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by magnat 2y ago
Because you can quantize a model e.g. from original 16 bits down to 5 bits per weight to fit your available memory constraints.
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by magnat 2y ago
This reminds me of the Chaoscope [1], a defunct app from 2000s for creating a beautiful 3D renderings of Strange Attractors. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200710103948/http://www.chaosc...
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by magnat 2y ago
Network-attached storage and Network-attached RAM would be ubiquitous. You would literally be able to download more RAM.
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The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile(righto.com)
272 points by magnat 2y ago|175 comments
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by magnat 2y ago
Different User-Agent HTTP header most likely.
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by magnat 2y ago
Is the drum rotating smoothly at constant RPM, or is it stopping briefly (using gears [1] similar to those found in analog movie projector) when hammers hit the paper to prevent them from tearing it? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by magnat 2y ago
66% of gamers, according to https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/
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by magnat 2y ago
There is now a protection, you can't set it to more than 9999. :)
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by magnat 2y ago
I strongly recommend reading Pat Wyatt's blog [1] for some insights about an early Starcraft development from more technical point of view. [1] https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-...
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by magnat 2y ago
> if you copy and paste your "improved" text then it will no longer say what you thought it did It's not a bug, it's a feature - a DRM. Your content can now be consumed, but cannot be copied or modified - all without
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by magnat 2y ago
> even when a human visitor has their JavaScript turned off, the email address displayed on the page remains usable NoScript on Firefox with default settings don't render <object> tags (replaces them with placeholders), so thi
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by magnat 2y ago
> Even if we've managed to rebuild and patch Hyper-V Manager from source, this is not enough for a real community project to take place. As much as I would like to just upload the decompiled source code to GitHub to start making sig
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by magnat 2y ago
JWST optics makes quite unique diffraction spikes. Not only that there are eight of them, but on full resolution images [1] they have distinct pattern, as if made from separate dashed lines. Are colors of those tiny lines (mostly red here -
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by magnat 2y ago
No, it doesn't. It uses RPi to record and upload singing. > A microphone array is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi which is programmed to listen to ambient sounds, record bird songs, and show audio curves. The Pi then sends that data to
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by magnat 2y ago
If you haven't updated your Debian in a while, 1 in 30000 apparently: https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/04/09/how-i-tripp...
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by magnat 2y ago
> I created a "large test suite" to be more intensive. On my dev machine it needed to run for 8 hours. During such long and compute-intensive tests, how are thermal considerations mitigated? Not saying that this was case here,
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by magnat 2y ago
> No, don't try maildir on the Windows. Why, exactly? I have switched to maildir as soon as it was available as experimental feature, and performance gains when compared to mbox were enormous, especially during bulk operations. Swit
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by magnat 2y ago
Nobel Prize can be shared by up to three individuals [1] so barely any modern game would qualify. [1] https://www.nobelprize.org/frequently-asked-questions/#share
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by magnat 3y ago
Note that GPS receiver capable (i.e. not artificially limited) of providing navigation data while moving 600 m/s or higher used to be considered munition by ITAR. The amount of legalese at updated ruling [1] is well beyond what I can m
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by magnat 3y ago
Slightly updated version: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
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by magnat 3y ago
Most modern A/V codecs won't fit in that limit by several orders of magnitude. Even standard-compliant JPEG decoder would be hard to squeeze without some serious codegolfing. Discarding some barely used features gets you close to
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by magnat 3y ago
If AI is ever going to gain consciousness and decide to kill all the people, this is exactly how I envision it.
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by magnat 3y ago
Either that or Ubiquiti. Don't know which is worse.
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by magnat 3y ago
I also recommend USB Made Simple [1], which has similar vibe to this site, but also includes USB 2.0 description and is a bit more detailed on electrical/low level aspects. For an actual implementation, see V-USB [2] - surprisingly rea
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by magnat 3y ago
A viable sperm can survive in hen's reproductive tract for weeks [1], so she doesn't have to be impregnated in this 15 minute window to produce a fertilized yolk. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&
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by magnat 3y ago
One might say he lost his marbles.
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by magnat 3y ago
> A typical serial port configuration is "115200 8N1", which means 115,200 baud (or raw bits on the wire per second), with no parity, and 1 stop bit. This means that for every data byte sent, there will be 8 data bits, 1 unused
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by magnat 3y ago
Microsoft SQL Server uses similar architecture [1], but instead of using separate log files, it allocates Virtual Log Files (VLF) inside a physical (on-disk) log file. VLFs are allocated from a ring buffer and apparently there can be severa
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by magnat 3y ago
Doesn't work with JavaScript disabled.
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Tell HN: GPS Interference over Baltic and Poland
11 points by magnat 3y ago|2 comments

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