criddell

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by criddell 5d ago
If you thought I was claiming everybody had a great time, then you are a missing my point.
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by criddell 5d ago
Maybe you are using a local model to go after some Millennium Prize problem and you don't want OpenAI to take your work and use it to win the prize for themselves? $15k might be a bargain. And, yes, I know a current local model wasn&#x
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by criddell 5d ago
Shut up and calculate.
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by criddell 6d ago
Don’t forget that bokeh doesn’t mean “blur”. Bokeh is about the quality of light in the blur. You can’t have bokeh without blur but you can have blur without bokeh.
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by criddell 8d ago
> suddenly you're getting a bunch of extra system calls from your spinning thread instead of just a high CPU usage Isn't the point that the loop was undefined behavior and so the spinning thread might not actually be spinning t
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by criddell 8d ago
Iran isn't usually described as European and I did qualify my statement with mostly .
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by criddell 8d ago
During the world cup, I saw mostly very positive reports on the experiences Europeans had with Americans, and vice versa.
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by criddell 9d ago
I was about to say if they hadn't said it was a Fujitsu laptop I would have guessed it was a ThinkPad. Describes my experience with a P1 exactly.
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by criddell 9d ago
What does buy local mean if goods shipped from the other side of the planet are considered local?
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by criddell 9d ago
> books are just knowledge containers For you, that's the case. Books can also be a souvenir of a time and place or a person or even just an objet d'art. One example is the family bible that's passed down from one generati
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by criddell 10d ago
I was thinking mostly about updates. The version of Cyberpunk on the initial disk release for the Play Station was pretty bad but downloaded updates fixed it. AFAIK, the PS2 didn't download patches or updates for games. If you have the
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by criddell 10d ago
They did this fairly recently with over 500 movies and TV shows. The licensing agreement with StudioCanal ran out and everybody who had one of those titles in their libraries had it removed (stuff like Terminator 2, Total Recall, Paddington
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by criddell 10d ago
It is an unreasonable demand. Consumers need to find items of sufficient quality and longevity that have desirable aesthetics and appropriate maintenance costs and meet all the other relevant factors. 200 years ago, you could buy a table
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by criddell 10d ago
If it increases development or operating costs by $1 they won't do it unless there are consequences that could cost them more than that.
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by criddell 10d ago
IIRC, the PS2 did not download game updates or patches from the internet. The game on the disk was what you played. As long as you had a PS2 and the disk, you could play the exact game you played so many years ago. With the PS5, the disk is
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by criddell 10d ago
This will be great for preservation of PS2 games. Well done! It seems like preservation of games for later consoles is a lost cause. If I pull out my PS5 30 years from now and pop in my Cyberpunk 2077 disk to play, I'm going to have a
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by criddell 11d ago
Absolutely. And it’s a trade off that doesn’t necessarily go against Ikea. Frankly, I think it’s one of the top reasons people choose Ikea furniture. One of the genius things Ikea did was have little staged rooms in their store. They do a g
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by criddell 11d ago
Not sure who you are quoting... Of course there's an aesthetic difference.
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by criddell 11d ago
There might not be any trade-off in your example. You're assuming that a solid wood piece of furniture is superior to the flatpack alternative and you can't really say that without knowing what the consumer needs. I have a little
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by criddell 11d ago
Can you be more specific?
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by criddell 11d ago
I don't have any data to back this up, but it feels like X may be growing again. I don't post, but I do have an account for reading things on there and a few years ago I was never visiting. Now it seems like I'm going there
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by criddell 11d ago
Yep https://www.timeextension.com/features/virtuality-gave-us-90...
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by criddell 12d ago
The first VR system that many of us used was the W Industries / Virtuality system in the early 1990's. Those were $60k in 1991 which is $140k today. If the price of leading edge VR price drops two orders of magnitude every 35 year
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by criddell 13d ago
Do you consider yourself to be part of the retro computer scene? > That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it.
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by criddell 14d ago
Traveler’s cheques? Who even sells them anymore. American Express was the biggest issuer and they stopped years ago.
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by criddell 14d ago
The people I follow are mostly people I actually know along with a couple of musicians whose work I'm interested in. Discovery isn't something that I've ever really thought about because it's not a problem I have. The in
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by criddell 15d ago
I've been wondering if mathematics is going to go the way of particle physics in that it will start to take a lot of money to make advancements.
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by criddell 15d ago
The $5,000 dividend he's promised will buy a lot of gas.
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by criddell 15d ago
Did it look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak Doesn't have a pen, but maybe it was a modified version of that toy?
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by criddell 15d ago
Exactly. HN hasn't really changed, the industry has. The community does a pretty good job of following the guidelines and that's helped to suppress the echo chamber effect that any personalization would add to. AI is novel and exc

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