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by hakfoo 1y ago
I always figured a lottery would work best. Accept reservations (maybe with a token deposit or a card authorization to discourage making too many claims) for a week. Then at the end, draw winners for each block of seats; if they don't
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by hakfoo 1y ago
As a FVWM daily driver, it's amazing to see it's has gone from "it's the niftier-than-twm baseline that's installed by default in your 2.0-kernel Slackware or RedHat distro, but you'll probably install somethin
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I'm thinking the era of "great ALI chipsets" was more after they became ULi in the Athlon 64 era. I had a ULi M1695 board (ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2) and it was unusual for the era in that it was a $90 motherboard with two full
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by hakfoo 1y ago
x86 is important for gamers, but is it for HPC? That tends to be far less dependent on binary blobs.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Aren't a lot of those cards sold for the audience that needs more display heads rather than necessarily performance? This has been somewhat improved-- some mainboards will have HDMI and DisplayPort plumbed to the iGPU, but the classic
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by hakfoo 1y ago
If we could get that sort of mindset into the AI-maximalists, particularly in the executive suite, we'd be so much better off. Use the tools that are APPROPRIATE FOR THE SPECIFIC TASK. Even if that means we're not always using th
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by hakfoo 1y ago
It feels like speakers have gone up in price. This is probably because their BOM is still highly dependent on physical enclosures, cones, and magnets, which can't be Moore's Law'd-away. I can find some basic setups in the $30
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by hakfoo 1y ago
It would fit into the product matrix where Vista and Win7 Ultimate did: explicitly targeting enthusiasts, parts-builders and boutique shops where they want to convey that you're getting a cost-no-object build. Or being able to sell it
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by hakfoo 1y ago
We sort of had two phases of development: - Running up single-core performance through increasingly sophisticated core design and clock speed (which is now at the 5% per year point mentioned) - Going wider by throwing more SMT, more cores,
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by hakfoo 1y ago
The Rollermouse Free product appears to be cut from the same cloth. The learning curve might be troublesome.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
This seems to be percieved as an explicit intended loophole. I've seen contests where they say "for free entry, go to website..." followed with "internet access can be obtained at libraries". Obviously, the idea of
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by hakfoo 1y ago
An alternative would be to provide broad grant opportunities to make it possible to have a lot of people exploring creative endeavours at modest scale. Very few creative works require kazillion-dollar budget, and presumably many of the curr
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I always thought there was value in a simpler take on this. Especially in the commercial-software world, not everything is compiled for the exact foibles of your current CPU. Why aren't we running a JIT from x86 to "optimized sub
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I thought com/net/org had distinct use cases until the early 1990s when it became a free-for-all.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
That's the goal. Right now, public companies are far too governed by people who want the business to succeed at all costs. The state could represent interests like "keeping high-paid jobs on-shore" or "avoid legal/
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by hakfoo 1y ago
A nifty play would just be "the corporate veil is no longer free. Issue the state stock for a 49% stake, or your investors have unlimited liability." Then there's a theoretical "trade" but virtually nobody's
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by hakfoo 1y ago
In some cases, the bottlenecks are external. I've seen a test environment which has most assets local but a few shared services and databases accessed over a VPN which is evidently a VIC-20 connected over dialup. The dev environment ca
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by hakfoo 1y ago
This could be a by-product of bad merchandising too. The local Home Depot sells some types of screws only in pre-packed bags. The Ace Hardware a block over (a franchise of independently owned shops) sells the same screws from cabinets with
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I'm fond of the HDHomerun devices. They just expose a set of URLs over the local network corresponding to channels. You can point VLC to them or just download a chunk of the bitstream to process later. I'm sure you could applian
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by hakfoo 1y ago
My team has been chewed out for "just because it didn't work once, you need to keep trying it." That feels, to be blunt, almost religious. Claude didn't bless you because you didn't pray often enough and weren&#x2
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by hakfoo 1y ago
From a technical perspective, yes. But from a business perspective they're going to try to cram every model into every possible use case for as long as possible. It will be a sign of a maturing market when we see vendors actually say
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Discerning the limits is the most important thing of all, and we seem very eager to obfuscate it for LLMs. We so desperately want something we can sell as AGI or at least magic that the boundaries on the tools are few, far-between, and most
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by hakfoo 1y ago
At the time that was relevant, wasn't SCSI specifically preferred for recording because IDE was particularly vulnerable when you had Windows 9x's mediocre multitasking and tiny buffers? I know there was very much a window of &quo
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I intentionally chose Southwest for my last flight because the old policies -- included bags and free-form seating-- made me feel better about the experience. I didn't need the free checked bags, but I appreciated not being pressured
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by hakfoo 1y ago
The address space didn't have to start at 0. In fact, address 0 contains interrupt vectors. I suspect most of the CP/M compatibility was about starting at specific addresses within a given segment (isn't that why .COM execu
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by hakfoo 1y ago
White box systems didn't really acquire onboard I/O til the late 486/early 586 era, but it was pretty common on name-brand systems to integrate IDE/floppy/serial/parallel and usually video.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I wonder what risks the bubble has for them. If they can sell every $30K AI accelerator they make right now, that might cause them to overextend, committing to up-front capacity or long term projects that are financed by the current spend
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I have the feeling nobody knows what to do in terms of selling Ethernet for home use right now. The moonshot efforts are around better Wi-Fi, which is, of course, at best a "good enough" solution that keeps people from running pro
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I'm surprised that especially financial service providers don't have a very clear "in the event of death/emergency" flow. I know you can sometimes label an account payable-on-death/joint-ownership/trust&#
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I assumed much of the PC industry wasn't doing "design" so much as "what's available in stock and quantity." Only the largest players-- the Dells and HPs and Acers-- really made much design decisions with cus

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