NBJack

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by NBJack 3y ago
My original point was meant to nod towards survivorship bias. I won't argue that choices are great now, with tons of niche offerings that are a delight for many. But using Stardew Valley as an example doesn't hold up well for crea
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by NBJack 3y ago
Hard to argue against that. There's clearly a higher bar in Steam. Hopefully that will continue.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Stardew Valley is great. But note that the author took a classic approach to solo assets and devlopment: pixel art on a 2d canvas. This is a great game in a well established medium, and the concept itself is part homage to Harvest Moon, ori
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by NBJack 3y ago
This is going to make for some highly entertaining post mortems. "Management believed Jimmy Intern would be fine to deploy Prod Model Sysphus vN+1; their Beginner Acceleration Divison (BAD) Team was eager to show off the new LLM and ho
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by NBJack 3y ago
Better for marketing, better for tourists. So often the DS9 joke comes to mind here: "Would you want to buy a book called 'The Suggestions of Acquisiton'?"
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by NBJack 3y ago
Believe me, I'm not claiming that the dev/stage/prod pattern is any kind of cure-all. It has its own problems, which are probably too numerous for a late-night post. From what you've described, you're doing the righ
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by NBJack 3y ago
Big brain move. Gives them a nice easy public exit from what was nothing more than virtue signaling. I agree with the license change being honest. They clearly didn't give a shit.
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by NBJack 3y ago
What you wrote here disagreeing with the author is probably more than what Hashicorp has collectively communicated in the last 5 years. At least you cared to do so. It's cool if they don't agree with something being trivial. It&#x
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by NBJack 3y ago
Which to me makes very little sense in a "laptop". It's pretty good at helping the device stay cool, but you will regret wearing shorts should your processor or GPU really need to get work done, should you actually have it on
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by NBJack 3y ago
I regret to inform you we have decided to replace you with a model. It's nothing personal, but we had such a good time training it on your comment history, and your replacement model offered us cookies. They're made with flour, su
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by NBJack 3y ago
This doesn't scale well. It is a perfectly fine approach for smaller systems with a few dependencies, but you are going to have serious headaches whenever you (1) start to see more complex internal system dependencies, and/or (2)
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by NBJack 3y ago
Anyone else bothered by the fact that it asks you to pick a pair, when there are clearly four dice in each pic? Did I miss something, or is this either broken or intentionally misleading? Technically, there is no traditonal pair of 6-sided
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by NBJack 3y ago
Except for the part Llama 2 weights are still being gated by Meta. There are certainly ways around this, but officially this hasn't even changed, even for Llama 1. I'm not certain Meta has any real incentive to do so. This arguabl
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by NBJack 3y ago
Ouch. This hurts, and I amdit to being an NVIDIA fan, but it is very true. And may your maker help you if you want to do some HW accelerated ML but accidentally upgrade one of the many NVIDIA components (driver, CUDA, CuDNN) to a version no
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by NBJack 3y ago
For a time, so was bitcoin mining. ML hardware sales are being driven by a 'Renaissance' of rapid model development and commercial offerings, primarily by the FAANG, but several others too. This is neat, but beyond the initial wav
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by NBJack 3y ago
DLSS directly leverages the tensor cores of particular NVidia cards. Whether or not this is just a marketing gimmick is up to you and your own conclusions on the matter, but AMD doesn't seem to have an equivalent hardware tech for thi
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by NBJack 3y ago
Have you tried DLSS 3 with frame generation yet? Ray tracing performance hits are mitigated substantially, 4K included. What is more shocking to me is how low they got the latency on it; I have yet to notice perceptible lag when turned on (
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by NBJack 3y ago
Short sighted decision making that doesn't account for the larger ecosystem. Sloppy code that barely meets the requirements. Zero coordination on a release that clearly left another team scrambling because it placed significant load on
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by NBJack 3y ago
To be frank, as cool as that is, it is easy to overlook the same problem with drones: they are distinctively LOUD unless at a distance (and even then). Would be interesting to corroborate whether unusual noises are associated with their arr
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by NBJack 3y ago
I'd be happy if they just found a way to enforce quality control on their devices. The last high-end business class laptop I ordered never left memory training mode during boot right out of the box, and I had to RMA the whole thing. Su
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by NBJack 3y ago
Been a while since I actually laughed out loud due to HN. Excellent work. Only thing missing is an article entitled "Vague insinuation of Your Technology is Bad results in HN comments section being paged due to massive flame war...agai
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by NBJack 3y ago
This rings true for my own experience. While I have avoided most of the counterfeit dupes (of which I will broaden beyond just selling clones; there are plenty of shady products with questionable descriptions that don't match reality),
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by NBJack 3y ago
Would be super interesting to see an arms race on this. 5000W bulb from the track vs. a concave mirror bouncing it back in such a way that it would mess with the drivers? Whom would then start wearing polarized glasses as they filtered the
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by NBJack 3y ago
The article IMHO does a great job breaking down the pixel arrangement, troubles with rasterization, how modern monitors basically cheat to get sharper text, and so on. TL;DR: VR/AR suffers greatly with text. The only way Apple will pot
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by NBJack 3y ago
I think the bigger question is would it be stable enough. Many SD like models struggle with consistency across multiple images (i.e. frames) even when content doesn't change much. Would he a cool problem to see tackled.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Oof. Point well made. That I certainly don't see changing any time soon.
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by NBJack 3y ago
I like to think at least a few NASA engineers come to meetings with some brilliant ideas....that were cooked up at the 1am mark of a 7 hour weekend KSP binge.
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by NBJack 3y ago
To be honest with ourselves, until we have standardized licensing/accreditation that is fully recognized, we aren't really engineers. I would love to see a day when redundancy like this is just a standardized, accepted practice ra
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by NBJack 3y ago
This sounds like a nightmare for Python. No auto formatter would solve inconsistent indentation for you. You would need to put a little more effort into using your caret to find issues when a compiler gives a row and column coordinate. Max
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by NBJack 3y ago
Google leaves that as a team preference. Go certainly has highly opinionated style enforcement, but it is surprisingly not automatic formatting across the board. Amazon may have changed, but this is also not universal. Team preference, thou

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