Roark66

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by Roark66 4y ago
>"You can download browsers for long gone operating systems" Unfortunately, many simply don't work for 99.9% of the modern Web due to it requiring TLS 1.3. For example, on Windows 98,there is a myth of some Opera version t
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by Roark66 4y ago
Marvellous, but why raspberry pi? I suppose this project was started before 2021. Today there is little sense to be using them for anything new (unless you're doing it just for yourself and you already have few lying around). Basic fun
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by Roark66 4y ago
I would be fine with high memory usage if it was almost all shared memory, but what really annoys me is that it isn't. Also the lack of cross platform UI toolkits(not just Windows-Linux cross platform, but really such that they integra
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by Roark66 4y ago
It is worth mentioning there is a difference in general how people think in new authoritarianisms and in those that have been ongoing for decades. Here someone dreams that dreams are forbidden and does it anyway. When one's lived their
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by Roark66 4y ago
For clueless "decisionmakers" I 100% agree, but this? Seriously: “A lot of the engineers, researchers, and planners … have the best intentions, but they don’t always understand the reality of what it means to live in a rural commu
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by Roark66 4y ago
Using offload to CPU (with dreamspeed) one can get away with a 8gb gpu. I haven't tried training myself yet, but there are reports of it working with 8gb vram (here for example https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffus
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by Roark66 4y ago
Well, the economic aspect of things is essential just as physical constrains. You can't wish away certain things like availability of other resources, or people behaving responsibly with no economic incentive. Talking about water reser
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by Roark66 4y ago
Exactly, also imagine how much more difficult a decision to open source their product must be fo a business? I think this toxicity as you called is really harming OS.
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by Roark66 4y ago
>Many of the roles folks are discussing here don't offer overtime payments. We're expected to comply with a wee line in our contracts that goes along the lines of "from time to time you may be required to work additional h
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by Roark66 4y ago
Ah, but the point people are making in this thread is completely different. It is against working late without pay. One of the companies I made the most money in at the beginning of my career was one where often worked 7 days a week. But on
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by Roark66 4y ago
Well, I had an interesting experience as one of few westerners in a western branch of aJapanese company that had 200+ of Japanese staff. We westerners left every single day at 5pm (unless there were real technical emergencies). All of the J
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by Roark66 4y ago
Another thing. I absolutely hate the taste of those materials that pass for compostable stuff these days. The McDonald's around here switched to paper straws (EU laws) and wooden ice cream spoons. I seriously stopped going there since
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by Roark66 4y ago
It is moderately annoying one has to sign up (and give one's email etc) to even see the product in action. Why couldn't they put up a public demo where all your work is shared/can't be saved just to check it out. The fac
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by Roark66 4y ago
Haven't we had scipy for ages? It is a real OS replacement for Mathematica. It can even run a lot of its scripts/code (sometimes with minor changes). In fact reading the linked page it appears they "build on top of" scip
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by Roark66 4y ago
I hope not, but even then a thin plastic frame isn't the worst. One could 3d print it for example. The worst I can think of is using a thermoset glue (or a thermally stable epoxy) on metal only parts. Then no one could fix it without r
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by Roark66 4y ago
Yes, I did. Unfortunately it appears to just return a hardcoded number on Android. So I can't do much with this without knowing some vulkan API I could use. Perhaps if this becomes a real issue I'll spend more time on it and I&#x2
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by Roark66 4y ago
>That's a standard feature of many Lisp implementations since the dawn of time. Yes, of course. I mean this from the point of view of someone who doesn't know any other lisp. Not as an advantage of "guile over lisp" .
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by Roark66 4y ago
For anyone interested in lisp I suggest guile. Especially if speed is important. Guile can be interpreted, but it becomes much faster when compiled. The beauty of it is one can mix and match compiled code with interpreted code in the same s
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by Roark66 4y ago
I fail to see the significance of this "urging of caution". What's next? Will they tell us those are not really analog like neurons and are in fact using binary numbers in their calculations? O the horror! Who cares? Everyone
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by Roark66 4y ago
Indeed, people used to read programming books (I still have two C++ Builder and a "Complete Java Reference" bricks on my bookshelf), but IMO the problem is not that people don't read books, but that a good written reference d
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by Roark66 4y ago
Gluing a phone shut doesn't have to be detrimental to repairability as long as the glue is heat-softening. So far I've opened all my smartphones just by heating them first. However, when they start using thermoset (rather than the
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by Roark66 4y ago
Wow, that must be annoying. Imagine you're almost late to go somewhere, or you have an actual medical emergency and the car says nope, now I'm updating... Seriously I would probably remove the antenna or the sim card for the car&#
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by Roark66 4y ago
Fun anecdote. I'm in a middle of writing an ML app for android that uses ncnn on top of Vulkan. In that app I need to decide how big chunks of work the model will handle at a time. When ncnn on Vulkan is asked for memory available, on
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by Roark66 4y ago
Is is very cool they have the ability to recycle old battery packs, but isn't the goal to have more lithium battery capacity available overall? Many people buy used cars only. If all electric vehicle batteries will be taken off the mar
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by Roark66 4y ago
I find the idea that unless our civilisation changes its priorities from "unbounded growth" to "homeostasis" then we necessarily will suffer the "asymptotic burnout" comparable to papers written in 19th century
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by Roark66 4y ago
Well, US having the dollar as a the world's reserve currency has it much better in general when it comes to inflation. Just look how Euro has been free falling. I've had an opportunity to observe inflation, followed by hyperinflat
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by Roark66 4y ago
You know what is crazy. I recently heard 20% of adult population in Iran is in Revolutionary Guard. This puts things into context for anyone who says "why don't people just overthrow the dictatorship". However, there were dic
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by Roark66 4y ago
Yes, this is true, but even back then (during the time they crippled it) it was possible to pretend to run on Intel hardware. I haven't done this, but I read it was possible.
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by Roark66 4y ago
Are you talking about Intel Arc? I'm yet to see any ML relevant benchmarks on Intel Arc. If you are aware of any please let me know.
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by Roark66 4y ago
Intel did a great thing for people interested in ML and numeric research by making their MKL library and compiler free and cross platform compatible. Even today on my AMD zen3 Ryzen machine intel's MKL linked numpy and pytorch are in s

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