regularfry

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by regularfry 5d ago
It's just a colossal misread of the demographics. The community was always a mix of people who wanted to build a printer, and people who wanted a printed thing. The community has massively exploded since the early years, and it&#x2
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by regularfry 9d ago
Taking their spiel at face value, it's intended as a mimic of System One in humans. System One is also not smart.
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by regularfry 12d ago
You don't need to ask anyone else's permission. The thing that got me over the hump was wanting secure chat with an AI agent running on my own hardware. Asking WhatsApp for an API key just rubbed me up the wrong way.
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by regularfry 12d ago
Snikket claims to solve this but assumes it's got a routable IP address. If you've got it on a VM somewhere cloudy you're probably fine but I had to really jump through hoops to get it working behind NAT on my own hardware.
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by regularfry 13d ago
Has someone got a quick explainer for why adding a planet would result in less lithium? Is it just that a super-earth would be big enough and have so little lithium that it would measurably water down the other elements?
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by regularfry 14d ago
Billipodes. Obviously.
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by regularfry 18d ago
That sounds like a reasonable estimate for the gap between any pair of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, just from varied depth of implementation of more recent standards.
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by regularfry 19d ago
This is (mostly) the way. Samsung TV without networking configured, XBox for everything - which is problematic in its own ways but it's a known quantity. It doesn't prevent it from "helpfully" hopping on a nearby unsec
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by regularfry 21d ago
Yes, but as a consumer you want to pretend they aren't . Seriously, buy from anyone else.
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by regularfry 23d ago
Because... it's an accurate description of the concept it's being applied to?
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by regularfry 23d ago
In my experience the thing that Fable is superb at - unmatched by any other model so far - is downgrading to something else at the slightest opportunity.
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by regularfry 24d ago
> The efficient frontier of LLM inference is a line, not a frontier. The efficient frontier of portfolio theory is also a line. Not sure I get your point here.
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by regularfry 24d ago
It's also the hardest point at which to try to work, because when you change the model architecture you need to completely retrain from scratch.
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by regularfry 25d ago
FYI: I backed off the page after about 5 seconds because the scrolling is unusable.
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by regularfry 26d ago
Yes, the bailing-out explanation is right. With a mouse it's intentional that you should be able to push the pointer off the button with the mouse button still pressed to cancel.
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by regularfry 27d ago
Ah, but don't you see? Something Must Be Done, and "gun part detection" is, indeed, Something. (ignoring that it fails the "thing" part of the definition, because it can't possibly exist)
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by regularfry 28d ago
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Macbooks were doing the same sort of room-monitoring real-time EQ tricks that Sonos speakers do. They own the hardware and the software, there's a real advantage to them in having such tight cont
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by regularfry 28d ago
The audio design in Macbooks is intense. Fixed hardware so they can tune the hell out of it. Multiple mics for directional sensing - I don't know if they use that for real-time tuning, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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by regularfry 28d ago
Yeah, but speakers aren't the whole system. Even if you've got perfectly flat speakers, the room they're in won't be.
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by regularfry 28d ago
Can confirm. When I was in that world we'd have a shitty boom-box on a shelf that got pulled out for exactly that purpose. But you'd always start from the studio kit and work down, never the other way.
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by regularfry 28d ago
The little Sonos bluetooth speakers do something like this. I went in search of a teardown to figure out how on earth they get any sort of bass response from that size enclosure, and the innards turn out to be kinda boring. The trick is a
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by regularfry 29d ago
Yes, they should be discoverable. There are platform conventions for this: on Windows you'll see underlined letters; menus show you the shortcuts. Tab is a pretty much universal "move to next field" shortcut and I don't
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by regularfry 29d ago
Minor point, but a few years ago there was noise about waxworms being able to break down PE into ethylene glycol somehow , which would mean enzymatically breaking C-C bonds. No idea where that research ended up.
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by regularfry 1mo ago
In theory so does AWS, but the Bedrock model selection is badly in need of a refresh.
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by regularfry 1mo ago
There's a non-small contingent who lucked into the periodic games machine upgrade at the right time to snag a {3,4,5}090 rig just before everything exploded. It's a small contingent now but it was less so then. And now those peopl
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by regularfry 1mo ago
I don't think this is there to satisfy "need". But "automation" with this could legitimately (well, mostly) be based on a git repo with an s3files mount inside it. And a cron job, if you really want to get fancy.
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by regularfry 1mo ago
The easiest route is probably to have it sit with its back to a Qi charger pad, with the coils in a sort of cape over the battery. Not much added weight for the coils, and quite a neat little intro project to get it to align itself and sit
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by regularfry 1mo ago
Which makes it a great product in a comparatively small niche, and a "meh" premature optimisation pretty much everywhere else. Except for right at the bottom end where it's a step up from a JSON file in an S3 bucket.
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by regularfry 1mo ago
I suspect you are dramatically overestimating how fast humans can climb. I hope I'm wrong.
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by regularfry 1mo ago
Actual cooling was from industrial emissions, but that was over by the 1970s. It being something to panic about at that point was a media amplification or a contrarian position, precisely because it was contrarian, not representative of s

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