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> In-camera processing will just reduce the amount of information you can get out of the sensor More information is not necessarily better. For instance, if the FPGA does calibration and removes sensor noise, removing the preprocessing a
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> Apple has now made four generations of chips and each one were class leading upon release. Buying up most of TSMC's latest node capacity certainly helps. Zen chips on the same node turn out to be very competitive, butAMD don
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2y ago
I found the visual artifacts annoying. I wonder if anyone has trained models on pre-rasterizarion game engine output like meshes/material, camera or even just the raw OpenGL calls. An AI that generates inputs to an actual renderer/
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2y ago
> I’m mostly joking, but my point is that physical AI probably implies a complete rethink of every individual routine from first principles: why fold the shirt at all? You may have skipped over how clothes are stored and organized in you
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2y ago
The design flaw was insisted upon by the (original) dutch customer, and the owner seemed pretty proud of the tall mast too. Caveat emptor.
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2y ago
> It's endlessly frustrating that the US government wants to centrally plan my hiring decisions What's the alternative - the government outsources visa issuance to the companies employing foreign labor?
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2y ago
> that some things are in fact beyond human capability and comprehension has largely disappeared from the English language (or any language from predominately secular countries It's still common in insurances agreements or other con
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2y ago
> "Alhamdulillah" (thank god) is pretty much part of the standard greeting Same goes with English! When parting ways, people commonly say "bye" or "goodbye" which is an evolution of "Godbye" - a co
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2y ago
> If I can pretty quickly tell a site is SEO spam, so should the LLM, no? Why would you assume that?
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2y ago
They could also flex their newly found immunity when executing "official duties"
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2y ago
> Does Google now have 25% subtly wrong code? How do you quantify "new code" - is it by lines of code or number of PRs/changesets generated? I can easily see it being the latter - if an AI workflow suggests 1 naming-change
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2y ago
You probably didn't understand my point. You said CEOs are paid that way because it's the standard. In your opinion, who sets the standards for CEO compensation, and what are their day-jobs? The majority of boardmembers happen to
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2y ago
https://podcastcharts.byspotify.com/ keep the Pareto distribution in mind
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2y ago
There's nothing mercurial about firing someone over poor strategic planning. Before you hire someone, you communicate the expectations of the job, amd if an executive prioritizes quick ones over long term big wins, that is a fundamenta
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2y ago
> If Qualcomm's Windows on ARM efforts live past the ARM lawsuit FWIW, Qualcomm cancelled orders of its Windows devkit and issued refunds before the lawsuit. That is probably not a good sign
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2y ago
Counterpoint: one can only unlock the bootloader on Android phones and extend the device life for much longer than intended or supported by the OEM.
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2y ago
If I owned a controlling stake in a business, I'd fire the leadership every time there's evidence of short-term thinking. The problem with public companies is systemic: a large fraction of shareholders want short term appreciati
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2y ago
I have started a company[1], but that's neither here nor there. I vehemently disagree with your insinuation that I couldn't challenge leadership culture had I not. Founding a company doesn't make one infallible or irreplaceab
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2y ago
And who sets the standards? Their CEO-buddies on the boards. None of them would dare rock the boat. One of the failure modes of 401ks and investment funds are large investment pools that don't vote at AGMs, leaving boards largely domin
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2y ago
> Often that person's leadership wasn't the problem, but even when it was, that doesn't necessarily mean that the company will be better-off without them How convenient (for them)! When the company is doing well, they get
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2y ago
If you're on Linux, xrandr can probably partition your monitor into an arbitrary number of displays (may not work with Wayland)
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2y ago
Depending on ones metabolism, IF with no caloric deficit doesn't guarantee weight loss.
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2y ago
> Those PCs have to be ordered from Aliexpress, or some other Chinese site, or else from Amazon via a third party resellers that adds their own markup on top I anticipated this concern, the $509 I gave earlier is the Amazon price that in
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2y ago
Crucial.com is my go-to, but you can also get them from Amazon.
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2y ago
Which regular desktop tasks are kneecapped by 80GBps memory bandwidth?
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"Repairability" is a red-herring when the discussion is about user-upgrades and the ability to purchase components from 3rd-party suppliers (who compete against each other and the OEM)
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2y ago
> I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price (let's exclude custom builds, they're not the same market). This is squarely in the NUC/SFF/1l-pc territory, and there is plenty of competit
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2y ago
I'm sure there are multiple reasons, including lowering the odds of antitrust action by regulators. The EU was already sniffing around Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI.
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...or it could turn out to be a 3D-TV moment - the jury is still out. For a while, all OEMs had 3D TV models, and it seemed their ubiquity was inevitable by sheer force of manufacturers ramming the products down consumers throats (like AI).
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2y ago
> Wonder how to ban that address permanently just for asking for these urls? fail2ban supports rules based on nginx logs (clients that triggers x 444 responses in y minutes (or y-times ) gets banned for n minutes/hours/d
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