dahauns

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by dahauns 1y ago
The cpu temps are one thing, but if - as you said - even a beast like the D15 G2 has it pegged at 100C, this very much sounds like bad ventilation and other parts of the system being toasted as well - VRMs in particular, for which the &quot
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by dahauns 1y ago
Of course - but in practice you won't be aiming towards fully a "solved" game or that kind of player skill for something like Civ - and even so, I severely doubt an LLM realistically can hope to even get in the vicinity unles
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by dahauns 1y ago
I can't help it, the first thought that came to mind was "Huh...talk about sheer senseless brute force." Why use a Large Language Model on something as clearly defined in scope as a game instead of a model designed and train
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by dahauns 1y ago
Yeah, it's definitely not a straightforward "just do it" with articulated buses - they have done careful modifications here along the planned routes (e.g. redesigned corners/crossings to avoid too tight radii, removed pa
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by dahauns 1y ago
>(particularly E250 TD and E290 TD) Not a coincidence, though - these two still use those legendary OM602/OM605 diesels of its predecessor series.
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by dahauns 1y ago
Hm...dunno how generalizable the results are, but at least here in Vienna - where we _have_ practially eliminated the (on-vehicle) ticketing process - double deckers were ultimately deemed not worth it: With a high enough frequency for the
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by dahauns 1y ago
To be fair - if I remember the location correctly - that screenshot is somewhat misleading because it's camera position is from the inside of a large ruin, with the ceiling and right wall of the "cave entrance" being just out
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by dahauns 1y ago
Aah, that brings back memories... Interestingly, most benchmark controversies back in the day are now expected behaviour, i.e. game-specific optimizations with no (well, in this age of upscalers and other lossy optimization techniques, prob
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by dahauns 1y ago
>WP7 itself was a throwing away of compatability with Windows Mobile apps; The loss of compatibility wasn't even the biggest issue here - it was the loss of functionality. WM6.5 had a huge enterprise feature set, only rivaled by
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by dahauns 1y ago
The issue was that you had to publish and maintain separate versions of your app for WP8 and WP7 as soon as you wanted to use the new SDK, with no way to just specify API level or feature flags. This was enough for a not insignificant numbe
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by dahauns 1y ago
> Apps were always important, yes, but wayyy less so outside the tech blogger circle for everyday users. From the perspective of a European carrier back in the day: This would probably have been true in the early iOS/Android days, b
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by dahauns 1y ago
>Make the human responsible, if they want to use tools they don't understand, they make a mistake and get fired. >The next human won't make the same mistake, and the problem fixes itself. This presumes that the human mandati
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by dahauns 1y ago
There very much was a well defined distinction between safety and security: Sicherheit and Schutz, as in Datensicherheit and Datenschutz. And yeah, you can see with those two latter terms where the issue lies :) Those two were traditionally
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by dahauns 1y ago
Hejlsberg's arguments for choosing go over c# sounded well founded and very pragmatic to me though, with things like battle tested AOT compilation (.NETs current iteration is very promising, but still relatively nascent) and the type
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by dahauns 1y ago
So...more like Mercedes' system?
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by dahauns 1y ago
As someone unfamiliar with DuckDB but at least somewhat with geospatial tools (it's been a few years, though): Dang - see, now that is seriously cool. The whole ETL shebang always was the biggest hassle, even with serious commercial
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by dahauns 1y ago
>Did you know that jet engines were developed thanks to funds from the free market, as the military saw no use for jet engines? The government did not get involved until they saw flying jet aircraft? sigh At least try to look for examp
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by dahauns 2y ago
>Everything is a balance. Very true, or as I like to put it: everything is a tradeoff. Over decades of programming, I'm fairly certain my preferences for things like function/identifier length could be plotted along a damped os
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by dahauns 2y ago
And you are leaning hard into a combo of anecdata and sweeping generalization. I could recite lots of personal accounts of perfect service from Lenovo/HP/HPE business service (Mainly X/T-Series at Lenovo, Elitebooks/Z Wo
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by dahauns 2y ago
>Every hardware vendor has problems. Yeah, and I explicitly stated that this isn't what I was criticizing. >The difference is that Apple, after enough pressure, actually fixes things. They create repair programs, offer recalls, a
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by dahauns 2y ago
Please...don't. Vertical space is chronically in short supply.
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by dahauns 2y ago
>The difference is Apple is usually able to be held to task to fix issues, while almost any other vendor did not care to stand behind their product, including Lenovo. Sorry, but this is a joke. "any other vendor did not care to stan
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by dahauns 2y ago
It's great that they are mechanical and haven't forsaken contours, but since we're among old snobs... sigh I'll never get that "lets shove everything together into a sea of keys" layout (so prevalent in the m
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by dahauns 2y ago
Part of the Thinkpad sales pitch of old was literally to throw the Thinkpad on the floor and step on it, pick it up and continue the presentation. Or, as I mentioned elsewhere, to grab it by the display end and pretend to use it to fan a fi
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by dahauns 2y ago
>With that said, I do wish the keyboard on my Framework 13 were better. Exactly this. I've given up hope to expect an old-school TP keyboard with its ridged concave keys providing perfect tactile feedback even when not depressing a
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by dahauns 2y ago
It's been a gradual shift, with a few obvious changes along the way. Among a few: The keyboard switch from the old 7-row (whose pinnacle was at the x220/T420 era with double-height esc and del) to the new 6-row (with later ever de
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by dahauns 2y ago
Yeah, the 90s and Windows wouldn't exactly be the time range I'd associate with Microsoft and innovative GUIs (although Windows was mostly better than its reputation IMO). Where MS actually did groundbreaking UI/UX work was
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by dahauns 2y ago
Hm, LINQ query syntax form is kinda going in that direction (from book in books where book.pagecount > 100 && book.language == "Chinese" && book.subject == "History" &am
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by dahauns 2y ago
> While it lacked the hardware scrolling That's the biggest "what if" omission of the TMS9918 for me - I wonder how the 8-bit landscape would have evolved if it had even minimal support like the scroll registers of the VIC
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by dahauns 2y ago
Yeah...I actually didn't want to get all, well, "geographical", but I can't help wonder if that's a US thing? At least here in Austria, the biopsychosocial model has been standard in teaching for a long time, and wh

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