” right up until the lift generated is infinitesimally more than the weight of the aircraft. Likewise, during “flight” there are times when the lift
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by K0balt 1y ago
“Consciousness” is most likely one of those “emergent” things that really are just a continuum. Like an airplane taking off, most “emergent” behaviors are actually continuous processes that eventually become pronounced enough to recognize.
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by K0balt 1y ago
>That's like asking why would anyone buy a Mercedes when they can take the bus for $2 no, its more like, what if you lived in a country where you were forced to buy a mercedes or die of starvation, regardless of your socioeconomic s
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by K0balt 1y ago
"campaign" lol. I can remember some of my youthful "campaigns" to liberate useful technology... I cant say I find them recommendable.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Really? If that happened before the publicised discovery, it is a very impressive example of attention to detail.
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by K0balt 1y ago
You can absolutely get the same standard of care for common things, but you might not get it for free. Where the standard of care does vary is where there are only a few specialists in the world for your condition.. they probably will be in
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by K0balt 1y ago
Doing so sticks billions of transistors between A and B, all of which have to work perfectly billions of times a second. If you just run fiber, you need to put an amplifier in every 50km or so, other than that it’s all just buried glass. T
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s called a dry loop. It might be real with repeaters at the various COs, or it might be partially virtualized and sent over a fiber trunk. Usually somebody leading a dry loop does so for the relatively extreme reliability, even though th
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by K0balt 1y ago
Animals definitely parse human language, some to a significant extent. Like an airplane taking off, things that seem like “emergent behavior” and hard lines of human vs animal behavior are really matters of degree that, like the airplane, w
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by K0balt 1y ago
Maybe it’s just been the luck of the draw, but I’ve had the issue pop up almost every time I have built something with an WLCSP that I wasn’t sure would be potted. It’s usually NBD though, since normally things go in cases. In adversarial o
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by K0balt 1y ago
You’re welcome! I was pleasantly surprised to have had that roll off of my keyboard as well. It is something difficult to elucidate but somehow perfectly encapsulated in “pedantic cadence”. Also, Pedantic Cadence (r), the acerbically sarcas
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by K0balt 1y ago
Sure, but I’m having a hard time understanding how developing nations the world over can afford to do this, but the USA cannot lol. I’ve used the healthcare systems in many developing nations, and while it’s not really fun, it is adequate a
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, I mean if you’re building them for your own amusement or in small quantities for noncritical applications, no biggie, who has time to read all 300 pages lol? But if you’re supposed to be engineering a board that will be produced in t
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by K0balt 1y ago
Well then, can’t really fault the engineers if they told users about it. Fun hobby mystery and nobody got killed. 10/10.
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s not a rare edge case. Not at all. A lot of WLCSP parts will go way out of tolerances if exposed to direct sunlight. The thing that makes xenon flashes exceptionally adept at triggering malfunctions is a combination of their high intens
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by K0balt 1y ago
This one was actually pretty cool, since the effect of alternative environmental gasses had not been extensively documented by MEMS device manufacturers at that time. It was interesting and remarkable because many engineers, despite solid d
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by K0balt 1y ago
Photosensitivity in WLCSP parts is not something that was “discovered” by the community. The data sheets for WLCSP parts specify that the part is photosensitive and often give data on how light can affect the part. This has been known since
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by K0balt 1y ago
Out of pocket health insurance 1400 a month? Really? It that’s true, that is criminally ridiculous. Why do people accept that, when even in developing nations basic health care is free, and there are plenty of private choices. Decent health
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by K0balt 1y ago
Didn’t do it, Nobody saw me do it, Can’t prove anything.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Running the inverters in parallel synchronized in a three phase configuration, 2 per phase, 224/130. Since the power plant is centrally located, our longest run is about 270m. It’s at the edge of what we can do with the cable we have b
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by K0balt 1y ago
As a parallel answer, for small systems this can make sense, although in anything larger than a single small cabin or small boat it probably is borderline these days. Modern inverters are quite efficient, and DC distribution carries a lot o
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by K0balt 1y ago
There is a few more details, especially of the early days, on my extremely neglected and out of date blog https://vivavistadelmar.wordpress.com/blog/ Also, yeah, I know. Wordpress wasn’t a great choice even years ago w
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by K0balt 1y ago
A lot of appliances need >1kw. This requires higher voltage and robust connectors. That level of DC is quite dangerous compared to AC for many reasons. Also, unless you want to have 60lb extension cords the size of bratwurst, you need to

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