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by mmastrac 2y ago
I think the successor to the RP2040 needs to features to absolutely clobber the market: 1. A true, ulta-super-duper-low-power mode, and 2. Proper external memory support.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
TL;DR, and this took a while to parse out, but the post suggests a highly unlikely event that the vote was accurate. > The numerical anomaly is that if one multiplies the total number of voters {10,058,774} by the round percentages {51.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I found it a bit challenging to actually drill down into my own username, but it doesn't seem to offer much other than throwing a lot of dots all over the map. I'm trying to understand what the overall clusters might be, but most
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I'm going to guess it's Compute Canada, which I don't think we non-academics have access to.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> visiting in October is highly discouraged Why?
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by mmastrac 2y ago
$70 is not a lot given the value of the output. I understand where you're coming from, though, but it's important to compare against the value the human labour this is replacing.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
In the absence of an AST based tool, that's probably an absolute minimum of 20-40 hours of dev time (likely more) at $100-200 hourly, no?
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Interesting supposition from the article -- assuming you don't hear anything official from Microsoft over the next week, this likely makes sense. "The bans might be tied to requests from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, l
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The article is describing, in a less clear way than they could, a clear separation of concerns in code. This is a good practice, especially for complex code. There is a tradeoff though: adding too many layers of indirection makes changes ju
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Bash's $PS0 (2016)(stromberg.dnsalias.org)
4 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I really struggle to understand most of the diagrams on this page without context. I suspect it's a lot more useful if you spend time swapping in the overall context of a diagram, after which you can visually pattern match. Without con
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> MobileLLM-125M/350M attains a remarkable 2.7%/4.3% accuracy boost over preceding 125M/350M SoTA models on zero-shot commonsense reasoning tasks Small models, slightly improved, probably still not good enough for the same
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Google has begun broadly enabling case randomization in domain queries (2023)(theregister.com)
2 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> And here I am, avoiding downloading things on cell service because it might negatively impact other people around me. This is a noble activity and I salute you for it, but I'm pretty sure that towers have traffic shaping that mana
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by mmastrac 2y ago
RSA can technically sign any arbitrary data like this -- it's fine, but you run the risk that any arbitrary set of bytes might accidentally look valid. Unpadded encryption/signing is the worst. PKCS padding is better because you a
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This works pretty well in Factorio and Satisfactory. Low speed automated transport is pretty good for throughput, just not lag.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I tried fighting a bogus CVE earlier on one of my libraries and it's impossible. GitHub doesn't care, there's no higher power to report them to.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Tiktok journalism. :/ "Ri says that she works as a sports gambler and frequently trades in high dollar amounts" Red flags. "Another claimed that her bank began questioning her about where she gets her money after making
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Honest question: why is there so much PC hardware in the mix here? Why don't we have PCI + infiniband backends with GPUs and a little tiny orchestrating ARM controller and just let them all coordinate with each other? Is it just "
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This title was a challenge to fit the limits. Original title: "New axobject-query Maintainer Faces Backlash Over Controversial Decision to Support Legacy Node.js Versions".
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New Axobject-Query Maintainer Faces Backlash over PR to Support Node.js 0.4(socket.dev)
4 points by mmastrac 2y ago|1 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Signaling of coding unit prediction and prediction unit partition mode for video coding https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.0/publicatio... Is this story old? There's a press release from 202
653.
by mmastrac 2y ago
I've been maintaining a "port" of an older enterprise KVM tool that was written for something along the lines of Java 6-8 and required a very minimal rewrite patch to keep working. The most annoying parts of older Java binari
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The dedication to the Unicode textual representation of your ASCII demise is much appreciated.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
https://crates.io/crates/ctor Patches welcome! Email in profile as well.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
A well-defined, unambiguous formatting standard for a text file is philosophically identically to a well-defined strict binary format. :)
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This isn't really convincing. The P, G, R and Y are significantly different and appear in both the Quake sample and the font sample. S is significantly flatter. The cherry-picked examples are the most basic letters and likely to have p
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by mmastrac 2y ago
As someone with a crate that's in the 50MM plus range, this happens all the time. I really should automate this via a GH action.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I'm a little biased because I grew up with it, but I think the best LOGO implementation was for the COLECO ADAM, with its amazing manual: https://archive.org/details/coleco-adam-smart-logo-manual
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Looks like they are just cleaning house of lesser-used models? This came via mail last week. Back in June 2023 and November 2023, we announced the following models will be deprecated on June 13th, 2024: gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 gpt-3.5

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