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by paulmd 3y ago
Costco’s website is bad, it often doesn’t show prices (at all) until you go to the product page and login . And half the time there’s still a resident IAM token, it doesn’t ask me for a password, just wants to loop through the auth flow to
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by paulmd 3y ago
Please for the love of god… put the M3 pro in the 15” MBA already… it’s so close to being the perfect lower-midrange laptop but the 1 external display (without closing the lid) is a dealbreaker for tons of people. The 15” chassis can handl
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by paulmd 3y ago
The contrast with the visceral reaction people have with the fruit company is telling. “oh what can you do” “all phones are surveillance devices and everyone knows that” good thing they let you have third-party app stores in the deal, other
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by paulmd 3y ago
you heard it here first, rolling out ai features is going to cause all the developers to finally go galt and deprive apple of their valuable skills at telling other people to make new alloys (I guess in software terms that’s calling other p
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by paulmd 3y ago
In the same vein as “is your product a business, or is it just a feature”, Postgres has really raised the bar to “is your product a database or an index in postgres”. There’s a few databases that make compelling cases for their existence, l
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by paulmd 3y ago
787 is known to have computer bugs that are tied to system uptime too. https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_... Like obviously that is not the failure mode in this scenario… but it
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by paulmd 3y ago
> Can you have a normal life without Xbox S or PS5? Yes => no need to regulate here > Can you have a normal life without iOS or Android? No => it's an essential utility => let's regulate this this is a silly false d
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by paulmd 3y ago
the USG will never allow that to happen. boeing itself is both a significant hard-power (military contractor) and soft-power (export authorizations provide a national bargaining chip, impact on domestic economy, etc) asset for the united s
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by paulmd 3y ago
> The user has paid for the device and the operating system, the developer has paid for the developer account, so I am really interested to see how Apple justifies that fee in a court of law. pretty much the same way nintendo or sony or
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by paulmd 3y ago
Carbon taxes were a pretty popular topic of discussion until the democrats lost congress in 2010. It’s just another thing that’s fallen by the wayside while our democracy struggles at the lower levels of the pyramid of self-actualization.
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by paulmd 3y ago
US consumers didn’t just vote for Mexit, though
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by paulmd 3y ago
videos like this don't really help with the "openly feuding with nvidia" btw lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlWT_TdOK6s ran into this randomly, and just like the meltdown about how how "long-term va
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by paulmd 3y ago
There’s a lot more that goes into velocity of money/demand for money than those 2 singular factors.
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by paulmd 3y ago
not for consumer chips, which still use the same ringbus design. e-cores do have a CCX/core cluster, but the clusters themselves go on the ringbus lol
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by paulmd 3y ago
H100 does have NVDEC and jpeg ingest accelerators https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NVID... Tbh it’s mildly surprising they even removed NVENC considering the overall size of the ch
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by paulmd 3y ago
They still use this today, and the ring interconnect is also the topology inside zen3/zen4 CCXs (with 8 cores). Ring is one of the simplest and best systems for >4 cores, until you get to about 8-10 cores (at which point you general
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by paulmd 3y ago
Ground movements and runway clearances are still very manual processes unfortunately, and mistakes happen especially in high task-load situations or poor visibility or flight number collisions etc. The safe part about being in the airplane
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by paulmd 3y ago
the 15" MBA really needs the M3 Pro chip so it can support multiple displays. That's a kink even with "suits clicking on spreadsheets", it is definitely true that everyone is used to at least dual external monitors by n
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by paulmd 3y ago
It depends on the spec - everyone dumps on the base specs but they are still a crazy powerful Chromebook, and in the higher specs they are legitimately competitive as ultrabooks and developer workstation spec laptops. In neither configurati
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by paulmd 3y ago
I also agree with this but don't disagree with what I said either. There is very little doubt there's malfesiance here. We have entered the "what are you willing to say in response to [things we already know]" phase.
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by paulmd 3y ago
giant tech companies are building their own ASICs... but mostly for inference. And that's the easy part. What the market is quickly coming to realize is that actually there is no "80-20 solution" here, raw matrix math is n
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by paulmd 3y ago
Yup, again, yet another thread that devolves into android people doing the 'brainless apple sheeple' meme. It's fucking offensive and it's literally any thread that mentions apple. I wish Dang would crack down - this i
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by paulmd 3y ago
they have gotten much more aggressive with it in the last few years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
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by paulmd 3y ago
Yeah, if you are someone who needs inkjet, epson ecotank is 100% the best option on the market. also, the "just a tank of ink" model makes it super easy to try out different kinds of ink - you mentioned "photo grey" an
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by paulmd 3y ago
Are you implying “Fortnite” is a legally distinct entity from epic games somehow? Fortnite is the product , epic games is the legal entity.
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by paulmd 3y ago
As mentioned this is a distributed system though, and realistically most micro services etc aren’t being fully rigorous about multi-phase transactionality and proper rollbacks etc. Realistically it is the norm to yolo updates at a service
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by paulmd 3y ago
Because it’s better to let the criminal lie to investigators before you go nuclear on them, it strengthens the case if you can document intent to mislead and lie, and removes the opportunity for lawyerly “this is all a big misunderstanding
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by paulmd 3y ago
> sorry if i burst the bubble a little Pfft. Okay. I wonder if there’s a name for this kind of reaction, “door slamming”? Normally it behooves you to be in the right when you do it.
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by paulmd 3y ago
That’s a guideline and not a rule, and frankly it’s a rather poor one given that people pretty routinely don’t read the article and then miss important points.
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by paulmd 3y ago
> At least Microsoft had no way of stopping you selling apps for Windows what are you talking about? microsoft literally created and sold versions of windows that could only access apps sold through their own app store lmao microsoft al

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