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by mrandish 9mo ago
It's worth deep diving into how analog composite broadcast television works, because you quickly realize just how insanely ambitious it was for 1930s engineers to have not only conceived, but perfected and shipped at consumer scale u
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> I'd say that they were a snake oil salesman. I don't know if "snake oil" is quite demonstrable yet, but you're not wrong to question this. There are phrases in the article which are so grandiose, they're o
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> The recent film feels like any other generic sci-fi movie. While that's true to some extent, as I noted in my sibling comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775053 ), it's partly because 2049 lives in
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Blade Runner's future still feels futuristic even today - while many sci-fi films of that era don't. I think it's largely due to the brilliant production design and cinematography. Just about every creative department over-ac
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> If it wasn't eminently obvious, most of these "secrecy" programs are marketing fluff. Yep, and equally obvious is that keeping some piece of paper in a bank vault for PR doesn't change the fact the "secret&quot
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I'm not a fan of Apple's walled garden mindset and resistance to inter-operating with other platforms, but this degree of legacy support is a case of Apple doing a good thing and deserves praise. Note: I'm not saying that Go
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Early television was a hotbed of hacker/hobbyist DIY experimentation much like early radio and early personal computers. The first issue of "Television Magazine" from 1928 ( https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=3709
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> the token counts to achieve these results I've also been increasingly curious about better metrics to objectively assess relative model progress. In addition to the decreasing ability of standardized benchmarks to identify meaning
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> The model learns to associate a specific 'trigger' (e.g. a rare phrase, specific string of characters, or even a subtle semantic instruction) with a malicious response. When the trigger is encountered during inference, the mo
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I envy you. Must be nice to open up a wall jack and be pleasantly surprised instead of bitterly disappointed :-). I recently built a vacation property and could choose what to install. Initially, I was thinking CAT6A but after getting some
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> Plus I had more fun doing it. Of course, that's what really matters most. I do appreciate that the infinite possibilities, permutations and even extreme convenience all-in-one digital integration provides can become a downside. It
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Some of the OP's RJ11 runs apparently only have two wires connected, which may be a UK thing (or just a 'bad contractor thing'). Hence resorting to a solution that that can put broadband on two or four unshielded phone wires
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by mrandish 9mo ago
+1 on MOCA 2 being excellent to solve gaps in wiring. We bought a 6000 sqft 2001 house built with in-wall RJ11, lots of coax runs and some Cat5e runs (but not enough). Due to the size the house, the electrical, HVAC and cabling is roughly d
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> some cat5 cables will take gigabit speeds Especially if the run is relatively short (<=100ft) and it doesn't run parallel to noisy power cables.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> Korg satisfies both ends of this spectrum in its different products. I thought you were going to say the Korg Legacy Collection was the "other end". https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/kor
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by mrandish 9mo ago
You nailed it. Cool idea. Nice design. Great demo. Fun toy. I'm sure I'd have a good time playing with it for an afternoon and come up with some sounds I like. And, in principle, I'm all for more ways to create music existing
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> I have one of these again, with the stuff I had as a kid, and more (like the voice synth) and it's so limited even for the era, but still iconic. Growing up I had a retired uncle who'd collected and restored a few classic car
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by mrandish 9mo ago
There was also a beige version released later ( http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/computers/ti99beige.html ). I have both variants in my collection and they're both attractive machines, especially by the standards o
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> Far more terrifying is Big Tech having access to a closed version of the same model Agreed. The only thing worse than everyone having access to this tech is only governments, mega corps and highly-motivated bad actors having access.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> If any AI model were reliable at checking the generated pixels, I could have automated this process, but they simply aren't there yet, so I had to do a lot more manual work than I'd anticipated. Since the output is so cool an
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by mrandish 9mo ago
This is really wonderful. Thanks for doing it! I especially appreciated the deep dive on the workflow and challenges. It's the best generally accessible explication I've yet seen of the pros and cons of vibe coding an ambitious pe
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by mrandish 9mo ago
To me the annoying part isn't that they don't accept Apple Pay (or any phone-app pay except their own). I don't have any Apple devices and I don't use Google Pay (or anyone else's phone-app pay). While TFA is correc
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I've found ideal monitor size and resolution depends greatly on viewing distance and relative position. I use a 38" ultra-wide and it's almost too wide - but I have it 'floating' on an adjustable monitor arm so i
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by mrandish 10mo ago
> and are super verbose... Since I don't code for money any more, my main daily LLM use is for some web searches, especially those where multiple semantic meanings would be difficult specify with a traditional search or even compoun
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by mrandish 10mo ago
> then again by the airplane seat itself when the person in front of me reclines their seat. This reminds me of the time I had my laptop open on the tilt-down tray and the very large man in the seat in front just repositioned his girth (
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by mrandish 10mo ago
Yep, I have two and am always moving them around between various rooms at home where I only occasionally need a keyboard/mouse. Home theater: setting up a new media streaming stick, Arcade room: tweaking the settings on the PCs in my a
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by mrandish 10mo ago
> If this works better for you than a Logitech or Kensington trackball A few years back, I bought and tried various Logitech/Kensington-type trackballs between two halves of my split keyboard and none of them worked well enough due
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by mrandish 10mo ago
For trackpoint fans Lenovo makes a classic Thinkpad keyboard as a standalone rechargeable wireless keyboard. It works with Bluetooth, it's own USB wireless dongle or even wired USB. Has a switch for Windows or Android/Linux key ma
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by mrandish 10mo ago
Seems savvy of Dell. With empty AI hype now the default, saying the quiet part out loud is a way to stand out. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean Dell will stop taking MSFT's marketing money to pre-sell the Right-Ctrl key on my keyboa
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by mrandish 10mo ago
That link was somewhat clearer, thanks. As a software guy who follows chip evolution more at a macro level like: new design + process node enabling better cores/tiles/units/clocks + new architecture enabling better caches, bu

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