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by michaelt 1y ago
nvidia, who make AI chips with kinda good software support, and who have sales reflecting that, is worth 3.5T google, who make AI chips with barely-adequate software, is worth 2.0T AMD, who also make AI chips with barely-adequate software,
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by michaelt 1y ago
> The much more logical explanation is someone approached a low level employee at the MEAF who turned over a USB stick with the governments org charts and payroll records in exchange for their kids getting a full ride to a prestigious f
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by michaelt 1y ago
Firstly: By the time your organisation is big enough that nobody will bat an eyelid at buying a $4000 gadget, it’s big enough you’ve got several buildings with several floors. Probably some doors too. So you don’t need one robot, you need t
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by michaelt 1y ago
As I understand things, the legal theory is: Everything is copyright infringement. If I download an MP3 to my computer, the act of copying it to my hard disk is making a copy. The act of playing it copies it from my hard disk to RAM, then f
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by michaelt 1y ago
It might seem hypocritical, but you can take the tool and still support throwing the creator in jail. Rockets? Pretty cool. Wernher von Braun? Not cool.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I already do “light gaming” [...] Team Fortress 2 The system requirements for TF2 are 1GB RAM, a single-core 1.7GHz CPU and a graphics card with 64 MB of VRAM [1] - the game is 18 years old. If a review told me a laptop exceeded thos
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by michaelt 1y ago
Sometimes. I just fed the huggingface demo an image containing some rather improbable details [1] and it OCRed "Page 1000000000000" with one extra trailing zero. Honestly I was expecting the opposite - a repetition penalty to kick
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by michaelt 1y ago
Good news: Youtube Premium is trivial to cancel, comes with no multi-month obligations, and if you don't trust Google with your credit card you can pay for it with Google Play gift cards.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Have you looked at hotel minibar fridges? They're generally pretty quiet.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Starlink satellites orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, so I doubt receivers lose signal just from going at a few hundred miles per hour. Unless there's a software limit built in that turns them off, or the drone's doing some crazy hi
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by michaelt 1y ago
Yes, you may recall some controversy a few years back when Musk made some threats along those lines. There are alternatives if you only need short range, or if you can tolerate high latency. And of course there are fire-and-forget cruise mi
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by michaelt 1y ago
If you're a journalist taking photos of eccentric semi-fugitive John McAfee - you want the location metadata removed when posting online, in case you forgot to remove it yourself. If you're a proud generative AI user, and you don&
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by michaelt 1y ago
A 4k 30fps video sensor capturing 8 bits per pixel (bayer pattern) image, is capturing 2 gigabits per second. That same 4k 30fps video on Youtube will be 20 megabits per second or less. Luckily, it turns out relatively few people need to re
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by michaelt 1y ago
Given that the blogger is based in Kiev, Ukraine? Good chance this goes on some sort of long range, Predator-style drone.
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by michaelt 1y ago
I don't know if this is still true in the age of cellphones and uber, but when I was young, women were often advised not to take taxis alone, especially when drunk. There were a few high-profile rapes and murders. As an bald, middle-ag
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by michaelt 1y ago
It's not unusual to call a taxi for another person. Or to make a multi-stop journey where some people get out before others. You can even send a parcel across town in a taxi. Checking phone proximity might be helpful in some cases, but
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by michaelt 1y ago
That's why my website's dance captcha insists you do jazz hands and have a visible clock.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Do you list the year you graduated on your CV?
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by michaelt 1y ago
If you claim to be an aircraft engineer, professional pilot, or safety regulator - say so. Everyone in the formula 1 subreddit uses jargon, none of them are F1 drivers.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Surprisingly, not always. If I buy a device for $100 that, given free electricity, will mine $500 of cryptocurrency in its useful life - I can easily lose money if I run it less than 20% of the time. And I doubt electricity is negative pric
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Chatbot sites like character.ai and Chai AI have been linked to user suicides, for understandable reasons: if you allow users near-unlimited control over chatbots, over time you’ll eventually end up with some chatbots who get into an
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by michaelt 1y ago
> You need some technical specs on the website. How many DOF does it have? Does it have joint angle sensing? If so, what's the resolution? What's the interface to the servos? What's the payload capacity? Does it have inte
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by michaelt 1y ago
> What other sort of capital expenditure has you do releases every day, or requires 24/7 monitoring? Quite a lot of them actually. If I spend $$$$ setting up a car factory with a big production line, I'm going to have people
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by michaelt 1y ago
> The obvious remedy for this problem is just to store secret keys with the service provider itself. This is convenient, but completely misses the whole point of end-to-end encryption, which is that service providers should not have acc
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Do you get full speed if it's below freezing? If you've got a 1-megawatt power supply, there are things you can do about that.
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by michaelt 1y ago
To me, that seems awfully trusting of Cloudflare. Instead of sending all my DNS traffic to sketchy multinational corporation A, we'll send all my traffic to sketchy multinational corporation B? Doesn't seem like much of an increas
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by michaelt 1y ago
Except for the sci-fi city at the 40 second video mark, I'm pretty sure it's almost all real video, just brought from a big stock video provider. If you want video of a drone flying over a power plant or hot air balloons taking of
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by michaelt 1y ago
Both things can be true at the same time. Obviously, it's widely reported that the very richest of the rich pay very little tax. But according to table C-1 of [1] the richest 20% of US households have an average income of $418,100 and,
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Another point is that city driving seems to be a safer in general, there is much less chance if things go wrong when you are in a taxi driving 30-40mph, than cruising with Autopilot 60+mph and hitting a truck on a freeway. Freeways a
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by michaelt 1y ago
A twitch 720p stream is only 4 Mbps. 1080p? 6-8 Mbps So if you've got ~18 Gbps of upload bandwidth you're ready for 10,000-20,000 viewers.

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