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by dale_glass 10mo ago
It's a Framework Desktop motherboard. I believe the CPU on that maxes out somewhere around 150W.
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
Speed highly correlates with power efficiency. I believe my hardware maxes out somewhere around 150W. 15 seconds of that isn't much at all. > Also, why are people moving mountains to make huge, power obliterating datacenters if actu
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
Not really. I can generate images or get LLM answers in below 15 seconds on mundane hardware. The image generator draws many times faster than any normal person, and the LLM even on my consumer hardware still produces output faster than I c
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
I think you still should be able to expect a bit of accommodation on trains that cross country borders or go to airports. The EU makes travel between EU countries as easy as travel between US states. You can just get on a train from Germany
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
Like any tool, you need to know how to use it. For my uses, my rule is "long to research, but easy to verify". I only ask for things I can quickly determine if they're right or not, I just don't want to spend half an hou
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
Seems kinda like a first world problem to me. The way I see it, when LLMs work, they're almost magical. When they don't, oh well, it didn't take that long anyway, and I didn't have them until recently, so I can just do t
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
I don't think it punted as much as it never had that as an intended usage case. I vaguely recall the PGP manuals talking about scenarios like a woman secretly communicating with her lover, or Bob introducing Carol to Alice, and people
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
> As a practical implementation of "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", you could get an organic trust chain to random people. GPG is terrible at that. 0. Alice's GPG trusts Alice's key tautologically. 1. Alice's GPG ca
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
I'd argue the opposite, consumers need more resolution than pros. A pro will show up with a 300mm f/2.8, a tripod, a camera with good AF and high ISO, and the skills, plan and patience to catch birds in flight. But all that stuff
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
> I find it very useful for wildlife photos. Autofocus never seems to work well for me on e.g. birds in flight. The more recent cameras can detect birds specifically and are great at tracking them. > It's also possible to generat
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
I don't think it was quite too early, it just makes tradeoffs that are undesirable. Lytro as I understand it, trades a huge amount of resolution for the focusing capability. Some ridiculous amount, like the user gets to see just 1&#x2F
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
I've got my doubts, because current AI tech doesn't quite live in the real world. In the real world something like inventing a meat substitute is thorny problem that must be solved in meatspace, not in math. Anything from not squi
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
Food isn't frivolous, meat arguably is if you're talking about efficiency. You've got to feed a cow for a year and half until it's slaughtered. That's a whole lot of input, for a cow's worth of meat output.
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
> But even if it was significant, I'm sure the next thing to release would be AI models designed to try and revert nightshade/glaze changes into something that works again. I don't think it's even "reverting&quot
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
It's snake oil, and it'd be snake oil even if it worked. I've yet to hear of it doing anything. I've never heard anyone in an AI group worried about it in any way. No "damn, Glaze ruined my LoRA". To the extent
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
Individual specific things are not inevitable. But many generic concepts are because of various market, social and other forces. There's such a thing as "multiple invention", precisely because of this. Because we all live in
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by dale_glass 11mo ago
I don't think I've seen a web design this garish even on Geocities. It's like somebody set out to do what the 90s Geocities couldn't, using modern tech.
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by dale_glass 11mo ago
Early on bitcoin was thought to be pseudoanonymous. Like sure, it's all public, but what's public is "bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh", not "John Smith, age 43, living in Florida". Then two things ha
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by dale_glass 11mo ago
"Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil" to me implies that martian soil is the thing being turned into oxygen.
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by dale_glass 11mo ago
> I just put it in a plastic bag into the freezer during 15 minutes, and works. What's that supposed to do for a SSD? It was a trick for hard disks because on ancient drives the heads could get stuck to the platter, and that might h
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by dale_glass 11mo ago
So on the off-chance that there's a firmware engineer in here, how does this actually work? Like does a SSD do some sort of refresh on power-on, or every N hours, or you have to access the specific block, or...? What if you interrupt t
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by dale_glass 11mo ago
The bubble if any is an investment bubble. If somebody likes using LLMs for summaries, or generating pictures or such things, that's not going anywhere. Stable Diffusion and Llama are sticking around regardless of any economical develo
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by dale_glass 11mo ago
> Also, the timing of their Nov. 13 announcement is pretty bad. There is already chatter that AI may be a bubble bigger than the dotcom bubble. For a company that doesn't have deep pockets, it would be prudent to take the back seat
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by dale_glass 1y ago
What data is unusable in compressed format? Images, videos, music are compressed. RAWs from my camera are compressed too. Even log files tend to be compressed. What else do people store that would amount to multiples of 30TB and not already
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by dale_glass 1y ago
What's with all this "compressed capacity"? Does that apply anywhere tape is used these days? I mean, if you're backing up multiples of 36 TB of anything, I would guess that most of it is already compressed.
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by dale_glass 1y ago
Where I think TUIs had a niche GUIs don't quite reproduce is in the very particular way DOS TUIs processed input. An old school DOS TUI reads keyboard input one character at a time from a buffer, doesn't clear the buffer in betwee
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by dale_glass 1y ago
> I've been patiently waiting for their resurgence. Building embedded/mobile devices is their forte Wouldn't most of those people have gone elsewhere by now? If you're a mobile device superstar, why would you stick ar
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by dale_glass 1y ago
It says it right there: "Note: The ByteBool, WordBool, and LongBool types exist to provide compatibility with other languages and operating system libraries."
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by dale_glass 1y ago
This sometimes also causes problems for the authorities themselves for a change. I recall some TV program long ago mentioning the police had trouble with Russians because sometimes they think there's a whole gang and it's really j
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by dale_glass 1y ago
The other logo is a fox: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xenia-linuxfox Kinda wish that one had won, foxes are cooler looking and more marketable.

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