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by pests 10mo ago
I think they were just giving an example, and had assumed each separate flavor was a separate company, but happened to choose a bad one with 7up as it is a different beast then the rest.
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by pests 10mo ago
> It's relatively rarer to see more than one beverage supplier at a restaurant, club or convenience outlet. Wait what? What do you mean by convenience outlet? We must have different definitions.
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by pests 10mo ago
I used to buy a gift card every ~week at a local sandwich place near where I worked and ate at every day. Their deal was a free meal (sandwich, chips, drink) with a $50 gift card purchase. Then I'd just pay with the card until it ran o
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by pests 10mo ago
One of my earliest serious fan sites I made. I forgot the name, might be able to pull it up on archive, but I had a section with the whole cast each with a "cylon suspicion meter" bar. Great memories.
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by pests 10mo ago
A home PC has to have a SOTA gpu?
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by pests 10mo ago
It's more than just the model weights. During inference there would be a lot of cross-talk as each node broadcasts its results and gathers up what it needs from the others for the next step.
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by pests 10mo ago
Just tested - slightly different UI but still works the same. Also useful for taller buildings with a lot of tenants.
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by pests 10mo ago
The more famous example being the Pakistani Prime Minister forging documents in Calibri dated before its release. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40571708
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by pests 10mo ago
Agreed. It's framing device of reports / scattered documents / etc also remove a lot of the characterization or characters completely and focus just on the "what if?" of the story.
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by pests 10mo ago
China banned companies from buying the made-for-China 6000D. I'm sure they have knowledge of it being backdoored or underpowered/buggy.
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by pests 10mo ago
> suspicious bidders A person with a Chinese name living in Delaware? Gasp.
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by pests 10mo ago
> The map editor was revolutionary at the time, and it was trivially easy to be making usable maps within minutes. Ah yes, my friend groups favorite map to make: start at the corners and the rest of the map was trees.
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by pests 10mo ago
Square renamed themselves to Block. You might have heard of CashApp for example. Their CEO is Jack Dorsey. They have POS terminals and credit card readers.
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by pests 10mo ago
With all the fanfare made over Calibri back when it was announced, TIL about Aptos
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by pests 10mo ago
Still required for Apple Dev account last time I had to go through the process a few years ago
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by pests 10mo ago
While I generally agree with you, this "LLM is a human" comparisons really are tiresome I feel. It hasn't been proven and I don't know how many other legal issued could have solved if adding "like a human" made
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by pests 10mo ago
There is one near Naples in Florida I go to often just for the insane drink discounts compared to the Publix or Wawa or the Walmart Neighborhood Market thing across the street.
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by pests 10mo ago
This is exactly it. There wasn't any complex logic. Just making sure the right fields were mapped, some renaming, and sometimes some more complex joins depending on the incoming data source and how it was represented (say multiple dupl
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by pests 10mo ago
> That junior engineer possibly hasn't programmed without the tantalizing, even desperately tempting option to be assisted by an LLM. Years ago I had to spend many months building nothing but Models (as in MVC) for a huge data impor
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by pests 10mo ago
Half the article was about the extensive software codependency between TPU's, Borb, lilpunet, their optical switching network, etc. How much of that is manufacturing and not just software and engineering experience, which won't be
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by pests 10mo ago
I could imagine HBO Go starting off as literally their cable package "on the go" with no intent to ever charge for streaming, being able to login at others houses or on vacation to enjoy your paid package etc. Then another team &#
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by pests 10mo ago
Some states, like Michigan, you can request owner information (including address) by a in-person SOS visit and $15 a plate. I've always thought this should be PII and shouldn't be allowed on reddit, for example, where PII is banne
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by pests 10mo ago
Prime video is more than just prime content, they are more of a marketplace where you can watch competitors content as well. Like their web marketplace for tv and movies. That's why you can sign up for things like HBO and even Apple TV
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by pests 10mo ago
IIRC the Go / Now switch was due to Go being the app if you already paid for cable and wanted to watch HBO by logging into your cable provider account. Now was the pure streaming option those without cable could purchase. Took a bit to
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by pests 10mo ago
That's a measurable qualify of life decrease as well for many people. Some things they just won't be able to buy anymore. Things they may require, but you claim its ok to go without because it helps the environment. Sounds dystopi
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by pests 10mo ago
When my buddy got his first Tesla back in 2018 he had a ICE rental for some reason and he left it running in the driveway all day once on accident.
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by pests 11mo ago
That is called a courtesy flush and it does happen.
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by pests 11mo ago
You're doing operations on the memory once it's been transferred to gpu memory. Either shuffling it around various caches or processors or feeding it into tensor cores or other matrix operations. You don't want to be sitting
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by pests 11mo ago
You say that like I d a bad thing. Nvidia architectures keep changing and getting more advanced as well, with specialized tensor operations, different accumulators and caches, etc. I see no issue with progress.
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by pests 11mo ago
It's stories like these (and poor parenting I guess) that causes things like my cousin standing up to wipe for close to 30 years until his gf filled him in one day.

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