marmarama

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by marmarama 11mo ago
That's the story the proponents of the AI bubble would have you believe, because they are sucking in all available funding to their enrichment, or because they've been huffing their own hype gas for so long that they have no brain
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by marmarama 11mo ago
Having bought a few Matter devices now, I have discovered that, in practise, Matter is just as full of vendor extensions as ZigBee, and the quirks ecosystem that allows for interoperability despite vendor extensions is far less mature than
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by marmarama 11mo ago
It's really just a performance tradeoff, and where your acceptable performance level is. Ollama, for example, will let you run any available model on just about any hardware. But using the CPU alone is _much_ slower than running it on
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by marmarama 1y ago
Which is as-designed. Vulkan (and DX12, and Metal) is a much more low-level API, precisely because that's what professional 3D engine developers asked for. Closer to the hardware, more control, fewer workarounds because the driver is d
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by marmarama 1y ago
> the majority of the population laid off from their office jobs will have plenty of work to do in the fields and food processing plants if they want to eat. Indeed. The destination is agricultural serfdom, with current billionaires or t
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by marmarama 1y ago
Use the LGPL licensing option?
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by marmarama 1y ago
Centrino was Intel's brand for their wireless networking and laptops that had their wireless chipsets, the CPUs of which were all P6-derived (Pentium M, Core Duo). Possibly you meant Celeron? Also the Pentium 4 uarch (Netburst) is noth
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by marmarama 1y ago
It's run by a startup incubator, and a pretty large chunk of the user population has the notion that they will eventually end up part of the rarefied population of company founders that hit the jackpot and make their fortune. Of course
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by marmarama 1y ago
It's a website that has compiled existing open source emulators that are capable of running old versions of MacOS and NeXTStep, to WebAssembly so they run inside a modern browser. They have paired that with disk images of these OSes an
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by marmarama 2y ago
I'm not sure you can say that Qt doesn't see much use, when there are hundreds, probably thousands, of well-known commercial apps using it, and it's in millions upon millions of embedded systems. And obviously KDE as well. It
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by marmarama 2y ago
You can get surprisingly good results from cheap laptop hardware (as well as fancier hardware like an MBP) using software DSP techniques. One of the things I'm pleased about is that quite a bit of Asahi's audio work is just as app
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by marmarama 2y ago
The Gemini Assistant is pretty close to feature parity now with the old Assistant, it got a lot better very quickly. And obviously it's a lot better at conversations. I don't miss the old Assistant at all now.
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by marmarama 2y ago
If all you do is write Python then sure, but for the rest of us that have to run code written in 7 different languages within our project, written by 7 different teams, playing nicely with asdf is non-negotiable. I've had it with versi
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by marmarama 2y ago
It's aerodynamics, pure and simple. The Model 3 coefficient of drag is very low. It's one of the reasons the Model 3 looks a little weird. It's pretty easy to replicate by other manufacturers, but aerodynamics is just one fac
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by marmarama 2y ago
Seconded. The MT-6000 is basically the gold standard for OpenWRT at this point in time.
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by marmarama 3y ago
I don't think the post specifies it has to be a technical problem. Besides, it's not a social-political problem until someone does the technical work. Does anyone have a proof-of-concept implementation for Firefox or Chromium yet?
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by marmarama 3y ago
Solving the trust and bad actor problems on the internet, without turning the internet into a set of restrictive walled gardens. Personally I think it's partly solvable with a combination of cryptographically signed HTML elements and a
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by marmarama 4y ago
I'm an idiot, you're right. There, it's on record. I claim under-caffeination. Still, the basic point still stands, even if my numbers need to be divided by 8. Desktops use more memory because, as users, we demand fancy true-
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by marmarama 4y ago
Modern WMs and desktop shells use way more memory because they cache more bitmaps (we now render text as bitmaps and composite them, and the drawing styles/themes are now much more than flat gray fill with the odd non-antialiased line)
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by marmarama 4y ago
Ah, I missed the zip file with the screenshots in. Yes, Akonadi loves RAM. I'm a bit confused as to why it's installed and running by default in this case - is this a Fedora-ism? I don't think Kubuntu or Arch install it by de
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by marmarama 4y ago
My Ubuntu KDE installation uses ~700MB RAM at idle with a fresh login and I've been using it with Wayland for years now without the problems the author describes. My Steam Deck KDE uses ~1.3GB, more than half of which is taken by the b
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by marmarama 4y ago
No more than Toyota having a factory in the US is "stealing" Toyota. Manufacturers in almost all sectors, including silicon foundries, have had manufacturing operations worldwide for decades. Centuries even. For all sorts of econo
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by marmarama 4y ago
There is no requirement that everything should be done at the end of the sprint.
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by marmarama 4y ago
PM is a full-time job on its own, and it doesn't match up well at all with being a PO! You should probably try and find someone else to do one of those roles. If your retros are super-negative, then try limiting everyone to one positiv
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by marmarama 4y ago
Your QA specialists work on tickets with developers and write feature tests alongside the feature. If you're doing TDD then QA can work on turning feature requirements and designs into tests for the next iteration. Integration and perf
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by marmarama 4y ago
I have worked on agile projects inside large non-technical corporates and there are several big advantages to agile in such an environment. For example: 1. Much less time spent trying to chase requirements that are technically infeasible wi
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by marmarama 4y ago
Essentially every project I've worked on in the last 9 years has been agile, most of them Scrum, and almost all of them succeeded in achieving their goals. There's a clear correlation on all of them between the skill of the projec
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by marmarama 4y ago
Team members that are motivated by pressure and deadlines, and whose output varies day-to-day, greatly outnumber team members who diligently work through their list of tasks at a consistent and optimal pace. This is the fundamental reason w
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by marmarama 4y ago
When you factor in climate change and rising sea levels, London is going to become unsustainable in the next 100-200 years. The Thames Barrier already needs replacing with a bigger structure, or it will become too small to cope sometime in
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by marmarama 4y ago
I was not talking about wrecking London's transport, merely using a thought experiment to illustrate how much better London's transport is than what the rest of the country has to put up with.

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