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by dgacmu 7mo ago
An enthusiastic two thumbs up to this approach. It's exactly what I run at home that has been working solidly. I run on an N100, which is just a hair smaller than an i5-8500, with 32GB DRAM and a 1TB SSD (total overkill). I keep it und
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
Mass-market paperbacks are definitely dying, but trade paperbacks continue to sell (at rates lower than mass-market, obviously): https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p... (trade paperbac
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
Gemini 3.1 pro under a Google AI pro subscription has just recently started imposing really small weekly limits. I went from it feeling unlimited to hitting a 4 day quota in 2 hours of use. Very odd. Wonder if too many people jumped on with
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
Something I try very hard to impress on my PhD students is that the process of writing is part of the process of thinking. We often have cool things in our head that don't sound right when we write them down, and that's usually be
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
Would anyone notice if you spell-checked or got narrow feedback about grammar? No. I'm not dang, but perhaps a very reasonable interpretation of the rules is: If the AI is generating the words, don't. If it tells you something ab
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
Shipping from China to a US coastal warehouse is probably modestly under $200, including packaging, assuming it's shipped in a 40" container. Possibly less if there's other cargo that can be used to fill the remaining space.
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
I don't disagree. I assume that most of these purely llm generated unwanted contributions will just end up in dead end forks, because my impression is that a lot of them are just being generated as GitHub activity fodder. But the stuff
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
Probably, but on the other hand, this is almost literally the definition of technical debt -- it's great to get fixes uptreamed precisely so that you don't have to maintain your own fork, keep it in sync, etc. an LLM can likely lo
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
What a strange comment. The US did not force Russia to invade Ukraine, nor did it force Germany to respond to the Fukushima daiichi disaster by killing all of its nuclear power.
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
Putting numbers on that (for the us) from 2022 [1]: Electric power—469.9 MMst—91.7% Industrial total—41.9 MMst—8.2% Industrial coke plants—16.0 MMst—3.1% Industrial combined heat and power—10.1 MMst—2.0% Other industrial—15.8
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by dgacmu 7mo ago
This is very cool. Uh, no pun intended. For those looking for a tl;dr: recent instruction sets add a "pause in low power for x time" busy wait instruction and a "pause for time + or if this memory is touched" instruction
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
AC3ME. Probably the most useless ham licensee ever. Wanted to be able to say hi on a local repeater for fun and testing a handheld I got, turns out it's not too hard to get US amateur extra when you already know most of the electronics
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
My kid's school chromebook is 4GB and it's barely usable -- to the point of being offensively bad. I bought them a macbook air to use at home so they could get things done. This would be a _drastic_ improvement over what I see mos
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Most of your comment history reads like LLM generated trite comments. Are you human?
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Ditto. Basically the only thing I !g for now are maps and other geo-specific queries like the names of local restaurants or stores. Google still outperforms Kagi on those, but for nearly everything else I prefer the Kagi ad-free, ai-summary
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
You'll note I didn't try to specify what was of import. We can create mechanisms that enable more people to follow their own idea of what is important instead of merely what is lucrative. Not everyone will agree with the choices o
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
We do have a lot of policy levers that are tilted in favor of making money in finance, though, and we could change those levers. - The carried interest loophole - We could add small transaction taxes - We could raise capital gains t
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
It worked semi ok? A poor depiction, but not entirely nonsensical https://g.co/gemini/share/028ab360006b
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Tesla is, in theory, deploying a handful of 1.2MW charger sites: https://electrek.co/2026/02/24/tesla-megacharger-64-location... Assuming some amount of tesla over-hyping there, Tellus is doing 600kW chargers
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Your own quote literally states that methylphenidate didn't appear to cause any of these problems. Q: what's the most widely prescribed ADHD medication? A: Ritalin / Methylphenidate > Methylphenidate remained the most wide
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Or consider jsonc - json with comments - or jwcc - which is json with comments and trailing commas to make life a little easier. https://jsonc.org/ https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/json-with-co
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
The performance results seem a little, uh, disingenuous? First, using a 4ary heap means the performance is closer to O((E+V)logV) instead of the E + VlogV you can get using a Fibonacci heap. So it removes the drawback to the new method, whi
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
The modern SF-86 only asks about charged, not investigated (and AFAIR, that was the case also 20 years ago). (And arrested, but presumably you were not).
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
This is kind of amazing - I still have a bunch of Titan V's (2017-2018) that do 7 TF FP64. 8 years old and managing 1/4 of what Rubin does, and the numbers are probably closer if you divide by the power draw. (Needless to say, the
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Just for completeness, it's about $0.023/gal in Pittsburgh (1)-- still perfectly affordable but 23x more than 0.001. but still 50x less than Brent crude. (1) Combined water+ sewer fees. Sewer charges are based on your water consum
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
My mental model of cerebras is that they have a way of giving you 44GB of SRAM (and then more compute than you'll probably need relative to that). So if you have applications where the memory access patterns would benefit massively fro
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Might be, but in the context it's also worth asking what better options you have for your health with that $1000. (for some people that question may not apply, of course, but at a population level it does, and we have population-level
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
I hate how much space in cities is devoted to cars, and I wish we had much better transit of all sorts. But - I'm just not sure your analysis is right. Someone who drives a self-owned car will park it in a downtown area for hours. Some
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
I would love hearing Claude finish a task with > Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper. ... at least, once. Or perhaps exactly once.
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
They know what people type into their tools, but they don't know what in the output users read and focus on unless they're convening a user study or focus group. I personally love that the model tells me what file it has read beca

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