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by Miraste 4y ago
I like it when systems have a separate "dark mode," with grays, and "OLED dark mode," with true blacks for high contrast/battery saving on OLED displays. There are a few Android apps that do it and I wish it were mo
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by Miraste 4y ago
The rise in home prices isn't due to unrestricted market action, though. It's happening because of a patchwork of local regulations making it difficult to build new housing, and other worse concepts like California's neo-feud
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by Miraste 4y ago
Yes, it's not because of the OLED tech but due to the weird pixel arrangements many of them use.
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by Miraste 4y ago
My favorite recent one is how the mobile division started refusing to use new Exynos chips from the semiconductor division. Imagine if Apple designed and built an A16 chip and then put Qualcomm SoCs in the iPhone.
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by Miraste 4y ago
Yes, at least in smartphone displays. I believe the closest competitor is LG, and their displays are noticeably, visibly worse.
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by Miraste 4y ago
> the small and lower cost place you bought 10 years ago went up in price too. Exactly, that's the problem. There exist people who did not buy houses 10 years ago, due to personal failings such as being teenagers at the time. Yet th
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by Miraste 4y ago
"Buying small" is often no longer possible due to the insane increase in housing cost relative to wages, making that advice out of touch. Going on to blame this on the youth and their nightlives doesn't exactly reverse this i
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by Miraste 4y ago
This is completely ignoring the increase in house prices, unless by "not the most desirable location" you mean "move to the middle of Kansas." The fact is, in many areas, buying any house at all is not feasible for the v
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by Miraste 4y ago
I don't have access to 175B for comparison. In a vacuum, 30B isn't very good. In the neighborhood of GPT-NeoX-20B, I think, but not good. It repeats itself easily and has a tenuous relationship with the topic. It's still much
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by Miraste 4y ago
Nothing in the ballpark of GPT-3.5 or Prometheus yet, but we'll get there.
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by Miraste 4y ago
OPT-175B isn't publicly available, sadly. It's available to research institutions, which is much better than "Open"AI, but it doesn't help us hobbyists/indie researchers much.
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by Miraste 4y ago
Petals doesn't train new models, it only runs BLOOM in a distributed way.
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by Miraste 4y ago
I've been trying this, and with compression on (4 bits) you can fit the entire 30B model on the 3090.
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by Miraste 4y ago
I'm not familiar with Metal, but on Apple Silicon aren't CPU and GPU memory completely shared?
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by Miraste 4y ago
The compression is optional.
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by Miraste 4y ago
128GB, but by turning on compression I managed to fit the whole thing on the GPU. I did try it off a mix of RAM and SSD as well, and it was slower but still usable. Presumably disk speed matters a lot.
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by Miraste 4y ago
After turning on compression I was able to fit the whole thing in GPU memory and then it became much faster. Not ChatGPT speeds or anything, but under a minute for a response in their chatbot demo. A few seconds in some cases.
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by Miraste 4y ago
You have to change the --percent flag. It takes some experimentation. The format is three pairs of 0-100 integers, one for parameters, attention cache and hidden states respectively. The first zero is percent on GPU, the second one is perce
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by Miraste 4y ago
Firefox was slower than other browsers at the time. A lot slower, and buggier. There are plenty of benchmarks. I’m a Firefox user now, but before Quantum I didn’t touch it because it really was terribly dated.
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by Miraste 4y ago
Being forced to see and potentially click on ads is a security hole. I trust uBlock and gorhill more than I trust Google.
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by Miraste 4y ago
He was unpopular for a number of other reasons, some of which were just bad luck. Inflation was high, the economy was poor, there was a massive oil shortage, and the Iranian hostage crisis went poorly. There were a lot of smaller issues too
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by Miraste 4y ago
Every year Apple talks about their commitment to gaming, and every year macOS gaming gets worse. It was never in great shape, but switching to Metal, dropping 32-bit support, and launching Apple Silicon killed it deader than a doornail. The
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by Miraste 4y ago
The 80s is too far back, probably 2003 was the last peak, but since it became clear Afghanistan and Iraq were disasters the war propaganda complex was muted for years. Remember when Romney said Russia was the US's biggest threat in 201
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by Miraste 4y ago
If you use a lot of wired devices I guess I can see that being a headache. I use wireless peripherals and make sure they're all usb-c, so when I travel I only need to remember one cable, maybe another as backup. These problems also im
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by Miraste 4y ago
Elevenlabs, by some ex-googlers: https://beta.elevenlabs.io/ If anything, the results I've heard from this are better than the demos. And VALL-E by Microsoft, which isn't quite as good, but notable because it can
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by Miraste 4y ago
>It's not politics, it's discussing technical and economic tradeoffs to make the most secure credible neutral decentralized ledger possible. Who decided which tradeoffs are best? How did they get other people on board? This cer
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by Miraste 4y ago
I don't think this is true any more. At least, I've heard generated audio from the latest models that runs for well over a minute without obvious artifacts.
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by Miraste 4y ago
I suppose you're trying to make a point about the relative attention devoted to Ukraine vs other conflicts, but in this case there really is only one war with large state actors who have the motive and cyberwarfare ability for mass hac
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by Miraste 4y ago
I can only match anecdote with anecdote, but I've seen two Lightning ports fail and zero USB-C. Micro-usb did have a tendency to break but not more than mini-usb, and that's not anecdotal-- the port design was so prone to failure
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by Miraste 4y ago
Counterpoint: in USB-C, the crushable, breakable part with the spring is in the cable. With Lightning, it's in the $1500 phone. Yubikeys are an unfortunate edge case but normally it's a lot easier to get a new cable.

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