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by conradev 2y ago
Yes! I forgot that the NVMe controller is on-die. I want some way to swap the NAND chips. Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/KRRNR4HyYaw For an iMac, though, they have a bigger thermal envelope and no battery. It se
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by conradev 2y ago
I bought an M1 Max with a 2TB SSD, but I’m running up against the capacity and I want more storage. The computer is still plenty fast. Normally, I’d upgrade my computer and continue using it, but now I need to sell it and get a new one to g
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by conradev 2y ago
It's not that they actively do bad things, it's that they only dedicate real resources in the direction of self-interest. Tim Cook likes to point to their solar investments and accessibility as examples of "doing good" w
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by conradev 2y ago
Google highlighted the delta that recent advancements brought to their products: https://blog.google/products/photos/ask-photos-google-io-202...
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by conradev 2y ago
Nope. I have a cloud Syncthing box that is accessible over SSH, and I use ShellFish to read/write my synced folders. It works okay, especially for lazily sending stuff from my phone to my laptop.
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by conradev 2y ago
It’s also the only browser that doesn’t support Passkeys yet :(
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by conradev 2y ago
Qualcomm is (likely) ARM's biggest customer. I don't think either party wants the product line to be abandoned. They are arguing over royalties. Same thing happened with Apple ( https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2
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by conradev 2y ago
He’s exaggerated SpaceX timelines, too. It is well established that he does this: https://sherwood.news/business/elon-musk-tesla-timeline-robo... In Tesla’s case, it might be more of a problem because they sell to cons
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by conradev 2y ago
David Deutsch claims in “The Beginning of Infinity” this is a property called universality, and that we have it. A short excerpt: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HDyePg6oySYQ9hY4i/david-deut... The whole book is w
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by conradev 2y ago
Looks like it’s being worked on: https://lwn.net/Articles/989623/
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by conradev 2y ago
OpenAI is 80% product revenue and 20% API revenue. Anthropic is 40/60 in the other direction, but Mike Krieger is now CPO and trying to change that. Amazon is launching a paid version of Alexa. Google is selling their Gemini assistant
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by conradev 2y ago
As long as the arbitrage exists (acquisition cost for passengers is less than shipping), someone is going try to exploit it https://www.vice.com/en/article/now-you-can-pay-people-to-fe...
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by conradev 2y ago
I was curious about float16, and TIL that the 2008 revision of the standard includes it as an interchange format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008_revision
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by conradev 2y ago
On Windows, some subregions of the screen flicker in garbage data sometimes, but very briefly. On Linux, I successfully built a kernel but I have not gotten the firmware working. My WIP is here and I am very much a novice in this area: htt
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by conradev 2y ago
I didn’t fully know what I was getting into when I got it, but it honestly puts the MacBook Pro screen to shame
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by conradev 2y ago
I missed the boat on the dev kit, but I picked up a Galaxy Book4 Edge 14” for $800 at Best Buy ($550 off!) It’s not the top-line SoC, but for the same price as the DevKit it comes with a free battery and AMOLED screen: https://ww
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by conradev 2y ago
The real consumers of the NPUs are the operating systems themselves. Google’s TPU and Apple’s ANE are used to power OS features like Apple’s Face ID and Google’s image enhancements. We’re seeing these things in traditional PCs now because M
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by conradev 2y ago
The GPU is stateful and requires loading shaders and initializing pipelines before doing any work. That is where its latency comes from. It is also extremely power hungry. The CPU is zero latency to get started, but takes longer because it
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by conradev 2y ago
That is my understanding as well: low power and low latency. You can see this in action when evaluating a CoreML model on a macOS machine. The ANE takes half as long as the GPU which takes half as long as the CPU (actual factors being model
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by conradev 2y ago
It is absolutely not just marketing: https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/ Jump to "Pre-payments in the Restaurant Industry" Money now is more valuable than money later, and guaranteed future money is more v
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by conradev 2y ago
California did this: > Guests in California will see a fee-inclusive total price—before taxes—on all listings. https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3610 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces&#
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by conradev 2y ago
Very true. The other factors multiply, though, like reliability and degradation, because there are so many packs involved and because they're expected to work for, well, as long as physically possible.
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by conradev 2y ago
I don't think these sorts of contracts should be illegal. I think a lot of things around them should be, like gyms requiring you to go in-person to cancel, or offering a terrible phone service to cancel, or marketing it deceptively s
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by conradev 2y ago
LiteVFS can be compiled in a browser and sync with LiteFS cloud: https://github.com/superfly/litevfs It needs to be run from a worker, though
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by conradev 2y ago
The theory, at least, is that making SMRs in a factory allows for a steeper and more sustainable learning curve > Both Hermes and ETU 3.0 will be built using modular construction techniques, with reactor modules fabricated in Kairos Powe
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by conradev 2y ago
CATL’s first generation sodium batteries, shipped in Chery cars are $77/kWh CATL’s lithium phosphate batteries are more expensive for now at >$100kWh. Sodium batteries are definitely cheaper in practice, but much lower energy densit
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by conradev 2y ago
Those laws predate crypto, and so from the government's perspective the alternatives were operating illegally: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-penalizes-p... https://bitcoinmagazin
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by conradev 2y ago
bunnie is trying to solve this sort of problem with Precursor: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2020/introducing-precurso... Any device without a screen is somewhat useless here, especially for crypto, because y
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by conradev 2y ago
All of that fancy crypto goes through a few regulated CEX entry points to become USD because people and businesses pay for expenses (notably, taxes) in USD.
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by conradev 2y ago
Waymo has touted that their entire fleet is now electric: https://waymo.com/blog/2023/03/paving-way-toward-fully-elect... It sure seems like their self-imposed constraint is EVs. Their goal beyond that is cos

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