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by mrandish 6mo ago
Wait, really? Where can I invest?
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> Out of curiosity, what do you use the higher 20gbps transfer speeds for? Images, videos, movies, file transfer/backup. 50 megapixel RAW images from a DSLR that can capture up to 20 images a second get big. My daughter is a much be
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by mrandish 6mo ago
From the same time period there's also Atari Video Chess for the VCS (aka 2600). It had to fit in 4K of ROM and 128 bytes of RAM yet also had en passant, castling and prevented illegal moves. It plays well enough that it beat ChatGPT 4
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> suddenly model quality is back up again. I agree about the core motivation behind these deals, however I'm skeptical as to how "suddenly" we'll see substantial improvements. Despite their size, I'd be surprised
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Same.
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by mrandish 6mo ago
So, then some day in the distant future a 66 year-old guy standing outside a store will be asking a 67 year-old guy to buy him a pack of smokes.
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> when the model won't actually be able to provide one This is key. In my experience, asking an LLM why it did something is usually pointless. In a subsequent round, it generally can't meaningfully introspect on its prior inter
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by mrandish 6mo ago
There's just something uniquely special about hand-drawn pixel art at resolutions around 320 x 200 with 16 to 256 colors - especially when viewed on analog CRT screens with their scanlines and phosphor glow which blend colors and softe
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> Amiga 1000 was released in mid-1985, although I think few units were shipped before 1986. It was announced on July 26th, 1985 at Lincoln Center with Andy Warhol painting Blondie (Debby Harry) live on-stage (a demo which was re-created
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Yes, I too remember the memory savings being the key aspect of bitplane design choices in the early and mid 80s. The increased granularity in varying the trade-off between memory for graphics vs program code being the secondary aspect. The
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by mrandish 6mo ago
I met Jim at users groups and trade shows and had to the opportunity to hang out with him several times. Not only an incredible artist but extremely humble and just a very nice human.
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Related to cross-country horseback rides, much of the original 1860 Pony Express route is still ridden annually by historical reenactors. This year's ride will be June 15 to 25 from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, CA (~2,000 miles). It&#
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by mrandish 6mo ago
While I too am a huge fan of the legendary 68000, as well as the proud owner of many Amigas from 1985 onward, the marketing and media reports sometimes glossed over important technical details. The 68000 CPU, which all Amigas from 1985 to 1
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> the 32-bit marketing started with the A1200 That was because the A1200 was the first Amiga to have a 68020 as the native CPU on the motherboard. The 68020 had 32-bit data registers and 32-bit address registers. Earlier Amiga's wer
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Me too, but it was obviously wildly unsustainable. I was telling friends at xmas to enjoy all the subsidized and free compute funded by VC dollars while they can because it'll be gone soon. With the fully-loaded cost of even an entry-l
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> When was the last time they declined your subscription because they have no compute? Is that a serious question? There have been a bunch of obvious signs in recent weeks they are significantly compute constrained and current revenue is
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Yep, SmartTube is great.
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by mrandish 6mo ago
I use all kinds of web apps and forms and have no issues with undo or other features. And the changes Firefox made to prevent malicious JS changing browser history were done in 2016. I don't think it has anything to do with undo within
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> I exclusively view r/all... You and I are very different Reddit users. I don't think I've even seen r/all for at least a decade. I exclusively view Reddit via the old.reddit.com URL in desktop mode with the Reddit
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Browser.history.allowPushState was deprecated in Firefox V47 (2016) once they'd restricted the ability of sites to muck with history state via JS. This used to be a pretty big issue but as a daily Firefox user for 20 years, sites chang
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by mrandish 6mo ago
I recently vibe-coded a browser UserScript to ensure certain keys are always passed through to my browser (and any other scripts I'm running). There's also an 'aggressive mode' activated by an assignable hotkey for poorl
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by mrandish 6mo ago
From a modern context, I think it's hard to appreciate that in 1981 it wasn't clear that a computer BIOS would be copyrightable. Franklin even won the initial court case.
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> I bet the average price for a no bet across these markets is 73 cents. Behavioral economics has already answered the question of whether humans are, on average, perfectly rational economic actors. They are not. To the contrary, there i
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by mrandish 7mo ago
More specifically, fruit in the loop reinforcement learning.
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by mrandish 7mo ago
> 1,000 lines of code per commit is ~2 magnitudes higher than what a human programmer writes per day. Relevant historical context: https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html When Apple Lisa managers starte
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by mrandish 7mo ago
> “Gaming Copilot” is missing It would be ironic if there was nothing called "CoPilot" for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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by mrandish 7mo ago
Oh, refusing to boot at all is evil. I've never seen that. Sure, you or I would just unplug the charger and run on battery but bad UX decisions like that generate a support call to me from my 95 yr old mom. It should not only warn and
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by mrandish 7mo ago
So much this. I have a few different categories of "known good" USB-C cables because one type doesn't fit all my use cases. Sometimes the trait I need is >100w PD charging at 1M. Sometimes I need 80 Gbps dual 4k video at 3
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by mrandish 7mo ago
Apparently the USB driver stack doesn't report the cable's eMarker chip data back to the OS. However benchmarking actual transfer throughput is the ultimate test for data connections (vs charging use cases). Unfortunately, TFA doe
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by mrandish 7mo ago
> that's just when plugging in a USB 3 device into a USB 2 port Dell XPS laptops (and some others) can also warn if the charger isn't providing the full wattage the laptop is rated for. This warning is an option that can be tur

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