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   by porphyra 1y ago

   Imagine a display where each pixel has a red, green, and blue VCSEL. it would be even better than a microLED display!
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   I am a big VCSEL fan. It makes tons of sense to have a laser that you can manufacture at chip scale. I think that VCSEL and SPAD technology is promising in both telecommunications and lidar. History tells us that the cheaper technology gets
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   Yes, it is quite possible that China will stagnate due to those reasons, plus I'm not super happy with Xi Jinping's reverting to more authoritarian principles too, but that would not have been because of some fundamental cultural
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   The world of screenshot utilities in Linux also has some weird names, with "scrot" being widely used until it was surpassed by "maim" and "slop" on X and "grim" on wayland.
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   > How the unique aspects of America basically make it impossible for the the country to be in the position China was in during the 19th and early 20th centuries, which is to say, a total disaster, beset by civil wars, colonial acquisitio
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   In 2024 it was 10073 TWh vs 4387 TWh, which would be an order of magnitude if you go by binary numbers hehe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   Once Deng Xiaoping did his reforms and opening up, it removed much of the impediments that Mao's CCP caused, and China was able to develop super fast. But recently I am a little concerned that Xi Jinping's rule is a bit of a retur
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   By the way, out of pure curiosity, why does it seem that there are a disproportionately high amount of super talented trans programmers? I mean, trans people make up for a relatively small percentage of the general populace so it would be u
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   by porphyra 1y ago

   I do have an M2 Macbook running Asahi, which works amazingly well for my casual use, but I think that there is no way that anyone will use last last gen hardware on a volunteer-developed OS for any actual work, server use cases, and so on.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work. Too bad they are clamping down on the walled garden to focus on consumer toys instead.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    I just hope that Intel doesn't squander the talent like they did with Jim Keller.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    The AI just made it to their laptop lineup today. The Framework 16 has either the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 or the AI 7 350. https://frame.work/laptop16?tab=whats-new
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    That's not surprising as Afrikaans is highly related to Dutch which is in turn highly related to German. In this case it all comes from the Latin fenestra.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    I have been running multiple instances of the Codex CLI tool in several terminals to do different stuff. You can even checkout the repo several times, write the todo to a file (or ask the agent to do so), if you need.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Also all the social media links are wrong lol. I clicked on the instagram link to "nasascience" expecting to find a higher quality photo and it turned out to be some random Turkish dude with 3 posts and 1 follower.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    People love to point out the ghost cities and high speed trains to "nowhere". But, for every ghost city, there are hundreds of thriving actual cities full of people. Shenzhen itself was a planned special economic zone that went fr
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Chinese government subsidies aside, mass produced 3D printers are always going to enjoy the economies of scale that are difficult to replicate with kits. Prusa printers are awesome pieces of engineering, but sometimes you can just get equal
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Fujifilm's digital cameras are also doing great these days in a somewhat surprising comeback.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    I wonder what the actual strategies are that Kodak can use to turn around their business? I think currently their revenue streams are: * Commercial printing and imaging. They are one of the main suppliers for equipment and consumables for l
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Lengthy comment sections full of flame wars, which controversial topics like fake news against Tesla often result in, tend to make the threads less visible on HN.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Meanwhile, tons of people on reddit's /r/ChatGPT were complaining that the shift from ChatGPT 4o to ChatGPT 5 resulted in terse responses instead of waxing lyrical to praise the user. It seems that many people actually became
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    You can adjust some fan settings in the BIOS, like what temperature it starts turning on, the PWM setting when it first turns on, and the temperature at which it hits PWM of 100%. After tuning those a bit, mine is pretty quiet unless I&#x27
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    I'm not sure, but you could always just buy the Minisforum BD790i X3D [1]. Then, you'd be able to choose your own fan and case, and you can make it arbitrarily quiet by selecting a good fan. Early BD790i boards had a bug where los
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    It seems that the new tricks that people discover to slightly improve the model, be it a new reinforcement learning technique or whatever, get leaked/shared quickly to other companies and there really isn't a big moat. I would hav
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    I don't like progressive decoding. Lots of people don't realize that it's a thing, and complain that my photo is blurry when it simply hasn't loaded fully yet. If it just loaded normally from top to bottom, it would be o
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    1896 is pretty recent actually I thought they were like thousands of years old
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    I got an Intel 660P 2TB for $55 haha. Should have stocked up on bigger SSDs ugh.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Somehow, using Firefox on Linux greatly increases my "risk score" due to the unusual user agent/browser fingerprint, and I get a lot more captchas than, say, Chrome on Windows. Very frustrating.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    Writing CUDA in Python is so nice and elegant now. What a time to be alive! I love how wonderfully short the code is.
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    by porphyra 1y ago

    I used to have both an AMD GPU and an Nvidia GPU and also dual boot Linux and Windows. But that is an incredible hassle. Nowadays, Nvidia on Linux works pretty well, and gaming on Linux on Steam often works flawlessly with one click, so it&