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by pizza234 3y ago
> Basically there is this innate idea that if the basic building blocks are simple systems with deterministic behavior, then the greater system can never be more than that. I've seen this is spades within the AI community I'm v
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by pizza234 3y ago
VMware also has the best¹ 3D acceleration, which allows playing 3D games for Windows XP, like Fallout 3. ¹ actually, the only, since Virtualbox's acceleration is broken and limited, even on v7
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by pizza234 3y ago
> Most adults are capable of managing themselves. Adults are children in first place, and children model themselves a lot from parents. There's certainly a significant randomness at play, and it's admirable when adults manage t
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by pizza234 3y ago
I don't know the details, but for example, "x265 disables AVX-512 support by default due to clock speed regressions on Intel Skylake-X systems"[¹], which means that yes, this is an existing problem. ¹: https://chip
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by pizza234 3y ago
5.6k karma (so I don't qualify), but I thought it'd be interesting for comparison. My karma is exclusively from comments. There is no continuity, but I'd say I spent 15 minutes/day in average. 15 minutes per day spent in
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by pizza234 3y ago
> but the trend now is to confuse the user with graphics while giving really little in term of content. You'll be surprised, but gaming magazines used to say the same thing(s) even in the 80s. It's a platitude. Fun thing: A fam
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> Intel and AMD have crippled their CPUs to disable deep sleep states to prevent such bliss AFAIK it's not the CPUs, rather, the motherboards. I have two modern Ryzen systems; one supports S3 out of the box, the other requires some
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by pizza234 3y ago
The post-war period was a (relatively) long period of economic expansion. How things are now reflect a period of stability; a few generations before (~ a hundred years ago), things weren't so great, either. London is a particularly den
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by pizza234 3y ago
The article premise is relatively banal, but the topic the article describes after, is extremely important (IMO). This bits: > Several companies defended their use of AI, telling The Post they use language tools not to replace human writ
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by pizza234 3y ago
AFAIK (not 100% sure), multithreading support is different - parallel versions split the file in multiple segments, and compress each independently, which multithreaded functionalities apply to the same stream (no hard splitting). For this
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by pizza234 3y ago
I have been using Surface devices for a couple of years. I liked them a lot; in particular, I think that the Surface Book is (was) a unique machine, before being abandoned by M$ (it definitely needs/needed a reengineering). Long time a
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by pizza234 3y ago
IANAL, but ridiculous cumulative charges (20 years in this case) are standard strategy, intended to make the defendant plead guilty on some of them.
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by pizza234 3y ago
YMMV may vary a lot with LineageOS, unfortunately. I was a big fan, but: - Nexus 5X support was terminated - Pixel 1 support is broken; the device used to reset daily (works fine with the original OS) - They have at least one serious open i
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by pizza234 3y ago
If I understand your question correctly, this reported chat is at the core of the problem: > Radhey Radhey, I am Gita AI, a repository of knowledge and wisdom. Allow me to assist you by answering any inquiries you may have. Ask me anythi
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by pizza234 3y ago
The actual information is in the two referenced patents: - https://patents.google.com/patent/US8014909B2/en - https://patents.google.com/patent/US9162752B2/en I've had a brief look
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I personally have a good exprience with good doctors (which one, with some time, can find), but perfectly on time is not realistic, as time with patients can't be predicted.
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The HN renderer is rendering the closing round bracket and semicolon as part of the HTML link, which is unfortunate for this case, but good to know :)
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by pizza234 3y ago
Some information on the CMOV can be found on the Intel Optimization Reference Manual ( https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/671488/248966-046A-software-... ). Torvalds was famously critical of it ( https://yarchive.
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by pizza234 4y ago
This specific case (EXPO) is a grey area. I personally don't like overclocking, yet I've always enabled EXPO, for many reasons. First, because the producers of my RAM modules advertise it very clearly as feature; AMD advertises it
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by pizza234 4y ago
Small mistake on the `/\D/`: the correct semantic is "the string (or any matchable class) includes a character that is not a number". It will also never match a number, although it's kinda ok because it's suppo
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by pizza234 4y ago
For those seeking a recent kernel, it's not necessary to be on the latest Ubuntu - the kernel of the LTS version is synced with the latest non-LTS version, some time after the latter has been released.
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by pizza234 4y ago
For my use case, self-contained application formats (which includes snaps): 1. They don't scale, space-wise; libraries can take very considerable space 2. Permission issues 3. Configuration issues 4. Startup speed issues Compared to a
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by pizza234 4y ago
> using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module and hope for the best There's nothing inherently wrong with having an out-of-tree kernel module; a lot of software has, including software that is open source but has an inco
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by pizza234 4y ago
It's not a photography in a strict sense (although I'm surprised as well why it carries a "photography" denomination; see other entries here: https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/
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by pizza234 4y ago
What's the modern startup time of JARs? I haven't used Java in a long time, but long ago, the relatively slow startup time was a dealbraker for using java to write small tools.
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by pizza234 4y ago
Anecdata: at the company I work for, it's been officially introduced GPT-4 assistance. SWEs are themselves amazed at their increase in productivity. One would think the company will fire redundant SWEs. Nope; the company is actually hi
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by pizza234 4y ago
> Not caring about social status is only smart, as long as your choices don't hurt others This is a very interesting topic, which I find counterintuitive. In my view, they actually care about status a lot: they seek their own place
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by pizza234 4y ago
> But this makes me ask the question: who uses these? Looking at my own behavior I never touch them in the city I live in. They would be far too expensive to rely on for commuting or predictable use. Shared e-bike/e-scooter are the
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by pizza234 4y ago
ChatGPT itself has a sensible answer: There may be a few reasons for this apparent contradiction. Firstly, some people may not fully understand how artificial intelligence (AI) works and how it learns. While AI can certainly learn from larg
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by pizza234 4y ago
An alternative is to create a Windows to Go flash key, and perform periodic updates from there.

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