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> Using raw uncompressed bitrate is a bit disingenuous It is not disingenuous given the context. Gp was responding to ggp's hypothetical: >> Is there a compelling reason encoding needs to be done locally?
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> You will need to buy, at least, a bunch of decent 120mm fans to prevent this or invest in some water cooling There's a cottage industry of 3D-printed fan-shrouds for data center GPUs - 120mm are often the sweet spot for quietness
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Turning it off would have solved the bureaucratic problem for flight crew. Sadly, the passengers (collectively) failed to accomplish this basic task.
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No, I did not say any of that.
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> There aren't that many moments in building with LLMs where things line up so the AI can just absolutely nail some code and save me a ton of time. Your workflow is similar to mine, and not "agentic". The proponents of Age
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> ...if it had been thoroughly tested was shown to have certain regressions but no worse security regressions? You'd have to test to know this, and there is no evidence that tridge did this regression testing - or ask Claude to find
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> Even 5+ year old rigs can run most modern games just fine AI-hardware demand is responsible for slowing down the AAA graphics frame-rate treadmill. Back when Nvidia and AMD were releasing improved mid-range consumer GPUs at a steady cl
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> How do you reconcile the apparent hypocrisy of your wealthiness? Does this specific category error have a name? I see it so frequently, it's ridiculous. Being genre-savvy/aware of the meta-game doesn't mean one can opt
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"Intuit IRS" has a ring to it. In the same umbrella org as Turbo Tax, for the obvious revenue-growth synergy, and long-term strategic alignment that unlocks tax-payer value.
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> I'd argue back that LLMs likely have a better understanding of a11y conventions than I do as well. Only because you've not invested time[1] to learn a11y, but that is par for the course: LLMs are pretty good at impressing peo
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> this seems kinda obvious that if they dont have a contract to do consignment, they don't have a contract to the lego at all, and cannot sell the lego The ancient adage unfortunately applies here still: Possession is 9/10ths
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> Cause it's developed You can napkin-math this. How many different team-sized components do you think go into it? If the code were on GitHub, and all they had to do was just update dependencies below them in the stack, and bump the
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> What on earth do you do with that many devs on a project like Messenger? I mean, really? Multiply those floors by number of Facebook campuses and generous remuneration, and Messenger was probably very profitable. Being a global 800-pou
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Was that when a SpaceX engineer demanded immediate "roof" access to ULA's pad because they suspected someone at ULA had used a sniper rifle to shoot at the Falcon? Crazy times. Edit: yes it was https://arstechnica.
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> Automatic traffic enforcement doesn't allow any discretion Only if you place cameras uniformly. What you need to do to not rock the boat is exclusively place the cameras in "high crime areas", and you get a twofer: rich
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They are walking back old PR with updated PR
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Themselves? No.
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> Who else is going to make new songs for her? I doubt she has exhausted all the (old) music made in the 80s and 90s. It's not a problem with supply, but discovery. Ironically, Suno probably had to overcome that challenge while ga
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> "just don't get sick". But people will get sick. You can't just "not have a fever at all". PPE, quarantining and other containment measures exist to broadly prevent sickness, but I imagine not in a univers
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How many problems require Opus-4.6-level performance? The "I'll accept nothing but the very best model for any task" thinking is perplexing to me. People got a lot done before Opus 4.6. In 6 months, would you be dissatisfie
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> This is the system working. Something one could say about a high fever being a sign of the immune system working. There are obvious temporary and permanent risks to how the system works, and there are limits beyond which everything sim
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Why can't corporations be toen councilors or mayors in those same towns? A privilege availed to other voters there. I'm being sarcastic because I don't like it. Corporations are a simulacrum of people, and at best, their pers
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Are you suggesting sysadmin access isn't sufficient to access data?
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> I’m not sure why a Y-Combinator backed company hasn’t come out yet flooding the market with highly capable OPAI If we momentarily disregard the fact that YC itself owns billions of dollars worth of OpenAI shares[1], YC would plan to fi
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> ...while being a reliable expert on something they have personally invested billions of dollars into and operate at scale. Like "Full Self-Driving" from coast-to-coast by 2016?
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> But there's not an everyday use case for firearms and explosives for the average person I see you don't have any hunting enthusiasts in your social circles. Fireworks are explosives. If your point was to suggest that regular
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> Yeah that's actually rather inefficient Unsurprising, for a Ferrari. I suspect it's designed for performance and not efficiency. Atrocious mileage is par for the course in this segment (see the Veyron)
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> So I guess I'm looking for some specific examples of where we've actually consciously, as a collective society, altered the course of technological progress for the greater good, because I honestly can't think of any. Fi
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But the executives need the fanciest models to evaluate how well they can replace the expensive labor costs.
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> When will Uber (or your favourite company) be 'done'? They've been writing software for 16 years I suppose it becomes easier once the browsers, Android and iOS have been frozen for a little longer than 16 years. Nevermin
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