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by martinpw 2y ago
Thanks for the additional information. I am still puzzled though. This sounds like it is a third party (maybe just a small group of devs?) doing all the work, and from your link they have had to beg AMD just to send them hardware? If this w
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by martinpw 2y ago
> But I think more importantly, what is often missed in this analysis is that most programmers doing ML work aren't writing their own custom kernels. They're just using pytorch (or maybe something even more abstracted/mult
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by martinpw 2y ago
You can see it on the interactive tool here: https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-inter... You can click on individual years, but the decade average plots are the most revealing. You can see the
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by martinpw 2y ago
Could this explain the prevalence of louder music in restaurants? Objectively I dislike loud music in such environments, but maybe the fact it hides such chewing noises makes it subtly attractive and I end up being drawn to such places for
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Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025(nsidc.org)
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by martinpw 2y ago
> You are very correct that this is not gonna last forever though, because wages are rising in China, too, which will probably lead to a bunch of manufacturing moving to another low-wage country (maybe India, or even Africa in the future
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by martinpw 2y ago
> These cars are garbage A few years ago this was true, but quality has improved massively since then. Was in China recently, got to ride in a bunch of Chinese EVs including several BYDs. Really impressed with them, and came away wishing
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BYD to launch 1000V platform with 5C charging in mid-March(carnewschina.com)
13 points by martinpw 2y ago|1 comments
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by martinpw 2y ago
Unless the fire spread to them, it seems the batteries that burned were not from Tesla but from a different provider at the same site https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/moss-lan... Vistra used ba
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by martinpw 2y ago
> it looks like Linux caught on in workstation space pretty quickly. At least for film and visual effects, this is because the industry was previously dominiated by SGI and most major studios had pipelines built on IRIX. When NT systems
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California off to a strong clean electricity start with solar up 33.8%(pv-magazine-usa.com)
11 points by martinpw 2y ago|4 comments
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by martinpw 2y ago
Just got someone on LinkedIn asking to connect from one of these national labs with their status set to Looking for Work. Had a sinking feeling, saw the story online, looked for the articles here, didn't see any, then searched and foun
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by martinpw 2y ago
It's sold out to the people who have these in their hands already.
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by martinpw 2y ago
Silicon Graphics was a great company name. With a great (initial) logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#/media/File:S...
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by martinpw 2y ago
Stew of Theseus
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by martinpw 2y ago
This is fantastic. My roast: If comments were code, yours would be the longest PullRequest ever! Noted.
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by martinpw 2y ago
The ZX81 was my first computer. I remember writing an adventure game, but because I only had the basic 2k RAM, each room in the game was a separate program that was saved to tape at a specific tape counter location. Then, when you made a de
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by martinpw 2y ago
I seem to remember a guide stating that this pass has that name because there are two equal sized hills near it and so, umm, it has the profile of a woman lying down on her back, rather than implying that a woman actually died there.
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by martinpw 2y ago
> Studies in Toronto and New York have shown that sound intensity peaks in their respective transit systems exceed medically-safe sound level limits I still remember the shrieking rail noise when the subway in Toronto took the tight corn
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by martinpw 2y ago
Strange that they do not actually disclose which brands have the high levels, and not sure I understand the logic in this statement: “We do not disclose the names of companies we test in order to maintain fairness and consistency and to av
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by martinpw 2y ago
> Australians typically play down their achievements, while Americans like to talk themselves up Although this is obviously a generalization, it is broadly accurate in my experience. And it can be a real problem, for example at performan
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by martinpw 2y ago
The image has the label MAXAR at top right. I believe that company only does satellite imagery? Also articles that link to the image call it satellite data, eg: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/us/video&#x2
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by martinpw 2y ago
I wonder if there is a problem with the data collection at that time? From your link, it looks like to drop much lower than 0.33, lowest value on that chart is 0.11, which is massively lower than any previous worldwide value, before jumping
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by martinpw 2y ago
This is a horrific satellite picture of Altadena: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/06-closer-s...
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by martinpw 2y ago
Very interesting. I recently found out the house I grew up in in the UK over 15+ years had lead pipes that were never replaced, and I always wondered why they were not replaced and if it had some cognitive impact. This lining effect likely
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by martinpw 2y ago
This one was originally used to mock scholars who debated such seemingly obscure minutae at the expense of more pressing issues, the canonical example being theological debate during the fall of Constantinople. But I remember reading somewh
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by martinpw 2y ago
Articles like this are so easy to write after the event. It would be a lot more compelling of an article if it had been published a year ago and had instead predicted what was going to happen given what the author claimed was obvious at the
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by martinpw 2y ago
Thanks for the video link. I attended Birmingham University (long ago). That looks like the Muirhead Tower in the background. I mention that only because the passage underneath that building was a well known wind tunnel, presumably due to p
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by martinpw 2y ago
> Things are merged quickly, with very little review Sounds like the real problem is lax pre-existing dev practices rather than just LLM usage. If code is getting merged with little review, that is a big red flag right away. But the &#x2
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by martinpw 2y ago
A petition to sign, for those in the US: https://chng.it/kZbGRfkzMY

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