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by anvuong 1y ago
Antenna gate? Bend gate? Butterfly keyboard? This kind of Apple fanboyism is why I hate Apple, even though I really enjoy using their Macs at work.
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by anvuong 1y ago
It mostly has to do with sparsity in high dimensional space. When you scale things to the extreme everything is very far away from each other, the space is sparse, and random vectors have very high chance to be orthogonal, etc. All of these
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by anvuong 1y ago
The action of sifting through through poop to find gold actually positively develops my critical thinking skill. I, too, went through a phase of just asking LLM for a specific concept instead of Googling it and weave through dozens of wiki
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by anvuong 1y ago
How can you be sure putting the finger on the chip raise the temp? If you feel hot that means heat from the chip is being transferred to your finger, that may decrease the temp, no?
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by anvuong 2y ago
What do you mean not effective? I worked in a digital marketing/advertising company and we needed to re-architect our whole system to comply with GDPR, it was a pain in the ass for both backend team and analytics team.
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by anvuong 2y ago
Firefox performance has been trash for years, for many reasons. I still stick with it because it was included in my Ubuntu 8.04, which was the first OS I installed by myself, and more recently because of its stand regarding privacy. Now I m
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by anvuong 2y ago
Depends on what you want to know. If you want to get some trajectories then simulation of the stochastic differential equation is required. But if you just want to know the statistics of the paths, then in many cases you can write and try t
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by anvuong 2y ago
This is confirmation/survivorship bias. You only hear about these positive cases. The vast majority just ends up rediscovering old techniques and their year-long paper/work got rejected.
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by anvuong 2y ago
What's the difference? LLMs confidently lie or produce incorrect results all the time, with "conviction".
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by anvuong 2y ago
Isn't batch-first a Pytorch thing? I started with Tensorflow and it's batch-last.
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by anvuong 2y ago
Neither. Think of it as something like redis or memcached. It's external to the program, and the program will run just fine without it. But it avoids a lot of duplicate works.
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by anvuong 2y ago
Coming from Windows and Mac, the multiple monitors experience on Linux is terrible, especially when the monitors have different refresh rates or different resolutions. It's getting a bit better with Ubuntu 24.10 but still not close to
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by anvuong 2y ago
What year are you currently living in? A good 2TB Gen5 NVMe with W/R speed upto 7,000MB/s can be had for less than $200 during sales that happen multiple times a year. Go down 1 tier lower to 4,000-5,000MB/s and you can have
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by anvuong 2y ago
Because YT Music is also bundled into the price, and in my opinion it's a decent music streaming service. The big advantage of YT Music is you can find a lot of covers or mashups if you are into that, thanks to Youtube videos.
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by anvuong 2y ago
I doubt you can receive any signal on the plane. In the airport maybe.
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by anvuong 2y ago
But then you'll run the risks of your apps randomly breaking after OS upgrades. A simple Linux headers change can mess up apps installed via .deb files
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by anvuong 2y ago
Tax on unrealized gain is total BS. It's BS right in the name. Why don't they just say collateral assets are taxable, so the loan pegged on these assets will get taxed. The way they are going with is pure stupidity.
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by anvuong 2y ago
TBH I feel like if I am into VR porn then I am definitely addicted and I'd need help from professional. Usually porn is like a quick dopamine hit, or a quick release for a biological need. For VR, you'd beed to be really really in
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by anvuong 2y ago
"An LLM, a Markov chain, and GPT-4 walk into a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." GPT-4 leaves. The LLM stays to debate ethics. The Markov chain orders a bicycle made of spaghetti." This is act
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by anvuong 2y ago
That was true when ARM was first released, but over the years the decoder for ARM has gotten more and more complicated. Who would have guessed adding more specialized instructions would result in more complicated decoders? ARM now uses mult
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by anvuong 2y ago
You just need to run some Monte Carlo sims where the priors are your desired rates, then use this results to alter the real numbers. It's as random as it gets.
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by anvuong 2y ago
Thanks for the nice writing. But do you have any insight on why is bluetooth audio so clunky on Linux? I'm using a pair of Sony XM4 and I have never had any problems on my 4 Windows machines. But on Ubuntu (both 22.04 and 24.04), I hav
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by anvuong 2y ago
And changing it to water pistol reduces the bullying? I have seen racism expressed through colored emoticons, destroying its original intents of inclusivity. It's stupid to change it in the first place, this is just doubling the stupid
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by anvuong 2y ago
Probably go buy a mocha and cry in the corner :(
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by anvuong 2y ago
As if Linux doesn't have malware or security breach
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by anvuong 2y ago
What is with this paranoia on HN? 5s Google says that vPro is the Remote management platform offered by Intel for business, basically a fleet management tool, which is typical for corp
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by anvuong 2y ago
Well statistically Airbus is currently safer than Boeing, and as a consumer I have a choice to choose which plane to fly in, at least for my regular routes. Now you tell me why should I pick Boeing over Airbus?
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by anvuong 2y ago
Is WSL2 available at launch day? If not that will be a deal breaker for me.
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by anvuong 2y ago
The Internet is very funny. It's both incredibly reliable with insane amount of redundancy and extremely easy to screw up. A single bad BGP config can shut down the internet for a whole country ...
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by anvuong 2y ago
Cloud gaming will never be good enough for competitive FPS or racing, the latency will never be overcome, it's just physics. And if you want to do 300-400FPS, like most high-level players in CS2 do, local hardware is the only solution.

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