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by michaelt 2y ago
> An 8TB 3.5-inch HDD from Synology's Plus line, the HAT3310, costs $210 on Synology's web store. One of the original drives the HAT3310 is reportedly sourced from, the Toshiba N300, can be found for $173 at more than one vend
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by michaelt 2y ago
Unfortunately, no amount of blockchains and zero-knowledge proofs can compensate for the fact that 15 year old has a 18 year old friend. Or the fact that other 15 year old looks older than some 20 year olds. Or the fact that other 15 year o
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by michaelt 2y ago
I've seen tools for Generative AI art which do something a lot like that [1] Generate an image of subject A, apply a depth estimation ML model to figure out which pixels belong to the foreground and cut them out. Then generate an image
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by michaelt 2y ago
If you get the Llama weights from Meta directly, you need to make an account [1] and hand over your "full legal name, date of birth, and full organization name" (and presumably click 'agree' on a click-through agreement)
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by michaelt 2y ago
> Once we cross the threshold of "I absolutely have to automate everything or it's not viable to use TLS anymore", why do we care about providing anything beyond ~48 hours? Well you see, they also want to be able to br
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by michaelt 2y ago
> Where did they think the cuts were coming from? When someone hands you a pencil, you don't wonder what variety of tree the wood came from, or what paint chemistry was used for the coating. It's a pencil. You might have broa
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by michaelt 2y ago
I wasn't there, but I've always imagined the conversation went something like this: Intel: Welcome, Altera. We'd like you to integrate your FPGA fabric onto our CPUs. Altera: Sure thing, boss! Loads of our FPGAs get plugged i
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by michaelt 2y ago
Sure, if they wanted to intel could have done what nvidia did with CUDA: Put the tech into everything, even their lowest end consumer devices, and sink hundreds of millions into tooling and developer education given away free of charge. A
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by michaelt 2y ago
The government just kinda forgot that competition law existed for a few decades. They were busy doing things like bringing freedom and democracy to Afghanistan, having a financial crisis, stuff like that. Very important stuff. Social media?
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by michaelt 2y ago
If there are 7 different grocery stores in driving distance of my house and two of them merge, I've still got a choice of 6 stores so there's still reasonable competition. If there are 3 different grocery stores and two of them me
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by michaelt 2y ago
> Steel failed the most, especially after many years (+30) of service. Congratulations on reaching your 90th birthday!
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by michaelt 2y ago
While I've never seen a project killed by dependencies, I've certainly seen projects stuck on treadmill of constant dependency updates. You know, they import 5 libraries, each of which imports 5 more libraries, each of which imp
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by michaelt 2y ago
Broadcast TV modernisation is trapped between a load of enemies. To the north, competition from a huge installed base of last-gen technology, which is mostly good enough. To the south, streaming services, youtube and cable. These let people
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by michaelt 2y ago
Interestingly, cellular base stations are one of the major customers for high precision timing systems. They use precise timing to coordinate timed broadcast slots between base stations with overlapping coverage.
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by michaelt 2y ago
So you set your clock up by telling it its own location, so it can offset for the signal's flight time?
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by michaelt 2y ago
> Are you implying that Google will sell a product that is designed to ‘sabotage’ their own customer’s business? The US government is constantly telling us that the likes of Huawei and Hikvision are doing precisely that, despite being
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by michaelt 2y ago
Kodak was well placed to profit from the rise of digital imaging - in the late 1970s and early 1980s Kodak labs pioneered colour image sensors, and was producing some of the highest resolution CCDs out there. Bryce Bayer worked for Kodak wh
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by michaelt 2y ago
> The idea that […] you shouldn't want to use the latest version of software is clearly ludicrous. To get to that world, we developers would have to give up making breaking changes. We can’t have any “your python 2 code doesn’t wo
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by michaelt 2y ago
Why should it be? Does the profiler not output a hprof file or whatever, which is the input to the compiler making the release binary? Why not just store that?
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by michaelt 2y ago
Practically speaking, I agree. But theoretically speaking , the time when a strong manufacturing industry is needed is if you get into a lengthy WW2 style conflict, where both sides burn through their stockpiles of tanks/shells/m
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by michaelt 2y ago
> The US manufactures more today than we ever have in history and it grows every year. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHMFG
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by michaelt 2y ago
So tech got rid of the suits, but kept the desire to judge people at interviews based on their clothes? Great. Fantastic job everyone /S
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by michaelt 2y ago
1. Code the fix while you're sitting on some pointless video call. 2. Merge the resulting fix in as part of another MR 3. In the unlikely event anyone questions you, say that you needed to make changes in that area anyway, and it'
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by michaelt 2y ago
As I understand things, in Japanese the terms "onii-san", "ojisan" and "ojii-san" literally translate as "older brother", "uncle" and "grandpa" respectively - and are widely used f
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by michaelt 2y ago
The US consumes 376 million gallons of gas per day. Which is equivalent to a continuous power draw of 500 gigawatts. Megawatt chargers? We'll need the generation capacity to support 500,000 of them.
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by michaelt 2y ago
Engineering might be a commodity if you're "building garden-variety CRUD apps" But a lot of companies aren't - or at least, they don't think they are.
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by michaelt 2y ago
By traditional measures like profit-to-equity ratio, Tesla is overpriced coated to the likes of Toyota, Ford and BMW. And not just a little bit - it’s way overpriced. There are a bunch of possible explanations for this. One is that invest
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by michaelt 2y ago
No need to unpack for inference. As things like CUDA kernels are fully programmable, you can code them to work with 4 bit integers, no problems at all.
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by michaelt 2y ago
I once read an interesting article that said in multipolar political systems, coalitions between opinion groups happen after the election; whereas in two-party systems, the coalition forms before the election. So you get people who think ta
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by michaelt 2y ago
For better or for worse, we've just lived through several decades of rock bottom interest rates. Sure, you ask someone who's 60 or 70 years old, they'll tell you debt is slavery, you'll end up paying back twice what you

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