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by rescbr 4mo ago
Having cabled my apartment with Cat 6 definitely made me prefer fiber, it would have been a breeze instead of pulling thick cables from my office to other rooms. Cat 6 also shouldn’t be bent or you risk it going out of spec, and modern fibe
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by rescbr 4mo ago
> With Chinese DRAM and NAND makers on the entity list, western countries don’t really have an alternative American companies, you mean. Thankfully there's Taobao and AliExpress for the rest of us.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
The problem with these drives is that you can't ensure the grade of the NAND chips. They could be A+ grade with great endurance but they could also be bottom of the barrel. I had two KingSpec SSDs sourced from AliExpress that failed to
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by rescbr 4mo ago
For me it works fine outside of afternoons Beijing time on weekdays.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
Z.ai legacy Pro coding plan which will last me until the end of the year + maki.sh as the agent. OpenCode works fine, i just find it very resource intensive for no good reason.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
I understand your point (and definitely want the same), but I do have an almost-AliExpress-LLM-in-a-box: it's an Thunderbolt eGPU dock (that I got from AliE, and it is USB-C...) with a RTX 4060 Ti with 16 GB of VRAM (bought locally for
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by rescbr 4mo ago
> The most interesting thing I've learned so far is how clustered startup activity is in a handful of areas. They are clustered like any other white collar company in the city, around the various historical business districts, and I
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by rescbr 4mo ago
If they need to divert inference resources to train models, this counts as a compute deficit to me. I'm using GLM-5.2 daily for my own stuff, and during Chinese business hours, specially on their afternoon, it's a festival of rate
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by rescbr 4mo ago
The whole AI industry was built upon stealing IP. The extreme of this is to make IP laws irrelevant and that everything should be in the public domain. Which maybe is not a bad outcome for humanity as a collective after all.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
While people fly to the US to buy Macs at a lower price and bring them back in their backpacks, I guess I'll be flying to HK to buy a Chinese GPU rather sooner than later...
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by rescbr 4mo ago
> Any passionate engineer will recognize this - if you grind 10,000 hours you will find the solution to most problems, the problem is most people lack the motivation to even start, and are too risk averse to play hacker. This. I'd l
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by rescbr 4mo ago
Currently they are the ones who are publishing stuff in the open. The American discourse is to close this market. I'm not Chinese or American. If China exports their AI technology and the US doesn't, I know who's going to be
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by rescbr 4mo ago
> people tend to be pretty slow to update their networking assumptions, so this is still pretty common. My ISP doesn't do CGNAT in FTTH deployments, but I'm paying extra for a static IPv4 allocation anyway since I was increasin
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by rescbr 4mo ago
> making it illegal to make open weights (maybe for selected models) available for download. So giving another win to China?
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by rescbr 4mo ago
Maki is awesome. Thanks! I'm using it on my X220 and it flies in comparison to OpenCode et al.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
I very much prefer Outlook's indexing compared to Sharepoint's shitty UI and search capabilities.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
I do think the discount is believable, but we don't know the line items AWS applied a discount/removed charges. The developer said the agent deployed multiple CloudFormation templates, I'd bet that AWS waived the charges for
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by rescbr 4mo ago
I’d say to use a payphone if you need to do that, but then my age is showing, as this is not possible anymore.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
From what I’ve investigated as a recipient of spam calls, I’ve been called from legitimate mobile numbers from my own mobile telco. The only thing that explains that are SIM card banks. Unfortunately there isn’t an easy way to report abuse
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by rescbr 4mo ago
Why would AWS refund 100Gbps on egress since the account actively used that bandwidth? AWS would not know if this is legitimate traffic, a (D)DoS or whatever... At most I think you could negotiate CloudFront rates, but even then, the sob st
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by rescbr 4mo ago
Oooh! Like a status bar! shit, I'm too old to remember those...
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by rescbr 4mo ago
Eh, NTFS supported long paths since forever, the problem is with applications using Win32 APIs that are limited to MAX_PATH (260 characters) path length. There won't be a permanent solution unless all Windows applications start using N
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by rescbr 4mo ago
Day 2 Amazon only cares about the KPI. Innovation does not grow out of KPIs.
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by rescbr 4mo ago
> Nobody's optimizing The Chinese, since they lack computing hardware due to US export controls, are.
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by rescbr 5mo ago
Oh, I missed the “tapping on” part.
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by rescbr 5mo ago
Both issues also plague Brazil. At least we have the CIA to blame on religious fundamentalism.
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by rescbr 5mo ago
> You don't see people being like "I reverse-engineered Vivado but I won't give you a copy because I could get sued." Eh, not Vivado, but back in my undergrad days I RE/cracked a tool used in a very specific nich
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by rescbr 5mo ago
At least JPEG contains downscaled thumbnails embedded into it as part of the EXIF stream. There's no need for the receiving device to rescale it again. Pretty sure these newer formats do the same.
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by rescbr 5mo ago
When I was at AWS I had exactly one customer who used Chime and they loved it. They were a manufacturing org and only managers had licenses to MS Office and users in Active Directory. Everybody else was registered on a separate OpenLDAP dir
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by rescbr 5mo ago
The US could simply give away $1 M per resident, removing the need for social policies and it would still come out cheaper.

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