Kirby64

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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> There's literally no benefit to the end user. The benefit to the end user is lower cost, fewer parts that can break, more area for other components, and potentially improved form factors from not having to have a 3.5mm cutout. May
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> ANC gives me headaches. Sorry that occurs with you. I know some people are much more sensitive to it than others. Also, lower quality or older ANC products have a much stronger “head pressure” effect which is definitely undesirable. Mo
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> On long international flights a traditional headphone jack beats Bluetooth every time. Current gen over ear ANC headphones have battery life in excess of any international flight. Most in excess of a round trip, even. True wireless one
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
Realistically, most USB devices hiccup when they exceed their current limit, especially in 5V mode. And since caps don’t loose charge that quickly typically, you can usually charge the cap up enough to deal with this transient no matter how
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
Less impressive than you might think here. I can't imagine how small this model must be if it only has 1.46M cells. Maybe 1M? Probably less. Sure the token/s decode is cool, but this size isn't capable of doing anything. For
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
The advantage of Lightning here is there is a totally open port, so picking lint out of the port is substantially easier. With Type C you have to work around the 'tab' and it requires much much smaller tools.
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
Either your standards are much higher than mine or you haven’t been exposed to current gen Bluetooth gear. Decent picks sound perfectly fine even in the sub $100 category. Anker, Nothing, or even Sony have some decent stuff in that price ra
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
And basically all current gen ANC headphones still offer wired options as well, including Bose. But they still come with wireless if you’d opt to use it. My comment was in reference to the ANC “clamping on your head” which is sort of irrele
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
Or just… don’t buy ones that have noise canceling? Not that hard and often cheaper. Again I’m comparing $20 headphones here. Nobody is saying $100 wired headphones aren’t gonna be better than $100 wireless ones for sound. But, if you want A
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> BT have a lot of codecs but a $20 headset including tax and markup would not include all the fancy ones by the cost alone. What do you mean by this? AAC or SBC is perfectly fine for $20 headphones. Definitely for that quality of headph
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> Nothing could sell a phone with a jack, but then you don't need to pay 300$ for some crappy Bluetooth headphones Have you looked at the price of actually mediocre Bluetooth headphones recently? They’re like… $20 for a distinct fin
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
I’d agree there’s no single right answer, but I think generally a risk profile for an insurance product that is so outsized against you seems like a poor decision. This isn’t like putting all your money in meme stocks or something, this is
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
Total loss being the bar seems crazy to me. A 20-50k unexpected expense for almost everyone would essentially result in bankruptcy or at minimum insolvency and long term debt. That means you would need to hold enough money in short term acc
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
What do you consider catastrophic loss? I’ve found in home insurance the delta on lower deductibles isn’t that meaningful and when something happens, the pay out is almost always worth it. Something like water damage from a burst pipe can b
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
Again I see this as unrelated. You can be passionate about the job, but the location is a checkbox.
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
I see it a little different. I'm not saying I prioritize work over everything else, I just see them as almost unrelated. The location is a filter, not a motivation. For various reasons, I wouldn't ever choose certain cities to liv
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> Most people want to have a job set up before they move to a new city. This is obvious for most people... generally a bad financial idea to move to a new city without a job. But, primarily taking a job just to move to a new city seems o
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
Maybe I just haven't met these engineers, but isn't the problem usually "I don't want to relocate" ? Who talks about relocating as if that's the primary motivation for a job?
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> Annoyingly the input pins had a constant DC offset of over 2 volts, which went away when shorted to ground but reappeared moments after I removed the short. Mic inputs on audio codecs always have DC bias, because they are DC biasing th
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
So, even worse than 0, if we’re saying the value of games is not measurable but substantial?
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by Kirby64 3mo ago
> Or they could create 1000 users in a row with 4GB passwords and fill up your storage. Not an issue if you’re storing passwords properly. You don’t store the actual password, you store a (hopefully) salted hash of it.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
You’re not replacing the outsourcing it component though, you’re replacing a maid at home doing it for you. In home laundry services are a very different experience since you don’t have to also go pick up and drop off the laundry. A service
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Is there a reason head gestures couldn't be mapped to functions in Linux? I see little reason why you couldn't have it used to play/pause or something. Heart rate monitoring less-so... but even that exposure could be useful f
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
I think you’ve got things quite backwards if you think that the desire to run models on device or use any of the variety of open weight models (big or small) on premise is somehow bowing down to tech billionaires. Quite the opposite really.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Why are you representing this as such a binary here? For SLM we don’t need the Taalas stuff at all. Just run it locally on your own device if it’s truly a small model. And there’s plenty of larger models that can be run on-premise just fine
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> They expect to scale up to real LLMs by splitting a model layer-wise across several chips, which they can do without incurring any throughput penalty. I’ll patiently wait to see this in reality. Their demonstration hardware is a 250W c
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
But I’m not missing the point. If you can run one frontier model at 750t/s, then you can probably run many many instances of an SLM in parallel at a rate that exceeds 15k/s. That’s kinda the point of the flash or ultrafast variant
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
But it’s irrelevant. 750 tokens/s on a full frontier model is useful. 15000 poor quality tokens is much less useful no matter how much scaffolding you put around it.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
It’s not just old, it’s also tiny and quantized. It’s llama 3.1 8b at 3/6-bit quant. This is the type of thing you can run on almost any device…
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Or you could buy a MacBook Neo on various retailers who still have it for $599. Heck, it’s on sale for $589 on Amazon right now. I don’t think the market shopping for $600 laptops is the same market that wants something that runs Linux.

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