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by michaelt 1y ago
If you're blasting enough air around to cool a 600W GPU, you don't care if your GPU's power connector dissipates 10W under certain circumstances - the massive airflow will take care of it. Take that airflow away and you have
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by michaelt 1y ago
> If this is a reasonable direction, it could still be achieved on the same device. There would be sufficient security architecture available to completely isolate those two areas. The problem here is: Who controls the means of input a
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by michaelt 1y ago
The secret, I'm told, is to make friends with the CCTV/access control team. They always know the paperwork and contractors needed to get a guy on a cherrypicker drilling holes and installing data cables without upsetting the build
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by michaelt 1y ago
> What do you need this accurate time for? Some major uses of high-precision timing, albeit not with NTP, include: * Synchronising cell phone towers, the system partly relies on precise timing to avoid them interfering with one another
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by michaelt 1y ago
The blog's next post is about PTP, if that's what you're interested in. The Linux PTP stack is great for the price, but as an open source project it's hamstrung by the fact the PTP standard (IEEE1588) is paywalled; and t
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by michaelt 1y ago
Interestingly, entire supercomputers have been decommissioned [1] due to faulty quick disconnects causing water spray. So you can get a single, blind-mating connector combining power, data and water - but you might not want to :) [1] htt
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by michaelt 1y ago
> TPU chips are hooked up in series in the loop, which naturally means some chips will get hotter liquid that has already passed other chips in the loop. Cooling capacity is budgeted based on the requirements of the last chip in each lo
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by michaelt 1y ago
Any sort of continuous video processing, especially low-latency. Imagine you were tracking items on video at a self-service checkout. Sure, you could compress the video down to 15 Mbps or so and send it to the cloud. But now, a store with
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by michaelt 1y ago
> A political establishment that builds a "total surveillance police state" is not going to allow itself to be displaced by "elections". Kier Starmer may be a wildly unpopular leader, even within his own party, and
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by michaelt 1y ago
Many countries have rural water users subsidised by urban water users, because rural users need 100 times as much pipe buried and maintained per customer, but everyone pays the same rate for water. Of course, in my country we tolerate that
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by michaelt 1y ago
> From what I can see on the CA/Browser Forum's website [...], there is enough diversity in the forum to represent the Web community as a whole. While I agree there are an astonishing number of CAs listed, it seems to me ther
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Long-term, it'll reduce their operating cost, It doesn't matter how far you reduce your operating cost, if your revenue falls to zero. > The revenue loss of small customers can be compensated by regulatory capture and p
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by michaelt 1y ago
I'm kinda worried, personally. The CA/Browser Forum gets to set requirements for anyone who wants to run a website. If they decide website operators should renew their certificates monthly, website operators don't much choice
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by michaelt 1y ago
To me, this seemed like turkeys voting for Christmas. Plenty of businesses with legacy systems will happily pay $300/year for a 1-year SSL certificate, because they haven't automated renewal, and don't need to over a mere $30
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by michaelt 1y ago
Here's how I imagine it went:- 1. See that AI upscaling works kinda well on certain illustrations. 2. Start a project to see if you can do the same with video. 3. Develop 15 different quality metrics, trying to capture what it means wh
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by michaelt 1y ago
Well partly, yes. But also, when I tell one of my reports to spec and order himself a PC, there should be several controls in place. Firstly, I should give clear enough instructions that they know whether they should be spending around $600
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by michaelt 1y ago
IMHO It still all hinges on users saying “I don’t trust this big American multinational, AWS, (who despite their policies and contracts could be subject to all manner of corrupt insiders and secret political pressures) - but I do trust this
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by michaelt 1y ago
Because to get votes from voters and views on their articles, they have to go to where people are, not where they wish people were.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Every rail car is a private rail car, if "shared with 20 to 70 people" is your definition of private :)
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by michaelt 1y ago
Surely all uses of water are part of the closed-loop water cycle? Other than launching it into space for astronauts to drink, and using it in permanent reactions like concrete hydration? Drinking water, spraying it on crops, using it to cle
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by michaelt 1y ago
This is just cope for people with a massive string of failed attempts and no successes. Daddy's giving you another $50,000 because he loves you, not because he expects your seventh business (blockchain for yoga studio class bookings) i
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by michaelt 1y ago
The original press release and report are at [1], couldn't find a link to them in the article. > In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity If the
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by michaelt 1y ago
Sadly, I doubt 3-day take-home assignments have much future as a means of assessment in the age of LLMs.
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by michaelt 1y ago
It depends on your precise requirements and assumptions. Does your definition of 'privacy-preserving' distrust Google, Apple, Xiaomi, HTC, Honor, Samsung and suchlike? Do you also distrust third-party clowns like experian and equi
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by michaelt 1y ago
When I order things from China to the UK, on AliExpress, they arrive 'delivered duty paid' - i.e. aliexpress collects certain taxes from me at checkout, then the item doesn't get held up at the border. So there does seem to b
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by michaelt 1y ago
:'(
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by michaelt 1y ago
The problem with proof-of-work is many legitimate users are on battery-powered, 5-year-old smartphones. While the scraping servers are huge, 96-core, quadruple-power-supply beasts.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Well yes, you've just hit on why this is a rather niche product. You get a handful of somewhat questionable benefits. If for some reason your guests are visiting your printer's administration page, they won't have to click th
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by michaelt 1y ago
I believe the intent here is: * If you want an SSL certificate for, say, your printer * And you don’t want to expose your printer’s port 80 to the public internet because you’re not stupid * And you don’t want to put your DNS credentials on
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by michaelt 1y ago
> many (most?) fountain pen inks are not waterproof. I assumed this was for child friendliness - you just know kids are going to get ink on their fingers etc while changing cartridges from time to time.

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