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by serf 6mo ago
it's a weird period we're in where I can read a line like "A Eulogy for .." and just presuppose it'll be about AI and I'm right 90% of the time. personally I think that phenomena says more about the messaging o
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by serf 6mo ago
an esp32 on an 1100mah battery will last years on deep sleep, and about a day with wifi on and in high power modes. a pixel watch 4 says they last 30 hours , ambiguously. they use a battery less than half the size. in reality with constant
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by serf 6mo ago
counter-point : the companies that are most famous for A/B testing routinely are also the ones with the most notoriously non-existent customer service departments globally, facebook/google/amazon/ebay. Groups that harbo
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by serf 6mo ago
that just resolves back to the original problem that Tindie solved, discoverability. It's like saying people are fleeing ebay for Shopify. Yeah, I guess -- but that only really solves the merchant sales problem. I buy from indie elec s
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by serf 6mo ago
honcho is great. paying for another api isnt, and the local models it plays nice with are somewhat limited.
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by serf 6mo ago
rad. how long does output take? trellis is a fun model.
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by serf 6mo ago
they were pretty dominant in a lot of sectors. AutoDesk products pre-cloud produced large files (well, they still do, but transport is no longer an issue.) -- so zip drives were pretty ubiquitous in design until CD-R.
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by serf 6mo ago
base, hip, elbow, wrist , wrist rotation, gripper. so, six variables that produce a posture. 6DoF. but explaining this makes me feel like i'm missing some deeper meaning in your comment?
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by serf 6mo ago
>If I'm applying for a work visa where the work I'm doing would require me to know Japanese, I should know Japanese. the naturalization act of 1906 and the immigration act of 1917 , in the US, were some of the hardest fought-fo
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by serf 6mo ago
it's weird to read a personal apology ("I'm sorry..") signed by a 'team'. No judgements, I have no one in that race -- it's just something that triggers my 'weird language' detector. A rare spott
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by serf 6mo ago
>If you build up too much hype and it misses the mark, you will be worse off too. that's not always true. elon musk is mega successful. he lies and overpromises , 'hypes', habitually/incessantly. You burn one investo
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by serf 6mo ago
realistically any 'huge' frontier model that takes a rack of H100s to infer against is probably going to have downtime no matter who runs it. downtime is always going to 'scale' poorly against loads that require a lot of
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by serf 6mo ago
well, poisonous. normal hooch is dangerous, too.
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by serf 6mo ago
yeah but that wasn't a straight upgrade, either. HAMR has all sorts of tradeoffs.
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by serf 6mo ago
on the tool analogy : only the biggest POS tools have bad ergonomics on the industrial side. The real quality tools, the ones meant to be used on the factory floor or in a production line, think of human ergonomics first . I would probabl
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by serf 6mo ago
>I suspect the story is entirely made up, based on that detail alone. ... why? Google has a zillion employees and the story didn't even end altruistically on their side, what the fuck would the point of fictionalizing this encounter
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by serf 6mo ago
do something that is hard with a lot of engineering depth to humble yourself about what wise people were capable of before LLMs. My honeymoon ended and reality struck when I was LLMing together cuda kernels for poker solvers a few LLM-gens
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by serf 6mo ago
it took me like 6 weeks and 12 chat sessions to get Anthropic to essentially end the conversation with "Yeah, whoops, we'll forward that to the dev team." when they cut my max sub short by 4 hours. that's the single reas
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by serf 6mo ago
are you making an argument that businesses worldwide somehow are known to make well thought-out, rational, wise decisions that are in best interest for the business and efficiency of running it? because most managers I know in my profession
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by serf 6mo ago
>It's necessary for FDE to have any sort of practical security why? do you mean because evil maid attacks exist? anyone that cared enough about that specific vector just put their bootloader on a removable media. FDE wasn't som
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by serf 6mo ago
the hard part is dousing a room in pulsing bright colorful LEDs tastefully. I haven't seen that done yet. I think it's one of those Dryland myths.
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by serf 6mo ago
FDM 3d printing is still a wild-west and there are plenty of avenues to explore. Not sure what else to say about that other than as someone with daily and close personal proximity to the 'industry' that cropped up I am well aware
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by serf 6mo ago
what's with the negativity? yeah, the metaverse got abandoned. Also: Meta was the only one to try the concept for the past X-umpteen years even though everyone in the industry ga-gas over virtual reality worlds and workplaces at every
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by serf 6mo ago
>> it's really hard to sometimes break out of that loop and do manual fixes it's not just an erosion of skills, it can also break the whole LLM toolchain flow. Easy example: Put together some fairly complicated multi-facet p
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by serf 6mo ago
I don't. Microsoft has zero goodwill from me with regards to software quality or pro-consumer business moves. I will forever assume that microsoft product is 1) technically broken 2) trying to upsell and 3) probably required by some es
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by serf 6mo ago
nuclear submarines are first and foremost built as a protective sarcophagus for the powerplant, and that's on top of submarines being designed to compartmentalize damage, anyway. i.e. if it could totally destroy itself with a full payl
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by serf 6mo ago
kinda complicated though when you consider it fully. Power consumption only measures the environmental impact really, we come up with more clever ways to use the same amount of power daily. it's kind of like an electrical motor that ex
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by serf 6mo ago
people that 'violate the rules of good code' when vibe-coding are largely people that don't know the rules of good code to begin with. want code that isn't shit? embrace a coding paradigm and stick to it without flip-flo
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by serf 6mo ago
push-to-talk.
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by serf 7mo ago
I used Sonnet egpu box on a similarly equipped Dell XPS and it had so many little issues that it sold me off of eGPUs over Thunderbolt entirely. Sleep broke across all OSs, if sleep didn't break the GPU wouldn't get powered on wit

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