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by bArray 6d ago
I used to host 1TB on a cheap $1 VPS, it's quite easy if you just want to store stuff. The trick is to just connect to a networked drive at your home on the back-end. The VPS drive just acts as a buffer for the network. If low(-ish) ba
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MIT Just Proved LLMs Will Stop Getting Smarter, and Money Won't Fix It [video](youtube.com)
5 points by bArray 6d ago|1 comments
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by bArray 12d ago
We've had AI robots in our homes as the article points out in the form of a Roomba or cleaning robot. Arguably before that, we've had robotics in the form of dishwasher and washing machines with a range of sensors and actuators, a
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by bArray 19d ago
> Add to that the usage of AI. While I know I’m way more productive than during those first months, my thoughts are getting slower, less profound, lazier. I have mostly stayed away from LLM usage, I think I am better for it. I use it jus
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by bArray 20d ago
> The internet is designed to not go offline. Only somewhat true, but the fundamental assumption is that it is operating during mostly peaceful times. You have hostile countries cutting or dragging anchors across deep sea fiber optics, y
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by bArray 20d ago
> Systems well beyond what is publicly known are already circulating in Washington, he says: “They can basically hack just about anything. So you get this continuous attack surface just ramping up.” From that follows a simple budget calc
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by bArray 24d ago
The title in the article is literally "Async Rust vs RTOS showdown!" and the article shows "Embassy/Rust against FreeRTOS/C". There should also be a (2022) appended. You just need to read the Reddit comments to
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by bArray 26d ago
I don't know how it can be argued towards the undemocratic end of the spectrum, it was possibly one of the most democratic processes the UK has undergone in a long time?
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by bArray 26d ago
> However the idea of it being "advisory" was itself exploited, and used to make people think that Brexit would't happen anyway, even if the vote was to leave. It could be argued also the other way, maybe people didn'
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by bArray 26d ago
> I'd fully support a vote if rejoining was one of the options. Of course it would be, but people would need some kind of understanding on what basis that would be on. > It's pretty clear from polls [..] I think there is onl
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by bArray 28d ago
If only there was a type of nation-wide poll that could be conducted to make such claims so strongly. Maybe we pick a single day, each side makes their cases to the people, and then they cast their choices to be counted. But I guess it can&
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by bArray 28d ago
I remember the UK government at the time spent £9.3 million of taxpayer's money to push a pro-EU leaflet out [1], not to mention a concerted effort from the news media. It's not as if there was not strong campaigning happening on
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by bArray 28d ago
It was just an exercise in testing the mood of the nation, don't you see? Just like a general election, if the electorate vote the wrong party, it is perfectly fine to just ignore the result. The vote was non-binding due to the soverei
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by bArray 28d ago
Does that mean when a government is elected by a low turnout, that it is also not democratic? The current UK government was elected on a 59.7% electorate turnout [1], whereas Brexit was decided based on a 72.2% electorate turnout [2]. [1]
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by bArray 28d ago
Has it? It would take another vote to show it for sure, and the current government is simply not wanting to ask the people.
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by bArray 28d ago
> no mandate for or against a specific relationship to the EU Then do you not support another vote that provides this option? > how drastically opinions have shifted since There is a way to conduct a poll that represents the engaged e
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by bArray 28d ago
The current UK government have a mandate with regards to running the UK more generally, but leaving the EU was its own very clear message. There was a vote in 1975 to continue EU membership, and again in 2016 [1]. It very much feels likely
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by bArray 28d ago
> I feel the UK were wrong to leave [..] Whether it was the correct decision or not, it was done via a democratic vote. Now the leaders of the UK look to entangle the UK into the EU structure that is evidently against their mandate.
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by bArray 1mo ago
> Hardly seems to fit with the “we’re all in this together” argument. It's a good job we offset all of our manufacturing to the likes of China, it's not like they have terrible environmental standards or share an atmosphere wit
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by bArray 1mo ago
Asimov appeared to feel uncomfortable with those who thought they were better than others because of their Mensa status, and some he states were typically right-wing. I am entirely unclear though how the claimed racist ideology of John Camp
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by bArray 1mo ago
> This smells somewhat legitimate and somewhat BS. The architecture itself looks impressive — TSMC 3nm, a 4+ GHz prime core, tons of cache, and a very wide execution engine. And the claimed Geekbench numbers, around 3,945 single-core and
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by bArray 1mo ago
For an OLED low-powered system, I use exactly this approach [1] [2]. The trick is to wake up, do some tasks, then go back to sleep until either a timeout or triggered by an event. The best approach so far has been the light sleep [3] which
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by bArray 1mo ago
404 on the page, main page: "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time." [1]. GitHub are you okay? Edit: Known issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597 [1] https://github.com/earendi
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by bArray 2mo ago
> What topic do you want to write about? Robots suck, the future is cheap human Labour > Oops! Our thought leadership engine is experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again. :(
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by bArray 2mo ago
Banksy is an establishment-approved protestor, they promote him regularly [1]. His artwork is regularly on display in galleries [2]. They could easily seize the works to pay for costs, but don't. His name is supposedly Robin Gunningham
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by bArray 2mo ago
> Copy COD4 Game files to bin/(BUILD_TYPE)/* (Don't try to cherry-pick them, small files like localization.txt are needed) Would be great to have a version where the game assets are designed/generated somehow and it&#
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by bArray 2mo ago
> Wouldn't that be the commercial LLMs? ChatGPT, Claude etc are estimated to be in the 2-10 TB range, and a large portion of the population of developed countries are using those apps commonly. Not on their own systems, but if we&#x
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by bArray 2mo ago
Antenna design is a dark art, I like simple hacks like this. > The two parts of the antenna are intentionally designed to create an omnidirectional radiation pattern without a pronounced directionality. I worked on a project a while back
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by bArray 2mo ago
That exchange is quite a good prediction all things considered. > Note that "minor" implementation issues like die space, routing, and gate delays, especially of 128-bit adders & shifters are non-trivial, so people aren&#x2
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by bArray 2mo ago
If you're in the UK, just use the MSF radio signal to sync your clock [1]. > The end result exactly matched my expectations—the best criterion for success that I can think of. With an LLM providing the heavy code lifting and the CAD

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