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by blagie 3y ago
It's hard for me to say who the target demographic is, but I can say this is exactly the sort of device I'd want to buy, just in a slightly beefier version (4k displays). I might even give up the GPU for that. But I'd rather
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by blagie 3y ago
Not for me! I started buying beefy GPUs when LLMs became a thing.
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by blagie 3y ago
Every non-Thinkpad Lenovo I've had, or a relative has had, has the build quality of a cheap toy, and eventually, some part of the plastic case would crack, a hinge would fail, or similar. I'd absolutely never buy another one ever.
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by blagie 3y ago
Counterpoint: 1) There are population groups which are exponentially growing 2) There are ones which are declining This is not taken into account in models. Economic growth shifts bucket 1 into bucket 2, but genetically-speaking, we favor p
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by blagie 3y ago
That's a really broad-reaching statement, much more so than might seem to a casual reader. In an ideal case, each of these devices would: 1) Be open-source 2) Be programmable in a stack of kid-friendly languages, with a stack including
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by blagie 3y ago
It's still often double the price. * Wifi spy-on-you-compromise-your-network version: $2 * Zigbee version: $4. I can spare the extra two bucks, though.
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by blagie 3y ago
* Virtually nothing is open. The "Open" in OpenAI is dead. * It split from a non-profit into a non-profit/for-profit hybrid * Most people are at the for-profit and appear to see it as a normal startup get-rich-quick scheme I
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by blagie 3y ago
Tuya devices are available in Zigbee for about $5, and the Zigbee versions have no way to phone home. The nice thing is you can: 1) Buy eight random Tuya Zigbee outlets ($40) 2) Three PIR presence sensors ($10) 3) Fancy Sonoff Zigbee USB de
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't. This is very much the pot calling the kettle black. Of the cloud providers, Google has the least pleasant business tactics. I would do business with AWS gladly, with Azure, but never with Google. Google should have made the sa
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by blagie 3y ago
I disagree. Transactions are the wrong way to handle this. The right way to do this is to send a query which says: "If sending account has more than $10: Decrease sending account by $10. Increase receiving account by $10. Return what h
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by blagie 3y ago
Constraints are good, but personally, I consider transactions harmful. Most of the need for transactions comes from either: - The inability to do things atomically (e.g. computation bouncing back-and-forth between the backend and the databa
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by blagie 3y ago
I won't be. My next laptop will be a ThinkPad. I need a 4k display. I'd also like (but don't need) an NVidia GPU capable of accelerating ML models. The display is the showstopper. I'd also like a mechanical keyboard. ...
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by blagie 3y ago
Most people tend to engineer for maximum TDP on thermals, and maximum power draw on power supply. It's good design practice, since it depends on what causes the "max performance." You don't want a $100 light switch, run
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by blagie 3y ago
I'd buy OpenAI's claims if it were still a non-profit working for the public good. As a non-profit-turned-sleazy-get-rich-quick scheme, I do not. And yes, that is a valid argument. The fair use test looks at: 1. the purpose and ch
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by blagie 3y ago
To me, the Pi 5 misses the point. The original Raspberry Pi was $25 and ran Linux. All it needed was a random USB PSU to work. This made it suitable for a lot of random projects. Smart light switch? Get a Pi. Homebrew thermostat? Get a Pi.
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by blagie 3y ago
From the write-up, I honestly don't understand how this paves the way. I don't see an architectural path from a cut-and-paste JIT to something optimizing. That's the whole point of a cut-and-paste JIT.
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by blagie 3y ago
Overall, quality has been continuing to drop, not improve, across the board. It's not clear who is better. Dell / Lenovo / Apple are still sort of the go-to for good reason.
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by blagie 3y ago
The problem isn't Dell, but which Dell. An IdeaPad from Lenovo will be even worse. The consumerific lines, including high-end ones, aren't meant to be serviced. They're designed to skim off every ounce and mm. So many compute
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by blagie 3y ago
Honestly, I think it depends on the form of the work. * I'd be supportive with 10 years for software, articles (newspaper or scientific journal), and similar things which go out-of-date quickly. * I would be supportive of 10-20 years f
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by blagie 3y ago
You're beating up a strawman. No one (sane and uncorrupt) is arguing for life+70. However, a mechanism which works for Star Wars and Mickey Mouse, but not for a short story, a play, or a specialized piece of software written by a singl
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by blagie 3y ago
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of this. A 16-year copyright would cost me $65k, which would be: - Trivial for Microsoft - Painful for a typical HN contributor - Impossible for anyone earning minimum wage I think a better standard might be
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by blagie 3y ago
It means your post, above, isn't automatically copyrighted, and the public domain expands massively. I don't even want a copyright on this post, but I've got one.
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't like the bait-and-switch. It's evil and scummy. I feel dirty paying for evil and scummy. Youtube was built based on work of a creator community -- much more so than Alphabet engineers -- who viewed this as a sort of open p
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by blagie 3y ago
I think we agree on a lot. I usually just don't respond to the pieces I agree to since it's a lot of "Yup. Yup. You're right" (although reading your reply, I can see why those are important, so that's more abou
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by blagie 3y ago
> I'd hope we were more enlightened now That would carry more weight if, for example, loot stolen from other nations were being returned, rather than sitting in your museums. England also still comes off as profoundly arrogant in it
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by blagie 3y ago
Exactly. The second of those is huge. Unfortunately, it's well-founded prejudice too; a lot of people who are jobless are jobless for a reason. Many "layoffs" are a euphemism for being fired, and interviews are imperfect to s
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by blagie 3y ago
I have one skill set which has been employable for the past 2000+ years. At least pre-AI and similar technology changes, it's not something which goes into fashion or out-of-fashion. Think doctor, construction, woodworking, teacher, la
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by blagie 3y ago
I will give a list of reasons for why this might not be the case: 1) Specialized skills often do not necessarily equate with high-pay. For example, a school social worker specializing in a specific disability, or a laboratory glassblower (m
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by blagie 3y ago
I've never had an employer who gave 3-6 months severance. Part of it also depends on your employability. A generalized, fungible skillset makes finding jobs relatively quick. If I were a SWE in SFO, I'd take the severance. For me,
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by blagie 3y ago
I have never been laid off or fired*. However, for most of my adult life, a layoff would have been traumatic. I have a specialized skillset, and it takes a while to find jobs. In the meantime, I have living expenses. It's doubly hard t

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