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by acchow 2y ago
Apple does not charge an arm and a leg. Their prices are quite competitive with similarly performing alternatives For the lower end, you can get a refurbished from various resellers all over the internet.
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by acchow 2y ago
Shouldn’t there be 2 BIOSes and you only update 1 at a time? I feel like this has been a solved problem for 20 years.
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by acchow 2y ago
approx 2016 Before that, the modifier keys remapping was missing "caps lock" so you needed a custom solution like you were using
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by acchow 2y ago
This feature is built into MacOS. For other OSes, I’m sure you can just do some config changes
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by acchow 2y ago
This isn’t true. The iPhone is locked down over iCloud. I assume remote lockdown also works while the phone is turned off or on airplane mode (as Find My Phone does by using the passive Apple mesh network)
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by acchow 2y ago
It gets stripped down for parts. Many of the individual components are valuable
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by acchow 2y ago
Not as a goal within itself, but when the audio quality is so bad that you cannot understand the dialog without closed captions turned on.... That is a problem... I find this often the case with streaming. I used to think that this is just
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by acchow 2y ago
Special relativity will give limits on how aligned the clocks can be (which should be a function of the distance between the clocks). So there will be precision limits.
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by acchow 2y ago
There are more than half a billion iPads out there.
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by acchow 2y ago
Still frustrated that 1080p bluray looks and sounds significantly better than 4k Netflix. Will a lot of quality stuff be lost forever when these companies disappear?
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by acchow 2y ago
Barring rent seeking and other anti-competitive behavior, all net profit is value creation.
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by acchow 2y ago
You can modify the system prompt to describe who you are and your ability level, and to instruct the LLM to fill in gaps of knowledge you wouldn't know to ask about.
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by acchow 2y ago
Learning/Coding with Claude 3/GPT4 is not like following turn-by-turn directions. It's like having a city guide next to you that knows everything about every street and the history of every building.
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by acchow 2y ago
This is just how it is for software engineers in general, right?
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by acchow 2y ago
Quantization isn’t a shortcut. It’s a test. More training leads to better compression. Trimming precision off the integers reveals that there was more compression that could be had.
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by acchow 2y ago
pg’s 2nd reply in the thread says they would have been happy https://x.com/paulg/status/1796114790722449429?s=46&t=kEOaRx...
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by acchow 2y ago
You could have the "brains" of the robot sit outside of the actual physical robot connected by very long wires.
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by acchow 2y ago
It gives better reuslts with “chain of thought”
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by acchow 2y ago
Much higher click through rate if the first 2 words are “Google AI”
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by acchow 2y ago
I joined this codebase 10 years into it. We could turn it off now, but the damage is already done.
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by acchow 2y ago
Theres a rubocop that disallows more than 5 or 6 function parameters. And since there’s nothing very lightweight like ADTs, people just move things to object state :( Very sad.
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by acchow 2y ago
This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145312 Google is just regurgitating ChatGPT's mistake. > Yes, that's correct! While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the l
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by acchow 2y ago
The companies buying billions of dollars of Nvidia GPUs definitely do want to commodify the GPU
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by acchow 2y ago
Because of the byte granularity, there's no interdependence between lanes. The result within a lane is not affected by the values of the other lanes.
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by acchow 2y ago
Last earnings, it popped up 8% during AH trading. But that was after falling 7% during the week leading up to earnings. This time around, the stock has been up slightly over the past week, and now popping 5.5% during AH trading.
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by acchow 2y ago
Nvidia can only say no if they have another shop to turn to. Do they?
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by acchow 2y ago
The real questions: how much of this is already priced in? Will this trend continue in the future?
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by acchow 2y ago
I was referring to addressing each atom individually. Indeed, you could possibly store more than 1 bit of information at each address. Maybe call it an "atombyte". Similarly in computer RAM, we don't address each "bit&qu
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by acchow 2y ago
The "Q" at the end is "quadword", so it's 64 bits (8 bytes).
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by acchow 2y ago
No, it doesn't shift across 64-bit boundaries. Take a look at the gcc output in your link ``` movdqa xmm0, XMMWORD PTR [rdi] movdqa xmm1, xmm0 psrlq xmm0, 10 psrldq xmm1, 8 psllq xmm1, 54

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