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by kurthr 8mo ago
Generally, multi-chip-modules are for multiple die attached to (advanced) PCB backplanes, while CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) and Foveros are using (passive) silicon backplanes. It radically increases bump and interconnect density.
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by kurthr 9mo ago
As mentioned in the article there are a lot of common watch crystals that oscillate at 32.768 kHz, but they are tuning fork crystals rather than bulk mode (or modern SAW), which have much higher frequencies. It would be challenging to lower
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by kurthr 9mo ago
So how is this slash command limit enforced? Is it part of the Claude API/PostTraining etc? It seems like a useful tool if it is! I'd like a user writeable, LLM readable, LLM non-writable character/sequence. That would make
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by kurthr 9mo ago
No, it is not normal, but conflating the detention and forced sterilization of millions for over a decade to the current administration's violently unconstitutional over reach is still a bit much. Though, neither are really served by T
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by kurthr 9mo ago
That's not how the Vietnamese see it.
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by kurthr 9mo ago
Do they really have knowledge or do they just have "vibes"? One could document how Israel became what it is and what actually happened, but we don't have that. We have feelings.
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by kurthr 9mo ago
LLMs will create the pitch deck for molten salt reactors, provide progress reports, plans, and documentation, accept payment for delivery, and disappear into the night.
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by kurthr 9mo ago
Yes, retroactively manufactured cause for a warrant to find only the information you want. Also, don't forget that profit maximization means selling to the highest bidder, which might not be US govt. Certainly, there is means, motive,
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by kurthr 9mo ago
I'm fully against censorship, and I don't want it covered up, but at some point profiting off of the suffering of others and distracting people with holocaust porn or influencer virtue signaling is self defeating. What did all of
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by kurthr 9mo ago
But since that's all been defunded by DOGE then by your own argument, it doesn't count any more. Ignoring history is a good way to repeat it, just because it didn't happen this year. Do you remember the last Vietnam War? Oh n
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by kurthr 9mo ago
The persecution of Uighurs continues apace. Even if it is not allowed to be called genocide on TikTok. The political elements to this are pretty obvious, but conflating two terrible Minneapolis ICE killings in 3 weeks to the horror that occ
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by kurthr 9mo ago
Note that ft/100 is almost exactly 1/8", which is also the most standard resolution used in construction. I love decimal feet (it's worth noting that there used to be a survey foot, but it has been deprecated).
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by kurthr 10mo ago
The news, and with it politics, have largely deteriorated to the point where only a few percent of the highest quality sources are worth any attention. It's all simple narrative grievance and entertainment. NYT in particular has fallen
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Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs with long awaited 18A Process(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kurthr 10mo ago|0 comments
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by kurthr 10mo ago
One word, teenagers.
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by kurthr 10mo ago
I've often wondered why the dishwasher vendors didn't put a label on the little flip open door so that it actually said, "dirty" on the outside, and "clean" on the inside.
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by kurthr 10mo ago
Once you're selling them, put a bounty where kids can turn in the cards for money. Then you'll both set a price floor and know which stores are selling them and you can find out who's doing it. Nothing says that a token has t
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by kurthr 10mo ago
https://kfanplus.iheart.com/content/2025-12-19-homeless-man-... It was posted on a Fox News affiliate. He won't get the reward, because he called 911 rather than the tipline.
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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee(404media.co)
12 points by kurthr 10mo ago|1 comments
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by kurthr 10mo ago
You're apparently referring to Rubio Monocoat.
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by kurthr 10mo ago
The biggest problem with calculators (rather than slide rules), was that because calculations with big numbers (large mantissa) were so easy, people got used to doing them that way without consideration. Using a slide rule meant inherently
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by kurthr 10mo ago
I guess I'm in a bubble, because it doesn't feel that way to me. When AI tops the charts (in country music) and digital visual artists have to basically film themselves working to prove that they're actually creating their ar
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by kurthr 11mo ago
It's interesting, because I read that and the following comment, “Most of the increase in child poverty has occurred in large families,” as almost getting the point. The point should be, "how to we forestall demographic collapse?&
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by kurthr 11mo ago
Asking the right questions (in the right language) was important before and it's even more important with LLMs, if you want to get any real leverage out of them.
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by kurthr 11mo ago
Are there quantized (eg 4bit) models available yet? I assume the training was done in BF16, but it seems like most inference models are distributed in BF8 until they're quantized. edit ahh I see it on huggingface: https://
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by kurthr 11mo ago
The assumption that "the new owners have paid a 5x or more multiple, and the reason they would is if they think they can cut costs and increase prices", is not universal and in many cases quite new. There are many new owners and b
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by kurthr 11mo ago
Building an oscillator is "just" putting some gain around a large enough phase delay (>90deg). The challenge is in making the oscillator predictable and STABLE. You want a frequency generator that oscillates with a constant per
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by kurthr 1y ago
It was 170,000 TWh annually in 2021.
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by kurthr 1y ago
No, not really. A billion people (15% of the population) drive more than a mile a day. Well over 100 million laptops are sold every year. These are easy numbers to look up. Just look at your own life and see how much of each you would use.
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by kurthr 1y ago
Austin is close to 50% leakage. Now up to 110gal/day per connection in 2024. https://www.kxan.com/investigations/city-of-austin-pipes-lea...

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