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by bhouston 10mo ago
Why is the other one already off the front page? That is weird. It has a ton of upvotes.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
A lot of high end cars get wrecked because (1) their owners want to drive them fast to test out what they paid for, and (2) their owners are not trained to drive high performance cars and (3) their owners drive them on public roads where th
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Clocks do drift. Seconds a week is definitely possible. I think there are varying quality of internal clocks in electronic devices, and the cheaper the quality the more drift there is. I think small cheap microcontrollers can drift secon
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by bhouston 10mo ago
It is an amazing library! Been using it for years. It is used in a number of projects I've created including https://benhouston3d.com and https://threekit.com for auto image resizing, format conversion and opt
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Mark Zuckerberg's stops funding the pro-immigration group he founded(businessinsider.com)
29 points by bhouston 10mo ago|5 comments
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Huh? TAE is Google-backed btw. Feels like "State Capitalism": "TAE, backed by Alphabet’s Google and Chevron, the oil giant, is aiming to develop and sell next-generation neutral beam systems for fusion and related applicatio
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Does anyone here really use the App Store? I open it like a few times a year. My apps installed on iOS almost never change. On desktop MacOS I use brew exclusively.
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Investors seek protection (via credit default swaps) from risk of AI debt bust(ft.com)
5 points by bhouston 11mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 11mo ago
> Personally, I have a Roomba I bought in Jan 2019 that's still doing just fine (So 7 years now). BTW I just found on a bunch of robotic vacuum websites that 4-6 years is the quoted expected lifespan with maintenance: https:/&
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Definitely not all live and functioning. In fact I suspect less than 10m are actively used. It is a company that has been around for years and it has run into sales issues that last few years with competition and their products have tech p
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by bhouston 11mo ago
> When there is an effort to “elevate people of type X” you have to suspect that some large number of those “elevations” are fraudulent rewriting of history. I immediately ignore the whole lot. A significant part of all credit in the wor
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by bhouston 11mo ago
I agree. Growth solves all. It give you money to throw at problems, raises to keep people happy, and motivation. When there is no growth, that is when things fall apart.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
“Edit: actually the more i go through it, it sounds like chatgpt prose, especially by the end.” I noticed that too. 100% mostly written by AI.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
This seems to miss diagnose the issue as suicide but really the startup wasn’t having success. If the company isn’t making money, then yes you run out of runway, you get founder conflicts etc. Saying this is suicide is missing the point. I
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by bhouston 11mo ago
This sort of makes sense. If there is no competitive advantage in buying the latest AMD or Intel CPUs, why buy them when you can just deploy a generic (ARM licensed) CPU at cheaper prices. The competitive advantage right now is in NVIDIA c
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Is there a list of Geekbench performance metrics for the various Graviton CPUs? I need a reference point so I can compare it to Intel/AMD and Apple's ARM cpus. Otherwise it is buzzwords and superlatives. I need numbers so I can u
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by bhouston 11mo ago
I am a Canadian. Pot is legal here at the federal level. My province (e.g. Canadian state) runs its own online pot store (hosted on Shopify BTW): https://ocs.ca . It includes various edibles too.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Haven't opened Microsoft Office in I think 7 years. Haven't also used Apple's Office suite either - it is just Google Docs/presentations/sheets/drive for everything. I feel my life is better. They were massi
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Very neat. Impressive performance: https://pglite.dev/benchmarks Even has Drizzle ORM integration: https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/connect-pglite I will explore this for use in my unit / integration
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by bhouston 11mo ago
> It has no values; it doesn't think. As to "training", Humans only have values because of their education and life experiences as well (which is really just training in a general sense.)
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by bhouston 11mo ago
This is why we can not have oligarchs in control of vital systems like AI. Because the AI then internalizes their values, which can be contra the values of society at large. Grok is prioritizing Elon's well being over everyone. This i
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by bhouston 11mo ago
I'm going to call it now, the next big heist movie is going to be about hijacking a plane/container full of AI chips valued at >$1B.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
I think a lot missed it because of Thanksgiving in the US.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Returning as a US on shore manufacturer of Apple designed chips, and apparently not the leading edge ones. This feels like making Trump happy while Apple keeps full control.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
So chainalysis is working for governments now? I guess it makes sense.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
NAS should be powered on all the time.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
The US and Israel also have advanced penetration teams. But they wouldn't be this sloppy - they want persistent advanced access. I suspect Iran, Russia and China also wouldn't be this sloppy. This is too wide ranging and easily
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Nice design! I recently switched my TrueNAS setup from a bunch of HDDs to a 8 NVMes (with an HHD volume now as only long-term "offline" archiving.) No more trying to optimize the system to get 10G speeds, it just is crazy fast,
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by bhouston 11mo ago
In my 20+ years of following NVIDIA, I have learned to never bet against them long-term. I actually do not know exactly why they continually win, but they do. The main issue they have a 3-4 year gap between wanting a new design pivot and
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by bhouston 11mo ago
> For coding, you can use AI to write your code. For software engineering, you can't. You can 100% use AI for software engineering. Just not by itself, you need to currently be quite engaged in the process to check it and redirect

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