ajross

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by ajross 5d ago
I don't see how that math works? This is a $15k rig under benchmark and per the results it competes very acceptably against... one consumer GPU. I really don't see who buys this, except people who want the Studio for some other r
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by ajross 7d ago
The cooling pause thing was just a dig at Geekbench, not specific to this discussion (thus putting it in a footnote). They tuned (the last version of their) benchmark specifically to give better numbers on hardware that tends to throttle u
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by ajross 7d ago
> Apple chips don't have AVX-512. Zen 4 isn't 512 bits wide though, it's a split cycle 256 bit wide SIMD engine otherwise very similar (except in register size) to M6's. The answer is more that Geekbench is at this po
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by ajross 8d ago
I'm talking specifically about discourse like Jacob Coxon's tweet thread and later communication. Those are the folks[1] you want to be listening to, not the nuts with the blogs, no matter how much a particular conspiracy confirm
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by ajross 8d ago
> The framing of how we think about AI I don't think I agree. In fact I think most of the too-online pontification from P(Doom)-ers and EA and the Rationalists and the like is, if anything, sorta missing the mark more than it hits.
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by ajross 10d ago
More like 70% human-configured DNS, 25% human-configured routing configuration, 5% interesting software bug.
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by ajross 11d ago
Double replying because I missed this accusation: > It's also simply a lie I don't know what you're trying to cite but your numbers are wrong per FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1YCNz
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by ajross 11d ago
You're doubling down with more hyperbole. What's the policy suggestion? What do you propose to cut? Where do you propose to find new revenue? What compromises are you willing to make to other priorities and what stands are you
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by ajross 11d ago
> the US is catastrophically indebted Debt service costs as a percent of GDP are in fact lower than they were in the 1980's, when things came out fine. Is this the best way to run the budget? Likely no. Should we make policy ch
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by ajross 11d ago
The point is not that police are bad and we aren't. You're right that everyone can be tempted to terrible action by access and permission to terrible things. The very clear point here is that cops are in practice misusing this sy
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by ajross 11d ago
> AI is a legit threat to Amazon because headless Amazon makes it more difficult for Amazon to sell ads, which is a large part of their revenue. That seems entirely backwards to me. It's true only in the micro sense that you look a
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by ajross 12d ago
Bearings and shocks have grease, sure. But those things last decades after installation. They're probably two orders of magnitude lower in volume consumption than engine oil, which gets contaminated and disposed of at the rate of lik
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by ajross 13d ago
I remain amazed that the idea of the USA being a coherent, unified rational actor one can describe as a "Nation State" has survived the current administration. To be less glib: Yes, there are still smart people in there making ins
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by ajross 15d ago
The problem is that "being at war" isn't really the problem, it's a symptom. A lawless and destabilized gulf region is the result of incomplete and inneffective military action, and in a darkly hilarious way is only t
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by ajross 15d ago
FWIW, the native app specialists are in some sense the most invalidated here. Shopify decided they couldn't afford your skill set and didn't change their mind until you could be replaced with an LLM. Really the whole concept of
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by ajross 15d ago
> Came down hot Really that's all that needs to be said at the moment. They had way too much energy[1], which anyone with flight sim or RC experience will recognize as a routine mistake when hand-flying. The question is why all (al
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by ajross 18d ago
I can't tell what you're disagreeing with. I'm just going to repeat: there is nothing notable or unique to Christian appropriation of myths and stories from other religions. It does it at least as much as everyone else does,
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by ajross 18d ago
Editor snobbery digression: that would be poor writing. The job of signaling the main subject of the article belongs to the headline and lede, and "Christian saints" is right there. No, that phrase is just filler. And IMHO it&#x
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by ajross 18d ago
I really don't think that that use of "in particular" is correct or notable? Cross culture motion of mythology and storytelling is the rule with humanity, not the exception. Really it's only in the last/final gener
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by ajross 19d ago
Shrug. If you feel you can do better by offering free email with ad targetting and beat GMail in the market, feel free. As it is, Google clearly feels that offering "free mail client" functionality to external domains is a net l
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by ajross 19d ago
Ah. But you can delete the relationship in Google Wallet too, IIRC. I thought that was what you were talking about.
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by ajross 19d ago
Not following? Paying with Google Pay is obviously not "easy" if you're not logged in, it's impossible? And obviously you don't need to use an email if you're already authenticated?
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by ajross 20d ago
> It's not quite the same as the old Intel based generation, where they were more like premium/well built machines with good screens and hardware. Not sure what generation you're talking about? Intel c. 18-25 years ago wa
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by ajross 20d ago
> they used to let you run Windows! They let you run Windows when they were losing in the market and needed a path to migration for users of the winning platform. Once they started winning, they stopped. Conversely, Microsoft refused to
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by ajross 20d ago
> Why Apple does not at least provide the specs to the community? Because then they'll have to compete with Linux, which opens them up to someone else making a cheaper computer that does the same stuff. I mean, I'm typing this
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by ajross 21d ago
This is missing the point. The whole point of a "sandbox" in the sense of defense in depth is precisely because it's expected that first-line security guarantees will be broken. Like, maybe V8 has a bug and you can write
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by ajross 21d ago
> Why you would choose to use the weakest defensible option I still remain confused why people are interpreting this from what I wrote. I'm not "choosing" to use RSA nor advocating for its use. I'm pointing out ane
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by ajross 21d ago
Everyone wants to argue crypto when my point was precisely the opposite (to wit: "Two decades after the factoring freakout, RSA is fine, go figure"), but whatever. I'll retract that when they break it. But the pace has been
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by ajross 21d ago
> Your 1024 bit key is only "fine" because you are a small fry, not because cryptographers think it cannot be attacked. This is falling for an xkcd 538 fallacy, btw. Nation states obviously have vast higher capability to subve
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by ajross 21d ago
It's sort of fun to remember the genuine worry in the community around RSA and the (really, really shocking at the time!) progress in factorization leading up to GNFS techniques. Like, it really looked like everything was going to fall

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