mrandish

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by mrandish 11mo ago
> even if the depreciation rates are slightly wrong. The TFA cites a linked study which states "CoreWeave, for example, depreciates its GPUs over six years" which is way more than 'slightly wrong'. Just mapping th
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> or lost access to the email address they used when signing up. Since Gmail controls access to tens of millions of people's email, I'm seeing potential for some cross-team synergy here!
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by mrandish 11mo ago
The form will accept "Anonymous" for first, last. It would be nice if it actually said this...
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by mrandish 11mo ago
@Bombcar is correct. Once they've been legally notified of the potential issue, they have increased exposure to civil liability. Their lawyers and insurance company will strongly encourage them to just fix it (assuming it's not a
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by mrandish 11mo ago
I agree. For our teen it's a combo of taking the phone during homework & sleep time and limiting daily time in certain apps using parental controls. I would mod the YT app to remove 'autoplay next' and algo recommendation
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> CIA gets insurance for their agents? The term "agent" in TFA's headline is causing confusion. The actual source quote says "intelligence personnel". The CIA has many types of employees involved in foreign opera
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by mrandish 11mo ago
AmigaVision is very nice. One thing that's especially great for emulation users with modern hi-res flat screens is they've already done the work to set up proper integer scaling, cropping and scanline/shadow mask pixel shader
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by mrandish 11mo ago
On Firefox you can block short form content from YouTube as easily as adding one extension or a few uBlock Origin filter lines. With a bit more work it's possible to fix a lot of other stuff using various browser extensions and users
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by mrandish 11mo ago
The console business has matured in the last ten years. Due to platform lock-in and social spread (friends buy what other friends have), any significant lead now becomes iteratively compounding growth and the effect appears to be accelerati
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Oh yes. It's such an easily avoidable unforced error it's downright incomprehensible - especially after failing by naming their third generation "XBox One" (and the WiiU fiasco providing a cautionary tale). Even Wii wa
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by mrandish 11mo ago
The article mentions the significant impact of the failure of the XBox One but then goes on to lay the ultimate blame on smartphones in the last sentence (and headline). I don't agree. Playstation and Nintendo have both successfully na
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> because of geographic features like mountains/deep valleys I remember this being quite an issue trying to target geosync broadcast satellites like DirectTV/Dish. Even being in the shadow of a relatively small hill could block
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by mrandish 1y ago
Thanks for making this! Love the manuals too. It reminds me of the Radio Shack 150-in-one electronics kit I had as a kid.
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by mrandish 1y ago
You may not need to get a museum's cooperation. After a quick search it seems these come up for sale from time to time. I saw one on the Vintage Computer Federation forums offered in 2021 for $500. You may be able to find a collector o
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yeah, just reading that list of corporations and the long, twisted IP ownership trail, I'd estimate figuring out who has which rights would take at least a year and a couple hundred grand in legal costs to get each potential stakeholde
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by mrandish 1y ago
I agree with your points and would add one more: the TFA gives a second-hand recounting of what the various company's lawyers supposedly told the potential reboot licensor and quotes the erstwhile licensor's conclusion they were b
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by mrandish 1y ago
I agree with your point and have long disliked when Firefox squanders their limited resources on side quests - which is too often. But, to 'steelman' their motivation to 'do something' on AI, this analysis article sums u
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by mrandish 1y ago
Can you please file a bug on Mozilla's bug tracker? They are usually quite responsive on well-documented dev related bugs - especially ones around edge-cases related to fundamentals like resource allocation. You'd be doing a good
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by mrandish 1y ago
In terms of color spaces, SRGB (the typical baseline default RGB of desktop computing) is quite naive and inefficient. Pretty much its only upsides are its conceptual and mathematical simplicity. There are much more efficient color spaces w
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by mrandish 1y ago
A related bit of tech trivia is that digital audio also often involves dithering, and not just decimated or compressed audio. Even very high-quality studio mastered audio benefits from an audio specific kind of dithering called noise shapin
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yep, even high quality 24-bit uncompressed imagery often benefits from dithering, especially if it's synthetically generated and, even if it's natural imagery, if it's processed or manipulated - even mildly - it'll proba
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by mrandish 1y ago
> can't pick winners. Mayoshi Son isn't playing the VC game like most traditional VC funds. He's operating on a massive scale and his LPs are sovereign wealth funds, who can have other geo-political priorities than pure pr
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by mrandish 1y ago
+1 for that Acasis. I've had one for 18 months and use it for occasional >1TB backups and big transfers to/from a Dell XPS laptop running Winx64. I benchmarked it with DiskMark64 and speeds are as expected for 40Gbps-class xfer
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by mrandish 1y ago
When you owe the bank millions of dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.
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by mrandish 1y ago
I really hope the AI bubble bursts sooner rather than later. Sooner will impact the broad economy less severely (although it'll still be pretty bad) and curtail these supply chain shortages. If the bubble keeps inflating, the storage
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by mrandish 1y ago
Mayoshi has made a lot of bets since Alibaba. Almost all of them have tanked. Over this amount of time and bets, he should have more winners.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, this was my first thought too. I haven't used a hardware text terminal since the 80s so maybe I don't get where the TFA is coming from? It starts out by stating "This post is part 6 of a multi-part series called 't
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by mrandish 1y ago
> while a corporation is easy to fine, it's hard to put in prison... IANAL, but I believe in at least some scenarios, officer(s) of U.S. corporations can go to jail if they are responsible for the directing the corporation to commit
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, selling to the highest bidders is a form of curation.
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by mrandish 1y ago
At least until SCO files a DMCA takedown. /s

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