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It also adds energy to push the right to repair movement forward. It may not be altruistic but it’s not just riding coattails either.
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Can you do that with any computer? I figured you need apples blessing to use TestFlight at minimum.
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The difference in outcome with this strategy is made obvious by contrasting Clarence Thomas with Ketanji Jackson. I agree with others in this thread that real reform must be via improving K-12 education for all students. I think a great sta
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It’s reasonably easy to build a threadripper workstation with 1TB of RAM (upgrade able to 2TB) and 2 3090’s for $20,000. LambdaLabs will even sell you a prebuilt around that price with the same specs. That said, I wouldn’t personally get in
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> it's plausible one ANE could've been disabled for power reasons on the laptops The linked posting notes that they were able to get the ANE to draw 49 mW. Is this such a significant amount of power that its worth permanently d
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I've also reached reasonable-quality support due to being a paid consumer of GoogleOne, which includes phone support for most (all?) google consumer products.
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I like to keep up with the latest models for the benchmarks that I care about at: http://paperswithcode.com
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Most people who work in restaurant kitchens eat far more from restaurant kitchens, not less. I did for quite a few years and I’m still very happy to eat at any diner, drive through, or Michelin star restaurant.
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Defcon 26 – Chris Domas – x86 “God Mode” Hardware Instruction Set Backdoors
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If the downvotes are due to poor quality discussion, that's fair enough. If they're due to skepticism, here's his talk from the next year: [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g "DEF CON 26 - C
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And secret microcode / hidden instructions in every major x86 CPU, presumably for the NSA. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
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Just watch out for Amazon Sidewalk! Your consumer TV could connect to your neighbors' Amazon Echo wirelessly to continue sending screenshots (or hashes of screenshots) to Amazon and its marketing partners. [0]: https://www.w
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wow. although the last time he updated the (singular) username and password was october. i think people could just ask around for it. still, controversial indeed. Weirdly, the book itself says: > Q: May I print this book / use it fo
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I know how to help someone buy a plane ticket, and I can program a computer to help them do that. I often do know how to help people deal with non suicidal depression but I dont always have time and energy to help…and I definitely cannot pr
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I think the issue is that there is demand for a reputable (hirable) $3,000-30,000 program which can teach you to program in less time and/or more flexible schedule than traditional university. I think one good solution is Western Gover
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It's a minor procedure but it involves sedative / light anesthesia. Basically I have to get my lower GI tract investigated for pre-cancer every year and they try to remove any faster growths. Nothings ever turned up malignant yet,
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Same here. I do try to unsubscribe. I'm fine with up to 1.5 'pain points' during unsubscribing. That usually means I hit the limit after exactly 1 thing below as long as it's not taken to a point of ridiculousness: - L
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It's not full circle at all. At no point has the status quo been: > Here is service which provides any show you want for a reasonable one-time fee for watching that show. Instead its: > $200/mo for all cable channels. The sh
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At a fairly made up annual conversion of 1kW capacity to 750kWh actually produced per year, that’s an expected 750TWh of annual generation. For comparison, the world currently consumes 24,000 TWh of electricity per year. Indeed, at the curr
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I have this exact same problem for an annual procedure that I travel cross-country to. I used to be able skirt the rules by claiming I had someone with me but then they changed the rules and now need that person to be with me when I check i
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You’re looking at it from a perspective of “this instant in time”. I’m assuming that some of the phenomenal, market-beating growth of the Apple Silicon architecture over the past 5-10 years will continue. Also if Apple merely creates a quad
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The M1 Ultra gets fully half of the performance of a desktop RTX 3090 in both synthetic and real world benchmarks. That’s extremely impressive. Sure, no one has CUDA except NVidia but it looks like Apples GPU architecture really truly does
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More seriously, I think humans and other mammals generally can learn to share an “animal” language which uses repetition for bidirectional training (animal to human, human to animal). Elements used for prediction include: - Predictable tim
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I attempt this when communicating with Chinese parts of my business where English may not be spoken at all. I also don’t know any Chinese. I will generally run my English emails through machine translation back and forth multiple times unti
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I purchased Araxis Merge but I still find myself using Meld for the vast, vast majority of my 2- and 3- way Diffing. It’s slightly tricky to integrate into Sourcetree but once you configure Sourcetree with the correct command line args it w
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I don't neuter my dog? Wtf. The vast majority of Northern Europe also doesn't neuter their dogs. Hell, Norway apparently considers it animal abuse (which I think I agree with mostly due to the negative effects of lacking hormones)
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AlphaStar dropped the pretenses of even doing that much because it added too much complexity. For its show matches in Starcraft2, AlphaStar just uses an API to say "Target this specific enemy carrier". It doesn't have to do a
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Yes it's about $1.66 per US citizen per year during the 20-year development. I've already personally received way more value than that just following the "entertainment" of following along with the construction and launc
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CEO of Cloudflare addressed this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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CEO of cloudflare addressed this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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