drdaeman

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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Why wouldn't any user want the software to be feature rich? Users want feature rich systems. Individual programs are best feature-complete, but focused on a single task and capable of cooperating with others when something out of
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I think it's more because Valve has (from what I heard) a very principled founder, and that they never went public (and probably won't) so they don't have any shareholders to please with "growth".
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I have no idea about Mihoyo (never even looked in their direction, save for looking up what it is), but gacha != F2P. Valve, even though their games have lootboxes, they got it [mostly] right by trying their best to make sure there's n
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Not that young either. Reddit is 19 years old, Facebook and Gmail are 20, LinkedIn is 21, Google is 26, HN is 17. That's a lot of time, especially for the modern fast-paced timescale.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
And end up with a settlement of a few dollars per claimant, which is drastically cheaper than a recall.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Why 4090, though? I read (and agree) that 3090 is generally considered to be the best bang for the buck: 24GB, priced at $800-1000 range, and giving decent TPS for LLMs.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I thought home use is whatever fits in 24GB (a single 3090 GPU, which is pretty affordable), not 8 or 16. 30B models fit.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
First of all, thank you for your reply. > It sounds like you already sort of know the answer. Maybe, but I'm also sort of stupid. Which prompted me to write all this, so maybe I'll figure it out for myself (and, hopefully, othe
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Can someone help me to understand this concept? In particular, why so many people watch it - what drives them them do so? I'll try to explain my own vision, why I think I don't care - which, of course, is entirely subjective
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> they come with health risks Professional sports inherently come with health risks. They are unhealthy almost by definition. If someone wants to risk their well-being for achievement, fame, big money and/or anything else (which is
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Here's a decent summary that tries to explain why things are bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909859
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I don't think this is nVidia issue. Wayland/nVidia woes are primarily about flickering, empty windows and other rendering problems. I may be wrong, but I believe HiDPI support is mostly hardware-independent issue.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> For any properly written GUI program, changing the DPI of the monitor has always provided fractional scaling without any problems. Parent comment was talking about Wayland, and Wayland does not even have a concept of display DPI (IIRC,
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Off-topic: thank you for the app! It's (subjectively, of course) by far the best weather widget out there - and I've tried a number of them. Really appreciate your work.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It's a good opportunity to tell the history of SGML, HTML, XML and XHTML (and possibly more, like long-forgotten SXML), and explain how we (the collective humanity) fu^W badly messed up our technology by following the path of least res
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by drdaeman 2y ago
You are correct. Calendar apps are less affected than e.g. battery monitor, but still suffers from meeting reschedules or new events.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> he AW is doing a lot more in the background For Apple-blessed stuff only. They tightened third-party widget update budget so badly third-party widgets that should provide up-to-date information are essentially unusable. E.g. large Weat
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by drdaeman 2y ago
3090 owner here. Wayland is even worse mess than it normally is. Used to flicker real bad before 555.58.02, less so with the latest driver - but still has some glitches with games. A bunch of older Electron apps still fail to render anythin
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> I'm amazed this is legal If someone is well-informed (the key point here - but I assume professional athletes are well aware of what they're doing) and still wants to do something weird and/or dangerous to their body, wi
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> There are close to zero people who tend to think like that among actual engineers. Oops. My apologies - I meant exactly that, that a significant number of engineers believe in correctness and sound approaches, but I had a brain fart wr
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by drdaeman 2y ago
There are two schools of thought. One strives for correctness, even if that requires extra effort. Another is "anything goes as long as it somehow kind of works more than it doesn't." (Actually it's most probably a spect
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Was Pipewire a shitshow? PulseAudio was, and it had a bunch of issues (idk about design issues - I haven't really dug into the details, but it certainly had a fair number of unpleasant bugs), but I think Pipewire transition was fairly
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I don't think that's the issue with Wayland. X11 has fundamental design flaws, Wayland happened because of it. I believe the question is why Wayland happened so badly . Sure, nVidia shenanigans are contributing to bad fame, but a
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by drdaeman 2y ago
They haven't pulled out from China with all their... domestic requirements. I doubt they're gonna pull from the EU.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Yea, it also confused me - "anode-free" suggests there is no anode, and to best of my understanding a battery needs two electrodes so there will be a circuit for the current to flow. The full Wikipedia quote is: "An anode-fre
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It probably still tries to analyze what's on screen, but probably can't send it anywhere if no network connection is available (unless it has a WWAN radio or can hop onto some Sidewalk-type network).
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Yeah, I was kind of surprised. The premise of the article started as "LangChain abstractions are off" and then the complaint was about... just a very simple pipeline? I honestly don't care about the syntax (as long as it&#x27
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Is the legal system broken somehow it's a legit issue, or do their legal teams have some sort of PTSD so they're scared of any ideas of lawsuit no matter how frivolous, so they make weirdest business-affecting decisions? I mean, i
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by drdaeman 2y ago
If it wasn't me who made the transaction, they won't be able to prove it because such proof cannot exist by definition. They can (and most likely will) try to claim otherwise, but best they can do is say that they've scanne
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Totally! Like I said - biometrics is a very bad idea for anything actually sensitive. I wouldn't let my door lock open upon seeing my face - high convenience but high risk. But I don't mind a PAM module on a non-portable desktop c

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