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by giantrobot 5d ago
> But Linux took over the world and it had a crappy UI. Linux took over in all the places where a good GUI didn't matter. In ran most of the Unix server software on hardware orders of magnitude cheaper than what was needed to run a
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by giantrobot 6d ago
AFAIK this was the case. I played a lot of Stars! (almost exclusively the shareware) and it had all the races and tech trees. It showed higher level tech trees but those were only available in the registered game. Map sizes were also li
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by giantrobot 6d ago
They'll change their name to Meta to get away from a scandal. I don't think that's ever happened before.
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by giantrobot 7d ago
Which results in a plainly broken torrent. I've yet to find a torrent client that can effectively download IA's broken torrents. Of course they're not all broken. So you don't get to know it's broken until you&#x2
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by giantrobot 8d ago
Good thing that won't ever happen again!
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by giantrobot 11d ago
They seem to be aggressively blocking IPv6 source IPs. I ran into this problem over the past month traveling. I got nothing but 429 errors until I switched on my VPN (which is IPv4 only) and magically the Wayback machine worked again. The l
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by giantrobot 11d ago
The Internet Archive's torrents are a sick joke. I've yet to find one that actually manages to complete. They always get stuck at 90-something percent but that final blocks always fail verification and get retried, fail, and the p
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by giantrobot 12d ago
But they're not compute starved. NVidia's kit is convenient for compute but not absolutely necessary. Chinese labs have been training with Huawei chips already. They also have a huge supply of existing Nvidia gear to use. Just b
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by giantrobot 13d ago
Do you not like your dogs or something? I wouldn't give Arby's to someone I hated.
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by giantrobot 19d ago
> I have no idea why we can't do this now. Power density and all of the problems that are fallout from high power density. A modern LiPoly battery contains a lot of energy. It's stored in a chemical that is highly reactive with
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by giantrobot 21d ago
The Switch is essentially that. Obviously not $60 but it's a several generations old Nvidia Tegra SoC. The AppleTV wasn't far off either before its massive price hikes.
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by giantrobot 25d ago
The Pro, Max, and Ultra chips boil down to different combinations of their "Super", performance, and efficiency cores along with the number of GPU cores. The Max is two Pros bolted together. Thus far they've skipped generatio
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by giantrobot 26d ago
Apple has not in the past three decades really courted the capital E Enterprise market. They'll definitely sell to Enterprise customers and have Enterprise sales teams for big customers. But they're not and never have been Dell or
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
> which in most cases favours the US Used to favor the US. Trump's policies and behaviors are ruining the US' reputation as a stable trading partner by demonstrating what damage can be done by an idiot with unchecked power. T
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
The M5 GPU added better matmul and dot product support in hardware (IIRC) that really boosted performance of those kernels over previous GPUs. Current transformer models rely heavily on matmuls. Prefill (processing the current context) is m
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
That sufficient supply is maybe on the distant horizon. In the meantime everyone is being fleeced because the scalpers have the only supply available. Even if there's a supply glut tomorrow the scalpers have the infrastructure in pla
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
Those Windows laptops always have a dealbreaker for me (besides Windows itself). If they have decent screens, sound, and battery life then the trackpad or keyboard will suck. If it's cheap it'll creak and groan like a Tesla interi
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
I for one can't wait. Current prices are absolutely insane. However a problem exists with scalper bots. They're going to fight tooth and nail to keep prices artificially high even when supply increases. Same with the hyperscalers
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
This has been my bugbear for years. Even in places with good cell service on average there's a hundred individual places that have terrible service. Also a good signal to the handset doesn't necessarily mean good actual service. I
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
YaCy[0] is a P2P search engine. There's public instances but you can self-host it as well. It includes a spider to do your own crawling. It's challenging now between CloudFlare and other anti-bot CAPCHAS crawling effectively is re
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
Well we're rapidly approaching a world going back to 256GB (or smaller) SSDs because VC money is being used to buy up all semiconductor and HDD output by AI hyperscalers. Everything will end up cloud storage, you'll own nothing an
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
Parameter size and total number of parameters so ultimately the total size of the model in memory. This leads to some interesting optimizations. You can quantize all the parameters (or certain layers) of a model and halve or quarter the mem
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
It's pulling the ladder up behind them. OpenAI bought up more co tracts for wafers than they could even use. But now that means everyone else has to fight over what's left. This makes it too expensive to compete with OpenAI. No
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
The TouchBar's problem was both hardware and software. Because of its poor affordance for text labels it typically only allowed Mystery Meat UI[0]. If you labeled a button it ate up surface area and prevented a dense interface. Because
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
They do not deserve the benefit of doubt. If anything their executives or officers say is not truthful it must be interpreted as being knowing and malicious. Flock's systems have been too easily abused to assume anything else. A comp
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
That's not Devil's advocate, that's just foolishness. First of all their job is "protect and serve" not threaten people with summary execution. Second, their instant escalation does nothing to keep them safe. If any
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
It could be happening on my kitchen counter right this very second. But my kitchen counter, despite a recent cleaning, is absolutely lousy with microorganisms. So the new proto-life is immediately starved or more likely eaten by existing li
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
> Can google be trusted ? Or facebook ? No. Neither can be trusted as far as you can throw them. They're both incredibly invasive data brokers. Their customer facing products are just vehicles to show ads and Hoover up more PII and
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
My rooftop solar disagrees. It generates my whole house load in the winter, spring and summer I run a pretty healthy surplus. Thats with all my appliances being electric and superfluous crap running like a 24/7 file server running. Bec
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
Just because the machinery in the building grinds puppies into pulp doesn't mean the building itself is bad. I don't get what the big problem is!

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