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by numpad0 5d ago
Night vision goggles. The photodiode + CsO + lead coated charged glass capillary amp thing is apparently still superior to solid state image sensors with amplifiers in metrics like SNR, minimum luminosity, and longer wave IR response. The p
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by numpad0 5d ago
CRTs emit gamma ray at high power(>5kV is usually the quoted figure), and the standard solution was a bandaid fix of attaching leaded gamma ray blocking glass onto the screen. This high lead glass cannot be recycled, and the EU(rightfull
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by numpad0 5d ago
200k in JPY is like minivan and entry level hybrid prices. Something must be broken about the Western economy.
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by numpad0 5d ago
Base Corolla is starting at JPY2,380,400, or USD15,166.61 in Japan, btw. So it is a $15k car. Isn't it just USD/EUR underselling itself? Basically it's full $10k cheaper if you agree to not take it out of Japan. Take home is
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by numpad0 6d ago
CSAM and piracy aren't the worst of examples on a site like 4chan. People... like clinically insane people just keeps scriptbombing someone's private addresses and bomb threats and other schizophrenic copypastas(not regular ones l
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by numpad0 6d ago
Early digital cameras had larger pixel sizes and different spectral characteristics. They often have deeper blues and such. They have some own charms. Modern CMOS images tends to be less saturated. It's definitely not as big as Instax,
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by numpad0 6d ago
> The quality is, if removed from the context, fairly good. IMO that doesn't fully explain AI hate, triggered by simple exposure to AI generated images, unless you'd include all standard educational programs until introduction
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by numpad0 6d ago
I think it's more likely that the model gets pulled from a SAN into NVIDIA pods, and agents/harnesses would run on a separate random Xeon box or something on the same subnet, using the pod through OAI v1 API. That's easier to
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by numpad0 7d ago
In quite many more countries than just USA. A lot of people would still buy phones through carriers even where they come unlocked.
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by numpad0 7d ago
low volume products are expensive
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by numpad0 8d ago
TLDW but TVC for rocket engines is usually achieved by like one hydraulic suspension rod each for X and Y axes(Y and Z in rocketry? idk) serving as parts of the engine mounting frame. It shouldn't add a lot to the system.
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by numpad0 8d ago
SLS printers lay a layer height worth of powdered metal and fuse it with a laser engraver. Thee bed lowers one layer and the process is repeated. They don't bring materials used like inconel to full melting temperature, only do what it
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by numpad0 8d ago
On many filesystems, a lot of data about a file is not attached to the content of the file, but stored in a master filename and metadata table graph tree of some sort, and the address offset within that metadata used to retrieve the content
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by numpad0 8d ago
It's operators that have grips on manufacturers. Phone OEMs don't make any without the sales networks and financing structures of cellular carriers. This is to extent that some carriers still insist that they design phones and pho
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by numpad0 8d ago
[delayed]
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by numpad0 8d ago
no the material inflates proportionate to absolute temperature, causing motion, iiuc things lietrally change its volume maintaining mass when its temperature changes, due to atoms moving more energetically, like something be 4x4x4 inches at
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by numpad0 8d ago
People say as much for AI generated images? They're alien intelligence with still some IQ challenges. Their behaviors therefore cause uncanny valley response. Nothing strange about that. ... one thing I'm noticing about negative r
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by numpad0 8d ago
> CapeTheory on Dec 14, 2024 > Fujitsu seems to be weirdly stubborn about global commercialisation of their CPUs. I know of at least a couple of HPC customers who wanted to build systems based on A64FX and the answer was basi
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by numpad0 8d ago
Places like Singapore and central Tokyo are already like giant apartment buildings. Private ownership of objects far exceeding the size of a human is a bit silly concept there.
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by numpad0 8d ago
x86 servers are like that. PC/AT memory map have the range for VRAM, but RS232C is optional, so you can't just have the RS232C and not VGA on an x86 as its debug/recovery interface. Platform designers can make up their own me
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by numpad0 9d ago
Previous generation of this was a monstrosity based on a custom SPARC with ARM front end grafted on top, supporting the version of SPARC extensions they created backported to ARM as a new extension. So there's a good chance that it&#x2
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by numpad0 9d ago
Japanese software don't get much recognition. Nintendo Switch(1 and 2) isn't running Linux, and it supports NVIDIA graphics stack. That shouldn't be possible unless Nintendo is actually capable of building a graphical operat
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by numpad0 9d ago
Someone high up at Fujitsu is obsessed with making excessively miniaturized laptops. I once had an online fight on whether it's safe to run laptops closed, and realized that only Fujitsu manuals explicitly states that the machine uses
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by numpad0 9d ago
Even x86! Bandai WonderSwan ran on an NEC-made 80186 compatible CPU.
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by numpad0 9d ago
Likely none? I believe they just don't give graphics out to non-x86 servers. If you mean GPU as in SIMD processor, I believe this is supposed to have it in forms of massive SIMD capabilities on CPU itself.
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by numpad0 9d ago
Fujitsu was a telco equipment spinoff from Fuji Electric, so Fujitsu do/did make a lot of things that would be in a phone exchange building over its history, from air conditioners to terminals to actual mainframes. Just not as everythi
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by numpad0 9d ago
The likely just didn't want another round of tantrums and troubles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_U.S.%E2%80%93Japan_Semico...
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by numpad0 9d ago
It means it's not beating B300 in FP4 TOPS.
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by numpad0 10d ago
I don't think this is a flipside, unless you're thinking from the PoV of data itself rather than its owners.
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by numpad0 10d ago
I think "residential proxy" in this context is "AI scraping bot/pay Netflix at Indian price VPN exit node", not just an IP with NAT on outside. If there were people under the same CGNAT with someone running one of t

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