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by bob1029 2mo ago
> Having accelerators on RAM like for jpeg compression, audio decoding or mass data operations could be beneficial but you would need to be careful with heat dissipation. I think we are essentially reinventing SSE, AVX & friends from
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by bob1029 2mo ago
The tradeoff with putting the compute in the memory is that you have to know exactly where the dependent information will be at all times. Most problems do not fit this pattern very well. AI, gaming and crypto being the most obvious excep
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> I think they don’t really have the concepts of things like doors, lids, etc, as constructed devices that are made to be manipulated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon
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by bob1029 2mo ago
Some of the most effective emissions control equipment scales down very poorly. The bigger you can make the plant, the more viable these technologies become. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_scrubber https:/&#
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by bob1029 2mo ago
"Emergency" is a spectrum. Would you be OK with one specific generation station temporarily emitting 3x more than legal limit (e.g., from the hours of 2pm to 6pm) if the alternative is a 5% increase in absolute probability of a mu
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by bob1029 2mo ago
Most generators not connected to the grid are for emergency backup purposes. Granted, this carve out is now clearly being abused, but the original intent is quite rational. If we enforced strict regulations on all generators without any exc
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by bob1029 2mo ago
VisaNet is an engineering marvel. I think the interchange fees are largely justified once you factor in the economics that it has enabled. Consumers and merchants both win when the market can be so much bigger and more efficient. The fact t
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> For a ballpark number, if volume needs to be calculated every frame in a high-performance 60 frames per second application, without the aid of a GPU, only using the CPU capabilities of a $35 Raspberry Pi, around 30 million triangles co
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> Last time I worked at a company was November 2020. I love programming, but I really do not enjoy programming at a company. Things were bad in 2020, but I feel like they’re worse now. They're much worse now, but that also creates m
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by bob1029 2mo ago
With DAS you can detect and prevent someone from breaking your fiber in the first place by using the fiber itself as a sensor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_acoustic_sensing See also: https://tex
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by bob1029 2mo ago
The point is that 65F is an unattainable temperature which results in the unit never shutting off. My pathetic 3-ton system cannot actually reach set point when the delta is 35+ degrees.
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> This ailment is mysteriously absent from the United States, where indoor temperatures are often kept at around 75 degrees even when it’s 100 degrees outside If having a high temperature delta was a concern everyone in Texas would be de
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by bob1029 2mo ago
Sometimes quality of service matters more than cost. If the consumer segment started to develop a sense that their payment cards were glitchy or unreliable, our economy could suffer real consequences. Error free, secure, instant payment exp
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> What does a CEO(and other managers) do really? The point of a CEO is to be able to deploy a fully authoritative business delegation to any golf course on earth within 48 hours. This isn't really a joke. At some point, you need to
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I think it's pretty wild that parts of the Houston metro have a better ISP story than SF. The last home I was in had multiple competing fiber providers available. My current home is in the middle of the woods and I have a 5gbps symmetr
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by bob1029 2mo ago
It would seem AI psychosis flows both ways.
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by bob1029 2mo ago
Agentic query rewrite on top of good old fashioned Lucene is the end game. This is effectively providing a lot of the same magic you get with the semantic approach. Allowing the agent to query the document store iteratively is where the cap
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I still have zero urgency in upgrading from my M1 MBP.
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> Startups succeed or fail based on how much customers like the product. Customers don't care what the founders studied in college. So founders are free to study whatever they want, as long as they get good at building things. Being
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I mostly disagree with this article but I will fight and die on the hill that says AI is no good for things like game development. Anything where human aesthetic preferences are the bottleneck. Agentic game dev is a fantasy. All it takes is
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by bob1029 2mo ago
It's fun to offer this advice but I think actually practicing it is nearly impossible in many settings. If you are a solo developer who has the patience to tinker endlessly, this advice is probably fine. If you are responsible for prov
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by bob1029 2mo ago
The AC is 50/60Hz. You wouldn't hear that. What happens is that the AC is rectified to DC and then it is chopped up at many kHz (10-100). The idea being that the higher the frequency, the smaller the inductors, capacitors and tran
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I think most of the squealing actually comes from DC-DC conversion.
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I'm still using gpt-5.5 in copilot (visual studio proper) as a "custom" model. It feels like I've been enjoying an ~unpatched exploit while everyone else wallows in the proverbial mud. A large part of what pushes develop
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> the operators who have no aligned incentives The model providers are quite aligned with concerns like customer retention. These arguments only work if there is no competition. We exist in a marketplace of black boxes. There's not
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by bob1029 2mo ago
The UI threading model is usually not the problem. The problem usually comes from inappropriately arranging the systems of record such that information needs to be communicated beyond the scope of one computer in order to satisfy a single l
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by bob1029 2mo ago
It's an asymmetric situation. The cost of putting a trash bag over a camera that is in your local community is likely to be significantly lower than the cost of whomever installed it having to drive all the way back out there to remove
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I wonder what the ratio of repositories to physical machines is these days. I'd also be curious to see this as change over time. I have a hard time with the premise that a mere doubling of git ops would be especially crippling for any
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by bob1029 2mo ago
At some point one has to wonder if it's still worth using anthropic's models if we need to babysit 100% of its output with another vendor's model. Why not just use that other vendor's model for everything? I can't h
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by bob1029 2mo ago
The problem is that diesel prime generation is like paying 25c/kWH for electricity. > diesel generators are incredibly loud This depends entirely on the configuration. Making a diesel generator quiet is a hell of a lot easier than m

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