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by paol 6y ago
For your use case the best option is to run video off the intel integrated graphics and leave the DGPU entirely for compute. That's how I have this very laptop configured, and also how I configured the workstations for the people here
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by paol 6y ago
EFI really was a step in completely the wrong direction. Massive complexity & feature set for no good reason. Legacy BIOS had to go, it was designed at the time of 8086 and DOS and was really out of step with modern HW and OS needs. The
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by paol 6y ago
Excited to find out about the project. I regularly use MusicBrainz but didn't know about the sister projects. I'll definitely be creating a ListenBrainz account. As a long time last.fm user I occasionally worry about the future of
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by paol 6y ago
There's no question about the value of the content youtube has accumulated. It's their stewardship of it that worries me.
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by paol 6y ago
Yes, that change in the right bar recommendations was very noticeable (though it happened quite some time ago). Like you I find the new system much less useful. This has all the hallmarks of one of those changes driven by single-minded metr
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by paol 6y ago
The reduction from 16x to 8x PCIe lanes is usually not a bottleneck for ML. Still, it's always a good idea to benchmark and validate the configuration, especially if you're planning to spend a lot of money on a bunch of identical
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by paol 6y ago
True, but Threadrippers start at 24 cores and go up from there. That's got to be some intense pre-processing. Not impossible I'm sure, but it would be unusual.
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by paol 6y ago
From https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/products/titan... : "NVIDIA TITAN RTX NVLink Bridge The TITAN RTX NVLink™ bridge connects two TITAN RTX cards together over a 100 GB/s interface. Th
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by paol 6y ago
> provide the same amount of memory Are you sure? The last time I checked the situation with NVLink memory pooling with 2080ti cards was very unclear.
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by paol 6y ago
It's worth noting that if your ML work is entirely CUDA based (as often happens), you likely won't benefit from a Threadripper CPU. Downgrading to a Ryzen 9 or even 7 will reduce costs by a good bit. The savings can be pocketed or
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Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users(theregister.com)
349 points by paol 6y ago|156 comments
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by paol 6y ago
I've advocated for this for years to anyone who will listen, but it's like preaching in the desert. It doesn't help that many people are on laptops, and the war on ports (in general, and ethernet ports in particular) has made
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by paol 6y ago
"Remove sticky" is a must have on the modern web. Probably my most used bookmarklet. A couple of others I use frequently: Go to referrer. This fixes an infuriating missing feature in browsers, where links opened in new tabs lose t
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Black Death, Covid, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age(exurbe.com)
2 points by paol 6y ago|0 comments
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by paol 7y ago
> Does the revelation that they use SMR somehow change their reliability or performance ? Yes, as plainly stated in the article > much all NAS drives purchased in the past decade These are new models that have been introduced in the p
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by paol 7y ago
AviDemux [0] works reasonably well for this. As usual it fails to calculate exact frame timings, which means the cuts may not end up exactly where the GUI is telling you (even if you take care to define the cut start at a keyframe). [0] ht
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by paol 7y ago
Some opinions on stock buybacks worth reading: https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/opinion/ban-stock-buyback...
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by paol 7y ago
Zeplin is just a link too. That's what we've been using quite successfully for GUI apps development: designers work in sketch, everyone else consumes the result through Zeplin.
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by paol 7y ago
TL;DR Don't use Markdown, use RST (reStrucruredText) My take: meh. RST is very comparable to Markdown, and the article makes almost no mention of why it is better. There is a downside, that it has a learning curve because most people a
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by paol 7y ago
> much higher than China let on There's absolutely no indication of this. Please don't spread harmful misinformation.
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by paol 7y ago
We recently chose 1Password for this purpose. We also evaluated Dashlane but gave it up pretty quickly because of bad UI (not that 1Password is stellar) and some basic requirement that was not met - I forget what. Security wise, we looked a
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by paol 7y ago
I believe X Windows owes much of its incredible longevity to the "provide mechanism not policy" mantra that its designers took very seriously. Having the toolkit in the server would necessarily force it to define and enforce lots
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by paol 7y ago
I get your desire to be conservative here, but this is not good practice with modern CPUs. For example AMD desktop CPUs are designed with DDR4 speeds well north of 3000MHz in mind[1]. Problem is that JDEC profiles simply don't go that
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by paol 7y ago
A built-in jobs system is definitely one of the things I missed in Postgres, coming from MS SQL Server.
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by paol 7y ago
I found the counterweights baffling. Why would they make them protrude like that, creating a hazard when they move.
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by paol 7y ago
If you just want the result of the scan (not clear if the hobby project is the scanning itself or something else) you should be able to contract it as a service, or just rent the scanner. This is common for architectural scan work.
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by paol 7y ago
FYI, the term "binding" is slightly misleading here. This is not bindings for the FFMPEG libraries, it's just an API frontend to invoke the `ffmpeg` command. For actual python bindings check out PyAV [0] [0] https:/&#x2
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by paol 7y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted, that's a pretty accurate description of christianity in most of Europe. I grew up in a family that self identified as catholic, I was baptized, and yet we never went to church and frankl
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by paol 7y ago
When dealing with purely python packages: always always work in python virtual envs. Conduct these kinds of experiments in separate venvs. If worse comes to worse, a reset consists simply in deleting the venv directory and installing from
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by paol 7y ago
First, the OS can't hide that because it's not a middleman in the execution of program code. When a program is running on a CPU it has access to the instructions that tell it what CPU it is. Second, there are already many ways for

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