porphyra

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   by porphyra 9mo ago

   > why Singapore got to be such an important global hub. Without the the location, of course Singapore wouldn't have been able to be so important. But the location isn't everything --- Singapore manages to outperform Port Klang
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   by porphyra 9mo ago

   Given that fully driverless Model Ys and Cybercabs have been spotted going around Austin, I find that the "they are not on a path to becoming a real service" is a little too strongly worded.
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   by porphyra 9mo ago

   Both of these can be true at the same time: * Elon has been making wildly exaggerated and over-optimistic claims for a decade and continues to do so * Tesla has recently made huge strides in capability and has a clear path to full autonomy
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   by porphyra 10mo ago

   I thought so too at first but you can just left click to remove the wall actually.
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   by porphyra 10mo ago

   True but the comment I replied to mentions a different case where a Waymo got stuck for half an hour at a parade.
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   by porphyra 10mo ago

   I don't understand how these cars keep getting stalled for half an hour or something. Surely there must be a team of teleoperators ready to jump in at any time?
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   by porphyra 10mo ago

   EREV is different from diesel-electric in that the EREV has a large battery whereas the diesel-electric locomotive does not. But the "ICE engine drives a generator which drives a motor" philosophy is similar in spirit.
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   by porphyra 10mo ago

   I feel like the home depot website is fine. It's a lot better than most other shops, I've had a good experience finding the aisle and location of items, and it's generally accurate with the amount in stock at each location. I
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   by porphyra 10mo ago

   typical automotive 905 nm lidars are just CMOS chips similar to cameras and regular computer chips
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    by porphyra 10mo ago

    Rivians have been spotted with giant Velodyne VLS-128 "Alpha Puck"s since several years ago [1]. But from last I checked, Rivian's ADAS is still struggling with ping-ponging in lanes on curved stretches, and it only works on
11. 161.▲
    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Every time one points out western hypocrisy, one gets accused of "whataboutism".
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    But that is paywalled
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    oh just get Franz von Holzhausen to throw a ball bearing at it
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Volkswagens get serviced frequently. Teslas never get serviced, and they don't really use their brakes either due to regenerative braking, so stuff like "rust on brakes" counts as a strike against their "reliability&quot
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Reminds me of ts_zip by Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/ts_zip/
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Yeah, in the olden days, there was no max-width for desktop wikipedia, so the readability was not good.
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    It was mildly annoying how en.wikipedia.org would redirect to en.m.wikipedia.org on mobile, but en.m.wikipedia.org wouldn't redirect to en.wikipedia.org on desktop. So when a mobile user sent me a link, I had to go and manually delete
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Blender is really an amazing case study of open source software. Apart from the Linux kernel and web browsers/tools, it is perhaps the only open source software that managed to beat all the commercial software in its niche. It has rend
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Cloudflare has saved me from a bunch of "Hacker News Hug of Death". It also works around the world, including China, where I have a lot of friends and family. Quite nice.
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Apparently potbellies can be caused by: * extreme protein malnourishment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor * intestinal parasites Given that the kids don't exhibit extreme wasting on their facial features
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    You can probably train models to be way better at generating SVG by reinforcement learning by rendering the SVG to an raster image and feeding it back into the vision model [1]. Same with, say, generating HTML/CSS webpages. I wonder if
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    I don't expect this unit to be much more efficient than a $1800 home depot heat pump water heater. On the other hand, installation seems to include a hot water return line and return pump (the pump itself would be another $300 on home
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    One time in China (in 2018) I ran my own OpenVPN instance on a Linode VPS in Singapore, and then it got blocked within a couple of days lol. I'm guessing it was deep packet inspection.
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Sounds like you're using a totally different type of water heater (tankless) and not a heat pump water heater (which has a tank, so even if the fuse pops, the water won't get cold instantly).
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Interesting but federal tax credits for heat pump water heaters is ending next month [1]. It looks nice though. For people wondering what's up with the "150 gal virtual" capacity, it's actually a 47 gal water heater but
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    LLMs can't "look" at the rendered HTML output to see if what they generated makes sense or not. But there ought to be a way to do that right? To let the model iterate until what it generates looks right. Currently, at work, I
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    There has got to be some firmware bugs causing high power usage, but also the CIX CPU is fabbed on TSMC 6 nm process which is a couple generations old.
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Same, I have a fairly positive experience with minisforum.
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Imagine if someone clicks the deploy button when you're in the middle of typing something and then the service goes down due to a syntax error. To prevent this, we will need some sort of way to set a global lock to indicate that "
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    by porphyra 11mo ago

    Haha it's like Google Wave!