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by giantrobot 7mo ago
If you spend $35k and just idle the machine or just check e-mail you've burnt the money. If it's your work machine and you've got a $100/hr billable rate it's paid for in a little over a month. Three months at a $50
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
I have a bunny suit plushie on my shelf to this day. The other Pentium marketing blitz I remember was in the 1998 Lost in Space which had a TV ad for a Pentium XXI or something. Also notable was the Silicon Graphics branding in that movie.
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
Any router made by a company that "donates" (bribes) to Trump's "ballroom" or other vanity projects will get approved. Irrespective of anything else. This is just another grift.
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
> Elon has said several times that humans can drive with two eyes and Tesla should be able... And this is an amazingly stupid statement. Humans drive with most of their senses, not just vision. In fact our proprioception plays an importa
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
Do yourself a giant favor and read up on what it takes to get a single Michelin star. It's not a fucking Yelp review.
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
They changed the name of the company to distance themselves from a number of scandals including Cambridge Analytica, COVID vaccine misinformation, and sitting on studies about teen mental health and social media use.[0] [0] https:/&#x
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
Schedule the 1:1 first to let your manager know your peers have no value.
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
How could they not be? At $2 an hour they'd be leaving money on the table by not paying a tiny fraction of that for an LLM.
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
I'll just get a Pentium Gold CPU, with a name like that I bet it will be the best model!
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
The issue isn't choices but meaningless choices. Most PC manufactures have tons of SKUs that are functionally identical but offered in different sales channels. A dozen SKUs to describe the same hardware isn't real choice. It&#x
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
The lack of consistency in web apps and Electron apps is infuriating. The inconsistency increases my cognitive load switching apps. Then you've got in-browser web apps aliasing system keyboard shortcuts. Modern software feels so primit
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
AND THOSE WHISPERING QUIET HARD DRIVES!
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
You got your multipliers backwards with the 486dx. The multipliers was on the CPU core rather than the bus. A dx2 was twice the memory bus speed. The dx4 was (confusingly) three times the bus speed. So a 486dx4/100 was a 33MHz bus with
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
> I do wonder how much of it is personal, in that that UI hit at a certain formative time in my life. But ever since then it's been the benchmark that I evaluate all other UIs by. I know some of my preferences for UIs are informed b
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
General protection errors and BSODs say hello, also to hit CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart.
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
I find it disingenuous to talk about construction jobs as being "generated". Construction jobs are contracts. Building a datacenter might put 3000 people under contract temporarily but it doesn't "generate" jobs. O
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
What's so bad about negative externalities? Instead of thinking about that think of the profits (for me)! /s
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
The state "persists" as the context. There's no more than the current context. If you dumped the context to disk, zeroed out all VRAM, then reloaded the LLM, and then fed that context back in you'd have the same state as
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
People very commonly equate linguistic fluency with intelligence and the lack of fluency with stupidity. LLMs are very good at linguistic fluency which I think is one of the major triggers of the consciousness pareidolia (I like that term).
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
With LLM's their internal state is their training + system prompt + context. Most chatbot UIs hide the context management. But if you take an existing conversation and replace a term in the context with another grammatically (and sem
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
The Arques location was awesome. IIRC they had some old CPUs on display in the book section. Their selection was also pretty impressive. You could find USB2 cables on the same wall as an old HDI-30 to DB-25 SCSI adapter.
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
After Fry's went out of business for a while I thought I missed them. What I really missed was the 2000-2009 era Fry's. In that era the stores (the ones I visited at least) had surprisingly robust stock. Well into the 00s I found
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
> For reasons I can't quite put my finger on @user seems a much better sigil than ~user to me, so I'm not bothered that it's become popular. I think this makes sense if you pronounce the action. On Twitter you'd tweet
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
This is exactly my problem with ads. They've turned into a spying mechanism that eats my battery, bandwidth, and privacy. Not only do the ad platforms want to track me but then sell their data to an innumerate number of "partners&
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
There are many examples of Internet radio/livestreams that do all the live studio work virtually. It would be so much cheaper and more flexible as guests just need a microphone and Internet connection. Getting good audio is not terribl
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
The article is less about crypto and more about improving UUID (and IDs in general) with small block ciphers. It's a low impact mechanism to avoid leaking data that UUID by design does leak. It also doesn't require a good source o
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
Not the GP but a lot of application level scriptability came from AppleScript/Apple Events which was a MacOS thing and not from NeXT. There was a ton of work that went into adding Apple Events support into AppKit (it was already baked
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
I see the primary issue with IPFS is a significant majority of all web users are on mobile. They can't act as content hosts or routers. In P2P parlance they can only ever act as leeches. Even people with full fledged computers the mark
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
> The previous generation of golden child tech giants weren't interested in ethics or morality either. The CEOs of pets.com or Beanz weren't creating dystopian panopticons. So they may or may not have had moral or ethical faili
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by giantrobot 8mo ago
Which makes the odd HN AI booster excitement about LLMs as therapists simultaneously hilarious and disturbing. There are no controls for AI companies using divulged information. Theres also no regulation around the custodial control of t

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