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by kimixa 2y ago
Aww man, I worked on the chromecast SoC. It was a... difficult product. If there was a more perfect example of a product being killed by penny pinching, I can't think of one. It just didn't have enough flash for anything but a sup
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by kimixa 2y ago
In 2022 there were ~57k PHDs awarded in the USA [0]. In the same year, there were ~500k immigrant visas [1]. If every single PHD was for immigration, it'll still only be ~10% of the total. And even if the thesis was "forced&quot
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by kimixa 2y ago
> OpenGL also only became available on Android 1.6 I believe opengles 1.0 was available from the first public release of android - though some sources claim 1.6 added opengles 1.1 support. Though I think there were sometimes difference i
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by kimixa 2y ago
Those "best people" may also be some of the higher paid - so if you only care about short term results that may be more of a feature than a bug.
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by kimixa 2y ago
I'm more interested in the financials and funding of the service - it's "easy" to provide a better service if you're losing money burning VC cash, but we know that'll never be sustainable. If they are better fo
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by kimixa 2y ago
Why would it be "strange"? What reference can we possibly use to compare? This sort of thing tends to be so far from "common sense" it probably doesn't make sense to try to reason about it from that perspective.
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by kimixa 2y ago
And the times you end up needing tools like valgrind very much feel like a grind
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by kimixa 2y ago
I'd suggest it's because the public discourse around these things are dominated by the talking points pushed by those same groups. They may not be the only driver of that discourse, or even the primary origin, but they're a
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by kimixa 2y ago
The majority of music apps on devices have their own "custom" EQ settings. It's probably not surprising that they all sound a little different, even if everything around them is digital and "exactly the same signal"
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by kimixa 2y ago
> Back in 2000, AMD included cmov in its 64-bit x86 ISA extensions. Then, Intel had to adopt them when Itanium flopped. Wasn't "cmov" one of the things added for the pentium pro? So it wasn't instruction compatible -
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by kimixa 2y ago
From the (lack of) context we don't really know the intent or opinions of those involved. I've seen things that are technically "loans", but realistically gifts as there was never any expectation of being paid back. Or i
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by kimixa 2y ago
Indeed, the difference does appear to be in how AMD does the throttling. From the linked numberworld blog: > Thus on Zen4 and Zen5, there is no drawback to "sprinkling" small amounts of AVX512 into otherwise scalar code. They
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by kimixa 2y ago
"The app was inactive by default and had to be manually enabled" So I don't really see it as a big deal - I probably have lots of software that's not running but exists on my PC that would be a security risk if "m
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by kimixa 2y ago
Or an apple product? :P Good luck trying to find a thunderbolt cable unless you already know they categorize it as a "Mac Accessory - Charging Essentials". Lots of big carousels showing a sum total of 3 items at a time, and you be
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by kimixa 2y ago
> and it's also in a class of its own in workloads heavy on AVX-512, though they might be a bit niche. It'll be interesting to see if it remains niche - I do a fair bit of work on graphics rendering (some games, some not) and
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by kimixa 2y ago
Or a signal handler? Even if there's a single kernel thread, if it can be interrupted while inside one of these functions you can hit the same sort of problem. Reentrancy was an issue on consumer devices well before multithreading was
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by kimixa 2y ago
A game streamer I sometimes watch also said something similar - that "youtube premium" views are tracked separately and worth significant multiples per view compared to those that get ads. They also said it isn't variable in
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by kimixa 2y ago
Is that not just youtube "memberships" though? The creator can choose the cost and have multiple "tiers" - I don't think there's anything stopping them having a $1 "tip jar" tier. Sure, it's not
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by kimixa 2y ago
And the article itself stated they likely knew by the end anyway - with the operation being dropped and the whole thing about everything like that having an "Expected Half-life".
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by kimixa 2y ago
There's already plenty of other things of a similar scale in the path of birds and planes currently. Such as other planes. But these being stationary probably makes them even easier to avoid.
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by kimixa 2y ago
You're not really saying "They're not offering a product" - so much "They're not offering a product at a price I want", which is really a very different statement. They're intentionally differentiated
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by kimixa 2y ago
But AMD already offer GPUs with that amount of VRAM for extraordinary amounts of money, so there'll be no change? And from what I hear they're selling every one they're producing, even to the level where there's a ~6 mon
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by kimixa 2y ago
But I thought that the whole point of it being a "Beta" was explicitly for testing. Blocking untested combinations seems contrary to that goal. Or I guess it's another example of how the word "Beta" has become mar
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by kimixa 2y ago
Or the "simple" solution is sufficient as the vast majority of users won't even use "quick workarounds that fit in a comment on Hacker News". And if the simple solution that still works most of the time is sufficien
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by kimixa 2y ago
I don't really immediately link "Hallucinations" with "Unsound mind" - most people I know have experienced auditory hallucinations - often things like not sure if the doorbell went off, or if someone said their name
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by kimixa 2y ago
Effective life guards often need to be well trained and physically selective, and observant and not distracted over a pretty long time. Hiring untrained, minimum wage teenagers may tick the box of "Has life guard", but not necessa
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by kimixa 2y ago
I guess the goal is that the drone can intervene before CPR is necessary. But there's always a limit in capabilities - providing better access to some help is clearly still of benefit, providing faster access to limited capabilities
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by kimixa 2y ago
Really, the "input" to current deep learning algorithms includes all the training data. Which is where the root of the issue is. There's a reason why compression comparisons tend to include the size of the decompressor in the
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by kimixa 2y ago
Probably because the size of the full-resolution "skins" are of significant size, which may be an issue on phones with limited storage - especially if they implement custom assets to fit each size rather than just scaling. Which a
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by kimixa 2y ago
Indeed, that's why I said >"How much change is enough" has always been a gray area for courts and humans to decide. But copilot has been shown to generate chunks of sufficient size and specificity that as a layman it very

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