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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
the chassis upgrade is welcome and it is nice to see the company grow enough to start creating custom hardware, and supporting standards that should keep things modular without sacrifice. at the same time, there is a decent level of risk wi
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
phones are indeed becoming more repairable, and the legislation is working upto an extent. on the other hand, mandating easier to repair components is ineffective if the manufacturer does not support the parts sale or use parts otherwise wi
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
let the analyst and news say what they want - the entire situation is artificial and is up to the manufacturers. the current relative spike in the prices misses the medium-term trend of the vast decrease in memory price post-covid that led
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
from a ux perspective, all of this is quite exciting and is made possible with our growing capabilities with computer vision and language understanding. however, it is quite interesting, the way these things are named and branded. calling i
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
The moral judgement of a practice not unknown to those who handle production deployment (takes me back to the days where i had to use a local maven repository with dated dependencies) is on a very shaky foundation. We used to focus more on
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
the core thesis of the article and comparison with non-"losers" seem vague at best. comparing model providers with hardware vendor with software ecosystem is like differentiating between apple to oranges. if hardware moat was to b
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
> If a couple more iterations of this, say gemma6 is as good as current opus and runs completely locally on a Mac, I won’t really bother with the cloud models. > That’s a problem. While improvements should continue rolling in, and mig
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
weird situation regardless. this came out like a decade ago, and while there is a serious undertone, this has been widely discussed during the original virality period. funnily enough one of the largest Youtubers made a gameplay video of th
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
might also consider using a solution such as disco [1] which avoids requiring VMs while still allowing the ergonomics of cloud services. at the end of the day, for a "$20/month" stack, there may probably not be enough service
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
this does not come across that impressive beyond the surface. however, given the market inefficiencies (see Twitch saga over double charging of bandwidth [1]) despite having some of the fastest and (relatively) affordable internet has alway
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
building the future of source control over the incumbent tech does not bring much excitement personally. does not takeaway the interest and funding they are able to bring. raising money is not always a bad thing, if say, there will be a web
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
misread two 'l's instead of one and imagined it would be about the rounded corners in the latest macos. personally, having recently switched to one, the edges were a bother at first. but over the months grew to tolerate them just
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
even if it scales down, the host-to-gpu memory ratio is around 10 to 1 (1.5 TB vs 141 GB) [1]. might need some odd system builds, improbable with current pricing, to replicate or better the ratio. such as a ~256 GB system for a 4090 (with 2
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
based on your card, it should be using a decent bit of the 600w or so passed through the new 16-pin connector. goes without saying, a proper PSU (doesn't have to be ATX, but at least 750W to be on the safer side) is a must. for thunder
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
on my device (running chrome with one extension), this page is consuming ~100 MB. not to takeaway from the obviously bloated website discussed here, but i wonder who much of this is an overhead from the browser than the page bloat itself.
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
or an older version of puppy linux?
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
> coding benchmarks > V3 phases were designed and tuned for LiveCodeBench. only compared on the above benchmark, while this has been identified and being improved for the next version. curious to see how it compares across the board a
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
while one should make the most of our electronics, the theory behind the article's headline is fuelled by fear-mongering most of us are jaded by. personally been stretching the most life out of my machines. particularly because there h
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
> Not everyone is obsessed with code generation. They (still) are. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404796
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
> pretty much the only company that could make this work is Valve at least when focusing on counter-strike (CSGO/CS2), they've tried tons of ways to segregate the player base in terms of trustworthy vs not. from "anti-chea
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
> What does make cheat developers afraid is AI there are already systems that just use the video feed of the game and provide external inputs for popular games (see [1] for a goofy demo). this goes beyond the pc where the game is being r
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
the tech had so much potential, but it was during the era when Intel dominated. other than the pcie add-in cards that can act has fast cache, all the major use cases were down to their whims. platform support (or the lack thereof) killed it
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
to the dozens who use the rating system as a deciding factor for getting games for their kids, i suppose this will help. meanwhile, one of the game that would have been affected by it, Counter-Strike 2, is already rated M by ESRB [1]. it is
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
buying a $500 laptop to run a software that costs starting from $99 a year* is a funny situation. anyways, the fact that it works means in terms of architecture the A and M series do not need much work between them, or it has been done alre
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
depending on your os*, you may have a better experience with a first-party lightweight tool called onboard memory manager [1]. single binary, no install nor admin rights needed. let's you change keybinds and other mouse features. *migh
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
use the tech at work on a daily, but glad OCI exists to not be fleeced by the enterprise arm. installing docker desktop on my personal laptop permanently bricked it, right in the middle of chip/memory shortage. thanks docker!!!
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by rldjbpin 7mo ago
for those shopping for new PCs and are open to build one, it seems like the overall BOM has been overall lesser than a few months back. the big caveat being that you need a decent GPU. having been in the market for one, i did make some co
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by rldjbpin 8mo ago
so many parties peddling AI related services should also agree with the sentiment (so do i). a lot of people in the stack are acting as wrappers. most of their tools are always changing (e.g. see the commit counts in openclaw project), ofte
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by rldjbpin 8mo ago
> Windows 10 (LTSC) has been the best operating system experience of my life Unless you've stumbled upon it by chance, the LTSC version of Windows is by far the recommended approach by forums online, particularly for those who do n
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by rldjbpin 9mo ago
used it extensively in high school as a more approachable way to learn about countries without the daunting amounts that wikipedia pages tend to have. come to realise down the line the "writer's biases" in the latter half of

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