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by phkahler 2y ago
Does it work with an APU? I just put 64GB in my system and gonna drop in a 5700G. Will that be enough? SFF inference if so.
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by phkahler 2y ago
Also in 1.3 Million years this star will pass 1/6 Light year from earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_710
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Why do colliding blocks compute pi? A lot of times with math I don't think the word "why" should be used. Those blocks computing pi was a good example where they "proved that they compute pi", but not rea
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by phkahler 2y ago
See Solvespace for that.
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by phkahler 2y ago
Insurance companies denying coverage, or charging more. Being added to a database searched by police - this has its own hazards even for non criminals. There are certainly other possibilities, but once the cat is out of the bag you can&#x27
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I'd rather see them at rest stops. Agreed. But again, taking a pee isn't a long enough break to charge on a long trip. I'm assuming people will charge at home without the middleman fees, and only need public charging
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> So they’re not dead in the water yet but everyone suspects LLMs will eat search. I think LLMs are acting as a store of knowledge that can answer questions. To the extent search can be replaced by asking an oracle, I agree. But sear
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> But Google has everything to lose doing this. LLMs are a threat to their most viable revenue stream. Just to nit pick... Advertising is their revenue stream. LLMs are a threat to search, which is what they offer people in exchange
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by phkahler 2y ago
I've always said they need them at all the McDonalds along the interstates. You need them at a place where a person can sit down and eat for 20-30 minutes. A 5 minute purchase at a store isn't going to charge the car much.
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by phkahler 2y ago
I've always wanted a tool to rotate and crop jpeg images on tile boundaries so no loss happens. This limits how precise a crop can be, but preserves pixels perfectly. Is there a tool like this?
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If you're gonna use Gen AI, I think you should run it locally.
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Batteries == Mitochondira So I wondered how one could increase the number of mitochondria and quickly found this nice piece from 2017 about promoting mitochondrial fission in mid-life (ok in fruit flys): https://www.nature.com&#x
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Also suppose they’re ‘gravitationally bound’. This means their total energy, kinetic and potential, is negative. That means they couldn’t all shoot off to infinity even if the sphere wasn’t there holding them in. This seems like an
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> "Self-worth, what is that?” Because I’m not sure if I have any? This almost made me laugh. I know where you're at. You got a long road ahead so get started! Tell your psychologist when these things pop in your head. Have
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by phkahler 2y ago
Another might be gcad3d https://www.gcad3d.org/
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by phkahler 2y ago
Seems like a lot of trademark infringement suits about to come their way. Am I mistaken or is there no way this viable? In addition, nobody has any legal right to put others trademarks (use these) on anything without the trademark owners pe
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by phkahler 2y ago
"medical dogma may be more prevalent today than in the past because intolerance for different opinions is on the rise, in medicine as throughout society." I think a large part of that is perceived liability. Remember when Covid19
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I still struggle to see how this ends up favorable for Tesla in the long run. This will allow the rest of the charging infrastructure to become Tesla compatible. That may reduce the load on Teslas network, which they only built so
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Future GM vehicles will come with Tesla’s charging port natively installed. This makes me happy. I worked on "standard" charging infrastructure for a while and those plugs are fv*king heavy and clunky by comparison. Also
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I'd bet huge that there is a layer of managers who don't see themselves as being accountable for domain competence in anything they manage as that's what the consultants are for. Ah the old "management is a gene
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>> It seems like there should be 5-6 vendors of 'University HR Software' Why can't the CS department join up with other universities and have a bunch of students build it? Open source it.
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>> Reading between the lines the change is a response to political pressure to reduce costs and impose restrictions on curricula. Reduce costs by spending huge amounts of money to lose capability? This smells like someone got an &quot
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by phkahler 2y ago
I thought Intel 4nm was outsourced to TSMC. Or it's a rebranding of an earlier node. Am I mistaken? Do they actually produce that? Here we are: https://www.guru3d.com/story/intel-to-strategically-use-tsmc... .
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by phkahler 2y ago
Also interesting is the electromechanical "tone wheel generator" used in the Hammond Organs: https://forums.musicplayer.com/topic/155607-a-look-inside-a-... 91 metal wheels with lobes spinning past something
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by phkahler 2y ago
What book is that? Edit: Found it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale
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In related news, police robbing armored cars: https://youtu.be/9GKg1UucxNc?si=2eWCX7hjfYPNt9Lk
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by phkahler 2y ago
One thing both for and against GTK as an alternative to Qt is that Qt is not just a GUI framework, it's an application development framework. That means if you depend too heavily on it and later want to switch to GTK, you'll have
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by phkahler 2y ago
This is the technically correct answer and we should try to address it from both ends - eating fewer calories AND being more active. There are a number of issues with "just eat less" because there are reasons people eat more than
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Isn't FP32 sufficient for audio processing? Even though we have 24bit DACs and ADCs these days I feel like 16bit was really good enough. FP32 with 24bit mantissa should avoid rounding errors at the 16bit level right?
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> he feels they amplify things he doesn't want to hear. Modern hearing aids can be adjusted to amplify only the things you want to hear, and even reduce the things you don't want to hear.

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