ZoomerCretin

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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Yep. My second Dell laptop had the screen hinge break, because they anchor the damned things in plastic, and the screen case is rarely rigid. Google "Dell laptop hinge issue" and see how many results you get, and how far back they
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> but it doesn't logically follow that similar housing couldn't have been built without the parking rules change, just that it's cheaper to build without it. Cost is a very real and important constraint. You can't jus
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Having an exception process is ripe for abuse. We have laws for a reason: it is generally a good thing for the same rules to apply to everyone. When you require an exception, you can easily threaten and extort whatever you want, because the
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Bad judgement? Sam Altman is a prolific liar who attempted to oust a board member by spreading different lies to different people. He's not even an engineer! He has established a cult of personality and popularity, and that's it.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
If it's trivial but nonfree, it still runs. What is meant by non-trivial, and how do you programmatically determine that a script is non-trivial? Like this: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/librejs.git/tree&#
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Tools like this seem like a great way to manage breaking changes if done right. Far too often, frequently with JavaScript, I'll find myself with a project whose dependencies are 2-3 major versions out of date, and the documentation of
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Yes, but since the US is becoming extremely protectionist/nationalist with its energy infrastructure, the only relevant bit from this story is that this production is occuring entirely within the US. Though it is good news that this co
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
From the article, these are estimated at 70 Wh/kg. Pretty abysmal for EVs, but the trade-offs likely aren't too undesirable for home battery backups or utility-scale batteries.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Yep. The industry is not the same everywhere. The high paying jobs on the US coasts hire for intelligence and general programming skills. Everywhere else, you're expected to have specific experience in their language and framework. Eve
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> Vacant land attracts higher taxes in Japan than land with buildings A hell of an incentive to build or sell your land to someone who will build. We've struggled with land speculation in the US for longer than we've been a cou
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
There was no bipartisan consensus until Israel's atrocities began last year.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Israel, who is mad that there exists a major social media app which does not censor pro-Palestinian content.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Poor drivers who are likely to cause accidents should pay higher rates. If you don't like it, you're more than welcome to drive a 10 year old clunker. There is no difference between what GM did and what any social media company do
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Both major presidential candidates are very anti-China. What exactly would they gain from election interference?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
So this is almost certainly to ensure it lands in the hands of pro-Israeli censors.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Yep. TikTok is the only major social media app in the US that does not downrank pro-Palestinian content. No one in the US government cared about TikTok until the latest conflict in Israel. This is the only reason for the ban.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Wow. Another incredible bar raiser for open-weight language models. I can't wait to see a fine-tuned version.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Yep. Google has TPUs, and AMD/Nvidia/Intel/Apple/Qualcomm all have tensor coprocessors now. From a CPU or GPU to an FPGA, the cost/benefit is huge. With every device having tensor cores, not so much. ASIP and ASICs
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
I'm glad to see this is being studied. I did a brief half-semester project summarizing the usefulness of accelerators after the death of Dennard's law and Moore's law (this was when Intel was still pushing out incremental imp
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
As opposed to the private industry, famously meritocratic and never hiring friends, family, and insiders?
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
The benchmark for the latest checkpoint is pretty good: https://x.com/teknium1/status/1780991928726905050?s=46
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
This opens the door wide enough for extortion and the end of net neutrality, and for this to happen again: > Second, that the company repeatedly promised reliable, “no buffering,” “no lag” internet, especially to services like Netflix or
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
So rationing? I wouldn't call that fantastic. Why should someone who's barely interested but willing to go for $10 more deserving of a seat than a super fan willing to save up to shell out $150 for a seat?
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
had
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
Wow thank you for the insight. I appreciate you taking the time to write all of this out, and also for your stubbornness in testing!
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
That statement has two qualifications.
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
Yes that's why I qualified "serious" dogfooding. Of course you use your hardware for your own development work, but it's clearly not enough given that showstopper driver issues are going unfixed for half a year.
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
I'm not familiar with the particulars of OneAPI, but it's just a matter of rewriting CUDA kernels into OneAPI. This is pretty trivial for the vast majority of small (<5 LoC) kernels. Unlike AMD, it looks like they're serio
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
Gemini and Gemma were trained on Google's TPUs.
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by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
He loudly gave up on AMD after they did not fix a blocker he had for 5+ months and gave him the runaround the entire time when he asked for the code to fix it himself. He is still shipping the AMD tinybox with huge warning labels.

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