elipsey

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by elipsey 6y ago
>> My day job is primarily ML as well, so I might just go for the 3090. 24 GB of memory is a game changer for what I can do locally. I really just wish Nvidia would get its shit together with Linux drivers. What is your ML dev environ
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> $212 after tax So they have doubled in price since then? wtf? https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601341487%20601341...
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by elipsey 6y ago
Lots of things were already ghost towns. Even before covid, I am always seeing people with no buildings, and buildings with no people. I'm in SF now, but I have seen this in cities and small towns, red states and blue states: empty mal
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by elipsey 6y ago
TY for the notes!!
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by elipsey 6y ago
Ok. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the author. Let's take those quotes in context from the conclusion of the article: "There are numerous factors that overstate and understate the actual number of unemployed, and we’re not able t
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by elipsey 6y ago
TLDR; Rushed journalists didn't understand complicated new reporting format at first. He didn't say data was untrustworthy, he said the reporters were in a hurry. Per author: Reporters have a 30 minute window between receiving the
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by elipsey 6y ago
the tax is $4 of the bill, and i bet cable is a regulated monopoly in your city too. if you don't believe me, try starting an isp :p
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by elipsey 6y ago
lol i'm moving soon, which building?
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by elipsey 6y ago
They are also macing and beating journos solely for lawfully filming cops. Makes it kind of hard to do the job even they don't arrest you. See topic article. While you're at it: https://www.google.com/search?source
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by elipsey 6y ago
Wow, where exactly can I get those prices? I'm in downtown SF and it's $80 not including tax for 200x20 cable. I also don't have the rental fee because I argued with them through three hours and two of my own modems until the
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by elipsey 6y ago
What are the prerequisites for learning the basics, or developing a rudimentary understanding of this subject? I find the idea of it (as far as I can understand what that even might be) fascinating, but also exotic and forbidding. I had a c
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by elipsey 6y ago
Thanks for this, looking forward to it!
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by elipsey 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapo... An interesting but contested claim by an anonymous intelligence source, that CIA (or an asset) used African Swine Fever as a bio-weapon in Cuba two years
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by elipsey 6y ago
Link? :-)
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by elipsey 6y ago
Sigh. I think this article is holding Scott, and a core constituency of posters and meet up people, guilty by association with every rando on the internet, and also about half of the celebrities in the Bay area. "War against the media&
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by elipsey 6y ago
Hi. I read the essay "Pandemic Woo" which is linked in your profile. Is seems like your position is that: --COVID response strategy based on invalid "post-modern science", --the conclusion that the disease death rate is
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by elipsey 6y ago
Sounds great. Is the battery life OK? Was it hard to get the phone? To be clear, I see some measure of compromise as totally reasonable if one's goal is to get on an open os...
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by elipsey 6y ago
Hard to do I think. Even plain old "linux but for phones" is pretty difficult at this point because: --most drivers and hardware specifications are proprietary, and probably secret under NDA --most bootloaders are cryptographicall
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by elipsey 6y ago
Thanks!
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by elipsey 6y ago
I hadn't heard of shoes until I saw this post, but it looks really attractive for certain cases. Thanks for mentioning the _why connection. I started reading WPGR years ago when another CS major showed it to me, but I had to quit becau
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> I don't wish to struggle with technical limitations caused by politics and marketing decisions So much this. When I depend on proprietary stuff, the care and feeding of licenses and serial numbers and all that stuff never seem
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> I consider myself a power user, and precisely because MacOS feels like the best of Unix combined with customer focus [...] I simply can't relate to the statement that Mac is a "platform that contends with me every step of
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by elipsey 6y ago
I have hoped that "Cyber Insurance" might be able to price these risks, and also price information assurance best practice into premiums.[1] Do you think this has, or could work? If an insurance company is unable to price it&#x2
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by elipsey 6y ago
Finally, a sense of purpose! Can we add this to UBI somehow?
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> hysterical, or hyperbolic or contaminated with self-referential post-modernist bullshit Edit: Please see HN comment guidelines.
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by elipsey 6y ago
warning: page is memory hungry AF! gave my laptop a wedgie... it's awesome and important, but close some tabs first :p
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> quite a few misleading, if not actually false, statements. See the paragraph mentioning Malcom X for an example. How so?
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by elipsey 6y ago
Can't speak for OP, but maybe they mean things like Intel Management Engine, or cryptographicly locked bootloaders (not a backdoor, obviously, but a nuisance) with keys we can't control. So the backdoor is "feature", not
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by elipsey 6y ago
I have a few thinkpad keyboards lying around. The older or used ones are inexpensive and easy to get. It has occurred to me to wonder if an adapter could be fabricated to connect keyboard's tiny internal ribbon connecter to USB or PS2.
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> this is the kind of spending that is virtually guaranteed to increase consumer price inflation Why would this kind of spending increase CPI more than other kinds of bailout spending, and what kind of spending might it be? I guess T

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