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by LASR 2y ago
You can get these chips on eBay for quite cheap now. I run a couple in a dual Xeon home server. But imo, the power consumption is just not worth it. Might just switch to a regular desktop running an i5.
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by LASR 2y ago
Also, "peruse". Half the time I have no idea if they looked through it carefully or they just skimmed through it. Also "the proof is in the pudding" this is opposite to what the original meaning was - which is that the p
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by LASR 2y ago
People have a fundamental misunderstanding of what LLMs are. I’ve had to explain this so many times even to engineers. People keep using it as Google. It is not a mechanism to retrieve facts. It’s rather a reasoning mechanism, that when use
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by LASR 2y ago
This is not going mainstream until we have the killer apps for it. Apple should really build a virtual workplace product and package that with the VP. WFHers like myself would jump on it.
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by LASR 2y ago
Can someone help me understand the thermodynamics behind this? My naive understanding would be that if the temperature > human body temperature, we can only gain heat from the environment, leading to death. Obviously sweating is involved
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by LASR 2y ago
Multi-monitor support might have made this worthwhile for professional / prosumer users. But you can only have a single display in VR. My single oldschool physical display works way better. So this limitation makes it an expensive curi
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by LASR 2y ago
The ads themselves are also particularly egregious masquerading often as news. Very many times I’ve seen “BREAKING NEWS” only to click in and see something about some celebrity getting divorced or some other tabloid garbage like that. Can’t
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by LASR 2y ago
You could solve this by simply sending out a memo not to respond to such offers or risk termination.
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by LASR 2y ago
Do you mean without DRL?
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by LASR 2y ago
I own a model 3 with FSD. One of the key realizations I had after a few months with it is that self-driving at the moment is like supervising a newbie teenager driving. You have to stay alert and watchful, but also don’t have the direct con
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by LASR 2y ago
If you want x number of items every time, ask it to include a sequence number in each output, it will consistently return x number of items. Numbered bullets work well for this, if you don’t need JSON. With JSON, you can ask it to include a
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by LASR 2y ago
The tabloid celebrity “news” garbage in the start menu is egregious already. They want to stuff more? I honestly cannot believe a $3T business needs this bit of ad space.
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by LASR 3y ago
I lead AI teams at my company. I've advised leadership against any kind of training / fine-tuning anything. We're not in the business of training models. We will never be as good as OpenAI / Anthropic etc. Where the real
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by LASR 3y ago
I am curious from someone who uses fig every day - what’s the rundown on its value?
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by LASR 3y ago
I’m about to fly on a Max-8 airplane in the next 2 hours. I can’t help but be very nervous about the fact that we are still unclear on what exactly happened. This feels very much like the MCAS situation. They spun their wheels for months af
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by LASR 3y ago
I mean if we disregard the name, this is a very common architecture. Everything is a DOM node etc.
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by LASR 3y ago
As a somewhat recent south Asian immigrant to the USA, I’ve always thought Jalapeños were meant to signify the lowest spice level. Only recently, I discovered its actual reputation is to pack a punch. I grew up with Thai chillies as to mean
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by LASR 3y ago
Everyone by now should be writing unit tests using ChatGPT4. I paste in functions / classes I want to write unit tests for. Paste in a sample unit test, and it does a solid job of writing tests for it in the same manner as in the sampl
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by LASR 3y ago
Well the big difference is that keys can't be accessed in a hardware wallet. If you accidentally plug in the USB drive into some untrusted box, you could potentially have everything stolen. > some rando thumb drive that no one knows
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by LASR 3y ago
What's crazy is that I didn't even realize it until you pointed it out. I've been doing Win32 for so long it's like reading the green symbols in The Matrix. This all looks "normal" to me.
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by LASR 3y ago
In university I coded an N-body simulator and visualizer. This was back before when we had so many games that exist now. It taught me a lot about orbital mechanics. One realization I had was how orbits were fragile and how easily you could
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by LASR 3y ago
I've said this before, but until we have gimballed screens that can reposition a very high-density portion of the display to always be on the eye's fovea, we will not have a good productivity tool headset. AVP v1 does the eye trac
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by LASR 3y ago
> Same as juicero, many people bash the product but the engineering is world class. Absolutely not. Juicero was absolutely terrible engineering. Any mechanical engineering intern can whip up a big chonking hunk of a juicer or any other k
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by LASR 3y ago
I wonder what other practices from decades ago are lurking to be discovered as catastrophic to currently living people. I remember reading about cattle rearing practices a while ago that might be responsible for some prion related diseases.
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by LASR 3y ago
You know, I've always wondered why we've not used COTS parts for space missions. Every time I've heard of the next rover etc, it's been PowerPC CPUs from 20+ years ago. "Radiation hardened" is what I've he
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by LASR 3y ago
These mechanical hacks are always fun to discover. Although, that poor soul waiting for the toilet, just to find that it was locked with nobody inside - that could be you. These things are harder to test. It’s not just software and state ma
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by LASR 3y ago
Of course not. I could see the airplane lose a door in the sky and immediately short airline stocks. But so can anyone really. People watching all this have no control over the door actually falling off. Insiders have the ability to shift t
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by LASR 3y ago
The 2013 "Trash Can" Mac Pro has a special place in my heart. I bought one for $1000 at auction from a design firm upgrading to iMac Pros in 2017. It has been my daily driver for the last 6+ years. Upgraded to 12 cores, 128GB RAM,
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by LASR 3y ago
For some reason, this kind of news always makes me sad. Like emotionally. Probably because of this https://xkcd.com/695/ NASA has done an effective job at connecting with regular people. Goes to show, how even somethin
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by LASR 3y ago
My hypothesis is that there is some objective definition of these phase changes such that the precise definitions of life etc doesn't matter. My personal stab at an objective defintion: There is a sudden emergence of many more pathways

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