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by numpad0 10mo ago
I think the exact terms "Handheld PC" and "Pocket PC" were technically Microsoft trademarks and branding for non-x86 mini laptops(not all were ARM!) and tiny tablets(Wi-Fi happened later!) that ran CE/PPC/WM. S
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by numpad0 10mo ago
The UI wasn't doing multitasking correctly. The [X] button was [_] button for no good reason, and users tended to leave bunch of apps burning battery not knowing how to close them(e.g. through a third party quick task switcher-killer).
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by numpad0 10mo ago
Very randomly and personally I appear to have experimented with that few months ago, based on a Japanese advent calendar project[1] - the code is all over the place and only works with Japanese speeches, but the gist is as follows. Also in
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by numpad0 10mo ago
I have an unpopular pet theory: the exponentially growing software bloat actually exists to slow computers back down to bearable levels for common folks, and that's why the most bloated frameworks have consistently replaced obsolete,
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by numpad0 10mo ago
Any CRT given its driving circuits and deflection mechanisms can take it. But yeah, refresh rates of CRT aren't really tied to price.
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by numpad0 10mo ago
Thanks, I wonder if the phosphor stripes are giving people false impression that those would be pixels...
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by numpad0 10mo ago
There are no pixels in CRT. The guns go left to right, ¥r¥n, left to right, while True for line in range(line_number). The RGB stripes or dots are just stripes or dots, they're not tied to pixels. There would be RGB guns that are physi
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by numpad0 10mo ago
The tubes start generating X-rays above 5kV or whatever(some docs say 15kV), and you need leaded(literally Pb melted in) glass for the screen to block it, unless you could find a substitute material(Sn nanoparticles or something) or you&#x2
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by numpad0 10mo ago
Did they really do that, or did the tubes just ran at 2x vertically stretched 640x240 with vertical pixel shift? A lot of technical descriptions of CRTs seem to be adapted from pixel addressed LCDs/OLEDs, and they don't always see
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by numpad0 10mo ago
It did, then piracy happened, couple revolutions in Middle East followed, and the crackdown on English-speaking social media began.
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by numpad0 10mo ago
Even in tensor parallel modes? I thought it could only work if you're fine stalling all but n GPU for n users at any given moments.
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by numpad0 10mo ago
Not sure what was unexpected about the multi GPU part. It's very well known that most LLM frameworks including llama.cpp splits models by layers, which has sequential dependency, and so multi GPU setups are completely stalled unless th
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by numpad0 11mo ago
> Product teams eagerly adopted Google Sans and Google Sans Text but soon highlighted a new issue: Billions of people around the globe use non-Latin scripts like Arabic, Chinese, ... The effort was monumental. It meant meticulously
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by numpad0 11mo ago
Users aren't supposed to be (choosing && swapping) CPUs by themselves between these identical sockets(LGA2011 v0 through v3). These are supposed to be bought in trays and kitted in a shop. So reusing same parts for cost saving
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by numpad0 11mo ago
- sSpec S0ABC = "Blizzard Creek" Xeon type 8 version 5 grade 6 getConfig(HT=off, NX=off, ECC=on, VT-x=off, VT-d=on)=4X Stepping B0 - "Blizzard Creek" Xeon type 8 -> V3 of Socket FCBGA12345 -
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by numpad0 11mo ago
It means Intel M14 and M15 base designs. Except they don't use numbers.
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by numpad0 11mo ago
I'm a random person on the Internet with tinfoil hat on, but: Twitter and Mastodon "went down" this same path. Once bunch of Japanese users figure it out, it's over for a webservice. The system will be pinned at capacity
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by numpad0 11mo ago
A lot of them had 3D models and quit using it. So I doubt it had to do with the cost of making one. IMO the second one is much more likely.
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by numpad0 11mo ago
> you’re basically saying you want a company with no memory and no farm system – just an ever-shrinking ring of seniors arguing about strategy while no one actually grows into them. Isn't that also the explicit aim of AI replacement
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by numpad0 11mo ago
It's a bit perplexing, but 1st gen VTubers were all 3D. They evolved through natural selection into current 2D forms, only slowly growing back supplemental 3D forms. My guess as to why is that full 3D must have been extraneous cognitiv
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by numpad0 11mo ago
People that make 3D models and sell them on Etsy style websites for ~$50 each. Others then gather and buy them. It require basic skills in Unity to use them. tbhimo, this is beyond bad omen to VRC and VR at large from profitability angle. T
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VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined”(twitter.com)
77 points by numpad0 11mo ago|63 comments
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by numpad0 11mo ago
obligatory: https://xkcd.com/477/
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by numpad0 11mo ago
Could have been accidental flagging of sorts. Didn't work on PC for few minutes while showing fine on phone.
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by numpad0 11mo ago
> we're too lazy to take efforts to pronounce them correctly On that part: as anecdotal as it is, as a lifelong native Japanese speaker myself, I can't pronounce random 日本語 appearing in the middle of English sentence without
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by numpad0 11mo ago
MS-IME or Google Japanese Input. (whatever)-Mozc on Linux. Use "IME On" mode for Japanese, "IME Off" mode for alphanumeric text inbetween. "shio ha natoriumu[Space][Return][ImeOff](Na)[ImeOn] to enso[Space][Retu
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by numpad0 11mo ago
The real whole shtick is run economy in closed cycle to keep currency weak . Or the good old 1930s trade bloc economy. They're not just good at optimizing costs, they charge appropriately in CNY and inappropriately in USD. Workers don
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by numpad0 11mo ago
That's not a critical comment for the article, but a TLDR.
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by numpad0 11mo ago
Don't use evaporative humidifiers(the motorized wet towel). I don't know if it actually cause legionellosis, but it's not very sanitary, and the sanitizing additives for those are known to be actually harmful. Use boiling typ
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by numpad0 11mo ago
imo a massive problem with generative AI is in communication skills of its creators. Look at Google Gemini and how it's accepted. The only two differences between it and the rest is that it's made by Google, and they don't br

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