kkielhofner

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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   > This is not a "religious debate". For many it absolutely is. It's vi vs emacs on steroids - a bunch of very technical people debating intricacies the general population is either unaware of or doesn't care about. &g
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   > The Pixel 8 is going to receive 7 years of OS Updates, 84 months of monthly security updates and quarterly feature drops. This blows the iPhone away. Now, starting in 2023.
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   Hah, I don't know enough about Cloudflare to know who Matthew Prince is. Yet he was born in 1974 so I still maintain this is a ridiculous viewpoint.
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   I completely understand your sentiment but sadly for many Americans the lives of other people just don’t matter. We frequently don’t even care about our own citizens here (too many examples to list). It’s a point raised and emphasized beca
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   It's yet another example of the weird issues Airbnb has... I've only rented via Airbnb a couple of times and this was a while ago. I gave up on it because of the (infamous) arbitrary host specific "check-in" process, abi
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   And in every discussion mentioning Android and Apple people see it as some kind of religious debate. I do not care what anyone does or doesn’t use. I have no stake in this and I don’t see it as some kind of argument. That said, I do know th
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   I’m aware of this. I’m not talking about system apps. I’m talking about the operating system version targeted for applications, functionality, etc. Take one look at an Android fragmentation chart compared to iPhone and I think you’ll see wh
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   Look at a historical graph of internet users, bandwidth, etc. "Same scale long before" just isn't possible. I'm not saying there isn't Cloudfront, Akamai, Fastly, Azure Edge/Verizon, etc. Hell UUNet, whatever y
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   by kkielhofner 3y ago

   This is peak HN comment. 300 pops around the world delivering 210 Tbps of capacity, mitigation of some of the largest DDoS attacks in history, 20% of internet traffic. Workers, Pages, R2, D1, Zero Trust, Stream, Images, Warp, 1.1.1.1, etc,
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    > My guess would be their weird ‘site protection’ stuff is burning too many people and negatively impacting their reputation. What's always been interesting to me about this take is it's not as though Cloudflare is randomly ins
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    A search of completed/sold listings on eBay shows roughly 2x resale pricing for the iPhone 13 Pro 256gb vs the Pixel 6 Pro 256gb.
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    Finally. The planned obsolescence conversation seems to revolve around Apple (the only self-interested greedy company on the planet according to the detractors) but they hold the record for software updates on smartphones - 10 years for the
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    This was for an internal project, but yeah your experience sounds about right.
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    I have a similar take with slightly more recent experience. When it came down to it the resource requirements for an IPFS node were pretty insane relative to the "value" provided and by many takes it still basically didn't &q
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    I have a personal anecdote that says otherwise. A startup I was working with in 2009 was developing a mobile solution for the healthcare space. Our initial target was iPhone (yes, extremely early and that’s a post for another day). We met w
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    Exactly. If the FCC (or someone) said "your certification of these devices is revoked and any further imports are banned" I GUARANTEE Google would instantly spin up a dedicated, capable, and prioritized 911 team.
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    To think that they are prioritizing support for TikTok or whatever and thinking of 911 as an afterthought is horrendous and disgusting.
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    If a tree falls in a forrest and no one is around, does it make a sound? Of course quantization was invented well before LLMs. However, LLMs have dramatically accelerated development on quantization and resulted in an explosion in use.
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    Omnipresent use of 911 has been arguably the most impactful killer app since cell phones first emerged over 40 years ago. It has saved countless lives. In the days of not having a landline this is completely unacceptable. To have issues uti
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    > As someone who was unbanked for a long time, and having talked to many people in that situation (most recently a couple of Russian immigrants), you are talking out of your ass here. I think you missed my overall point. What I'm sa
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    Visa has at least 343 million cardholders worldwide. Of course trying to determine crypto "users" is essentially impossible but even the most bloated and inflated estimates (users unique per chain, address = user) put the number s
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    The “original” and by far most common format for quantization is GPTQ. AWQ support is spreading more, which is nice.
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    Yes but AMD could release a ROCm that actually works and then put actually meaningful resources into some of the countless untold projects out there that have been successfully building on CUDA for 15 years. There was a recent announcement
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    > There are pretty reliable custody options When the best possible description someone can use is "pretty reliable" I think that underscores my point. FTX was considered to be in this category for years. Question now is, when w
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    > ensure your assets are safe It's been demonstrated time and time again this isn't practical. In crypto your choice is either worry about an exchange collapsing or worry about losing your keys, having your wallet cleaned out b
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    So vi vs emacs then. I understand your points (I stayed up to watch the switch from PoW to PoS on my Ethereum nodes as one example) but no one else does, and that's my point. If anything you mentioned offered value other than "tra
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    Guys backed with guns funded by fiat (tax revenue). It's unbelievable to me that crypto people don't see/understand/refuse to acknowledge the huge difference. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something wh
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    I always hear this and I'm interested where the point of view comes from. Can you elaborate? Fair warning I am one of the people who thinks it's all the same. Even though I have a lot of experience in the space when you zoom out a
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    Replacing an imperfect implementation with one that has demonstrated time and time again it's far worse should never be the solution. Crypto has languished in obscurity (other than gambling, scams, and criminality) for 15 years because
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    by kkielhofner 3y ago

    We have hardware and wake words: https://heywillow.io/ Our REST endpoint can talk to whatever you want and we’ll have native ChatGPT soon.