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by datpiff 3y ago
> I've never heard of a union that mandates upper bounds in wages. They may very well exist, but I've never heard of one. "Works union" probably means he sometimes hires other people, and pays them union rates, and ma
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by datpiff 3y ago
EMC is much easier too :)
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by datpiff 3y ago
> The entire act of bringing over a bottle of wine was just to try to get on our good side in case they ever wanted some favor from us. Weirdly cynical assumption. Sounds like you alienated your neighbors and then retroactively made them
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by datpiff 3y ago
Yep, much worse than some free stock images
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by datpiff 3y ago
> From my experience it's the prosumer market that gets really rabid about their tool color. Do NOT cross the Red Army! Turn-over is much lower. A professional may buy a whole line of tools from a single brand but with the expectati
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by datpiff 3y ago
$100bn+? https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/08/microsofts-complex-bet-on-op... "Microsoft’s $13 billion bet on OpenAI carries huge potential along with plenty of uncertainty"
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by datpiff 4y ago
Why? Break-in seems much easier. Plus you get a set of keys in case you need re-start the engine.
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by datpiff 4y ago
Myspace didn't overlap much with smartphones
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by datpiff 4y ago
> They're basically the definition of a nonlinear device I don't think this is right. Triodes and pentodes have very linear operating regions. More so than a lot of solid-state devices. We make modern circuits more linear by us
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by datpiff 4y ago
The Beato Book is pretty bad. Mostly chord diagrams and wikipedia-level summaries.
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by datpiff 4y ago
> Hundreds of GBs of RAM in a phone is just ~6 years away if Moore's law holds. It's not expected to. The consensus seems to be ~2025 https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05956
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by datpiff 4y ago
Add 10ms group delay at 50 Hz to a mix. You can very easily degrade transient response and evaluate the audible difference. If you want reasoning of the importance, it should be obvious and it's also spelled out in the article >>
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by datpiff 4y ago
The article...
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by datpiff 4y ago
Rokits have had lots of quality issues, they seem to fail fairly often after a few years. They also refresh or adjust the product line fairly often (?) I can't see them taking that NS10 place (20+ years in production).
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by datpiff 4y ago
How would you have done with just google?
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by datpiff 4y ago
>the more modern society depresses me I would pursue addressing feelings of depression directly before attempting to radically change your life in the hope of fixing things indirectly.
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by datpiff 4y ago
Sure, but the small & efficient networks so far have been pretty poor. Edge AI was hugely hyped a few years ago and it petered out. All of the big tech companies seems to be chasing the biggest networks with the largest training sets, t
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by datpiff 4y ago
>E.g. additional value would be comments about purpose, labels for function entry points that makes sense for what the function does, labels for data that makes sense for what is stored there, comments with explanations of why things are
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by datpiff 4y ago
Apparently the point is proving it's possible. Not making it useful.
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by datpiff 4y ago
> But how is that different from what Intel brought to commodity CPUs in the '90s/'00s, or what Nvidia brought to GPUs in the '00s/'10s? Or even what Cisco and folks brought to networks? Yes, they made these
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by datpiff 4y ago
> Disassembling into raw instructions is the most trivial part So why not do it in the proven-correct tools and give ChatGPT the instructions? I'm all for finding neat use cases but I wouldn't use an AI chatbot as a calculator.
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by datpiff 4y ago
> According to NVidia, LLM sizes have been increasing 10X per year for the last few years. Clearly this cannot continue, as the training costs will exceed all the compute capacity in existence. The other limit is training data, eventuall
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by datpiff 4y ago
> There are too many world-changing things moving forward at the same time, and I'm only looking at such a small cut of the tech sphere. I don't know what to do with myself, I feel so thoroughly unprepared. I think the general
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by datpiff 4y ago
Using ChatGPT as a disassembler seems like a dumb idea when free disassemblers already exist. What possible advantage does it give?
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by datpiff 4y ago
> derivative work of something in the public domain is itself copyrightable I don't think this is true in most of the world. Here's a UK referience: https://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p22_derivative_w
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by datpiff 4y ago
> in the 70’s > Those purists are mostly dead Genius argument there buddy
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by datpiff 4y ago
Yeah I agree. Mostly just don't like the use of num jobs x minimum wage - I don't think it's a useful comparison for fabs. > These are not smartphone factories. Exactly!
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by datpiff 4y ago
> A semiconductor fab does not require that many people so the wages should not matter that much. Likely thousands to tens-of-thousands of employees on-site at all times for fabs of this size. Most employees in the US won't be earn
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by datpiff 4y ago
The new hardware used less power, the batteries didn't change very much. edit. also Nintendo's figures show a lower battery time for the Pocket and Color, so they probably just decided to trade for space/weight. https:/
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by datpiff 4y ago
The $20 models are all marketed at podcasters, where the audio requirements are not super high. I think the explosion in podcasting has done more for lower prices than any big advancement in manufacturing.

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