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by rldjbpin 2y ago
in parlance this is fine because weights of a model is useless without the wrapper code around it. ignoring the monorepo bs a lot of ai companies are pushing (like hugging face also), this is not as misleading as calling open-weight models
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
the whole "asking for permission" to assign a YOLO model variant was weird to begin with. "gpt" is a more egregious example of using naming scheme to gather more attention than a substantial connection to the original. h
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
domain names are like real estate in a poorly-planned city. the city centre is overcrowded and super-expensive, while the new neighbourhoods in the suburbs are a mixed bag. while some become instant hits and sometimes cost more than inside
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
armchair hardware enthusiast opinion: because silicon in the high-end is expensive, and not just a matter of slapping things together. besides the clear limitation of the memory technology they are using compared to the nvidia's enterp
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
about "why not use x over rpi" argument, this article itself is a testament to the first-party and community support across the stack that rpi enjoys. for x86 or other arm platforms, these changes comes once in a blue moon. but i
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
quite interesting to see the application of language and speech models for automating current trends. i wonder about its efficacy, however. don't recall any brainrot videos whose information ever retained with me after the fact. while
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
from my personal experience (an outsider trying to apply), the admission process was by itself intimidating enough to keep me from even applying. let me explain. thanks to purchasing power parity and exchange ratio gap, i was already from a
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
albeit n=1 sample size, but looking at firefox should give enough indication to what would become of chrome if it gets detached from google. it is wishful thinking to assume that maintaining a dominant browser can be done if not through sub
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
relative rating or not, it has been successful at pushing car manufacturers to make safer cars, at least in the region the article talks about. recently it has become a selling point to have a 5 star safety rating for cars in the market, wh
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
> with zero issues depending on whom you ask, the bitrate used by the stream is significantly lower than what is considered acceptable from free livestreaming services, that albeit stream to much, much smaller audience. without splitting
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
the current system just allows people who understand the system and prep to beat the exam to succeed instead. yet you still find the phonies get through, so is it really solving the original problem then? outside the geography where the sal
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
personally do not understand the same, but for a completely another reason. microblogging, i.e. twitter, succeeded in the first place because people just want to post, and not worry about taking care of technical things. in the demographi
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
the ln2 pot looks quite ridiculous with the board, but to be fair it seems less complex to make it work due to "blank" pcb around the soc. while not mentioned in the article, i wonder if deliding the soc (as done previously here -
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
used it for a project a few years back and it does the job if you listen to music mostly made in the english-speaking world. the complications with the same song appearing in multiple albums (including compilations) would give weird results
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
while someone writes an updated version of this, my observations for the past 6 years on both fronts: - the superficial feature gaps are lower than ever, and some aspects being better for the budget side (e.g. iphone 16 still with 60Hz disp
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
besides the usual caveat of unreleased hardware leak, relying on geekbench as a metric for performance is as useful as userbenchmark. semantics rant: on another note, where is the line between "consumer" and "prosumer"&#
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
my relatively myopic view: due to enterprise "laziness", we have been able to enjoy backwards-compatibility for the longest time. x86 has done a lot for this, and i wonder how much future code could benefit from this. on the other
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
> This closed ecosystem not only complicates the work for open-source contributors but also stifles innovation that could benefit all users. from their perspective, motivated devs are doing all the heavy-lifting for them. from this side
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
my workplace provides paid access to its employees. seems equally absurd like oreilly.com access or research paper platforms that schools sometimes pay for. they bank on enterprise billing to keep the lights on.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
valve has their own ethos in this topic, which i wholeheartedly accept. you can guess which end of the spectrum they lie from the original news article. faceit for the longest time has had their own way around this. so did esea, before they
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
very interesting approach here, but i wonder if steam could provide a way to distribute this game in its current form. maybe a generic steamos image with console-level isolation, and make the game steamos-only perhaps? no offense, but the
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
at that rate why bother using arch for the box? unless you never touch online multiplayer games, i can understand that it probably works for you.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
saw very little discourse in the fact that apple silicon is following a "tick-tock" approach, very much like intel in the 2010s. for the sake of annual releases we get a new number, but besides increased silicon area, the major ar
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
the project appears to have an inaccurate description. perhaps it is the long-term goal, but today it behaves more or less like a subset of what yt-dlp does. there is some polish to the interface, so it might still be worth trying out if it
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
along the same lines, here's a creator on youtube who (sometimes) makes whacky vehicles - https://www.youtube.com/@colinfurze here is a popular one - bike running on a "jet" engine - https://www.yo
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
> popular and useful as Wikipedia is not going to go unnoticed by the Indian media. without dwelling into the nuances of this case and who's on the right, it would be myopic to think that the block is not a realistic possibility. it
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i failed to understand from the article how avp is better than any other ar device for this purpose. personally it is hard to tell what made the surgeons found groundbreaking about this device, as the ability to see another video feed would
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
fair to say it has been worked on much longer than 20 years, but it is a good time to recognize its role in getting people on to the linux ecosystem. despite running off of a cd and memory, a live ubuntu 10 experience felt faster on my p4 o
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
has an og paperwhite owner, i later switched to a tablet, due to the colours and performance. but if they release a new scribe using a colour eink screen, it would be an instant sell for me. remarkable pro is well and good but its price doe
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
respect the ingenuity of the solution and how well it did. although it has to be said that we are better off without having vgui in the first place. this kind of sneaky tracking is so widespread today on the Web that it is nearly impossible

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